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Skream & Benga @ The Guvernment - October 21 at Guvernment / Kool Haus Entertainment Complex

Toronto Event Date: Fri, October 21, 2011 – Sat, October 22, 2011

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club, concert hall, night club, dance club
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electronica, electronic, grime, dubstep
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Guvernment / Kool Haus Entertainment Complex
132 Queens Quay East
Toronto, ON M5A 3Y5

416-869-0045

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Skream & Benga @ The Guvernment - October 21

EMBRACE & DESTINY PRESENT

SKREAM & BENGA
Friday, October 21, 2011 – The Guvernment
132 Queens Quay East, Toronto

Adv. Tickets $25.00 (plus s.c.) | Doors @ 10pm | 19+ Event

Tickets on sale at http://www.ticketweb.ca/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=3852945&pl=embrace, ROTATE THIS, SOUNDSCAPES & PLAY DE RECORD

SKREAM
www.myspace.com/skreamuk
Ollie Jones had the good fortune to be working at the Big Apple record store when he first started making beats at age 15 and armed with a cracked copy of the Fruity Loops music-making software. Big Apple was at the center of the early development of U.K. garage’s dark, half-speed offshoot dubstep before it was even called dubstep, and it was at Big Apple that Jones, who recorded as Skream, met fellow beatsmiths Benga and Hatcha. Hatcha was a DJ at the seminal club Forward and was only too happy to debut the dubplates of both Skream and Benga’s early recordings. Their music took the tension and release formula of dance music, removed the release and layered in more tension instead. With slow and pounding basslines and wobbly treble they were creating a kind of music that summoned and summed up feelings of urban paranoia, but in an enjoyable way. Emphasizing the sub-bass made them popular with clubbers, but they were also popular with bloggers. Championed and spread by word of mouth on the Internet Skream went straight from being a name in Croydon to being known around the world. When the owner of Big Apple founded a label to give a home to the albums of dubstep artists, Skream was one of those who released material on it, including his breakout classic track “Midnight Request Line.” His first full-length album, Skream!, was released in 2006 on the Tempa label.

BENGA
www.myspace.com/bengabeats
One of the major names in the world of dubstep, producer Benga was born Beni Uthman in East London. His parents eventually moved to the suburb of Croydon, where a young Benga would fiddle with his radio every night, looking for pirate radio stations and taking in all sorts of fringe music. He first began making tracks on his PlayStation game system, then graduated to digital audio workstation Fruity Loops when his parents bought him a computer. Hearing the dark work of 2-step producer Wookie inspired him to join part of the grime/garage scene that would eventually evolve into dubstep. Hanging out at the Big Apple Records store in Croydon introduced him to fellow dubstep producer Skream. When the store began its own label, Benga released his debut 12", “Skank,” in late 2002. A co-production with Skream called “The Judgement” appeared on Big Apple in early 2003, and then Benga began his own label — Benga Beats — and released the three-track 12" Benga Beats, Vol. 1 in 2004. A couple 12"s for the Planet Mu label landed before Benga Beats released his full-length debut, Newstep, in 2006. By now radio DJs and tastemakers like Mary Anne Hobbs and François K were singing his praises, putting Benga in the company of dubstep’s favorite, Burial. In 2007 he moved to the Tempa label and issued the singles “Crunked Up” and “Night,” the latter a collaboration with Coki. Both tracks ended up on his 2008 album, Diary of an Afro Warrior.



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