Shine Night Club

Mar 18: FREESTYLERS uk breakbeat legends +ThreePieceSuit, Soma @ Shine

Circa, ChannelOne, PH1.ca present FREESTYLERS 3 Decks & EFX Plus THREE PIECE SUIT ChannelOneMedia.ca / SuperHappyDanceDeejays

SOMA
Myspace.com/deejaysoma / PH1.ca

Produced by:
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Tickets starting at $15

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Beat Street (W Hastings @ Richards St)
Zulu Records (W 4th Ave @ Maple)

/// FREESTYLERS BIO ///
Rocking clubs and parties for over a decade now, The Freestylers are still one of the most exciting names in dance music. They’ve had Top 20 chart hits, headlined big festivals, sold half a million albums, toured the US supporting Lenny Kravitz, and were the first electronic act to play fully live on legendary BBC TV show Top Of The Pops.

Aston Harvey and Matt Cantor were both making different styles of music when they first met in London in the mid-90s. Uber-engineer Aston had been half of pioneering breakbeat hardcore act Blapps Posse, getting busy with cuts like ‘Buss’ It’ and ‘Don’t Hold Back’ before going on to work with Definition Of Sound, Rebel MC and DJ Rap. Matt Cantor, meanwhile, was recording with Andy Gardner from the Plump DJs as Cut ‘N’ Paste and Strike for the fledgling Freskanova label.

After their initial success they got to remix heroes such as the Jungle Brothers and Afrika Bambaataa, and were invited by BBC Radio 1′s Pete Tong to record an Essential Mix which inspired their critically acclaimed F.S.U.K mix album that went on to sell over 40,000 copies for Ministry. The band played some huge gigs, performing at MTV’s Millennium party in New York’s Times Square and to about 30,000 people at Glastonbury festival in 1999. By now they were big in Australia too, and their second album ‘Pressure Point’ smashed into the Australian album charts.

Their own material appeared as well, of course, including tear-out piledrivers under their S.C.A.M alias. These big jump-up tunes were to provide the inspiration when the Freestylers collaborated with Australian drum & bass fiends Pendulum. The resulting ‘Fasten Your Seatbelts’ – released on Breakbeat Kaos – was one of the biggest dance tracks of 2005, destroying dancefloors wherever it was dropped.

Old skool electro cut ‘Boom Blast’, featuring Million Dan (released with a storming Deekline & Wizard remix), then cracked the UK Top 75, indicating how The Freestylers could effortlessly traverse genres and still win ultimate respect. An example of this is their Westwood championed UK hip-hop tune ‘Dogs n Sledgez’ also featuring Million which was Radio 1 playlisted. As the noughties continued they started work on their fourth album proper, ‘Adventures In Freestyle’. MC SirReal had by now become a firm fixture in the Freestylers live set-up, and so consequently featured heavily on the album. One highlight saw the Freestylers team up with Pendulum once again for punky jungle behemoth ‘Painkiller’, with a particularly venomous lyric spat by SirReal.

The album experimented with a variety of styles, and saw the Freestylers working with assorted underground vocalists. From the techno-punk stylings of ‘Security’ through the cinematic string soundscape of ‘Infernos’, this really was an album that showed off the Freestylers’ mastery of many styles. The album provided an impetus for the band to get back on the road again with SirReal and Valerie M on vocal duties, and they rocked a number of festivals in the summer of 2009. Currently working on their fifth album which by all accounts is shaping up to be their strongest yet, The Freestylers juggernaut is going to continue to rock – hard – for some considerable time to come.
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