Crushington

Meanwhile...

A rough bunch of Bandidos are threatening the dance floor with chains and knives and blackpowder handguns. Real tough guys with tattoos and painful looking body piercings and stuff like that. A very rough looking bunch. But some of them look scared...

'Back off ese, you're outnumbered amigo! - You can't take us all!'

Crushington wade into the Bandidos, flanked by Mufasa and the Sly Fox crew they shoulder them aside with their combined bulk, getting a grip of two of them and shoving them into their buddies with concussive force. Sub bass explodes with wild shots. The party has begun and only the strong will survive...

Sandwiches proudly present an evening of heavyweight dubstep and future bass music featuring some of Aotearoa's finest purveyors of subwoofer rupturing arrangements...

- Crushington

Purveyors of maximal minimalism in bass music, under their Crushington alias New Zealand drum and bass duo The Upbeats switch gears, exploring the mid-tempo soundworld of dubstep.

Inspired to step outside of their box by a face-melting New Years Eve performance from Skream and Benga, for the last two years, Crushington have sonically sculpted their own, well-received take on dubstep. Lacking a developed knowledge of the genre, their unaffected explorations into different tempos and grooves have caught ears everywhere, leading to DJ support from N-Type, Distance, Truth, Bulletproof, Datsick, Excision, Hatcha and Headhunter.

Along the way, they've collaborated with, or remixed for Black Sun Empire and Bulletproof and recently produced New Zealand dub'n'bass icon Tiki Taane's new single 'Light Years Away', as featured on his second album In The World of Light. With high profile support and collaborations boiling over left right and centre and several boutique vinyl releases to their credit, DJ bookings across New Zealand and Australia have come quickly and to lauded receptions.

Old school producers and DJs from the era of vinyl and "by ear" engineering, their sonic fidelity has seen their Crushington tunes described by the likes of Antiserum as the perfect studio mixdown reference. To put it in simpler terms, Crushington's subwoofer rupturing arrangements are fast becoming a standard setter with in the international dubstep community, where things go next from here though; only time will tell.

Look out for Crushington's eagerly anticipated debut album The Hits, due for release later this year.

http://www.myspace.com/crushington

- Mufasa

With turntables propped up by beer crate upon crate of records containing some of the finest DnB, hip hop and breaks tunes dating back decades. Leo Murray came into his own after immersing himself in the dubplate culture which proliferated around the phenomenal sound of dubstep. As founder/director of pioneering dubstep party label No Ordinary Moment, Leo a.k.a. Mufasa has played an integral part of the popularisation of dubstep in Wellington, NZ.

- The Sly Fox Crew - Seizure, Max, APT

These guys need little introduction. A Wellington based trio of DJs & promoters committed to bringing you nothing but the biggest and the best in bass heavy music. Since their inception in 2009 the Sly Fox name has become synonymous with quality. The mantra has remained simple: good parties, good music and good vibes.
And they smash it - guaranteed.

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