DJ Storm @ Home Club (Singapore) - 27 May 2006
May 25th, 2006 by exitmusik
HOME PARTIES Presents The First Lady of Drum & Bass - DJ STORM (METALHEADZ, UK) 27th May 2006 Saturday
Storm’s status as torchbearer of the drum and bass scene remains untouched.
As one of the co-founders of the legendary Metalheadz label with Goldie, they created an incubator for drum and bass talent. Together with Goldie, they began a ‘trinity’ and built an empire along the way.
Released in 1999, DJ Kicks: Kemistry and Storm made history by being one of the first widely-distributed albums by a female DJ. Storm’s latest mix cd "The Winter of Content" released on Metalheadz features the very essence of the label. Driving frantic drum breaks topped with obscure samples to metallic soundscapes.
Storm is also involved as a lecturer at the Redbull Music Academy where she gives her insight on to young hopefuls. Her latest project is her own regular web radio show for ‘Red Bull Music’ due to start in Spring. The First Lady of Drum & Bass will be blowing up the decks in Singapore soon.
Drum & Bass Advocates:
DJ Storm (Metalheadz, UK)
Ash + Kiat (Guerrilla/HOME, SG)
loopinmotion + DJR (HOME, SG)
Kane MC (Guerrilla/HOME, SG)
Vortex (Exitmusik/HOME, SG)
Essential listening:
DJ Kicks – Kemistry & Storm (K7!)
The Winter of Content – Storm (Metalheadz)
Entry:
$20 (inclusive of 2 drinks) Pre sale tickets available @ HOME and online via www.exitmusik.com till 26052006, Friday (100 only!!)
$25 (inclusive of 2 drinks) at the door
Club Opens @ 9pm till very, very late
Presented By: HOME
Co Presented By: Exitmusik & SBTG
HOME is built on at 20 Upper Circular Rd, B1-01/06, The Riverwalk, S(058416)
For more info or enquires, pls email: kelvin@homeclub.com.sg
Tel: 6538 2928 www.homeclub.com.sg
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When Kemi Olusanya, one half of the jungle DJ duo Kemistry & Storm, died in a car accident on April 25, 1999, she took a big chunk of drum & bass history with her. Along with partner Storm, in ‘92 Kemistry first convinced Goldie to check out Grooverider and Fabio’s legendary hardcore night at Rave, the birthplace of jungle. Goldie launched his Metalheadz label soon after, and Kemistry did a lot of the day-to-day management and helped discover such breakbeat microsurgeons as Photek and Adam F.
Kem & Storm’s status as torchbearers–not to mention as superb mixers–meant they had access to dub plates and advance promos before most jungle DJs did. But their insider standing is a little too apparent on DJ Kicks, which finds them hewing closer to the jungle party line than most parties might like. Program your player to infinite loop, and you can start listening any place you want–at track 1, Dom & Roland’s impressively gloomy "Trauma"; at track 9, Decoder’s impressively gloomy "Stash"; or at track 12, John B’s impressively gloomy "Pressure." It really doesn’t matter. Wherever you start, wherever you finish, you’ll wind up in the same condition: impressed, and, sure enough, slightly gloomy. The tracks compiled here, though expertly woven together, abide by the relentless march so much of the music has become. Every track is excellent in its own right–who can argue with Dillinja, DJ Die, or J Majik?–and in fact no CD offers a better snapshot of big-label jungle circa 1998. But the surprise, innovation, and good times you’ll find on some of the music’s second-tier labels aren’t here. That doesn’t make DJ Kicks bad–in its own monochromatic way it’s quite bracing–but it does make it an unsatisfactory swan song for one of jungle’s great figures. –Jeff Salamon
