Long Play: Shades of Dub
- Dinsdag, september 29
- 19:00-22:00
- Rhythm 141 Bathurst Street, Toronto, M5V 2R2, Canada
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For this edition of Long Play at Rhythm, Ciel explores the influence of dub in expected and unexpected corners of her record collection. Dub is something that can be heard all over electronic dance music. Characterized by heavy electronic studio effects like deep reverb and echo, stripped-down drum and sub-bass rhythms ("riddims"), and minimal vocals, this style did not just influence dubstep and jungle. You can hear its fingerprints in house, tech house, tribal, progressive and downtempo. What sets these genres apart is less timbre, and more tempo and rhythm.
Ciel will play back two seminal albums under different aliases by Jean Frank Cochois, a German electronic music producer with a diverse body of work active during the turn of the century. These LPs present very different styles of electronic music that have come to define the cornerstones of Ciel's style as a DJ: tech house and downtempo. We will listen to each and discuss the similarities and differences between them, how rhythm and space (or a lack of space) play a vital role in each of these styles, which will lay the groundwork for a more philosophical discussion on the amorphous nature of genre tags in contemporary electronic music. As a full-time DJ with a focus on mixing diverse styles for the last decade, Ciel is interested in the deep connections between seemingly disparate genres and seeks to find the ways in which sounds are more alike than they are contrary.
Doors at 7pm.
Listening at 7h30.
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Rhythm
141 Bathurst Street, Toronto, M5V 2R2, Canada