FREE Pelski Night: Fri 19th February: Rustie/ Roska/ The Boog-A-Loo Crew

We’ve put together a formidable line-up for our first event at The Big Chill House – with two of the biggest names ripping up the UK bass rulebook. Like a couple of tenacious terriers barking at the heels of the old vanguard, our headliners – Rustie and Roska – have boldly pushed the UK bass scene forward into unheard territory, shaping the urban dubstep-dominated soundscape of 2010.

Heading the bill will be Rustie, the critically acclaimed producer and DJ who, alongside Hudson Mohwake, Joker and Zomby, is at the forefront of a mutated hybrid of wonky hip-hop and dubstep. Kode 9’s Hyperdub snapped him up for his now famous remix of Zomby’s ‘Spliff Dub’, and, in no time at all, Rustie was remixing the likes of Modeselektor and Various Production, before going on to smash everyone’s impossibly high expectations with a string of highly praised original productions for the Warp and Wireblock. Rustie’ll be setting the crowd alight with a DJ set filled with shuffling dubstep beats, his trademark layering of arpeggios and skittering percussion, jagged bass and no doubt his taste for sophisticated US hip hop. Bound to be electrifying.

Roska is often attributed with pioneering the UK Funky scene (emerging out of a culminating collision of future garage, grime and dubstep). As the genre picked up pace in 2009, so too did Roska’s production output – he produced some of the dancefloor tracks of the year and lent his remix skills to Zed Bias, Untold and Four Tet. Roska’ll be bringing his penchant for energetic garage-influenced house music to the ones and twos. Expect tough beats and funky kicks merged with the skippy, crashing percussion of garage, but with the soul and tempo of house.

Support comes from none other than London’s up-and-comers The Boog-A-Loo Crew. Residents at Corsica Studios successful Trouble Vision nights, the Crew have also lent their hands to some tasty dubstep and 2-step productions (as well as a new deeper alias under Dark Sky). Hyped by everyone – from the blogs to Mixmag to Drop The Lime (who has just signed them to his label Trouble & Bass) – Boog-A-Loo will be be sure to get everyone’s feet moving with their buoyant sets, blending future-garage, dirty dubstep and even bouncy tech-house.

You Can Call Me Pelski co-writer and DJ, Charles Darkly, will be warming things up with a diverse mixture of cutting-edge beats: expect anything from melodic techno and percussive house to upbeat tribalism or moody future-sounds, twinged with shoe-gazing basslines to warm your feet. And as one of the first promo tit-bits (we also have an incoming mix from the Boog-A-Loo Crew), Darkly’s whipped up a mix charting some of the sounds you can expect to hear in his early set (catch him between 8 and 10pm):

“I have comprised a short mix in order to honor our first night… and lure you in. The mix is an eclectic compilation of various techno and house jocks from around the world, with acclaimed producers such as Max Cooper, Extrawelt and Motor City Drum Ensemble all thrown into the basket, with the primary focus being funked out deep blips and bouncy basslines. You can expect a similar host of melodic overdrives from the sound-system if you make it down by 8 to Kings Cross for the onslaught.“

1. Big Dipper (Darabi Dub) – Delorean
2. Grand Central Part 1 – Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix Dub – DJ Sprinkles
3. Neontrance – Tigerskin
4. Mosh – Olibusta
5. Was Ubrig Bleibt – Ricardo Tobar Remix – Extrawelt
6. Ace of Spades feat. Kiki – Silversurfer
7. Custard Crush – Max Cooper
8. Fluo – (Wehbba Mix) – The Dolphins
9. Lungisani – Milt Mortez
10. Stop Space Return – Simon Baker & Jamie Jones Remix – Crazy P
11. Far Out – Laurel
12. Unattainable Love – Cora Novoa