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 DJ BAILEY
Bailey's passion first and foremost lies in being the best Selecta possible. He lives the life of a 100% DJ with a record collection that goes from early electro on up to the latest release lining his bedroom walls. Bailey began his fixation with music when hip hop and electro tapes made their way into his grubby 11 year-old hands almost 20 years ago. The beats and scratching he heard on those tapes and the break dancing he started seeing around him inspired him to get involved in this new culture circa '82. South London was filled with sound systems back in the day, and Bailey joined one playing house parties, and making tapes. Later he began venturing out to clubs and heard the sounds popular to the late 80's—Acid House, Detroit Techno, and hardcore. It was the breakbeat element in hardcore that inspired Bailey, and ultimately led him to Drum’n'Bass.
Bailey was slowly gaining steam as a DJ by playing local pirate radio stations when a chance meeting with Kemistry and Storm led Storm to bring him on board for one of the first Metalheadz club nights. He is still a resident at “Metalheadz”, and also at Creative Source's “Swerve” and South London’s “DFX” and regularly represents “31 Records” as guest dj on their tours.
In 2002, Bailey was chosen to present his own radio show ‘Intabeats’ on the BBC’s digital offshoot ‘1xtra’ which has been running extremely succuessfully for over a year now every Sunday night from 23.00 – 01.00. ‘Intabeats’ has even won the prestigious Knowedge Magazine award in 2003 for ‘best drum’n’bass radio show’ , leaving behind fellow contenders L Double and Fabio & Grooverider.
Unlike most Drum n' Bass DJ's of late, Bailey didn’t become famous as a dj due to production credits. His recordings come in the traditional DJ's form of mixes for the likes of Knowledge Magazine, Lowdown Magazine, Ministry of Sound Radio, and most recently a compilation for the French ‘Black Label’ with MC GQ on Sony's Music Garden imprint and a mix-cd called Soul Thunder for top US label Breakbeat Science. People say Bailey is on of only a handful of successful Drum’n'Bass DJs who made it big without having had the help of releases. This reality just goes to show he lacks absolutely nothing in the way of skills when he is behind the decks. He has the capacity to create a sound through sheer mixology to make an impression and stand out from the crowd of Drum n' Bass DJ's out there. His skills have won him what every DJ in the world wants - recognition and most importantly respect. His club bookings have brought him to conquer the world of Drum’n'Bass by playing in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, all over the U.S., and the majority of Europe.
Having said this Bailey has completed a remix for Roni Size which is soon to be released on Ronis Size’s ‘Full Cycle’ label. It happened more or less by mistake, as Bailey wanted to get a track to cut on dubplate and Full Cycle sent him all samples instead with instructions to make a remix. So Bailey decided to give it a shot a the result is an excellent rework that had immidiately been signed up by the prestigious label.
Bailey’s latest project is ‘Intasound’ his own label which he uses not to make money from his big name producer friends but to push up and coming talent and present a diverse sound just as you can find it in his record case. Check www.intasound.net for more details.
Now in 2005, Bailey is busier than ever, with not only his 1Xtra radio show every Sunday, but with his ferquent international DJ gigs (sologigs, Metalheadz Tour Gigs, 1xtra Bass 05 Tour Gigs) and Intasound.
Intasound 004 : Outrage - Critical Mass/Back Track (Promos Spring 2004)
RADIO : Check Bailey every Sunday on www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra
 NOISIA
Noisia (the word VISION rotated 180 degrees) consists of three guys: Nik Roos (21), Martijn van Sonderen (20) and Thijs de Vlieger (22) from Groningen (Holland). Acquainted through the small graffiti community in the school they all went to, Nik and Thijs made friends in 1998 and started making music to kill time and have a laugh. Soon after their first confrontation with drum'n'bass, they started digging into it, and gradually making music just for fun evolved into a serious obsession to make good dnb.
After a few fruitful collaborations with Martijn, who had been in music (hiphop production/classical piano) for quite a while before he hooked up with Nik and Thijs, Martijn was added to the Noisia team.
After a while the internet was discovered as a great way to acquire knowledge and to get feedback on productions. Also the first Noisia tune that received interest from a real label (Mayhem's Shadow Law Recordings) was found on a production message board, this interest was a big motivation to get the tunes to sound better. An investment in studio equipment and a dedication to sound design, mixdown and arrangement got things moving, and february 2003 saw the birth of the tune that was going to be the first released Noisia tune: "Tomahawk" by Noisia & Mayhem on Paul Reset's "Nerve" imprint. The flip of that was "Silicon" written in the hangover-days after Mayhem's short but fruitful stay. Silicon/Tomahawk was released in august 2003, and after that things gradually started rolling. Right now Noisia have got releases out and forthcoming on well-known labels such as Teebee's Subtitles, Rob Playford's Moving Shadow and Renegade Hardware and they've done collaborations with well-known dnb artists Cause 4 Concern, Teebee and Bad Company UK.
As DJ's Noisia have touched down in every major dutch city and in Moscow, Budapest, Vienna and Berlin, amongst others. Also july 2004 saw the first Noisia USA/Canada tour.
Besides drum'n'bass Nik Martijn and Thijs also have other musical projects, a downtempo album is in the making, they have done music for (short) films and there are a couple of releases of house productions/remixes planned.
 DJ XO
Growing up on a diet of pirate radio in north London, UK, Ben XO began actively DJing in 1998 and is well known for his series of DJ demos that are regularly released onto the internet.
He is currently the webmaster for both www.bassdrive.com and www.dogsonacid.com.
XO has been holding down a weekly radio show on Bassdrive, the largest drum & bass shoutcast station on the internet, and also on London's underground radio station Origin FM for over 5 years, following a brief stint at London's prestigious Rude FM. He also has several club residencies including Locus in Bristol and Grooverider's Grace in London. He has played events in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Hungary and the USA. |
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CONNEXIONZ.04 @ SAPNU FABRIKA - 11/06/2005 (11.06.2005)
This time Viberations hit you with:
DJ BAILEY - confirmed
> BBC 1xtra / Metalheadz / Intasound
NOISIA - confirmed
> Renegade Hardware / Subtitles / Moving Shadow / Citrus / Armada
DJ XO - confirmed
> DogsOnAcid.com / Bassdrive.com
BETONS - Varka
RIDA-B MC - Viberations
DEVINE - TestOne
PHLASH-B - Viberations
MIND - TestOne
SCKQRATCH - Viberations
X3N0 - TestOne
MC PUMA - Varka
for event flyer click here
+ even bigger soundsystem this time!
+ hair design show by 'Paul Mitchell'
+ hot gogo bitches for your pleasure if any ;-)
dressing smart is appreciated though not a requirement, stupid rave accessories prohibited.
drink responsibly! don't do drugs - you have been warned!
VENUE: SAPNU FABRIKA / Lacplesa 101
TICKETS: 7Ls / 6Ls+flyer
START: cashier - 20:00, entry - 21:00 / END: 07:00
Sponsored by PAUL MITCHELL
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