Decibel, Starborne and LiveNLove proudly present...

BEST OF BASS

Part 1 of a 2 evening event happening December 30th and 31st at Neumos

Featuring performances from several standout artists from the 2008 Decibel Festival and one highly anticipated Seattle debut!

The Seattle debut of.....



JESSE ROSE!!! : DJ
www.myspace.com/jesseroseandcontent
Berlin : Get Physical / Dirty Bird / Made To Play
Jesse Rose is currently one of the most in-demand electronic music artists around the world, with seemingly every festival and club on the planet wanting a dose of his delicious Berlin-based bass-driven sound. This pioneer, producer, remixer, DJ and label owner of Front Room Recordings has been making music for over fourteen years and is now an established trend-setter, taking his place amongst the most popular and famous producers in the international electronic music community. Headlining the “Best of Bass” night at the Decibel New Year’s edition, Rose will bring his funk-lined, hyphy electro-house to Seattle for the first time ever, dropping his playfully dirty beats, twisty sound, and chunky bass on our waiting ears and dancing feet. His track “Forget My Name” will be released on vinyl December 15th, but after the impending Decibel show there will be no chance of that- the sound of Jesse Rose will be tattooed on your eardrums for eternity.





KILOWATTS : Live
www.kilowattsmusic.com/
Philadelphia : Native State / Thoughtless Music
KiloWatts, otherwise known as James Watts, hails from the States and plays bass-heavy breaks, down tempo, and techno that will open your mind with beats like a sack of bricks. Performing all over the U.S. and in Canada at festivals and dance parties, KiloWatts makes creative use of drums, scratches, and glitches to fill his music with a unique potency that takes listeners to the moon- and leaves them there. His new album Ground State on Native State Records is a barrier-breaking set of mind-jams that insist you reawaken the divinity within yourself and find the energy that connects you to the universe- not hard when you are on the moon.

An ever-growing list of projects and collaborations exists. Skeetaz, with breakbeat cohort Bil Bless brings hard-hitting digital glitched-out psychedelic funk. His collaboration with singer Peter Van Ewijk is a mystical ride with vocals and guitar, nested atop edgy electronica. With Tanner Ross, an eerie style of dark techno is born under the name Voodeux for Dirtybird’s techno sublabel Mothership. Fellow Philadelphian MC Amagine delivers consciousness-driven motifs in their digital glitch-hop project called Super Galactic Expansive.





DERU : Live
www.myspace.com/iamderu
Los Angeles : Ghostly / Merck Records
LA-based ambient glitch-dub-hop pioneer Deru was one of the surprise favorites for many at the 2008 Decibel Festival’s Ghostly International showcase at the Baltic Room, bringing his unique style to the traditional electronic merging of warm melodic structures with cold, precise rhythms. His is the sound of condensed isolation; the music your brain might make to survive when you are locked in a feeling of loneliness in the middle of a crowd of half a million. In contrast to the sparse and scattered sound of others in his IDM arena, Deru’s sound is delicate and dense, packed with energy and infused with deep, thumping bass. His third album, Say Goodbye to Useless, is scheduled for release in early 2009 and will no doubt deliver more of the atmospheric, fractured sound that forward-thinking music lovers around the world have come to embrace.





novaTRON : Live
www.myspace.com/novatron
Seattle - Innerflight
The sonic wizard that exists on this Earth as novaTRON is a designer of musical experience that defies all categorization. An animal like no other, novaTRON creates completely original beats that are improvised on the fly on the Tron Box, a self-constructed constellation of audio hardware that includes KORG’s EMX, ESX x2, KP3, KP2, Koassilator, and a Roland SP404. The music born from the marriage of the mind of a mad scientist and the Tron Box is a unique symphony of breakbeats, a reality twisted into a science of experimentation that combines to form an aural experience that can only be lived in the present. NovaTRON’s organic live sets capture the ephemeral nature of art and existence and strap it down with a thick layer of bass before letting it go on it’s way out to the world and into your body. His beats take you on a trip through multiple realms of reality with a professor of phunk at the helm; his music is created of the dance floor, by the dance floor, and for the dance floor. NovaTRON is a master of the moment who continues to push the limits of electronica with each and every new set.





SEED : Live
theseed.tk
Seattle - LiveNLove
SEED is a killer drummer and producer from Seattle whose sound can be classified somewhere in the space between the genres of Jazzchestral Glitch-Samba, Ballet Ghettotech, and Transcendental Elevator Music. Representing local music collective LiveNLove, seed will be performing live on Ableton along with the jazzy vocal talents of Greer Sullivan and the smart rhymes of E@5E_95 for this year’s micro dB New Year’s party. Expect dubby trip-hop infused with experimental jungle, and look for this newcomer to continue expanding minds on the dance floor as he pushes his eclectic electric noise to greater heights with deeper meaning.




VIDEO ACCOMPANIMENT BY:

SCOTT K. JAMES : Video
thenowdevice.com
Seattle : The Now Device



PREMIUM SOUND PROVIDED BY:

www.dynacord.com



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TICKETS / VENUE INFO
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$15 Presale tickets are available at Moe Bar, Rudy's Barbershop and online through:
LINK--->ev12.evenue.net/cgi-bin/nc...nkID=twspok


$30 Discounted joint tickets for both December 30th & 31st* are also available online at: ev12.evenue.net/cgi-bin/nc...nkID=twspok


*see "DIRTY DANCING : NYE" thread for more details:www.nwtekno.org/vb/showthr...did=131728)


Doors open at 8pm / 21+

*Visit www.dbfestival.com or www.myspace.com/decibelfestival for more info

@ Neumos
925 E. Pike St.
Seattle, WA
www.neumos.com