ENiGMA Dubz

NAME

James Vine aka ENiGMA Dubz

WHERE YOU CALL HOME

Birmingham, UK

ENiGMA Dubz BEGINNINGS 

Production and DJ-wise, I've been on it now for around five years now. When I was doing my GCSE's, I got hold of a copy of 'Reason' and to start with it was a case of getting in from school, opening 'Reason' and then just experimenting and trying to work out what a compressor was for! The music side of things was something I was strong at as I've been playing the cello from a very young age. Over the years, I've had a load of experience playing in concerts with orchestras and playing solo  Classical work. The Classical training gave me all the fundamental music knowledge and theory to be creative. So once I got hold of 'Reason', and then later Fruity Loops, it was a case of learning the program and then having fun with it. I eventually got a Mac, just over a year ago, and then I was able to make the move to Logic which really has taken my producing to the next level. No matter what happens with my producing career, I'll always have a passion for music in general and being creative.

CURRENT WORK

I've just finished making two EPs which will be coming out either at the end of this year or at the start of 2012. One EP is coming out on a Bristol Label called Subdepth Records which is focused more on the deeper side of Garage/Dubstep. The other EP is coming out on a label called Bassclash Records and this one is a bit heavier...well, a lot heavier.

I'm also working on two other big projects. One is an album which is coming from an MC in London called Drapez. We've been putting out tracks for a while now and, in 2012, there will be an album dropping called 'Drapez - My Way Out', so keep an eye and ear out for that! The other project I've just started is a second album to follow my first one, 'ENiGMA Dubz - Variationz', but this won't be done for at least a few months and should be out there at some point during 2012.

Other than that, I'm still pushing out other tracks, more free downloads, experimenting with other sounds and working with other artists. Me and my girlfriend Katie McLeod are working on more tracks and there will be an EP coming out on LU10 Records featuring Katie's new track 'Brighter Day' alongside a couple of other. So, watch out for that and there will be plenty more to come from us in the near future.

The last thing to mention is that I have just put out a mix CD to help push my music to the public. The CD, 'Sub-Mission Vol 1' will be available at most Birmingham Record shops and hopefully nationwide once I get it out there. All the tracks are produced by myself and I'll be bringing a Volume 2 out next year. If you want more info on this, head over to my Soundloud and listen to the Mix CD sample.

FUTURE WORK

Well the next thing for me is to start finding ways of pushing my name further. I'm hoping to do more DJ sets next year and also do a lot more official remix work for labels/artists. Once I get a chance to focus on my new album, I'll finish that and should get it out during 2012. I'm also keen to get into music for film and television so I'm going to be creating all sorts of music next year.

LAST BITS

Big up to LU10 Records, DANK 'N' DIRTY DUBZ and also any other labels helping to push my music. Also shout out to Katie McLeod for writing amazing vocals, Drapez for being a next-level MC and everyone out there making great music. Also I'd like to say thanks to everyone who's been supporting me, all the features on blogs, YouTube posts, comments, messages and general support is really appreciated, so thank you! Lastly, thanks to AMINA for this feature. There's some sick stuff on this blog so keep your eye on it people!

Not only is ENiGMA Dubz talented, his music is very diverse. I look forward to hearing what he creates next. If you would like to find out more about ENiGMA Dubz or perhaps book him, click on the links below.

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Rogue

NAME
Joel Hunt aka Rogue

HOMETOWN

Walsall, near Birmingham, UK

MUSICAL BEGINNINGS

I've been producing for a few years now, not really knowing it myself. I was just messing around on FL Studio and creating all different styles of music. I started making Dubstep specifically in summer 2010. But, since then, I have produced lots of other types of music. At the end of September 2011, after talking with a DJ known as NAZA from Middlesbrough and finding that he liked my music, he told me to get an artist name. Previously,  I'd been making music as 'Joel Hunt Music'. So, I thought of the name 'Rogue' and got involved with Future Follower Records, a label which NAZA had just started up. Then I made my accounts on YouTube and other social networks.

CURRENT WORK

Right now I'm working on a number of tracks, as always, one of them being a take on Coldplay's 'Clocks'. Another track is a House-type track with a Rogue twist called 'Tigers'. I am also working on a 100bpm remix of 'The Tribe' by Driftkong, another Future Follower Records artist.

FUTURE WORK

Well, I'm going to continue making music and video blogs. Hopefully it will keep getting the same attention that my current stuff is getting. I'll also be trying out some other genre's like DnB/Drumstep and maybe Moombahton, and mostly just trying to get better at what I do, as I realize I have a lot of headroom. I just want to keep having fun with my music and not take it too seriously, continuing to experiment with new things and find my own sound.

Following Rogue's progress is easy. Just click on any link below. I suggest you click on them from time to time since he is always adding new content!

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Yes, YeshYo

This, is in my opinion, is a very talented up-and-comer. YeshYo definitely has the Pop-Step down, as well as Electro, Drum and Bass and a slew of other bass-heavy genres. He was nice enough to write a few words about himself too. This kid is going places! ;)

My name is Matteo Di Berardino, aka YeshYo. I live in Italy, more precisely in Milan. My first approach to music was through a DJ console that my father bought me about three years ago . After that, exactly on Christmas 2009, I decided to start producing my own music. Currently, I have just finished my first, hopefully not last, official remix. Now I'm starting to work on my first EP which will be a mix of Dubstep, Electro and DnB. Despite not having any labels, I am still very motivated. We'll see how it goes!

You can link up with YeshYo at the following the links below.

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NastyNasty: When Only Nasty Bass is Just Not Enough

If you don't know who NastyNasty is, you should! This is one of my favorite music producers, ever! Not only does he create mind-bending, emotionally charged music, he is also very good at explaining himself in depth! Don't just take my word for it. Check out NastyNasty's own words on his journey and then follow the links to enjoy his musical creations!

The truth of the matter is, I'm kind of a quiet guy. I don't go out a lot and I hide that behind an overtly "good god I'm fucking badass" facade that is NastyNasty. So here's the nitty gritty: I was born in 1983 (yeah, I'm hella old) in a town called Quincy which lies in northeastern California about 100 miles from the Nevada border. Quincy is comprised mainly of trees, scattered hippies and streams to skip rocks in. I moved to Cupertino to attend kindergarten and early grade school. This is where I developed a love of music. I would sing on the airplane swing that my parents built for me and arrange the kitchenware into some form of a primitive drum set. Then I moved to Dublin (California...not the romantic kind in Ireland) where I picked up my first legitimate instrument, the saxophone, in 4th grade. My interest waned and I didn't pick it back up seriously until moving back to the South Bay in junior high school where I began learning to play the acoustic guitar. I continued to play guitar and bass, both upright and electric, in a few bands in junior high and high school. The bands ranged from Punk and Ska to Jazz and Surf. After high school, I was kicked out of my parents' house and fired from my job. So, I started selling weed and hanging out with a different crowd. Somewhere in late high school, I had been exposed to Aphex Twin and Squarepusher and, as I was introduced to more advanced hallucinogens, my love for electronic music grew. One night, while fighting a noxious void on some really good acid, a friend of mine dropped an Outkast CD into the system in my apartment and cranked up the lazers. (I lived with a hard nrg crew in my first apartment...most annoying music ever but they did have subwoofers and lazers.) I fell hard for this sound. I listened to the CD so much that I had memorized the lyrics to "Extraterrestrial" and could be found rapping them in the bathroom the next day. One of my roomies had a working version of Fruityloops on his computer and I began making primitive Hip-Hop and Jungle beats to back my "sick flows" on it. I was quickly introduced to Propellerhead Reason and began taking production a little more seriously.

Next, I moved to Oakland for college. Within a week of college, I had seen other white kid rapper/producers and pretty much failed to get in with that crowd. So, I recoiled back into my room, quit rapping and started focusing heavily on IDM production. Over my first Christmas vacation, I crashed my parents' computer trying to do something in a cracked version of Sound Forge and had spawned the alias Build128 from an error message reading "core engine failure build 128". Years passed and I had learned to drill, time stretch, re-pitch, make drum patterns of sheer nonsense and splatter melodies around like a Jackson Pollock sound collage. I also began working on Quitter with one of my college buddies in a morphine-induced haze of Future-Crunk. I began making more and more esoteric endeavors like long-winded ambient drones, and delved into making hyper-melodic Breakcore towards the end of my reign.

Once I turned 25, I felt fucking old and almost burnt-out on music.  I realized that I had been making super esoteric music just to avoid any sort of emotional connection, and started looking at new avenues. Around this time, the hard drive that I had used to store most of my Build128 material and project files suffered a massive failure. Weeks later, my girlfriend left me and everything I had been working on became extraordinarily personal. I axed Build128 and began making much slower, more synth-focused pieces of music that I would later come to discover would be considered Dubstep or some form of Grime. Honestly, I couldn't name more than five Dubstep producers at the time. As well as remixing mainstream Rap songs in some vain attempt at getting famous quick to stick it to all my ex girlfriends, I changed my name every couple of weeks until, around December '08, when NastyNasty came to mind as a simple reference to my aesthetic choices and penchant for, well, kinky sex. The name stuck and I began to find common threads in the genre. I was still pretty aloof to the impact Dubstep was having in the States and completely out of the loop as far as knowing there was any kind of scene for it. I found brethren among other up-and-comers on Myspace, like Slugabed and Hovatron, and began finding locals such as Salva and Epcot who, in my opinion, were pushing the envelope in new school club music. Fast forward about nine months and here we are. I've etched out a little space for myself with some form of Grime-based club music for sound nerds. I've dropped esoteric ideals for something far more realistic and honest: a much more visceral representation of what it is to be Jasper in the year 2010, a willingness to let it all hang out, be it nerdy or angry or downright filthy, and a fight against the apathy and laziness that plagues my generation.

My only hope is that we can all join in one tremendous sonic orgasm, united under a haze of fog machines and lazers, feeling the bass rip our hearts out of our chests and beckon us to raise hands above our heads yelling "heyoooooooo" right before the beat kicks in and we go back to dancing like idiots.

Both sincerely and as honestly as humanly possible,

-jasper

If this piece doesn't have you curious to check out his music, you must be a robot! Non-robots, click on the links below to experience NastyNasty.

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Noble Savage EP Vol. 1 by Knowa Knowone

Drake, Lil Wayne - Forever (Thugstep RMX) by Knowa Knowone

Free Energy EP by Knowa Knowone

Lil' Gates - Officer Vep Mashup by ill Gates

KnowSleep by Knowa Knowone

Prepare your ears for a STYLUST BEAT

What is your names?

My names Geoff Reich

Where are you from?

Vancouver, Canada

How long have you been doing what you have been doing?

been producing music over 10 years, about a year and a half in dub

What are you working on now?

I just released "Lookout! EP" and  its on JUNO:http://www.junodownload.com/products/lookout-ep/1624908-02/

ITUNES:http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/lookout-ep/id390331786?uo=4

BEATPORT:https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/home/detail/1/beatport#app=e31f&a486-index=5 also I am working on a new ep for betamorph and always new remixes, one cool new one is the know us remix by jillian ann, that Love and Light hooked up, so far I know Nit Grit, Love and Light, David Starfire, s.p.e.c.t.r.e are all doing slammin remixes!

whats next?

I am starting SOUNDVIBE records with Emotionz, and steady touring across north america! also hitting the phillipines in feb. ;)

-STYLUST BEATS.


Make sure to check out all his work. I promise it will be worth your time.


Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Stylust-Beats/131809997652?ref=ts

Bookings:
Stylustbeats@gmail.com

Take a whiff of NOG Chompa and smell the Bass

And now some Glitch and Bass from NOG Chompa a member of  the "Intergrated Grime Unit" and a very good producer. And here are a few facts about him. :)

Whats your name?
NOG Chompa

Where are you from?
Vancouver BC

How do you do what you do?
I combine my love for bassmusic with my love of hip hop, blues and funk to make my tunes.
Ive spent years exploring audio, recording and twisting.. I love music. Simple.

What are you working on now?
A couple of new originals and remixes. Plus some dubstep freshies with favoured producer Myles Away.

What is next?
A Live PA combo with favoured guitar player Robin Mercy. Combining beats and basslines with fresh organic sounds..

-NOG Chompa.



This is definitely someone I would keep a eye on! Check out his work.

Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/nog

RobotSexTape album and band name by EPROM

Baconomics by KidLogic

Tasty Lazers EP by Cory O

This is SweatHop Vol​.​1 by Richard Sweat

The Beat Tape Vol​.​1 band by Rapohnelizenz

And now a word from Glÿph

The Bay Area EP by EPROM

Some way through this tainted love (AMINA REMASH) by AMINA

Rinsing out all the best tunes with Hosta from Rub-A-Dub-Dub

"Bow Down To The Duck"

So this is one of the best Audio Blogs that I have come across in a long time! Hosta is really doing a service to the whole Bass community world wide. And he is achieving this by doing nothing more than sharing his love for music with the rest of us. It is sites and people like this that have inspired me. And so I pass this on in the hopes that it may inspire you too. I contacted Hosta to find out what he, and his work was all about.

What is your name?:

Ben Hossle also known as Hosta.

Where are you from?:

Originally from Manchester UK, I am now based in Newcastle UK at university.

What inspired you to start your blog?:

I just thought that at the time there were a lot of blogs about that were all posting the same music, I already had a load of tunes that people didn't know about, I thought that I could make my own site to promote unknown artists and its just kind of gone from there really.

How long have you been doing what you do?:

Its been just longer than a year since I started the Rub A Dub Dub Blog, and already its grown so much. I honestly didn't expect it to get as well known as it is currently and I like to think people respect it for what it is and pick up the odd gem now and then.

What are you currently working on?:

Currently I am working on a few projects. One I can announce is a new Free EP series that we are launching along with Jenai from Ego Thieves based in London UK. That should be dropping soon, and I think it will surprise a lot of people not just in the quality of music but also the vast range of music genre's we are going to cover in the series.

What is next?:

After that I have a few big plans that are probably too fresh to announce just yet but stay locked!

-Hosta.

It will be worth your time to check out all of Hosta's work.


Website:
rub-a-dub-dubbb.com

Soundcloud:
rub-a-dub-dub

Youtube:
rubadubdubTV

Twitter:
hossle



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