Will Styles - MOS Dubstep Tour

With in tinnitus-inducing clothing, it’s always hard to miss Will Styles.

Classically trained from a young age, Will grew up playing violin, piano, French horn, xylophone, timpani, drums and glockenspiel. As a 16-year-old grunge fan, he discovered dance music whilst wearing 2 flannies, a Skid Row t-shirt and torn jeans. By the end of the night he was on the dance floor, waving his flannies around his head. He was hooked to the beats. Will tried and failed at mixing his first record just hours later. Since then, he has always endeavoured to play the rave, but it was only with the advent of DubRave that people began responding positively.

In 2001, he started FunkTrust with a couple of mates. It was all part of a plan to drink beer, meet girls and pay off gambling debts. Every Thursday for 6 years, FunkTrust played party-style hip hop, original uncut funk and block rocking’ breaks at The Globe and The Hunter Bar resulting in a statistically improbably high rate of Friday absenteeism. Artists who played at the club include the Nextmen, Malente, Mickey Finn, DJ Food, Freddy Fresh and Fort Knox Five. This success lead to Will’s first taste of festival whoredom: Big Day Out, Splendour in the Grass, Parklife, Future Music Festival, Field Day, Shore Thing, Sydney Festival First Night, Falls Festival. Will played Good Vibrations in a full panda suit, his FunkTrust-heterosexual-life-partner, Learned Hand, donned a full monkey suit. Will had arrived; he was rubbing shoulders with the great and good and entertained no-less a pop star than Sandi Thom (no, really.)

After a 2 year stint presenting Tuesday Sunsets on Sydney community station FBi, Radio FunkTrust started in 2007. Will & Aaron were invited to play before Silverchair at Triple J’s One Night Stand in Cowra, and of course brought their dancing panda with them. After the 2008 Hottest 100 broadcast, with at least one million people tuning-in, he managed to spill a full beer into a million-dollar mixing desk… It broke the desk but he didn’t get fired. Radio FunkTrust finished at the end of 2010 on a high, every week they reached 70,000 people with nothing better to do on a Friday night.

Will Styles - Get your tickets from Mostiqs

DubRave started in December 2009, and having thrown parties all over Australia, they have landed a regular home at Sydney’s Chinese Laundry. It was launched with the same underground aesthetic, and the same flagrant disregard of genre that made FunkTrust such a success. This time, however, the sounds focused on bass music, particularly the nascent sound of dubstep. They’ve hosted parties for South Rakkas Crew, Doorly, DJ MK (Dizzee Rascal’s tour DJ) and Nu:tone & MC Wrec. The biggest nights always featured local line-ups, a testament to the strength of the brand and the depth of the talent.

At the start of 2011, Will represented the DubRave sound around Australia with MC Hayley Boa on the Boiler Room tour. Their show injected bass music directly in the ears of over 100,000 ravers in just 6 shows, including 2 capacity performances in Sydney of 35,000 each.

Chosen to mix Ministry of Sound’s “Sound of Dubstep” compilation alongside Israel’s Borgore, Will is to tour around Australia throughout May and June. Appearing on the mix; Paul Mac personally approved Will’s remix Itch-e & Scratch-e’s Sweetness and Light; the first remix allowed since its release in 1995. The compilation features tunes from Chase & Status, Skrillex, Rusko and Sub Focus, plus original Will Styles productions and tunes from his label, DubRave. Will’s partner in DubRave is MC Shureshock, Australia’s No. 1 MC, a certified raver and all-round party rocker.

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Supports:  Jemist, Cheese, Ced Nada, D’Opus and Dred

Friday the 13th is upon us and something dark is growing in The Clubhouse…

As night falls we will open the gates to hell and the four horsemen of the apocalypse will ride out, bringing with them a cruel arsenal of sounds.

D.Wils – Open
Dred – 12
Izz – 1
Centaspike – 2
Ben Colin – 3

Enjoy the week ahead, spend some time with friends and family because come nightfall this friday 13th you will be lucky to be alive.

Whilst researching sub-bass frequencies, Redonk scientists uncovered something unexpected. All Contact has since been lost with the secret facility inside The Clubhouse…

Following up from their UV Party, Redonk are now bringing Perth’s DnB rocker Q-Bik & Seeka MC to the ACT. Prepare for a night of deep rhythms and heavy bass sounds from an array of heavy hitting breakbeat bassheads.

Q-Bik & SEEKA [WA]
Dred vs DJC
Riske
Izz
D.Wils

@The Clubhouse
$10 before Midnight

http://www.facebook.com/redonkparty

Set times:

10 – lost the plot

11 – dred

12 – buick

1 – ben colins

2 – cookie monsta

3:30 – relay

4:30 – aeon

Set times

9.00-9.40 Delux
9.40-10.20 Tidy
10.20-11.00 Kinetik
11.00-11.40 Djc
11.40-12.30 Dred
12.30-2.30 Cern
2.30-3.30 (or later) Centaspike

Set times:

Clubhouse stage
4 Delux
5 Fence Tompkins
6 Jemist
7 Ben Colin
8 Dred vs skywalker
9 Faux Real
10 Ced Nada & D’opus
2am Buick

Lotus stage
8 one talk
8.3 Prize
9.3 Sofie Loizou
10.3 electric sea spider
11 ……..
12 FLylo
1 The GasLamp Killer

Tickets available through Moshtix:
http://www.moshtix.com.au/event.aspx?id=43057&ref=moshtix

Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=wall&gid=6946281852#!/event.php?eid=126224824104461

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Set against the austere industrial backdrop of the NGA carpark, walls of steel and cement became a screen space for projections by video artists including London-based video director and illustrator Danny Sangra.

Projections dovetailed with an epic sound space and dance music was performed by DJ’s Skywalker, Dred, djc, Riske & Melbourne’s sound artist Buttress O’Kneel.

Digital Jam was an inspiring and truly mesmerising event.

Set times:
9.00 aeon  |  10 the crunch  | 11 dubdeckerbus
12 dred  | 1 sook  |  3 d.wils

MAIN ROOM – DNB

10 – Dred | 11.30 – The Crunch | 1am – ALIX PEREZ | 3am – Skywalker

CANDYBAR- Breaks

9 – Dubdeckerbuss | 11 – Stunami – hosted by MC Harlequin!

[podcast]http://www.agentkaos.com/podcast/drdred-march-2010.mp3[/podcast]

floating zero :: phace & noisia
something else :: break remix
lockjaw :: mayhem & noisia
above the clouds :: engage
whos gonna lead :: dabs ft. wrath
hybris :: macrophage
bone structure :: Zero T and Rockwell
peace fuzz :: system
nowhere :: icicle
perch :: meth
stay calm :: rockwell
hand gestures :: noisia
sorting method :: krot
nosferatu :: strago
strange science :: phace
minimal funk :: icicle
noir :: rockwell
elsewhere :: dlr
the mist :: tactile
entropy :: mist
whispers :: mortem
hollow :: blocks
alive :: phace

Almost certainly inspired by his brother Kaos, Dred was not to be out done with plenty of early banging cassette tag team mashups with dj’s like Archie, Stylus, Djc, Buick, Rokit and Direct Drive on projects like Ruff’n’Ready, Tour of duty, Sunday Sessions and heaps more. Rising quickly to the top of the heap Kaos and Dred featured twice on triple j’s mixup. The last 10 years has seen a relentless bombardment of absolute classic mixing skill, from possibly Canberra best ever mix maker, the one and only Dred.

You can catch the mashup master every Wednesday only on Rezinate.

Check out dred’s latest glitch mix:

[podcast]http://www.agentkaos.com/podcast/2010-glitch-dj-dred.mp3[/podcast]

king prawn :: opiou
yuck beats :: sharps
global stomp :: opiou
particle :: heyoka
itchy feet :: vent
hacksaw :: Ooah
grit :: heyoka
monkey chew :: vent
neem :: heyoka
snackbaskets :: vibesquad
crystalite :: vent (si begg remix)
dj hype :: dead a’s
cricket :: R/D
jet black :: lazer sword
computer music :: opiou
flatlands burning :: nalepa
babylon :: bassobese
ate a weight :: cursor miner
coloured pencil :: the mollusk
groundscore :: vibesquad

[podcast]http://www.agentkaos.com/podcast/dredstep-2010.mp3[/podcast]

brain activity :: si begg (wascal remix)
on point :: zeno and chewie
ding ding ding :: Bassobese
crack hands :: Jayou
purple star :: ganga white night
assassin :: mars
insanity :: 501
aerial :: led piperz
no process :: afghan headspin
circus freak :: rob sparx
void ::- sinister soul
dull flame of desire :: bjork (modeslektor remix)
monsterz :: aquadrop
painkillers :: brown gammon
red :: taz buckfaster
incognito :: marauder
rain mind :: giant
azure :: jus wan
sweetshop :: doctor p
dubflicker :: unknown vs aphex twins
ghetto bass :: twis7
hand granade :: ivory
crunka :: Bassobese
boom :: Heyoka

[podcast]http://www.agentkaos.com/podcast/dred2010.mp3[/podcast] subwave : stars get down
martsman : aeiro
s.p.y. : asbo
enei : ten years
cable : alternative
serum and bladerunner : snakefist
icicle : cause
rockwell : underpass
mr sizef : garmoniya
Daly : Bad Symphony
spectrasoul : wedgehead
Noisia : Deception
s.p.y. : dark corners
icicle : driftwood (feat noisia)
triad : la calma
er.ic : sixty seconds
s.p.y. : seeing thru shadows
liquid stranger – his fully automatic wheelbarrow

I have never been to this festival before and my only expectation was that it was going to be fun.  I have not been to a ‘forest party’ for many years and I have fond yet rather hazy memories of good forest times past.

As we travelled along the dirt road towards the sounds of music we were like children in a free candy store, pepped up on sugar and ready to explore. We parked our car among the masses and enthusiastically entered the festival grounds.   The adventure began by following a trail of brightly coloured rope lights and lanterns which hung majestically amongst the tree tops.  These lights led off to 4 different areas that were scatted amongst the forest. The areas included a market place and 3 music stages all of which provided a welcoming, inclusive and visually stimulating atmosphere.

As we explored the forests sculpture garden of totem poles, and took in all the sights and sounds we ate some delicious wood fired pizza.   We wandered around with pizza in hand discovering each space one by one.  Fire Dragon was the first to be stumbled upon a fully enclosed acoustic and chill out space, where you could listen to anything from chilled beats to live jazz .  Air Dragon the next, an electronic dj stage cranking out Psy-Trance with its very own flying dragon hovering above the crowd.  Last but by no means least, my personal favourite Earth Dragon aka the Drum & Bass and Dubstep stage.

Each area was as equally interesting and enticing as the next.
There were many sites to enjoy from gnomes to laser beams, even a random wheel chair made it to the party.

Fortunately for me I arrived at the Earth Dragon space right on time to witness Crooked Sound System and MC Harlequin perform. These guys played an absolutely wicked set featuring their own unique and original style of Dubstep which had the crowd entranced and jumping.

Following the Crooked Sounds Crew was Dj Dred who mixed up a smooth batch of fresh Drum & Bass.  What can I say apart from mad skills and massive tunes!

Buick and I played a freestyle, old skool, Drum & Bass set which I must say, was extremely fun, funky and very appropriate for the early hours of the morning.  After mixing for an hour 1/2 and fighting off sleep deprivation I ran away from the decks to warm my hands by the fire drums and to watch Buick skilfully mix up a delightful selection of my favourite tunes.

Djs Buick and Dred closed off the evening by playing a sublime set of chilled out Dubstep as the sun began to creep up above the trees.

My expectations of this party were totally blow out of the water, fun is an understatement, this event was freaking awesome!  It had it all, each area was professionally set up with quality, sound, lighting, Djs, performers, entertainment, and visuals to boot.

As far as I’m aware this was the first time Drum & Bass and Dubstep had been included in the array of musical delights that the festival showcases, it truly added a crucial element to this spectacular evening.

Dragon Dreaming Festival is a well planned and executed event that’s certainly worth a look.

Jay Cee