Pitch Black (NZ): Live in Paris

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PITCH BLACK

Pitch Black are Michael Hodgson and Paddy Free. Having pumped their way through New Zealand’s electronic music scene since their inaugural performance at the annual Gathering New Year's eve festival in 1996, they have spent the subsequent years rousing dance floor punters, generating rave reviews, winning awards and gaining thousands of fans across the world.

Hard to box into a single audio 'genre', Pitch Black is a combination of musical journeys. Their sound is distinctive; ranging from organic ambient beginnings and layered soundscapes to skanking keyboards, cutting acid riffs and thumping rhythmic grooves, with dub being the glue that holds their sound together. One critic has described them as like "Orbital meets King Tubby, or Rhythm and Sound in Technicolor".

It is their live show that really makes Pitch Black stand out from the rest of the crowd, both sonically and visually. Their tracks take on an added dynamism and their performances reveal the dialectic behind the band - Paddy wants to do it for the crowd, Michael wants to do it to the crowd. Visually they are in another dimension thanks to Michael's cutting edge visuals.

They have toured the world relentlessly, playing everywhere from Amsterdam to Zagreb and the streets of Las Vegas to the Australian outback, supporting acts such as Coldcut, Skream, Easy Dub All Stars and System 7 along the way.

YOUTHIE

Juliette commence la trompette à 6 ans. Elle entre au conservatoire de Paris à 17 ans, où elle passe ses diplômes classiques. Elle suit également une formation de jazz, et des cours d’improvisation avec Ibrahim Maalouf. Elle enseigne actuellement la trompette aux conservatoires du 13e et 17e arrondissements de Paris et à Saint-Denis.

Elle joue depuis 8 ans dans Natty Princess, groupe de reggae féminin qui s’est produit sur une centaine de dates. En 2015, elle fait la première partie des Gladiators avec le groupe Roots Connection.

Depuis trois ans, elle compose et enregistre pour de nombreux labels de dub en france et en europe, et ses morceaux sont régulièrement joués en dub sessions.

Elle a sorti son premier ablum solo « Silver Wind » en Juillet 2018 chez Zulu Vibes et travaille actuellement sur son nouvel album 12 titres « Nomad Skank » qui sortira en 2019 en auto-production. Inspirée par les musiques du monde, elle mêle le reggae à différentes influences, notamment balkaniques et orientales.

Également passionnée par la musique électronique, elle mix et collabore avec des dj de musique ambient et chill out, et y ajoute sa touche musicales.

SPARKY RIOT

Born at the end of the year 2012 between the vocalist Daman and the producer 4bstr4ck3r, the Sparky Riot project is built around their common love for the Dub music and in extension of their past collaborations. More recently, Adi, who's playing clarinet, keyboard, and much more, has joined the band.

Blending influences such as early dancehall, dubstep, or even traditional musics, the trio overshoots the genres in order to push back the limits of the digital music, often consensual or in lack of originality. Combining libertarian lyrics and sparky vibes, new and old, they are aiming to make you dance, with a smile on your face and a bright consciousness in your mind.

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Sound Strider produces a unique brand of haute sonique from only the finest waveforms hand picked from the data forests, lovingly blended with precision and flair. From organic analog body grinders to intricate digital brain busters his spectral alchemy conjures up outlandish aural landscapes laced with hypnotic polyrhythms. Psychedelic ethno-trigga funk for the information generation.

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