Look What The Kat Dragged In...Sub Focus tickets and listings

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Look What The Kat Dragged In... Easter Special

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Tickets: Earlybird £8 - Tickets are available from Skiddle and Scene. Limited Earlybird Tickets! Advance £10 / £13 OTD

Room 1: DnB, Dub, Dubstep, Jungle. 
Sub Focus / Brookes Brothers / Dialog / Bail - MORE TBC

Room 2: Funk / Latin / Disco / House / Electro / Techno. Dam Girl!
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs / Heroic Lunge - MORE TBC

Sub Focus

It all started with a demo CD being passed on by a friend to the biggest drum and bass DJ in the world, Ram Records’ boss Andy C in 2003, with a phone number badly scribbled on the cover.

Impressed by the quality of the production, Andy, after a few tries, managed to dial the right digits and talk to Subfocus. The result of that conversation was the release of ‘Down The Drain’ on Andy C and Red One’s experimental offshoot Frequency in 2003, and the start of Subfocus’ meteoric rise to fame in drum and bass circles.

Followed a couple of 12s on Frequency and Infrared, as eagerly received on dancefloors, and his exclusive signing and first contribution to Ram in 2004 with ‘Strobe’, one of the highlights of the Ram Raiders 6 EP.

His first 12 on Ram was another major step forward. ‘X Ray’, out in spring 2005 and described as ‘Zombie Nation remade by Seattle grungers’, became one of the year’s anthems, enjoyed the rare privilege of being chosen as ‘Single Of The Week’ on alternative tastemaker Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show and even got some daytime plays. He was consequently asked to remix The Prodigy’s ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ for their Greatest Hits package.

Subfocus released one more single in 2005, the awesome ‘Frozen Solid’, while enjoying a busy DJ schedule. Kick-starting 2006 with an impressive remix of Dr Octagon out-there ‘Aliens’, Subfocus unleashed another killer track ‘Airplane’. Already previewed on Andy C’s ‘Nightlife 3’ mix CD, the track’s gigantic synths and vocal hooks gave it the same irresistible appeal as ‘X Ray’. The follow-up, ‘Special Place’ was released late February 2007, and qualified as no less than ‘Modern Art’ by DJ magazine.

2007 was spent DJing all over the world and starting work on a debut album, now about to get released, with a new single ‘Timewarp’ as a taster. After months of dancefloor madness, this uncompromising track managed to get exposure on daytime Radio 1, even scooping the ‘single of the week’ slot on Nihal’s afternoon show.

So what makes Subfocus so special? Passionate about music from an early age, Subfocus played bass in a band at school, before sitting in front of an old Acorn Electron computer at 13 teaching himself the art of sampling and producing. He went on studying acoustics at college. This eclectic formation, allied with an insatiable musical curiosity, with interest ranging from rock to experimental electronic music – happily discussing Vangelis, Nirvana and Justice in the same breath - explains how Subfocus production manages to sound pristine, unique and strangely accessible, and why his imminent album is so massively anticipated. 

http://www.myspace.com/subfocus

Brookes Brothers

The ‘Brookes Brothers’, or Phil and Dan to their mates, have emerged as one of the major breakthrough drum n bass artists of recent years. The brothers have already established themselves as some of the most exciting producers on the scene. Their debut 12" ‘Portal/Desert Island’ came out on Danny Wheeler's W10 imprint to immediate acclaim, setting the Brookes' on their road to success. This was followed by ‘Verano’, a collaboration with old cohort and longtime collaborator Subfocus, one of the biggest tunes of 2006. They released ‘Tear You Down’ on BBK, the track that saw them reach number 1 in the UK dance charts, with even Sarah Cox giving it ‘Record Of The Week’ status. 

http://www.myspace.com/brookesbrothers

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

TEED is a one man live show. NME describe his music as 'Like Hot Chip gone funny in the sun, the TEED sound is a playful electro underpinned by seismic bass lines, an unpredictable and irresistible '80s-raping squelch of ideas' Check out the vids on this event if you wanna catch some of his tunes.

http://www.myspace.com/totallyenormousextinctdinosaurs

Heroic Lunge

I don't know if you managed to catch their three sets at Beats of Rage on New Year as well as there amazing sets supporting DJ Yoda in March, but these are the ones to watch! They have kindly recorded their sets from New Year and DJ Yoda so follow the links below to take a listen. Mr Shed will be warming the evening off with some laid back funk and latin vibes then later Heroic Lunge will be building up the party atmosphere with some Disco, House, Electro & Techno. 

Mix from supporting DJ Yoda is available: Heroic Lunge part 1
http://www.zshare.net/audio/734306509d0af90f/

Mix from supporting DJ Yoda is available: Heroic Lunge part 2.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/73468172e40bab92/

Mix from Beats of Rage - New Years Eve 

http://www.skiddle.com/djs/heroiclunge/mixes.html

http://heroiclungeblog.blogspot.com/

Dialog 

Dialog is a member of an 'eclectic' talent-collective known as the 'Vinyl Vandals' and long-term affiiate of The Murkage Cartel. Expect to hear an array of music from Dialog including Dancehall // DnB // Dub // Dub Step // Electro // GRIME // Hip-Hop // Jungle // Reggae // UK-Garage // Urbania. Phew!

http://www.thevinylvandals.com
http://www.murkagecartel.com

Bail

One of Prestons finest Dubstep DJs and Drop resident, Bail will be supporting this stella line-up. You may have seen him just before Chase + Status at the Look What The Kat Dragged in... opening night. He killed it and this one will be no exception.

Profiles of artists at this event:

Bail

Brookes Brothers

Dialog

Heroic Lunge

Sub Focus

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs