March 24th, 2010
Tickets are on sale now for a special afternoon set on Saturday April 24 by the masters of dark and brooding dubstep, Kryptic Minds. The flagship artists on two-time Morass guest Loefah’s Swamp81 imprint, Kryptic Minds (Simon Shreeve and Leon Switch) released the devastatingly restrained and sub-heavy album One Of Us in late 2009.
Doors open at Alloneword (Brunswick St, Fortitude Valley, next to Step Inn) at 2pm, and the gig runs until 8pm. KM will be supported by Same-O (Melbourne, Too Much!), De La Haye, Erther, Swob and Walrii, with the full line-up to be confirmed shortly.
Click here for tickets. Please note that due to the intimate nature of the venue, it is expected that tickets will sell out. Don’t miss the rare chance to feel the pressure of one of dubstep’s most acclaimed current acts with a crowd of dedicated heads!
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March 12th, 2010
Our good friends at White Rhino are back, serving up a gooey bass centre with a crunchy techno exterior this Sunday at Bar Soma. Soundboy tormentor extraordinaire and creator of some of the most original rhythms in dubstep, Shackleton headlines the skeletal disco with a live set. The support line-up includes a range of Brisbane’s best bass merchant inside and a whole extra stage of tech-shenanigans in Bar Soma’s courtyard, all for a meagre $15 on the door.
The line-up speaks for itself:
Inside (Bass)
2:00-3:00 Arku (White Rhino)
3:00-3:45 Herts Solvent (Amecca Records)
3:45-4:30 Irikanji (Breaks n Enter)
4:30-5:15 D.Appleseed (Illegal Value)
5:15-6:00 Danck (Dank Morass)
6:00-6:45 Interval (Case Records/Byron Bay)
6:45-7:30 Frosty (Hard Graft)
7:30-8:15 3RDEYE (Subcontinental Dub)
8:15-9:00 Citizen (Residentadvisor)
9:00-10:00 SHACKLETON (Skull Disco/Perlon/Berlin)
10:00-11:00 (or longer till close) Samedi Soundsystem (Triple Zed)
Outside (4/4)
2:00-3:00 Adam Swain b2b Dan Abbott (Subtrakt)
3:00-3:45 Fergus Alexander (Logic)
3:45-4:30 Robohan (Lets Get Minimal)
4:30-5:15 Chris Peart (Auditree)
5:15-6:00 Leo Hede (Kana)
6:00-6:45 Elliot Clarke (Kana)
6:45-7:30 Alex James (Me+You)
7:30-8:15 Fuzion (Kana)
8:15-9:00 Lone Pariah (White Rhino)
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February 1st, 2010
Dank Morass presents THE GASLAMP KILLER, at Step Inn, Saturday 6 March, 2010.
Tickets on sale now from OzTix, Rockinghorse Records (online and instore), Butter Beats (Brisbane city and Valley stores) and all OzTix outlets.
Dank Morass is excited to present the debut Brisbane show for the hottest DJ in the world of beats and bass – The Gaslamp Killer. A founder of LA’s acclaimed weekly Low End Theory club, the GLK’s lateral crate-digging through dusty psychedelia, classic hip hop, cutting edge beats and heavy dubstep is unparalleled. With the spirit of the West Coast psychedelic movement of the 60s and the current manifestation of the beat generation running strong in his blood, the GLK will lay waste to the main room of the Step Inn on Saturday March 6.
Moving between San Diego, San Francisco and Los Angeles, The Gaslamp Killer made a name worldwide with mind-boggling mixes such as I Spit On Your Grave and Hell And The Lake of Fire are Waiting For You. Closely affiliated with Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder collective, he released a debut EP, My Troubled Mind on that label in 2009. A whirlwind of rumbling bass and psych-rock edits, the EP is just one weapon in the GLK’s diverse arsenal of bass.
Low End Theory, which The GLK curates with fellow residents Daddy Kev, D-Styles and Nobody, has been hailed as the international headquarters for raw and soulful hip hop, psychedelic beats, glitch-hop, avant-rap, IDM and dubstep. The Gaslamp Killer is absolutely at the forefront of the thrilling collision of these disparate but complementary sounds.
In support, the Morass presents a rare Brisbane DJ set for Elgusto. One half of premier Australian beats duo Hermitude and producer for Herd-frontman Urthboy, Gusto has played leading bass nights Void and Headroom in his adopted hometown of Sydney. Favourites of Japan’s legendary DJ Krush, Hermitude have dropped three albums of world-class beats on the Elefant Traks label, most recently the sublimely composed Threads.
Nomadic Brisbanite Tigermoth will perform tracks off his haunting solo debut Underwater Beats and preview music from a new album. Equally influenced by US and Japanese hip-hop, Tigermoth weaves an abstract, instrumental soundscape backed by orchestrated beats in a mix evocative of Tokyo’s industrial landscape and Australia’s natural milieu.
Rounding out this top shelf line-up is local live dubstep duo Science Project, who have been toiling away in the lab for months, concocting unhurried heaters that are brought to life with drum kit and MPC on stage, and Syntax, playing original bass heavy hip hop beats.
Additional atmospherics will be provided by the Dank Morass DJs Walrii, Swob and Danck. The Morass has been DJing and promoting beats in Brisbane since late 2007, and has previously hosted Flying Lotus, Starkey, The Bug, Joker, Coki & Loefah and Blu & Exile.
The Gaslamp Killer (Low End Theory/Brainfeeder, LA) with guests Elgusto (DJ Set, Hermitude, Syd), Tigermoth (live), Science Project (live), Syntax, Swob, Walrii & Danck
When: Saturday 6 March – doors from 9pm
Where: Step Inn, corner Brunswick St and St Pauls Terrace, Fortitude Valley
Cost: $20+bf presold from OzTix.com.au, Rockinghorse & all OzTix outlets, $25 on the door.
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October 1st, 2009
Once again, it’s the time of month for submersion, with the October installment of SCUBA TANK. As usual, presented by Dank Morass and White Rhino crews, it will entail only the finest in progressive and soothing sounds. The Tank’s new home at 320 in Spring Hill allows us to be liberal with sonics and free party vibes for all the people who appreciate it!
FREE as always this Wednesday October 7, SCUBA TANK will be boasting international steez from the one known as DJ Ripley. All the way from San Fransico, she digs deep to bring forth the unheard sounds and mixing skills to the Brisbane shores.
Dj Ripley has been tearing up dancefloors across North America and Europe for 12 years, in town squares, warehouses, ships, clubs, squats, community centers and activist spaces. Her genre-smashing sets build audiences into heaving monuments unified by dopeness. She has released mixes on the Death$ucker [http://www.deathsucker.org/] label, on Modyfier-modifying, on Spannered.org, Mashit.com, and on her own blog http://djripley.blogspot.com. She recently wrapped up 6 months living and working in Jamaica, where she was djing and researching copyright law and creative practice.
Along with this very special guest, the usual high quality selectors from Brisbane’s own bowels will never fail to sort the masses out with healing music.
White Rhino’s Arku and Dank Morass’ Danck and Walrii will lovingly choose a forward thinking, internationally cutting edge selection of global bass music, roots and soul progressions.
Live visuals and ambience provided by good friends and fine artists Cornish and Micro Matic. They will be manipulating pixels like oreo cookie dough, sporadically seen in Brisbane.
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September 16th, 2009
It’s been all quiet on the dank front for a few months as Swob has undertaken a Hunter S. Thompson-style global fact finding mission. That’s all about to change with the biggest dubstep line-up ever to hit Brisbane. DMZ founders Coki and Loefah head the bill with their earth and chest rattling bass. If you were there, you may remember that Loefah brought the all out war to the Morass dancefloor just over a year ago, and since then has started a new label, Swamp 81, which will release a Kryptic Minds album later this month. The addition of his DMZ brethren Coki will only amplify the mayhem.
As if that weren’t enough, Canada’s Excision brings his warped bass sound to decks. If you need to be convinced that this man is on the cutting edge of dark and seething dubstep, check his Shambhala 09 mix (mp3, right click and save) and tracklist.
They’re joined by Swob (back from his globetrotting with tales of dank depravity) and Walrii.
Tickets are $20+bf from OzTix, or $30 on the door.
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Excision on MySpace
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