Knoxville EDM Presents a HUGE night of DNB:
TWISTED INDIVIDUAL
GRID RECORDINGS || London, UK
Twisteds first releases were back in 1998, and for his debut produced Wales, the biggest track on the now legendary World of Drum and Bass album. Seeing that he was onto a good thing with his new apprentice in 2001 DJ SS entrusted the seminal Lighter into the hands of the Twisted one to see if he could bring it up to date. Whilst working on his debut album he pieced together two of the biggest tunes of that year in the form if his Lighter remix and the F-Word.
Proving that he could mix the rough with smooth the Tooled Up! LP on Formation Records showcased the Twisted sound – he had crafted an album that would get heads talking, and the crowds jumping.
Following the success of Tooled Up!, Twisted found himself in the spotlight, with remix offers and DJ bookings beginning to flood in. Twisted was now able to showcase his skills on the decks all around the world. Picking up regular plays at all the major UK promotions including Slammin Vinyl, One Nation, Telepathy, Best of British, United Dance, Accelerated Culture, as well as residencies at all the Formation and World of Drum & Bass nights all over the World, Twisted is now an exclusive member of the top flight of D&B DJs. Always armed with a bag of fresh dubs to unleash on the crowds, his explosive partnership with MC Biggie has smashed many venues over the past few years. In this time Twisted has also been fortunate enough to have his travels take him all over the world, notching up stamps in his passport and champion hangovers everywhere from Germany to Estonia, USA to Australia, Spain to Brazil and pretty much everywhere else in-between.
As with any popular style of music, when something is successful, the masses will follow, and soon the Twisted clones started to fill the shelves of all the record shops. Not a man known for his restraint, in 2003 Twisted got back in the dungeon and cooked up a message to all those he felt were ripping his sound. Bandwagon Blues exploded onto the scene and instantly became an anthem with rewind after rewind ensuring this was a front runner in every DJs set. Off the back of his previous success and other tracks such as Rusty Sherrif’s Badge, Heavy Metal, and Hand Grenade Twisted found himself up for 3 categories at the 2003 Accelerated Culture Awards, walking away with awards not only for Best Tune for Bandwagon Blues, but also Best Producer.
Since then Twisted has not stopped. Recent tracks such as ‘Swan Cake’, ‘Konga remix’ have kept him at the top of his game. His days are now filled with tours and DJ bookings as well as a spending time in the studio working on a whole variety of projects, dnb and beyond for his own Grid Recordings.
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MAYHEM
404 AUDIO || SHADOWLAW RECORDINGS || Atlanta, GA
Anthony Rotella, aka Mayhem, is a dj/producer from Atlanta, GA. Founder of Shadow-Law Recordings, featuring cutting edge drum & bass focused heavily on the techy side of drum & bass which has incubated the likes of Sinthetix, Noisia, and Misanthrop; as well as Aesthetics, a brand new imprint with a focus on rising talent across the globe. He’s toured across the world, playing extensively in Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Canada and Puerto Rico in addition to playing regularly across North America. His club night Transit hosted the spectrum of the most respected and upcoming artists in the scene over 3 years in Atlanta. Well known for “Moonway Renegade [Ft Noisia]“, which graced Andy C’s Ram Records reaching 1 spots on both Radio 1 and 1xtra’s single of the week charts in addition to hitting 2 on the official UK dance charts; “Exodus [Ft Noisia]“,which saw the 1st collaboration with legendary Hip Hop MC KRS-1 in Drum + Bass Music in over 10 years since the seminal “Digital” was produced with Goldie; “Choke [Ft Noisia]” which saw the first vocal appearance of MC Verse; his rework of Meat Beat Manifesto’s “Helter Skelter” alongside Evol Intent commissioned especially for Diselboy’s most recent album “Substance D”‘ and “Broken Sword [Ft Evol Intent and Thinktank]“, which is featured on EA Games Need For Speed: Most Wanted. His recordings have spawned releases on Obsessions, Citrus, Vision Recordings, Ram Records, Subtitles Music, Human Imprint, Evol Intent Recordings, Redlight Records, Nerve Recordings, Full Force Recordings, Ministry Of Sound, Project 51 Records, Black Sun Empire Recordings, and the list is ever growing. Currently Mayhem is working on his debut LP entitled “Into Oblivion”, producing Dubstep records for Subway Recordings and Argon Records, as well as Electro/Nu Disco records for Le Castle Vania’s Always Never imprint under the alias Rrrump.
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LEGION
SINE LANGUAGE IMPRINT || Nashville, TN
Bio forthcoming…
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With local support from:
THE BASS DISCIPLES
KNOXVILLE EDM || MASSIVE SOUND || Knoxville, TN
If you’re reading this, you probably know who we are. If you don’t, you really should check out the Knoxville Soundsystem shows each month at the Longbranch. Next one is Friday June 11.
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MC ARMANNI REIGN
GASM // 5SIGHTED // SUBSTITUTION // BASSRUSH // TEKDBZ // PLATINUM || Philadelphia, PA
After spending six continuous months as 103.9FM’s freestyle champion, MC Armanni decided he needed a change. The cutthroat and ghetto style of the hip hop industry had given Armanni chills and it was time to switch things up.
His introduction to drum and bass was an experience shared by many first timers; Sutpens’ Jungle, February 2000. His first mixtape was “DJ SS live at Sutpen’s Jungle” on which the vocal skills of MC Skibadee gave Armanni insight to the lyrical potential of drum and bass. Sighting MC Skibadee as one of his influences, Armanni has developed a distinctly powerful and diverse style of lyrical delivery which has garnered respect amongst his peers as well many of the top dnb mcs and djs in the World. Staying true to his hip hop roots, Armanni delivers bounce, flavor and lyrical wizardry.
2003 was a fantastic year for MC Armanni. Not only was he nominated Best Breakthrough MC at the Knowledge Drum and Bass awards, Armanni also became the official Metalheadz Americas MC. He is undoubtedly the most well known lyricist in drum and bass with his popularity surpassing the once indominatable forces of Skibadee, GQ and Dynamite. With releases already on Freak, Intasound and forthcoming Area 51 and Metalheadz Americas, MC Armanni has set his sights on the grand realm.
Armanni performs with many of the top dnb artists at almost all the top shows. Residencies include Bassrush (LA), Platinum, DJ Series, Heavy Duty, Metalheadz, Ultraworld at Sonar and Destination. He has amazed crowds at the World of Drum and Bass, Electric Daisy Carnival, DJ Series, Starscape, Buzz and Ultra. Armanni tours with the likes of Goldie, Dj Rap, Kenny Ken, Ray Keith, DJ Craze, Dieselboy and is frequently sequestered to mc exclusively for many other top djs in the industry.
Having completed his first long play project, “On and Poppin” with MC Sharpness, Armanni is ready to expand his performance repertoire. His vocals are featured on hits of 2004 such as “Ruff, Rugged and Raw”, “Enter the Hive” mix cd . Already his release schedule for 2005 is setting a frenzy in the industry with tracks such as “Uk to Stateside” on Formation, ” Fahrenheit 215″ on Photek’s 51st , “P.H.I.L.L.Y” , Pergatory and a full length hip hop album to be released on Photek’s new label. As the duo, MentalSharp, Armanni and Sharpness will perform live hip hop sets of original material. Thus far, performances by Mentalsharp have received fantastic reviews and future shows are set to raise the bar even higher.
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We’re going out on a limb here to try bringing bigger acts through Knoxville. I hope everyone can make it out and support this! If it goes off well this will be the first of many shows to get our town on the DNB map!
Sound reinforcement by Massive Sound
We’ll be bringing in the MASSIVE SOUND system for this event, so rest assured you’ll feel every last note as 2000lb of subwoofers rearrange your insides. Twisted Evil
Cider House
Blackstock Ave SW
Knoxville, Tennessee 37921
$10 at the door.
