Heyoka AKA Andrei Olenev is another cosmic audio waveform manipulator who recently delighted us at Muti Music with his auditory explorations. While reading, you may want to check out some of his forthcoming tunes on Muti on our ‘Player’ on the top menu bar.
We found him floating in the Bay Area noosphere after being called to our attention by another emerging talent in San Francisco and a bar night called ‘Beat Church’ where he has shredded a few dance - floor - boards in the past few months. Continue reading Blog - Emerging Artist Heyoka…
Response: Danny Bonnici: (EQ, Global Underground, MOB, Audio Therapy, Ministry Of Sound)
“Some great bass line stuff there and well mixed. nice work all round.” Kemek The Dope Computer:
“Wow, amazing stuff! truly psychedelic yet also immensely danceable. Loving “Noospheroid” the most but it’s all great. Anti-gravity beats!”
Nanda was first featured on the Muti Music compilation ‘Clipping Paths’ with his track ‘As We Let Go’ being one of many fan favourites on the CD. Keep your ears to the ground for a lot more from Nanda on Muti Music this year with styles ranging from dubstep, midtempo / glitch-hop to rolling electro breaks.
Nanda Bio: Mr. Nicholas Grabenstein, better known as Nanda to his closest peers of family members, artists, musicians, peace promoters, transcendentalists, devotees, yogis, rastas, hippies, dancers, lovers, non-haters and mischief makers, has been musically influenced from a very young age. Cutting edge sounds of early Moog and Roland synthesizers, as well as an innate understanding of percussion, made the Continue reading Artist - Nanda…
The world of electronic music is far greater than nightclubs and parties and even transcends the ecstatic dance experience that in itself can change lives and consciousness.
People connecting at a grass roots level through dance music have the ability to raise dialogue about relevant issues, utilize their connection in music and dance as a form of protest , compose sound that alters people at a vibrational level and also to form communities and be able to raise funds to help those in need.
www.NextAid.org is a perfect example of an organization using the conscious dance community to provide sustainable solutions to communities in need.
This particular organization holds a particularly strong bond with us at Muti Music as it is involved in providing growth and support in our label and namesakes motherland ‘South Africa’, where the AIDS epidemic and the devastation of communities has left millions of children orphaned. For an introduction to NextAid and to hear how you can help them further please check out the promo video below featuring many of dance musics top figures including Kaskade, Mark Farina, J-Boogie, Louie Vega and more (you can also see Muti’s Dov DJing at their one benefit last year at the 2:20 minute mark in video).
NextAid Overview Watch world renowned artists such as Louie Vega, Miguel Migs, Dj Colette and more speak about the AIDS crisis and give a voice to African children orphaned by AIDS.
Sponsored by DubSpot, NYC
Directed by Jason Gurvitz
Produced by Lauren Segal- Avenna
Edited by Inbal Lessner and Tamir Shapira
Graphics by Paulynn Cue and Celia Cho
Voice over by Sonia HassanFilming by Jason Gurvitz, Andrew Casden, Tania Cuevas, Adam Poswolsky
Music by Gavin Hardkiss, Jesse Brooks, and TroydonPlease make a contribution to NextAids building project. DONATE TO NEXTAID NOW
Undecided, otherwise known as Chris Shelton, was captivated by the scene in early 1998 and since then has been cultivating his own style of funky, hard-hitting breaks referred to as “That Nu-Funk Sound.” In 2002, Undecided formed Urban-Breaks, a crew responsible for hosting multiple monthly and weekly breaks events in the Sacramento and surrounding areas. With the success of these events, he decided to further explore his passion behind the turntables and relocate to Seattle in early 2004. In Seattle his rising popularity was aided by close relationships that were quickly built with well-known local break-beat artists. Relocation also allowed Urban-Breaks the ability to add even more talented DJs to the roster and produce shows on a more consistent basis.
In June of 2005 Undecided found himself back in Sacramento where his crew returned to hosting monthly breaks events. In September 2005 Undecided and production partner Kiro sat down to work on their first breaks release in the Infected Logic Studio. This release found its way to popular UK breaks label Mob and received a remix from acclaimed producer The Rouge Element. With the success of his work with production partner Kiro, Undecided’s exposure has brought new-found opportunities to advance musically while focusing more of his energy on solo production projects that give him the chance to create his own form of dirty funk bass lines. Continue reading Artist - Undecided…
At the forefront of innovation is an artist that has made splashes in every major electronic medium over the past 6 years. James Watts began pruning his unique vision for electronic music in the days of tinkering with DOS-based trackers. His prolific body of work now embraces the bulk of electronic genres, including breaks, IDM, tech-house, and downtempo. His fluency in piano is evident throughout his work, as is his penchant for jazzy riffs, intelligent structure, wistful melodies, and an often cheeky take on the current state and history of electronic music as a whole. Continue reading Artists - KiloWatts…
Heyoka AKA Andrei Olenev is another cosmic auditory scientist found in the Bay Area noosphere, who has been blowing minds with his auditory manipulations.
Muti Music first released Heyoka’s “Space Case EP” in 2008 and included him on their growing roster of talented artists, and his albums ‘Whomp Gland & Pineal Dub’, ‘Gate Code’ and the all new ‘Marklar’ album in 2010 have shown that he is a producer consistently evolving his sound while managing to maintain a signature sound that is distinctively ‘Heyoka’.
His early influences in Downtempo, Dub and IDM combined with more recent midtempo dancefloor genres have helped create a very unique sound that combines relentless basslines, hip hop and dub rhythms with a lot of musicality and melody.
The response to his emergence so far has been overwhelming with Heyoka developing audiences and playing festivals from US to Canada and Australia. For a mind bending experience in dub inspired Glitch Hop, keep your ear to the ground for Heyoka playing a city or festival near you.
Suff-x AKA Bryce Elder has sought to push the boundaries of breakbeats in the Pacific Northwest for over ten years and also been featured at gigs alongside Uberzone, Terry ‘Atomic’ Hooligan, KiloWatts, Tipper, Radioactive Man, Ben Milstein, Kraddy, Dov & Bil Bless and many more luminaries of the breakbeat / electro scenes.
His connection to Muti Music began with a ‘Virus Crew’ gig that Muti owner ‘Dov’ played at in 2002, there meeting the very unique and standout talent in the form of Suff-x.
This chance meeting resulted in a few years of back and forth with Suff-x coming down to San Francisco to be featured alongside Radioctive Man AKA Keith Tenniswood, Dov & Kraddy venturing up to Portland and Seattle to play with Suff-x and Terry Hooligan and then sharing the stage that Suff-x put together at the Phoenix Festival that also featured Ben Milstein and Dave Tipper.
In the picture Kraddy, Terry ‘Atomic’ Hooligan, Dov and Suff-x ‘post-gig’ in Seattle
Suff-x shows up at gigs with what looks like a regular DJ coffin and when he opens it up reveals one of the most unique live setups most people have seen, setting him well apart form most ‘laptop’ live sets and DJs alike.
His armada of gear includes two samplers, X/Y controller pads, DJ mixer and a multitude of little gadgets that blink, glow and glitter in nightclub settings.
He juggles tracks, effects, broken tidbits, squiggly snippits, and boogie-down basslines off of his dual samplers set up in battle-style fashion, giving a nod to his turntablist counterparts–the majority of which wouldn’t keep up versus a “scratch mode” session on his korg kaoss mixer! Continue reading Blog - Suff-x…
Dust storms and bio-diesel generators vibrating amongst a haze of awe, exaltation, celebration and emotion, bass blasts out of a mutant vehicle set up at ‘no-where in particular’, roughly lining up between 3.15 and ‘The Man’ and near the snake sculpture, a crowd moshes and bounces to bass-driven, crunk mutations of something that must be dance music, by the fact that people are clearly dancing to it.
Justice - Nazereth tears the sound system a new portal and the systems grinds down to a shreak, radio waves pulsate through the air and a PA announcement,”You are listening to an-ten-nae radio 91.1FM.” This is ‘an-ten-nae’ AKA Adam Ohana, bringing it amongst the likes of Freq Nasty, Adam Freeland, Lee Coombs, Glitch Mob and many more dance music luminaries at Burning Man. Continue reading Blog - an-ten-nae ‘Dark Side Of The Dub’…
Nanda was first featured on the Muti Music compilation ‘Clipping Paths’ with his track ‘As We Let Go’ being one of many fan favourites on the CD. Keep your ears to the ground for a lot more from Nanda on Muti Music this year with styles ranging from dubstep, midtempo / glitch-hop to rolling electro breaks.
most people have seen, setting him well apart form most ‘laptop’ live sets and DJs alike.