Name: Orlando Voorn Occupation: Pioneer of Dutch techno. whose early obsessions with electro and hip hop turned into a love affair with the Detroit sound at the end of the 80s The Detroit sound? So we aren’t talking your stereotypical ‘tops off, trance on’ Dutch producer? No. In fact Voorn enjoys such a strong affinity with the States that he now lives there. albeit in Seattle. With a second place finish in the very first DMC WOrld Championships in 1986 already under his belt (where he famously grabbed the mic and asked of winner DJ Cheese. ‘what is this. a mixing competition or a scratching competition?’). Voorn established a link between Amsterdam and Detroit. He collaborated with both Juan Atkins and Blake Baxter. and released records on Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson’s labels. What should I listen to? Voorn’s recent recorded histOry hasn‘t been as illustrious as his past. although he still releases new music regularly. and the track ‘The Light’ did turn up recently on the Sub Club's 20 Years Underground mix. To hunt down his earlier releases (of which there are nearly 80. not counting remixes) you’ll have to cast your net far and wide. Since 1988. he’s used around 30 aliases. including Fix-O-Matic. Xit. Frequency. Nighttripper, Format and. best of all. Basic Bastard.
Any other business? Voorn's Glasgow date will be at the late night. Stereo-held leg of Bleep. an all-day event which also includes a party at Glasgow's Courtyard entitled Bleep By Day through the afternoon and evening. Support at Voorn's Glasgow date comes from Soma's Octogen. aka Marco Bernardi. whose brother Dario promotes Bleep (by the way Octogen is also playing Trouble at Cabaret Voltaire. Edinburgh. Fri 3 Oct). (David Pollock)
I Orlando Voorn plays Creative Industries at the GRV. Edinburgh. Fri 3 Oct; Bleep Live at Stereo, Glasgow. Sat 4 Oct.
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PREVIEW DRUM 8. BASS DUBS’llCP XPLICIT Potterrow, Edinburgh, Fri 3 Oct.
There will be times in your life when you’ll meet relatives with whom you have a strange relationship - second cousins, suspect uncles, your gran’s new boyfriend - you know that there’s a connection, but you struggle to figure out exactly where or why it came about. It’s the same in dance music: dubstep and drum & bass are both heavy, but they ain’t brothers.
What we now know as dubstep emerged but a few short years ago when the darker edged underground garage coming out of London at the turn of the century was cloaked it in an extra layer of spooky subbass by
PREVIEW HIP HOP THE FOUNDATION The GRV. Edinburgh, Sat 11 Oct
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the PlayStation generation and wrapped around a sluggish but infectious tempo. 0&8 began life way before after the UK’s early dance scene fragmented into different parts of rave, hardcore and jungle. Now Xplicit look to pull it all together with dubstep’s own dark knight Skream and one of D&B’s original tru playas DJ Hype both headlining another massive Potterrow party. It’s a big space for a big event, but it’s not all in the numbers. ‘I don’t give a shit about the size of the venue to be honest,’ claims Hype. ‘What I do give a shit about is the size of the soundsystem and the quality of the DJ set up, if these things are good then I can proper blaze the spot and put my all into my set. Fat system equals fat night.’ (Richie Meldrum)
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'Because we're so passionate about dance we're also passionate about music and there wasn't really anyone playing the kind of tunes that we enjoy dancing to in our own spare time.’ says RA member and spokesman Peter Manian. ‘So we \."./£llll(}(t to showcase our musical lastes.‘
Attesting to their fun intentions there's a celebratory flesh “xx/hue theme for the launch. while the boys are also asking all-comers in visual arts. graphic design and photography to make the most of the audiovisual facilities GRV has to offer.
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