SUMMER 2010 EUROPE TOUR
 
 
nO Ur MinD
 
Steven Nour (nO Ur MinD) is an up and coming dj and producer in Dublin Ireland, Born in 1983 steven happaly came across the underground music culture in den hAAG in late 2000 , moved by the loving, sharing , non judgemental open minded , do it yourself attitude of the culture which surrounded him. Motivated and inspired Steven started being ever more present at these getherings, hanging around speakers and stuff,listening to the wild and wonderful musical expressions being shared..a beat fiend from a young age and a bedroom performer of various tricks and dances he felt it a nice place to eleviate lifes stresses through dance and positive interaction between the people..with smiling faces and lots of love to share we where all each others favourite teddy bears. Steven also spent his time in his new found sound labaratory(basement) with a mc-303 investigating grid shift funktions and his lfo’s ..he soon also started collecting music, collecting variouse style’s over the years his styles seem to have viered towards electro breaks and funky tekno also hard jungle and bassy drum&bass came into play...supsequently steven also became a Dj..In 2006 Steven with a couple of friend focused on establishing a group in dublin, Clinical Chaos..who’e aim was to promote electronic music and dance culture in the city and greater area.

 
FURY8
 
 

Born in St. Petersburg Russia, Polina Fury studied Art and Music from the
age of 5. Following a move to NYC she discovered the Underground party
scene attending a a 9volt and Disfunctional Underground party - and her
passion for techno was ignited. a couple of years later in 1997, after
being inspired by the Spiral Tribe U.S tour, she formed Virus Renegade
Soundsystem with a small group of friends and a landmark NYC crew was
born. Over the course of a few years they organized parties with fellow
underground musicians incl. Somatic Response, Cortex Labs Deadly Buddha,
Nevermind and Gelstat and collaborated with fellow underground crews such
as Spaz, Blakkat, Havocsound, and Unknown Soldier focusing on the more
tribal harder tekno sound and on bringing people together in an outdoor
environment as opposed to the standard club environment, including
participation on the Reclaim the Streets movement. At the time they were
one of the few NYC based crews to promote breakcore, hardcore, freetekno,
DnB, Breaks, Hip Hop, reggae and experimental music within the same party
and were heavily influenced by the illegal squat party scene such as those
organized by fellow NYC crew Blakkat.

Trqavelling across the US in 2001with several freeparty crews from both
the U.S and Europe Fury 8 collaborated with members of the K.Ktus crew
(France), Mononom (NL), 5lowershop (San Francisco), Havocsound (NYC) and
Stahl Klang (Ger). Her friendship with the noise artist Zipperspy led to a
collaboration on her 2002 album Watch Your Damage.

Fury8 currently working as an audio engineer and spinning the heavier side
of Dub, Dubstep and …….She also producers her own wicked blend of
breakkor, tekno dub, distorted breakbeat , in-between answer a call to
meditation and yoga!

"I want to reawaken the spirit in peoples hearts thru
music!!! i want to help people set their minds free and let them see what
the power of sound has to offer! Music is magnetic and connects us to the
source!"
 
ASSCRACK
 
1994- dj organizer, promoter, graphic designer with spaz collective

1996 diy video/visual artist for spaz using found/created/ manipulated
technologies.

2000 Started personal experiments with organizing community
cinema in Berlin Germany, Prenzlauerberg.
using film as a way to bring community together to discus community
issues and starting important discussions on subjects usually dismissed as
irrelevant. to instigate focusing on the causes of problems instead of
the effects. Became digital art director at the Nascent Project, a non-profit in
Berkeley, California.

2001 started working with independent film producers. cinemas became more
of a voice of the community and a forum for films usually ignored by the
popular media outlets.

2002 One of three people helping to create the media decompression
project taking cinema to the next level of complete audience
participation.

Started education in music at the age of 8 learning rhythm, drumming,
music theory, and piano. Unable to find people moving in the same
musical direction as me I resorted to drum machines as accompaniment. At
18 left the small town in search of adventures. 2 years later I stumbled onto
spaz soundsystem offering a ride to Canada, Never went to Canada and never
left the soundsystem. Practiced DJing for 2 years in private mixing pop/punk/breakbeat,
a style dismissed at the time as a passing useless phase in music, but later to
become an entire new genre of music. DJ?d at countless shows for 6 years on
the yearly spaz north American tours in museums, clubs, houses, forests, radio
and television stations and boats. Started playing live in 2000 with one qy70
sequencer on the first of three tours from Berlin to Sofia. Playing heavy bass breaks with
floating melodies became my most popular style of expression, but as emotions and
influences change so does the style.

Workshops

Basic Computer Knowledge
covering the most basic information from how a computer works to using
operating systems and a few programs such as PhotoShop. I started
learning Macintosh at the age of 10. for ten years i edited a magazine
called Inertia and did layout on a Mac. in 1996 i was an intern at the
center for electronic art for a year where i did class setup, and helped
teach PhotoShop. i have been the digital art director at the nascent
project (www.nascentproject.org) for 3 years.

Basic Midi implementing (history and uses)
The foundations for MIDI were laid down in the 1960?s, when the first
monophonic synthesizers were produced. Monophonic synthesizers like the
ARP and Moog used analogue circuitry and could only produce one sound at
a time.

In the Late 1970?s Oberheim introduced the first polyphonic synthesizer
which had four independent oscillators. Companies like Yamaha, Roland
and Moog soon followed with their own polyphonic circuits and eventually
with the introduction of on-board memory. Before the introduction of
onboard memory, a synthesizer had to be programmed before a performance,
and separate synthesizers had to be used for each sound. Memory could
store synthesizer settings so that sounds could be changed with the
flick of a switch. In 1982 a group of synthesizer manufacturers met at a NAMM convention
(National Association of Music Merchants). A meeting took place to
discuss a standard for the digital transmission and reception of
performance information between all types of electronic musical
instruments. The original name of the proposed interface was UMI
(Universal Musical Interface), but after several revisions this became
MIDI (Musical Interface Digital Interface). The first MIDI keyboards
were released by Roland and Sequential Circuits in 1983.

Independent Literature Distribution
discussing skills i learned from working on inertia magazine, and other
independent music projects.

Open Discussion on Sexism
an open forum on the hidden aspects of sexism in modern culture and how
it affects both sexes.

Cristian Bowie
Tour film and Audio coordinator
fruitbatz(AT)hotmail.com
www.spaz.org
 
PRINCE KONG
 

Prince Kong is a man on a mission to blow up the dance!
A prolific producer who's incendiary live shows have earned him a reputation on the underground party scene.
Booty shaking bass and militant snares, trading and mashing sounds of grime, hiphop,ragga, 4 to the floor,
Breakcore, jungle, crunk, bassline has guaranteed him a riot inducing sound that fills any dancefloor.
Working with MC's such as Warrior Queen, Eccleton Jarrett, Lady Grew,Jah Balance, Quilombola,
kommandante Krakkenthe sounds just get weightier and skankier to the point where
it becomes a blood in a speaker box stylee.
Check this!!


www.myspace.com/kongism
http://soundcloud.com/kongism
 
BINNIE
 

From his earliest beginnings spinning Hip-Hop, R&B, and Hip-House, Binnie a.k.a Vince Yip, has allowed his passion for new music to be his driving force. He joined his first DJ crew at the age of 14 playing high school dance parties, community events, and arranging music pieces for dance performances. At 16, he was broadening the musical horizons of his fellow Contra Costa County natives, exposing the late night clubbers to up-tempo tracks straight out of the Detroit and Miami underground. Needless to say, the locals just didn’t quite get it.

A move to San Francisco led to gigs with Rhythm Sound Effects and immersion into the burgeoning Freestyle/Jams scene populated by talented crews such as Spintronix, Style Beyond Compare and Mixing In Action, just to name a few. The hours spent soaking up the new sounds in S.F records stores, coupled with his dedication to his craft, led to his big break in 1995 when he hooked up with Funky Tekno Tribe – a crew best known for their sell-out mega raves held at 5000 capacity venues in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond.

A couple of years of living the “DJ dream’’ came to an end with the realization that the flourishing SF rave scene was going nowhere musically. The promoters had hit pay dirt, were repeatedly hiring only a handful of highly paid DJ’s and were decidedly uninterested in pushing any musical boundaries. Back in his bedroom/studio Binnie’s beats were getting harder and faster. Not finding the records he was craving in S.F stores any longer, he frequently pushed 33rpm discs to 45rpm to achieve the sounds and rhythm he was looking for. A chance meeting in 1997 with Spiral Tribe’s 69db connected Binnie to the community he was struggling to find within his local scene. He was immediately captivated by the Spiral Tribe music, D.I.Y. ethos and the Free Party philosophy, soon after establishing a free mix tape distribution under the name 5lowershop. The first 5lowershop party was held in 1998 in collaboration with S.P.A.Z. soundsystem, who were also based in San Francisco at that time and shared the free tekno spirit. For the next ten years Binnie (along with many others) spearheaded 5lowershop as it grew to a fully fledged collective, based out of a warehouse on the outer reaches of San Francisco. 5lowershop has hosted countless underground events both indoor and outdoor, giving platform to both local and international musicians and producers, toured the U.S and Europe, supported D.I.Y festivals in the Bay Area and beyond, provided shelter and community to artists, musicians, hackers, writers, herbalists, seamstresses, animal lovers, clowns, outsiders and freaks of all kinds, and continues today to push the boundaries of convention both artistically and socially.

Binnie currently resides in the west of Ireland with his wife and two young children, where he has continued to create alternative events despite the entirely different cultural environment . Musically he is currently on a dubstep tip, but which, with characteristic inventiveness he fuses with elements of tekno, breakbeat, breakcore, glitch, IDM and more.

contact:
binnie(AT)5lowershop.org
mobile: + 353 (0)87 7440224
 
GARYYOUNG