Rising from the underground, Drop Zone pushes the cutting edge soundscapes of past, present and future. For our first club event we are proud to bring you Critical Music, one of the most respected and successful electronic music labels in the UK. Conceived by the D&B visionary Kasra, the future most certainly looks very bright indeed as we celebrate nearly 15 years of bass-fuelled, ear-pleasing music from Critical Sound.
Once again, dancefloor will be powered by mighty Vallila Sound System and our very own Matlock provides spectacular 3d visuals carefully designed for this event.
Keep it locked. Keep it Critical!
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✦ KASRA ✦ - UK
[Critical Music]
https://www.facebook.com/kasracriticalmusic
✦ ENEI ✦ - RU
[Critical Music]
https://www.facebook.com/eneiofficial
✦ HYROGLIFICS ✦ - UK
[Critical Music]
https://www.facebook.com/Hyroglifics/
➤ SCIENCE HKI
[Bassoradio]
https://www.sciencehki.net
➤ COMPETITION WINNER
Instructions for competition has been posted on the wall.
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Location: Y31 - Yrjönkatu 31, Helsinki
K18
Entry:
Pretickets 12€ (+ service fee)
http://www.lippupalvelu.fi/event/drop-zone-presents-critical-music-lippuja/165727
Door 15€
Any questions?
[email protected]
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• Visuals: MATLOCK •
http://matlockvisuals.com/
https://www.facebook.com/artworkofmatlock
• Soundsystem: VALLILA SOUND SYSTEM •
https://www.facebook.com/vallilasound
• Lights: ALL GOOD ENTERTAINMENT •
https://www.facebook.com/AllGoodEnter
https://www.age.fi
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- KASRA -
"Kasra is a gatekeeper to what is under the surface in drum & bass. He does what he does with passion and care. He is a kindred spirit” – Goldie, Metalheadz.
Since his first forays into drum & bass in the late 1990′s as a burgeoning young DJ, there’s no doubt that Kasra has now made an indelible mark on the scene, a mark that continues to grow ever-stronger as his Critical Music empire prospers.
As Critical’s figurehead, the demand for Kasra’s DJ’ing skills has escalated to the point of a schedule that sees him playing regularly every weekend throughout the UK rest of the world. Vienna, Budapest, Shanghai, Beijing, Miami, Berlin, New York and of course his beloved London are just a few of the places that have beared witness to the Critical Sound and the list just keeps getting longer. Quite a feat these days for someone who’s not yet really gone deep into the production process.
This is all changing though as Kasra’s been busying himself back on the studio readying his own takes on the Critical sound. With many more collaborations to come and some solo cuts, expect to see many more Kasra productions gradually working their way into the sets of the great and the good of the D&B community.
Not content with a release schedule bursting with future classics and his own rigorous DJ’ing schedule continually on the up, the label now boasts its own residency at one of the worlds most iconic electronic music venues, Fabric London, where it can regularly be seen smashing up the place with an always superstar cast of DJing elite form D&B and beyond.
The first quarter of 2012 saw Kasra achieve what ono a select few people around the world have managed in their careers; being asked to mix the new Fabric Live album was a huge honour and resulted in FabricLive 62 being one of the most successful drum & bass mix albums of the day.
“The rave George Cross, one of dance music’s highest honours.” – DJ Mag.
So now as heads turns to 2016 it seems this is the tipping point for Kasra both as a DJ and a label head of one of the most inspiring imprints in dance music today. The Critical age is only just beginning.
- ENEI -
Hailing from St. Petersburg in Russia it was way back in 2003 that a young Alexey Egorchenkov first got the taste for the musical drug Drum & Bass. Like many others before him he became hooked, dabbling with his own production and DJing soon after. Taking the artist name Enei his career began to blossom giving him star status in his beloved Russia and far but it wasn’t until 2007 that things really began to escalate.
During this year Enei earned his first official release on the Dutch label Fokuz but it was the first of many as others began to drop on other imprints such as Blu Saphir, Cyanide and Citrus throughout 2008 and 2009. Whilst his productions and profile began to take shape a certain eagle-eyed label boss, renowned for his supreme A&R’ing, was keeping close tabs on him; it wasn’t long before the phone call was made and Kasra secured the first Enei release for Critical Music at the end of 2010. The rest as they say, is history.
Releasing the Andy C favourite ‘Cracker’, ‘One Chance’ and the much lauded ‘Stone Head EP’, Enei’s Critical discography is relatively short but seeing the sheer talent within Kasra signed him exclusively for the label in 2011. It was Enei’s biggest year and to top it off he came away the ‘Best Newcomer Producer’ accolade at the end of year Drum & Bass Arena Awards.
With his music supported by Goldie, London Elektricity, Bailey, DJ Hype, Andy C, Kasra and many more, and an ever increasing DJ’ing schedule, you can guarantee this is merely the start of it as one of the most exciting of the new producers generation in electronic music today continues to make his way.
- HYROGLIFICS -
Surrey based DJ / producer Hyroglifics, aka Matt Harris, shot up the ranks after setting dance floors tremoring in the wake of the 2013's Soundboy EP (Proximity Recordings) with a fiercely avant-garde sound of beyond his years.
Since embarking on the craft in 2010, a brimming sonic palette and easy aptitude for formidable bass lines, steppy beats and off-the-wall hooks have come to fortify Hyroglifics' reputation as an upcoming architect in the transformative landscape of contemporary drum and bass. The futuristic sensibility and wall-shaking energy of his production hasn't gone unnoticed, attracting signings by forward-thinking underground exponents Peer Pressure Records, Flexout Audio and Diffrent Music to name a few. It wasn't long before Critical Music's Kasra had tuned into Hyroglifics' promising repertoire of noise and was ready to work this industrious young producer into the equation.
It's at this point that Critical Music are very excited to announce new kid on the block Hyroglifics as the initial artist of the brand new Binary series; an exciting digital-only chapter of the Critical firm committed to unearthing the very freshest of talent.
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