INVURT

I’m squinting hard as the early dawn light is pummelling through the vans windscreen. We’re hurtling down the highway, somewhere between Rhode Island and Brooklyn – its post-party hour and some friends and I are dropping Reid Speed back home after an all-night rave in an abandoned bank vault. The gig is all done and dusted, and we’re talking shit about breaks, d’n'b and all the things in between – the details are murky, its the start of the new millennium after all, but I can still hear the passion in her voice and I’m still feeling the vibe of the set she played, and I easily recall my predominant thought at the time – “this girls really going somewhere, can’t wait to see where she ends up…”

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The sounds of bass and scattered breakbeats play an important part in the New Zealand electronic scene, and, more often than not, one of the common sounds heard emanating from clubs across the Islands is dubstep. Working at the forefront of this effusive culture, Olie Bassweight, or DJ Evil as he is otherwise known, is one of many talented individuals who have helped turn New Zealand into a virtual Mecca for the dub phenomenon. With his DJ sets, production releases and the success of his Bassweight label, home to popular artists such as Organikismness, Optimus Gryme and Consequence, he is consistently one of NZs busiest DJs, and, as such, is as good an envoy for his homelands music as any other. (more…)