FULL PULL;KONTRA PRESENTERAR SHACKLETON (UK)

Shackleton och hans bolag Skull Disco kom fram som ett resultat av en växande dubstepscen. Men Shackleton har alltid varit noga med att understryka att hans musik är genrelös. Därför var det inte alls förvånande att hans senaste album, 3EPs, släpptes på inflytelserika technoetiketten Perlon. I fallet Shackleton blir genretillhörighet betydelselöst. Hans musik är helt enkelt större än så. Kom och upplev en av vår tids stora - Mr. Sam Shackleton.
 
Live: Shackleton (Skull Disco, Perlon, UK)
DJs: Kenneth Christiansen (Echocord, Culture Box, DK), Third
VJs: KubKub
 
Shackleton mix for Mary Anne Hobbs:
soundcloud.com/surefire/shackleton-mah-mix-september-2009
 
Mer info:
kontra-musik.com
myspace.com/kontramusik
skulldisco.com
kubkub.org
echocord.com
culture-box.com
 
Datum: 12/2 Tid: 23-03 Rum: Klubben Entré: 100:- (50 före 24) Ålder: 20 år

Shackleton bio:
In 2004, prior to the founding of the label Skull Disco, Ian Hicks of Mordant Music liked and released an early Shackleton track entitled Stalker. The track later appeared on Rough Trade's 'Best of 2004' compilation. Around this time Shackleton started thinking about forming a label to release "interesting bass music" and "interesting percussive stuff". Around the same time, Laurie 'Appleblim' Osborne was making similar bass heavy music with abstract beats.  Shackleton was impressed with a track, Mystikal Warrior, and it hence appeared on the first Skull Disco release; a  double A-side with Shackleton's I Am Animal. Shortly after, Shackleton began the (now defunct) Skull Disco nights in London. Attendees at the first Skull Disco night included Loefah and Mala.
 
Releases on the Skull Disco label are typically double A-sides featuring a track apiece from Shackleton and Appleblim, however the most recent release is a 2CD compilation, Soundboy Punishments, which includes all releases to date, as well as some early Mordant Music and Hotflush releases. Skull Disco releases often tend to use unusual sounds, atypical of the dubstep genre; they often eschew the familiar drum tropes of dubstep for African percussion and samples of ethnic vocals, combined with massive, wobbling sub-bass and sometimes elements of four to the floor, Basic Channel-esque drum patterns.
 
Typical artwork on releases (by Zeke Clough) is also of an idiosyncratic nature, the pen-and-ink covers referencing egyptological symbols as well as displaying a decidedly metal influence.
 
Shackleton's music seems to have tapped into a wide range of genres with support for his music coming from djs as diverse as Kode 9, Ricardo Villalobos, Radio Slave and Mary Anne Hobbes while the Hardwax record shop and The Wire magazine are also very enthusiastic.

Whilst Shackleton's music tends towards the idiosyncratic and intricate percussion in preference to the big, bass drop, his music is still geared towards the dancefloor and audiences respond in kind.
 
Datum: 12/2 Tid: 23–03 Rum: Klubben Entré: 100 (50 före 24) Ålder: 20 år

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