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It’s late in the afternoon, and Kenny Ken is in front of his computer, sending and receiving tracks on the ‘net, preparing for his upcoming Australian tour. “When you’ve djed as much as I have, you tend to not practice as much,” he jokes. Yet Kenny has spent the past week doing exactly that, sifting through his record room looking for tunes and preparing an arsenal of dub-plates, almost fourteen in all, to compliment the older style Ragga tracks that he will be playing whilst here in Perth. “I have a bunch of stuff,” he remarks, “a good few classics as well – some thing that people might not have heard back then.”
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After twelve years of DJing and with a multitude of album releases under his belt, Dave Lea has every reason to be enthusiastic about his upcoming Australian tour. Having just returned from a successful yet cold-weather challenged tour of the U.S, the affable man behind one of club-lands most admired production companies is looking forward to once again bringing his version of the gospel of electronica to Perth fans.
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With the promise of some of the best of local breakbeat talent alongside the undeniably infamous breaks legends, Phantom Beats, the scene was set last Saturday eve at Heat Nightclub for those inclined to snare laced drums. As the night began, the fourth iteration of the Bumpa series presented itself with ferocity, startling punters with its fresh take on the nuevo-breakbeat scene. From its initial inception last August, and following on the footsteps of September’s local showcase, as well as a prior staunch performance by the mighty Stanton Warriors, Bumpa has quickly become the monthly gig of choice for breaks fanatics.
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It’s 1am in the morning, London time, and one of the biggest names in modern trance, Matt Darey, is pulling another all nighter. Having been stuck in the studio a lot within recent months, one gets the impression that some fundamental shifts in trance may be on the near horizon. These shifts may have to do with the fact that Darey is at an exciting and somewhat possibly daunting stage of his career. Having taken a two year hiatus from a scene that he had become somewhat disenchanted with, he humbly admits that although it has been a hard task getting back into the swing of the industry, it is at the same time, very refreshing to come back with a new perspective – “Music used to be my life, totally,” he remarks somewhat laconically. “Its becoming more like that again.”
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