Support on the night is from Executive Steve (Ancient Ways / Tribe), Crux / Dron / gKb + MC’s Brez & Mibud (RAID / Bassdrum) with VJ Re-verse.

Let them know you’re going on their facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/271255822925761/

Executive Steve (Ancient Ways)
Mecca (Subtle Audio)
Conan (the barbarian junglist)

Theme – hipster zombies: it’s cool to be an undead-dickhead!

The Second installment of Aftershock sees Veteran heavyweight DJs Executive Steve (Dublin) and Irish legend Beckett (Belfast), head to The Bunker for a night of pure bass-weight-frenzied-madness, with support from Drumology Jungle’tablist Undadog (Belfast).

With more & more quality, standout, acts appearing at The Bunker, this is truly a gig not to be missed.

Set Times:

Undadog
(Drumology, Bass Junkies – Belfast)
21.00 – 22.30

Executive Steve
(Ancient Ways, RnL106.4FM, Tribe – Dublin)
22.30 – 00.00

Beckett
(irishdrumandbass.com, Rudimentary – Belfast)
00.00 – 01.30

Doors open 9pm – Late
£3 before 11pm (£5 after)

[Drink Specials on the night]

Executive Steve & Bonz
Judge Dredd, Undadog, Adapt2

The Front Page, Donegall St. £4 in before 10 & £6 there after. Festivities start at 8pm

Playing on the night are:

Breakshift

Easy & Dr. Ed

Executive Steve

3rd Degree

MC kenna

It’s that time of year again folks, or rather it’s four months past that time of year again, and even that time of year isn’t quite what the original time of year was when we first started off doing all of this – anyway, for all intents and purposes the time of year is pretty damn irrelevant as far as the REAL story is concerned, which is that it’s our third birthday party, and if you know what’s fecking good for you you’ll be there to help us celebrate no matter what.

When we first kicked off the whole REACH thing Dublin was a very different place altogether, you could hand out flyers without catching a gigantic fine, the Twisted Pepper didn’t exist, there was nowhere to buy Jungle in Dublin, Dubstep wasn’t even really on the radar as far as this town was concerned. Flash forward three years and there’s still nowhere to buy Jungle (FREEBIRD RIP, SELECTA RIP), there’s wee kids in neon hoodies playing Dubstep in pubs all over town, no less than six different crews putting on DnB nights, loads more Dubstep and Garage nights and the clubs close even fecking earlier.

We’ve had our ups and downs along the way of course, (OUT:REACH in the Vaults, festival tents all over the country, spelling Peverelist’s name wrong on the flyer that one time) but it’s always been great craic all the same – as both of the people who paid in to one of our earliest gigs will gladly tell you! So big, big, BIG up to EACH and EVERY one of you who’ve EVER been down to a night we’ve put on in the past three years or so, we’re doing it for the likes of ye, so ye’ll have a few stories to tell your grandkids about the way proper sub bass should make your trousers flap around your arse like a flag hoisted on a breezy autumnal day. Also, of course, MASSIVE respect to all the venue owners, barstaff, DJ’s sound system heads, MC’s, flyer monkeys, afterparty randoms, toilet attendants, lighting heads, VJ’s,other promoters, journalists etc that have ever played for us, let us play, given us the benefit of the doubt, turned a blind eye, poured us a whiskey or lent us a few skins, and maximum respect to each every one of you who ever called a well deserved rewind!

ANYWAY, without further ado let me tell you who we have for you this time around:

KODE 9 runs HYPERDUB, and in all fairness if you still need to be told that in 2010 then you haven’t been really paying attention to electronic music for the past few years. Suffice to say that in the 5 short years Hyperdub have been around they’ve completely skirted, written, subverted, crossed, rewritten and ignored nearly every rule in the big book of rules about running a contemporary bass music label, which is about the only sensible thing you can really label them as. Suffice to say that Hyperdub have been at the absolute vanguard of cutting edge electronic music over the past half decade, and I’m getting fierce hard just thinking about teh fact that Kode 9 is playing at our night. Support on his floor comes from MICKY who has managed to put Bagenalstown firmly on the dance music map as a hub for stuff that’s too cool for cities like Berlin and Bristol. Warming up are the REACH dubstep residents, proper fecking order too.

Down in the basement we have RANDALL & KENNY KEN who were both making names for themselves as DJ’s before many of the people who come to our nights were born. Tonight they’ll strictly be playing tunes that could get served in a Dublin club if they had their sister’s fake ID’s on them and they looked sort of grown up and it was all a bit too dark and busy for anyone to notice. RANDALL has been here before, he’s the ultimate DJ’s DJ who pretty much wrote the technical rulebook on mixing Jungle before it was even called that; Kenny Ken is no less deadly and the two of them will be competing to see who can dig back deeper and further through time to draw for crackly old dubplates that noone’s heard out since the days before Naphta went grey. Support from DELTAFORCE - that’s BARRY DELTA and RICKY FORCE, meaning you’ll be hearing all manner of cult classics from the Jungle and early DNB days; getting the ball rolling down early will be the usual REACH residents, keeping it cutting edge before the grandparents show up, hosting duties on the night will be performed by the legendary Criminal K.

See you there!

Fracture and Neptune – “Wrong Think” / “A Clue” – Bassbin: “Wrong Think” is an altogether nastier funkier techier affair than you might expect on to see on Bassbin, twisting and winding in a manner not entirely unlike Optical’s classic “Watermelon” track on Virus. B-side “A Clue” is the sort of tune that only really makes sense if you’re a private detective from Mars who just crash landed his spaceship into the Pentagon and is legging it down the road in a borrowed pair of velvet flares being chased by Edgar J Hoover and the cast from Scooby Doo… 8/10

Zero Tolerance feat. Steo / Zero Tolerance & Alix Perez – “Refusal” / “Dangerous Liasons” – Integral : Zero Tolerance drops a red hot 12″ on Integral: “Refusal” is a sultry moody brooding affair, with strings and a warping midrange bass punctuated by Steo’s extraordinary vocals, sounding like Justin Timberlake on helium, heartbreak and way too much Viagra, lifting the tune head and shoulders above the competition. You’ll be hearing this one a LOT come summertime. “Dangerous Liasons” sees Perez’ add some of his trademark vintage soul vocals to the mix, and is also well worth a listen. 9/10

Macc – “So Far” EP – Subtle Audio – Upon being asked to list hotbeds of forward thinking drum and bass (experi-)mentalism, Limerick mightn’t immediately spring to mind. The opposite is true however, as Code’s Subtle Audio label is having it’s name and it’s records dropped by all the right people in the alternative dnb scene. The four tracks on offer here from self-sampling multi-instrumentalist Macc marry the rhythmic urgency of an army of many-limbed jazz drummers with a plangent and playfully spooky sense of atmosphere; imagine Stockhausen falling down the stairs in a warehouse full of drums and completely by accident making some amazing and utterly danceable music before he hits the bottom and you’re sort of on the right page. Sort of. It’s not for everyone, but check this EP out if you dare to be different. 9/10

Fracture and Neptune – The Struggle / Reality Hoax – Transmute. Excellent stuff as usual from the London based beat-smiths, “The Struggle” refines the crossover tip they’ve been on lately, blending snarling Virus-y midrange tones with the feeling for breaks that first got them a release on the now (tragically) defunct “Droppin’ Science” imprint. B-side “Reality Hoax” is more my cup of tea, ascending, ethereal chords, deep subs and cerebral “stoned drummer with his eyes closed” breaks giving way to something vaguely reminiscent of some of the deeper bits that Dillinja used to come out with every so often about ten years ago. If you know what I mean when I say that you’re probably ordering this already by now… 4/5

Breakage – Clarendon / The Shroud – Digital Soundboy. I honestly can’t think of a release in the last 18 months I’ve liked as much and as immediately as this. A release of jaw-dropping bravery and depth, Clarendon combines lazy, not quite half time, rolling percussion, a highly quotable ragga sample, (What on earth is a “Culture Donkey”?) over a firm, warm sub-bass line to absolutely intoxicating effect. “The Shroud” on the flip sounds like Basic Channel / Rhythm and Sound making Jungle, warm crackly static echoing away over cavernously maternal bass. 12″ of the year by a country mile. 6/5

Dissident vs. Fracture and Neptune – Split 12″ – Counter Intelligence. Russian producer Dissident touches down on this well regarded Dutch label with two slices of fractured glitch-funk that come steeped in droning robotic soul. “Blind Viewer” fizzes and pops, coaxing all manner of strange grooves and musicality out of the atmosphere. “Nothing Outside Nothing” is more conventional, perhaps more effective, but (perhaps!) less moving (to these ears). Fracture and Neptune’s “Planet 13″ on the flip is a wicked piece of pure naked funk, punctuated by all sorts of interesting chimes, drones and snarls… Definitely one for the deeper floors out there, although there’s a wide variety of sets it could fit into. Recommended. 4/5

Sabre – Love is Gone (Kryptic Minds + Leon Switch remix) / Polski Produkt – Osiris Music. If you haven’t checked a Kryptic Minds & Leon Switch record since their smash hit “Hide the Tears” on ‘Headz a few years ago you might be put off checking this by virtue of the fact that that was such a heavy tune it was known to melt paint off walls at over a hundred yards. You needn’t be put off – lately the two Essex boys have been taking a deeper turn as evidenced by their recent album and this remix on their own Osiris sub-label. “Love is Gone” remix is a rolling, soulful techy affair, with a bit more of a bite than the original, without the full-on aggression of their old releases perhaps, but with a style that’s all the more memorable for its restraint. 3.5 – 5

Commix – Be True / Satellite Type 2 – Metalheadz Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last while (or unless you bought this magazine for the trance reviews and you’re reading this on the jacks, in which case “Story Bud!”) you’ll have been swept up in the hype for the imminent Commix LP on ‘Headz already, for which this is the sampler. Be True has a echoing vocal, a warm bassline that swirls around the club and dominates a soundsystem despite its apparent restraint, and generally sounds like commix through and through. Satellite Type 2 is one example of a sequel being miles better than the original, keeping the growliness to a minimum and adding bleeps and washes to the pretty uninspired straight-cut-and-paste-job of the break. Still, no one buys Commix records for their drumwork, and this is one of their better releases. 3.5 – 5