Dank Blister
July 19th, 2010
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sonar (danck tour journal pt 3)
July 6th, 2010
Barcelona’s annual Sonar Festival attracts the cuttingest-edge and the best-selling in modern electronic music from around the world. Invading the city’s contemporary art complex, CCCB/MACBA during the afternoon and a sprawling convention centre-type complex after dark, it’s impossible to see everything on the daunting line-up, especially while making the most of the Catalan culture (mainly siestas and tapas) at the same time. But having come from the opposite side of the world, I was damn well going to do my best. (more…)
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9823 #1
June 29th, 2010
Digital Print 2010
By ATLASt
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de ja vodou (danck tour journal pt 2)
June 27th, 2010
The DSLR went all Err99 in London, so here’s the point-and-shoot version of Berlin.
Space mammals in the Berlin Zoo:
Vodou goodness and much more after the jump. (more…)
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The Cornish Diaries
June 19th, 2010
Enter the world of dank artist and designer, Joe Baker.
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GLK WTF OMG
March 10th, 2010
Now that we’ve mopped the sweat from our collective brow and pulled our soles off the sticky floor of the Step Inn, it’s time for a proper shout out to everyone who rolled through to the Brisbane Gaslamp Killer show on Saturday. All the support DJs held it down with aplomb, from Syntax’s ode to Detroit hip hop (not to mention his own concoctions) to Tigermoth’s effects-rich melange and Science Project’s banging live dubstep with MCs on the assist. Extra props to Elgusto of Hermitude, who played an immaculate selection for his first ever DJ set in Brisbane and stepped away with the whole audience hoping it won’t be his last. However, it was The Gaslamp Killer’s night, and he pulled up from a tour schedule that saw him switching time zones every two days to leave a capacity Step Inn in a sweat-drenched frenzy. The man is one of the great DJs of our time, to be sure.
There’s much more Morass in the next two weeks, but for now check out a great set of photos from Tammy via InTheMix. Here’s a small sample.
Hands up for Detroit: Syntax
Year of the Tiger: Tigermoth
Jelly monsters: Science Project
From Alleys to the Valley: Elgusto
Greetings from Hell: The Gaslamp Killer
Last Donut of the Nite: Walrii
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Dial For Mo’ Morass
January 11th, 2010
Dank Morass returns to the fray in 2010 with Dial ‘M’ For Morass, a night of eclectic bass mayhem upstairs at the Step Inn on Friday 29th January. The cream of local selectors will join the Morass to dish out hardboiled servings of beats, dubstep and hip hop. Most importantly, Dial ‘M’ will be FREE before midnight!
The guest line-up features Brisbane’s best that have recently kept their crates to themselves:
Frosty is the man behind the Hard Graft brand that introduced Brisbane to the nascent dubstep sound. He has toured countless artists, including Kode 9, and has supported big names like Loefah and Vex’d. His cool and collected mixing coaxes the dance into a bass-driven frenzy.
British expat Duble E has made carefully selected appearances in Brisbane and Sydney (including premier Australian dubstep night VOID) over the last year, and is currently masterminding diverse bass and beats label Amecca Records.
Dr Dom has a decade of DJing under his belt across more genres than you can name, and has crates of vinyl for days. We’re only giving him an hour, so expect the finest cuts from that extensive library.
For the Morass, Walrii will be getting the razor tusk out in a blaze of backspins and bass, covering post-Dilla, big rims electro and soul loops. Whatever your flavour, the Walrus has it covered. Swob, the man with the sinister dubs, has some of the best ears in the town for all things brooding and soulful and will represent the legacy of dark dancefloor music. Danck skirts the territory between dubstep and dusty downtempo beats in an effects-heavy mix.
For the last two years, the Morass crew has scratched its collective head over the name of the genre which forms its basis. The slow motion collision of post-Dilla hip hop beats and dubstep bassweight has opened up a whole new realm of sound, as well a burgeoning lexicon as journalists and bloggers attempt to pin it down. Tags like future beats, wonky, purple and lazerbass have all been applied to different strands of the rapidly evolving milieu. From the Morass’ point of view, it’s all good. It’s been a long time since a musical movement has so adamantly defied labels. We’ll call it ‘beats’, which is just as confusing, but at least avoids flavour-of-the-month misconceptions.
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starkey tour video + pics
March 25th, 2009
Swob gets a cameo in Starkey’s Australia-NZ Tour Video as he shows our intrepid hero the sights of Brisbane the night after the riotous crowd went off to his killer set.
Starkey’s Australia-NZ tour video on MySpace
Naturally, our girl Megan photographed proceedings, including the always attractive Morass punters.
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flying lotus pics, 020109
January 5th, 2009
What better way to kick off a new year than with a rammed out night of mind bending beats courtesy of the one Flying Lotus? As usual, our good friend Megan comes through with the quality photojournalism capturing the vibe of the dance.
Walrii scrapes out the jungle rust.
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Crowd uncontrolled.
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DJ Katch – no sucker DJ.
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True original – Flying Lotus
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Click on any of the pics to check out the full set at Megan’s blog – super hot speaker top boogie ahoy.
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