CASPA featuring DREAD MC
On sale: Friday, July 15 at 12:00pm CST
CASPA
Today, Caspa is synonymous with the underground. If you don’t know Caspa, you don’t know Dubstep. With an epic list of tour dates taking him to every corner of the globe he still finds time to host a bi-monthly night at the world famous Fabric. Not content with running 3 labels , producing dancefloor bomb after dancefloor bomb and the acclaimed album Everybody’s Talking, Nobody’s Listening, his remix skills are in higher demand than ever, remixing for the likes of Deadmau5, Miike Snow, Swedish House Mafia, Depeche Mode, Kid Sister and Adam F & Horx featuring Redman to name just a few.
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Growing up in West London on a diet of Jungle and Hip Hop, Caspa started DJ’ing and experimenting with beats after a promising Basketball career was cut short by injury. In 2003, under the pseudonym Quiet Storm, the track ‘Bass Bins’ was picked up by BBC 1xtra’s J Da Flex and things started to snowball. Founding his own label Storming Productions in 2004, Caspa also began a weekly radio show on the iconic Rinse FM. Signing up and working with the likes of Search & Destroy, Dubchild, Toasty Boy, DJ Narrows and Oris Jay the label soon became established as one of the dominating underground labels of the time. After receiving a demo from Swedish producers L-Wiz, a thoroughly impressed Caspa decided to start a sister label ‘Dub Police’; its aim to focus entirely on exciting new artists and provide a platform to the new and quickly emerging genre Dubstep. With a string of successful releases from artists such as L-Wiz, N-Type, Rusko, The Others and of course his own productions under the Caspa alias, the label began to grow in to one of the trail blazing labels of the emergent genre. Meanwhile Caspa was also having success on other labels with releases like ‘Rubber Chicken’ which was snapped up by Tempa and soon became an underground anthem.
Amidst the ever growing hype, Caspa and fellow label artist Rusko were approached by Fabric to mix the 37th instalment of the legendary FabricLive series. Following on from such legends as John Peel and Fabio & Grooverider, this was the first commercially available dubstep compilation and played a significant part in bringing the genre into the limelight and introducing it to many new listeners worldwide. His anthemic remix of TC’s ‘Where’s My Money’ pushed things even further and his mix on Deadmau5 and Kaskade ‘I Remember’ further still. 2009 saw Caspa take things to the next level with a series of high profile gigs & festival performances from Glastonbury and Global Gathering to sharing the main stage with Lily Allen and The Arctic Monkey’s at Serbia’s Exit Festival. Not content with rounding up the year with an epic US Tour, his huge remix of Hard by Breakage feat Newham Generals became Zane Lowe’s hottest record in the world at Radio One and was almost immediately followed by his mix of Adam F and Horx featuring Redman ‘Shut the Lights Off’ – which on it’s debut play was also crowned with the same honour.
2010 saw Caspa smash up the clubs with his Subscape collab ‘Geordie Racer’ and his remix of Ludacris’ ‘How Low Can You Go’ – the first official dubstep remix of a major US rap-star. Equally his remix of ‘One’ by Swedish House Mafia made major waves also. In the summer his epic My Style compilation hit the shops, while on the release front, ‘Back for the First Time’ got everyone talking, with support from Zane Lowe, Annie Mac and Mistajam and daytime and afternoon spins and an official playlist on radio 1. This instrumental then got a massive vocal topline from Mr Hudson to become ‘Love Never Dies (Back for the First Time)’ The touring continued with a host of major festival dates in summer 2010 including hitting the main stage at Sonar just before the Chemical Brothers headline set and rocking Bestival, Global Gathering, SW4 and more in the U.K. On top of this, Caspa then played dates at Hardfest and the legendary Lollapalooza in the U.S. and that’s not to mention dates in Ibiza, Germany, Australia/New Zealand and even India! The first few months of 2011 were on studio lockdown – there’s a new artist’s album in the works and the summer festival bookings are coming in fast. Also check out ‘Neck snappah’ – Caspa’s most recent and first release of the year. Big things happening for sure…..but what else would you expect from the dopest ghost in town?!
DREAD MC
Gloucester born Dread MC is fast making a name for himself in both drum & bass and dubstep circles. With a consistently packed diary that sees him hosting weekly for luminares including Skream, Benga, DJ Die and Pinch at top clubs and festivals including Fabric, Detonate, Run, Glastonbury, Bloc, Big Chill and countless others, Dread has shot to prominence seemingly overnight and is fast becoming a key figure in UK club-land. A member of the Roller Express collective alongside Redlight, Toddla T and MC Serocee, Dread has become the official MC for Redlight whose recent signing to Chase & Status' MTA Records ensures Dread is about to embark on his biggest adventures yet in 2011.
EASYRIDER
One of the originators of the midwest jungle movement, Easyrider has guided the development of Minnesota's scene and sounds as part of the infamous Jungle Vibe Collective, the 2step garage crew Stepper's Alliance and label Alliance Recordings, as well as one of Minneapolis' most longest running and successful bi-weekly club nights, Konkrete Jungle Minneapolis.
STRANGELOVE
Jay "Strangelove" Tappe has been a near-permanent fixture in the local dance music scene since starting out with Minneapolis ex-patriate DJ Echo back in the late 90s with Down To Earth Productions. Since that time, he's thrown countless events featuring himself, locals, and many of the world's best house and electro prodcuers, and spun sets that, back to back, would probably fill five years time. A man with many residencies and the best "club" hair on the scene. [Gimme Noise, 2009]
DJ JEFF HUNTER
Jeff Hunter was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota and while in high school, Jeff heard his first 'techno' song. It was 'James Brown is Dead' by L.A. Style. This was to be the beginning of his transformation into what we call a 'techno-head'. The second catalyst of this transformation came about when Jeff journeyed to Duluth, Minnesota to attend college. While at college he had the opportunity to get a time slot on KUMD public radio. He hooked up with dj Diene and they became 'The Harmonic Sideshow'. This is where Jeff Hunter learned the sacred art of beat matching.



