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Submerge's Massive X-Mas Rave Featuring:
Raffertie (Planet Mu / Domino / Black Acre - Uk) [Live]
Kevin Blake (Electric Underground) [Live]
Warren Knowles 3 Hours Dubstep Set In The Rave Room
Skirmish (Modulation) [Live/Dj]
€2 Cans / €2.50 Shots / €6 before 12 / €8 after
Doors @ 11pm
This will be the last Submerge for a while but we hope you can rave it out with us in style!
Raffertie:
Hailing from the south coast and now based in Birmingham, Raffertie is the 22 year old DJ and producer whose innovative have lit up the UK’s underground dance music scene for the last couple of years.
Playing high energy, bass laden tunes Raffertie has become a firm party favourite across the UK. His sets include everything from uplifting pop classics and 90’s rave anthems to the filthiest house, garage, grime and dubstep tracks, creating huge dance floor reactions.
Alongside his DJing exploits, Raffertie’s productions have received much acclaim. With Starkey championing the twisted rumbling monster ‘Antisocial’, Radio One’s Mary Anne Hobbs picked up the distorted, devastating beats of ‘Stomping Grounds VIP’, describing him as “as sick as they come”. He has been put together guest mixes for both Mary Anne Hobbs and Rob Da Bank. His tracks have also been played by Huw Stephens and Nick Grimshaw amongst others.
2009 saw huge releases on Planet Mu, Seclusiasis and official remixes for Franz Ferdinand, Wild Beasts and Akira Kiteshi. With DJ support from the likes of Starkey, Rusko, and Reso and a number of exciting projects in the pipeline Raffertie remains one to watch for 2010.
Many questions have been asked about the origins of those scissors in his logo, and without any definitive answers from the man himself we’re left wondering whether they represent his cutting edge tracks, or his slicing and dicing of all genres to create that insane party style. Perhaps he just likes arts and crafts.
Someone once said “I like to think of one arm being the technically trained, innovative producer, while the other is the bass crazed, fun loving DJ, and the two snapping together to carve up the dance floor wherever he goes.”
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Kevin Blake is an electronica producer from Limerick who moved to Cork to persue a degree in music. He has always played in experimental rock bands since a very young age but an explosion of inspiration from the discovery of labels such as Warp, Rephlex and Planet Mu inspired him to start making electronic music.
In early 2007, realising that there wasn't much of a platform in Cork for Kevin to perform his music live, he started up the clubnight 'Electric Underground'. This focused on giving left-field dance music producers a stage to perform on, and pushed innovative djs as well. Popularity caused the night to expand to a much bigger venue and bring artists from abroad over to play. Over the last three years they have had over 70 international acts play from the finest labels in dance music today including Warp, Planet Mu, Ninjatune and Rephlex.
He released his debut EP 'You Are What You Hear' in March 2009 which received much critical acclaim from various media sources and a distribution deal with RMG. Ireland's most well respected music reviewer Jim Caroll of the Irish Times described it as being "Smashing, You Are What You Hear is the go-to release for fresh, engaging minimal electronic grooves". Donal Dineen and Cian O'Cíobháin pushed it onto the airwaves, with Donal picking Kevin to be one of the featured Irish upcoming artists to do a live set and interview on Today Fm for the Fresh Air Festival.
Kevin's live sets and productions led him to play gigs all around the country and have even brought him to play sets in France and the Uk. He has also played at Ireland's most prestigious festivals including DEAF and the Electric Picnic. The live sets are aimed towards moving people on the dancefloor and his bass heavy sets incorporate influences such as Dubstep, Hip Hop and Techno. He has had the pleasure of warming up for such luminaries as Luke Vibert, Prefuse 73, Venetian Snares, Bonobo, Mu-ziq, Kode 9 and Boxcutter.
Read more: http://www.myspace.com/blakecomplex
Listen: http://soundcloud.com/kblake89
More details:
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