Genki
Defence DJ's
Graffioso
Subzaholic
JahTafari
Prospero
Bass + ass + star + bastards = BASSTARDS
Legendaarisen Ninja Tune -levy-yhtiön virallinen drum'n'bass -akti The Qemists saapuu Helsinkiin dj-keikalle. Venue -klubin massiivinen äänentoisto testataan ääriolosuhteissa kun metallia ja konemusiikkia yhdistelevä yhtye nousee lauteille 11. helmikuuta. Luvassa on yhdistelmä elektronisen tanssimusiikin eri muotoja rankalla pohjavireellä ja Ninja Tunen artisteille ominaisella huippuunsa hiotulla tuotantotasolla.
Viime kesän Provinssirockin ehdottomiin tähtihetkiin kuulunut The Qemists -keikka saattoi bändin kertaheitolla suomalaisten tietoisuuteen. Yhtye on tehnyt yhteistyötä muunmuassa Faith No More:sta tutun Mike Pattonin, grime -legenda Wileyn ja drum'n'bass -musiikkityylin kirkkaimpiin solistitähtiin lukeutuvan Jenna G:n kanssa.
The Qemists iskee toisella levyllään 'Spirit In The System' yhä syvemmälle tanssikansan hermopisteen ytimeen. Tunnelmat heidän dj -seteissään vaihtelevat kauniista balladinomaisista vokaaliraidoista metallivetoiseen riehuntaan, joten helmikuinen ilta Venuella tuo varmasti trooppisen meiningin talven keskelle. Jos olet jäänyt kaipaamaan Pendulumin uusissa soundeissa sitä jotakin, joka saisi sukat pyörimään jaloissa ja hengityksen salpautumaan, tule kuuntelemaan The Qemists:in setti ja totea elektronisen tanssimusiikin ja rockin yhdistelmän uusi taso.
Basstards -klubin tyylille ominaisesti kotimainen edustus The Qemists:in tukena on ajankohtainen ja monipuolinen. Defence Dj's lämmittelee illan pääesiintyjän teräksenlujalla ammattitaidolla yhdessä Dj Genkin kanssa. Illan päättää pääsalissa uudempi nimi Dj Graffioso, joka voitti Facebookissa viime vuonna järjestetyn uusien kykyjen miksauskilpailun erittäin pätevällä dubstep -setillään. Panorama -baarin puolella huimassa nostessa olevan Ivah Sound / Subz Up -kollektiivin Subzaholic, JahTafari ja Prospero, jotka tuovat iltaan syvällisemmät soundit dubin ja junglen muodossa.
The Qemists - virallinen profiilisivu:
http://ninjatune.net/artist/the-qemists
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BASSTARDS PRESENTS: THE QEMISTS (UK)
MAIN ROOM:
THE QEMISTS DJ set (Ninja Tune, UK)
http://www.theqemists.com
http://ninjatune.net/artist/the-qemists
Genki
Defence Dj's
Graffioso
PANORAMA ROOM:
Subzaholic
JahTafari
Prospero
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LIGHTS & VISUALS
Michelle Silver
DATE
Saturday 11.2.2012 // 22:00-04:00 // Age 18
Location
Venue
Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 21
00100 Helsinki
TICKETS
Advance: 9€ + bf 1€ (total price 10€ + service fee) from Tiketti, http://www.tiketti.fi
Door: 10€
100 VIP tickets (Only from Tiketti)
Price 20 € including booking fee (+ service fee)
VIP ticket includes:
-VIP entrance with free queue passing at the venue
-Special gift @ Venue
-No queuing at the afterparty entrance @ Playground (afterparty ticket is not included to the price)
SUPER VIP ticket only from email: [email protected]
550€ SUPER VIP for 10 people (only 1 table for sale)
SUPER VIP ticket includes:
-VIP entrance with free queue passing at the venue and escorting to the table
-Table reserved for all night next to the stage, best place at the club ;)
-1 bottle of Grey Goose vodka + mixers, 2 bottles of sparkling wine
-No queuing at the afterparty entrance @ Playground (afterparty ticket is not included to the price)
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/157093114396364
Venue Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/154159434672649/
The Qemists bio
“Sometimes, it’s easier to describe The Qemists by saying what we’re not,” laughs Liam Black. “We’re not a ‘standard’ Rock band, we’re not ‘standard’ Drum & Bass producers, and we don’t try to be those things. But describing what we are, that’s more tricky...”
The Qemists are, in many ways, something of a Qonundrum. They’re rock fans seduced by the dancefloor, dance fans equally happy playing live instruments or building tracks on the computer, Drum & Bass aficionados who believe their hurtling breakbeats sound best under muscular metallic riffs. Their debut album, 2009’s Join The Q, balanced Junglist-Metal monsters like ‘Stompbox’ and ‘S.W.A.G.’, with wall-shaking Dancehall boomers like ‘Dem Na Like Me’, with a diverse guest-list including ex-Faith No More frontman Mike Patton, Grime legend Wiley and Drum & Bass chanteuse Jenna G.
Pumped as loud as your Hi-Fi will allow, or booming through the PA at one of their live shows, The Qemists fusion of genres make glorious sense. Having already won a fevered following across the globe for their ballistic dance music, they return with Spirit In The System, a second album that’s bolder and broader than its predecessor, their next evolutionary step in their fusion of Rock, Drum & Bass and everything else that they love.
The story begins a decade or so ago, in a barn on the rural outskirts of Brighton, where school-kids Liam Black, Dan Arnold and Leon Harris began making music together, as an escape from the mind-numbing boredom of their sleepy village. Even then, their work ethic was fearsome, meeting up to rehearse three nights a week, and all day Sunday. Drawing initial inspiration from the brawny Rock groups of the day –Soundgarden and Nirvana, RATM and the Chili Peppers – they kept their ears open and listened without prejudice. When they weren’t rehearsing in the studio or out at gigs, you could find them at raves, or losing themselves at Drum n Bass nights, and finding the same energy and dynamism that they loved in Rock music alive in Dance tracks.
Soon they were spending their days studying music production and technology and building Trip Hop and Drum & Bass tracks on the computer, and their nights and weekends rehearsing in the studio. A slew of lead singers filtered through the ranks, until the boys decided it was best to remain as a trio, and to begin fusing their electronic ideas with their work as a live group. “We thought, fuck the politics of being ‘a band’,” remembers Dan. “We could be producers, we could be the band, we could play any kind of music we wanted to, and people would just have to accept that.”
Locked away in their studio, they were fiercely productive, honing their sound and recording many albums’ worth of material, which they’d play to friends but never send to record labels. They recorded two 12”s for Mastermind Records in 2004, but their career truly began when Liam began working as an intern for Coldcut’s Jonathan More, who invited the trio to remix ‘Everything Is Under Control’, lead single off Coldcut’s 2006 LP Sound Mirrors. Their high-octane rebuild became a regular highlight of Coldcut’s world tour in support of Sound Mirrors – “They emailed us from the road, saying ‘Oh my god, your track’s just demolished Japan!’” grins Leon – and The Qemists signed to Coldcut’s record label Ninja Tune, to record the debut album – Join The Q – that would make sense of their riot of influences and styles, and secure a loyal following who are no doubt rabid at the prospect of its follow-up.
Spirit In The System, then, is The Qemists’ second chapter, drawing confidence from their debut’s success, and from slaying audiences across the globe with their music. “We tested our music out by playing it live and DJing all around the world,” says Liam, “and got a better understanding of what people like about our music, and how they respond to the different things we do. It’s great to see how emotionally affected people can be by Dance music; they can have their best, deepest experiences on a dancefloor. We wanted to capture that range of emotions on the album.”
They again enlisted an impressive and eclectic roster of vocal talent, to help them tap that deep vein of emotion. “We just said to the vocalists, ‘think about the emotion, sing about what matters to you’,” says Dan. “We wanted feelings on this record. We got one of the most emotional tracks from Jenna G, who returned for ‘hurt Less’. She knew us so well from touring with us that she was totally unafraid to give it everything, and sing what she really felt.”
The album also includes collaborations with Grime MC Maxsta and Drum & Bass MC ID, Danish Doom-rockers Kellermensch, Chantel from Invasion (who Liam describes as “a Death Metal band fronted by a soul singer”), along with some of the cream of modern UK Rock talent. “We got in touch with Rob Hawkins of The Automatic because we’d heard them all over the radio,” says Leon. “He’s just got a fantastic voice; it’s really versatile, so we had him sing on ‘Apocalypse’, which is a real dance track.” Enter Shikari, meanwhile, took The Qemists along as support for their 2009 European Tour, and are, Liam says, “our favourite rock band in the whole world. We wanted more than just a guest vocal from their singer Rou; we worked with Rory on guitar as well, to make Take It Back a true collaboration and it was a brilliant experience”
Aided by these guests, The Qemists deliver a decisively powerful, nuanced set, balancing balls-to-the-wall bangers like ‘Apocalypse’ and ‘Your Revolution’ – where the galloping break-beats and blasts of sub-bass send the listener hurtling on a sonic roller-coaster ride – with powerfully emotional tracks like the yearning, desperate ‘Hurt Less’ and the melancholic pulse of ‘Fading Halo’. The music contained on Spirit In The System might defy definition, but it does so boldly, proudly and brilliantly, fusing the dynamics of Rock with the muscular tempos of Drum & Bass and the visceral rush of Rave into a sound that’s fearlessly all their own.
The answer to the Qonundrum is this: The Qemists sound like the sort of music The Qemists want to hear, and their ears are too adventurous to heed petty generic borders. “The younger members of our audience know its okay to be into all different kinds of music, that you don’t have to limit yourself in your creativity,” says Liam. “Yeah, we’re a band; no, we don’t have a lead singer; yes, we do have singers on some tracks; yes, we do DJ; and yes, we play live. It’s okay to be this new cross-breed, to do what you want; it’s the way forward, creatively. And I don’t see how anyone else does it any other way, to be honest. It would be terrible, we could never limit ourselves like that.”
