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POD Presents
Soundtrack ‘09
**Access All Areas**
Mad Decent Soundsystem
Diplo
Fake Blood
Boy 8 Bit/Rusko / Skream/Arveene & Misk + More T.B.A.
Sunday Bank Holiday May 31st AAA @ TRIPOD/POD/CRAWDADDY
Doors 9pm ‘til late
Advance tickets €24:50 including booking fee on sale soon
Advance Tickets from usual outlets. Phone/internet bookings subject to extra service charges.
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Advance tickets €24:50 including booking fee on sale soon
Advance Tickets from usual outlets. Phone/internet bookings subject to extra service charges.
www.ticketmaster.ie
More info www.pod.ie 31st May is shaping up to be the hottest Bank Holiday Sunday this year with a night that will leave your mouth watering. An access all areas night that promises to deliver some of the most exciting, relevant, and all out party music. Mad Decent comes to Tripod with the best line-up of 2009: Diplo, Fake Blood, Skream, Boy 8 Bit, and Rusko.
Diplo
One thing of which Diplo (aka Diplodocus, Wes Diplo, and Wes Gully) cannot be accused is being afraid to experiment with new music. With his mash-up mixtapes, he found and created a sound where his musical tastes, '80s pop, electronica, Dirty South hip-hop, and his major influence, Miami bass music, intersect. His attention-grabbing projects Hollertronix, with partner DJ Low Budget, and the Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 mixtape, with elusive British-Sri Lankan MC M.I.A., made a heavy impact on the alternative electro-pop scene, amassing him rave reviews from music critics and indie kids alike, including Spin magazine, which named him DJ of the Year in 2005.
Diplo was born Thomas Wesley Pentz in Tupelo, MS. Although he lived in a few different cities in the South, he mainly grew up in south Florida. He spent his youth in his father's bait shop, fixated on manatees, alligators, and dinosaurs with hopes of becoming a paleontologist. However, he wound up pursuing an education in film studies, starting at a couple Florida colleges but then finishing up his undergraduate degree in Philadelphia at Temple University in 2003. Before his move to Philadelphia, Pentz had moved temporarily to Japan to escape daily life in America. From Japan, he sent a demo tape of his beat concoctions to Will Ashon, founder of U.K. independent hip-hop label Big Dada Records, and once signed to the label, he relocated to Philadelphia.
To support himself, during and after graduating from Temple, Pentz took on a few different jobs in Philadelphia: social worker, after-school mentor, movie theater employee, and gig-by-gig DJ. He was barely able to pay the rent, and the frustration was stunting his musical development (although he does credit one of his musical epiphanies to the after-school students who exposed him to crunk and Baltimore club music). Thus, Diplo and like-minded DJ Low Budget pooled their resources to start up their own club nights in Philadelphia, which they branded Hollertronix. It simply began as a fun night of genre-warping dance music, but it blossomed into an underground subculture drawing out crowds from all over the East Coast. Under the Hollertronix moniker, Diplo and Budget released the highly praised Never Scared mixtape; it was listed as one of the New York Times' top albums of 2003.
The following year, Big Dada released Diplo's solo debut album, Florida, a more downtempo piece focusing on melody and instrumentals that was a departure from the melee of mashed-up vocals and beats. His unrelenting work ethic produced a considerable number of acclaimed mix CDs and 12" records; however, none of them accumulated more interest and Internet chatter than the 2004 Piracy Funds Terrorism, Vol. 1 mixtape that introduced M.I.A. outside of U.K. borders. Developing a yearning to produce more worldly music, he also began to throw his energy behind the Brazilian youth- and street-based music known as funk carioca (also referred to as baile funk), a derivation of Miami bass music. So, it was no surprise that when he established his own label, Mad Decent Records, around 2005, his first signee was the funk carioca group Bondo do Role. Becoming an internationally recognized artist, Diplo developed a knack for championing new world music that seems natural given his dynamism and boundless musical outlook.
Fake Blood
Fake Blood also known as Theo Keating and Touché, is a British [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom"]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom>[/ame] DJ and producer who made his name as one half of The Wiseguys [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiseguys"]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiseguys>[/ame] , a British Hip hop [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop"]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop>[/ame] /Big Beat [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Beat"]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Beat>[/ame] band. He is also a successful underground House and Electro producer, releasing many underground hits including "The Paddle", "Command Me" and many remixes. His most well known songs to the mainstream audience are "Start the Commotion [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start_the_Commotion"]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start_the_Commotion>[/ame] " and "Ooh La La" (not to be confused with the Goldfrapp [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfrapp"]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfrapp>[/ame] song of the same name), which were famous due to their usage in commercials including Mitsubishi and Budweiser. The tracks came from his second album with The Wiseguys, the Antidote. His current projects are a group called The Black Ghosts [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Ghosts"]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Ghosts>[/ame] and his work remixing, producing and DJing as Fake Blood. He has astounded with his releases ‘Mars’ and ‘Blood Splashing’ and he is currently one of the most sought after producers and remixers.
Skream
Croydon's musical wonderkid. At 15 he discovered making music. Five years later he's changed the course of UK urban music, having helped build the foundations of London's most exciting new musical style, dubstep. But he's barely started yet: because right now, Skream <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=913> is an artist on fire. Skream <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=913> 's story begins in Croydon, in secondary school year 11. He wasn't getting on with teachers and they weren't getting on with him: but he was getting on with his music. But two friendships cemented then would start him onto the path to musical success. First he met Benga <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=956> , another talented Croydon kid who was starting to make music. Then he met Hatcha, soon to be one of the most influential and pioneering DJs in urban music. Around 2000 Benga <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=956> and Skream <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=913> set about building on the early dark garage flavours that were to be found on the pirate airwaves around Croydon.
It shouldn't come as any surprise then that he likes sub-bass, Skream <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=913> has grown up around it. His older brother was a member of Croydon's notorious jungle hell-raising raving outfit Intanatty Crew, which featured Radio 1's Grooverider <http://www.outlar.com/artist.php?id=252> and Bailey's 1Xtra as members. Ollie, Skream 's real name, is no stranger to a bit of hell raising himself, famous for his up-for-it behaviour at parties or out on the town. In fact he's the only known music artist with a subdued alter-ego. Most rock stars are quiet by day with flamboyant alter-egos. Our wonderkid is the other way around. But then that's wonderkids like Skream for you: unique.
