[out to Seckle on the pics and vids, your time bruv]
video tracklist:
mala - Shake out your demons mala - bury the bwoy distance - victim support mala - drunken swagger (tease) skream- wobble that gut coki - spongebob
and so ends another Camp Bisco, a festival in Mariaville, NY known to showcase the ever blurring line between live performance, improvisation, and electronic music. This year, the Bassfaced crew had the pleasure of coming together with Meatcamp Productions who put on the festival and exposing the eclectic audience to the sounds of dubstep for the first time by bringing the DubWarNYC crew for their first Camp performance.
Playing to a full Dance tent of people at the start of their set on Saturday, Juakali kept the audience hyped with his unique blend of vocals, toastin' on the mic, and the all important screams of "DubWaaaaaaaaaaaR" echoing through the tent. Joe Nice and Dave Q threw down an impressive hour and a half b2b set that produced some of the most energy felt all day long, the crowd exploding after each and every drop. The audience fed off of that energy, and if you were there, you know you felt something really special in the air during their set. Delivering huge dubs from the likes of Mala, Distance, Coki, Rusko, Skream, and countless others, the DubWar fam delivered the set of the weekend and got the crowd as rowdy and rabid as I have ever seen at a Camp Bisco set.
out to the DubWarNYC crew, Meatcamp productions, Seckle, and everyone who came out to show their support.
After an amazing trip to sunny Cali, we've returned to overcast Bellingham, WA and my sufficiently sunburnt face couldn't be happier about it.
There are very few events that can ever reach and defy your expectations when you know it is a guaranteed mindblowing, face-melting, and transcendent experience; and Skream & Benga smashing it at Club Mighty in San Francisco this week completely exceeded all of them. The moment the show was announced back in April, we immediately made the decision to take the trip down to SF as this was an event not to miss, and counted down the days, weeks, and months, while listening to Skream's weekly Stella Sessions on Rinse and Benga's recent radio shows on the BBC and KissFM.
Club Mighty was the perfect venue for this event and the system was NO slouch and completely up to the task of the night's bill. Huge speaker stacks in each corner of the small square dancefloor, as well as the huge stageside monitors left sternums rattling, teeth chattering, had some running for cover, and left no prisoners on the dancefloor.
The night started off right with Sam Supa's set, a personal highlight being the drop into Natasja - "Ildebrand I Byen" (200F Remix) currently out on Kraken recordings. From that moment on the evening just continued to gain steam. Soon, the man with the plan, An-Ten-Nae hit the stage
and threw down a set blending everything from dubstep, to glitch, and hip hop to set the mood. The moment that he dropped Scuba's tune aptly titled "Frisco" the entire crowd erupted, as hip hop vocals were layered over the tune, later giving way to that building and thrashing guitar riff before the second drop.
Skream & Benga hit the stage about Midnight and played a b2b 2.5 hour set that I still am trying to wrap my mind around. Highlights of the set: Benga & Walsh- Bassface, Benga&Coki- Night->Rusko- Soundguy Is My Target, Skream- Love Don't Come Easily, Skream- 0800dub, Distance's new tune "Buss" complete with Daft Punk samples, Benga dropping some Run DMC, Skream- Lemon, as well as a bunch of unreleased tunes from the both of them.
