Brighton raised,
multi award winning Friction
is one of the most
revered and recognised
names in
bass music
today. He has a
vast catalogue
behind him and has worked with most of the
major labels in D&B
including
Hospital
and
Metalheadz
. However it was in 2004 when he founded the now infamous record label
Shogun Audio
that really pushed the Friction name further into the musical limelight. Whilst
DJ’ing
all over the world every weekend and heading up the juggernaut record label Shogun Audio Friction has achieved much commercial success but always keeps
his feet firmly on the ground
, recently announced as the new face of
Radio 1’s flagship Drum & Bass show
he is set for even more accolades in 2012 and beyond. Described by Pete Tong as
‘one of the big dogs’
Friction looks set to hit dizzying new heights in his career this year as he continues to trail blaze his way through the ever-evolving musical landscape.
PHACE
is the alias used by
Florian Harres
, an
electronic music producer
and
label owner
from Hamburg, Germany. Over the past years, he not only defined his
very own style of bass-heavy electronic music
, but also managed to tour most corners of this planet. Looking at both his g
lobal following and wide-ranging back-catalogue of releases (on labels such as OWSLA, Mau5trap, Vision, Shogun, Critical, and his own imprint Neosignal Recordings), one can easily say that within this style of music it is quite hard to find a comparable contemporary artist shaping a sound and musical movement a similar way.
Lineup:
Friction
(
Shogun Audio
- UK)
MC Linguistics (UK)
PHACE
(
Neosignal
- D)
SIGMA
(Life Rec - UK)
Chris.SU
(
FATE Recordings
)
Mindscape
(
Commercial Suicide Records
)
Jade
(
Eatbrain
)
IAN Autorun
(
KICK It
)
