Artist - Subvert

Introducing Subvert – pK / Muti Music / Rottun Recordings / Shambhala Music Festival.

What started out as an introduction and a remix project turned us ‘on’ to one of Canada’s rising stars of bass driven crunky beats in the form of “Subvert’.
His tracks have been doing promo rounds and have made regular appearances in the sets of Bassnectar, Ill Gates (The Phat Conductor) & Dov amongst others.

Subvert hails from Calgary, Alberta and his winding path in music started in 1996. Proof of his dedication to ‘Bass’ is in his track record of creating the world’s loudest competition vehicles, designing pK’s 90,000 watt sound system and managing the Village Stage at Shambhala Music Festival.
He started DJing in 2000 and combined with his extensive work on sound systems and attention to precision sound, he was ultimately & naturally led down the path to creating his own music productions and once again the low frequencies consumed him. Subvert’s sound is a combination of throbbing, relentless basslines, melodic strings and haunting pianos singing through midtempo glitch / acid crunk and dubstep. His attention to detail and the ability to tune into ‘bass that works’ can be felt in all of his music productions, he is an expert in the subsonic, the crowd and the show.

The past year has truly seen the emergence of Subvert as a recording artist, with a slew of new releases in the first half of 2008:
‘Subversion’ and ‘No Smokey Ganja’ on Rottun Recordings,
‘Bigtsteppa’ on Punch Out
and a recent remix of the Ill Gates smasher ‘Sweat Shop’ upcoming on Muti Music.
We are stoked to announce the forthcoming ‘Dirt Nap’ EP in addition to the ‘Sweat Shop’ remix coming out on Muti Music, the EP will include the tracks; ‘Size Matters’, ‘Curb Stomper’, ‘Dirt Nap’ and ‘Pump et Up’.
It’s all about the bass…..
You can download Subvert recent promotional mix which includes edits of many of these tracks below.
Download Subverts promo ‘Dirt Mix’ (95MB MP3 Download)

Artist - ill.gates

Bio :  ill.Gates is a Toronto-based composer, performer and educator. Over the past 15 years, he has established a global fanbase and a reputation as one of the most dynamic electronic music artists around. He regularly tours across North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Gates has headlined at such festivals as Burning Man, Shambala, the World Electronic Music Festival and the New Orleans Jazz Festival.

His first full-length release, Autopirate (Muti Music, 2008), reached #1 on many esteemed charts; and continues to sell strongly. Many of his contemporaries cite Gates (aka The Phat Conductor) as a key artistic influence and inspiration in their music. While on tour, Gates frequently teaches workshops to grateful and attentive audiences, in which he shares his highly effective approach to producing quality finished music as well as insights into the mentality and strategies necessary to succeed in the music business.

Recent highlights from his travels & adventures include:

> Having drinks with his namesake, Bill Gates; while playing a private party for Microsoft at the Sundance Film Festival (2010)
> A thriving creative partnership with the San Francisco-based bass music icon Bassnectar, including a chart-topping remix of ‘Maximum’ by DJ Vadim that sold so fast the duo were accused of chart hacking (2010)
> Recording a free album live in Vienna to be released in the Summer of 2010
> Developing Ableton Live production packs and tutorials for Eskamon, the new collaboration between Eskmo & Amon Tobin (2010)
> Headlining the world’s first concert for the deaf, using Emoti-Chairs developed by the Alternate Sensory Input Devices (ASID) Lab at Ryerson University (2009)
> Dance accompaniment by world-famous Chinese dancer Dino to his song ‘Eggplantation’ in front of a massive live audience in Singapore, which led to licensing of Autopirate in Korea (2009)
> A collaboration with the A/V & performance art collective Advanced Peace Technologies (APT) in San Francisco, resulting in an acclaimed short film (2008/09)
> Composing ‘Adagio for Disney Hall and Coffee Grinder’ for an upcoming DVD by architect Frank Gehry which explores the relationship between architecture and music (2008)

Callout Quote
“…speaker-shaking bass lines and big-time breakbeats that kept the crowd dancing through every element of his ever-evolving set… glitched out hip-hop, cut-up vocals, reggae twists and all the grime you’d ever need or want on a Saturday night in the city.”  ~Duke LaRock, sinninginla.com

Artist - Nanda

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…

Artist - Undecided

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.
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Artists - KiloWatts

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…

Artist - Heyoka

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.

Artist - LayerZ / Audiovoid

LayerZ / Audiovoid
LayerZ / Audiovoid AKA Lindsey R. Green grew up in Healdsburg, Northern California. Never failing to get a turnaround nod, a glance or impression from anyone who first hears an iota of his next level sound design, Lindsey has been turning heads for many years and his electronic music production shows the efforts of his journey in music.From involvement in Death Metal band “Lamia” and journeying to IDM, Continue reading Artist - LayerZ / Audiovoid…

Artists - Si Begg

Si Begg
Techno DJ, Producer and Sound Designer, Simon Begg was born in Leicester (UK) in 1972, grew up in Leamington Spa (UK) and moved to London (UK) in 1991. He’s been a professional recording artist since 1993 and has been known under many guises, run many labels and is also known for music and sound experimentation that spans the globe and enters realms seldom ventured into by others, resulting in output reflecting a plethora of production styles and genres.
Some of his aliases include: Bigfoot, Bigfoot Futures Ltd, Buckfunk 3000, Cabbage Boy, Culture Cruncher, Dr. Nowhere versus The Maverick DJ, Lenny Logan, S.I. Futures and Zygmunt Janowski. Some folks have also been known to just call him Mr. Noodles. Continue reading Artists - Si Begg…

Artist - Timonkey

Timonkey (aka Tim Donlou)
Equally at home hanging from a tree branch or bouncing off concrete, Santa Cruz’s Timonkey (Tim Donlou) fuses organic and synthetic elements together in order to bridge the worlds of nature and technology:
Timonkey says, “Branching patterns, mineral lattices, geological timescapes - the living earth is as much an influence on my music as King Tubby, Bernie Worrell, or Steve Reich ever were.”
From its roots in dub, funk and ambient music, Timonkey’s sound has been evolving further into the synthetic realms of midtempo glitch. Continue reading Artist - Timonkey…

Artists - Future Funk Squad

Future Funk Squad
Future Funk Squad (aka. Glen Nicholls) During his development into a versatile DJ / Producer, Glen Nicholls (the mastermind behind Future Funk Squad) absorbed the best in electronic pop culture as a youth. At age 10 he made his first foray into emulating his idols such as Depeche Mode and Erasure by playing his own songs on the piano. In the early Nineties he immersed himself into the sounds of Autechre, NIN, Global Communication and the electronica label Warp. But it was after witnessing the monumental live shows of the Prodigy that the blistering producer in him was awoken. Continue reading Artists - Future Funk Squad…