Great Expectations: Dawntreader

Meet Dawntreader. He's another Nottingham boy pushing the hybrid sounds of garage, dubstep and funky, along with friends Geiom, Littlefoot and Brackles. After becoming bored of the dubstep scene, they're forging a new sound and a new style.

He started off mixing hip-hop, before making the switch to drum & bass, then eventually finding a home in the dubstep scene, at a time when it was getting more and more popular, and he was a regular at Nottingham nights Wigflex and Futureproof, getting more and more immersed in the local scene. He draws a lot of inspiration from another local artist Geiom, who he was a 12" coming out with on Double Science Records.

We've managed to get Dawntreader to lay down an exclusive mix for Disrupt:on Inc., which you can grab below, and make sure you go show him some love on Myspace.

Tracklist:

Procedure – Sunshowers

Hackman - Bodies

Geiom Feat. Marita – Sugar Coated Lover (forthcoming Berkane Sol)

Geiom & Spam Chop – Blukup (unreleased)

DVA – Natty (Hyperdub)

Brackles – 6AMELGORDOS (forthcoming Brainmath)

Royal T – 1 UP (Martin Kemp Remix) (No Hats No Hoods)

Kingdom feat. Shyvonne- Mindreader (L-Vis 1990 Remix)(Fools Gold)

Pangaea – Neurons (Hessle Audio)

Sully – The Loot Remix (Keysound Recordings )

Skream – Minimalistix (Non Plus)

Mosca – Square One (Night Slugs)

James Foxx – Put it Back (Ramadanman remix) (Take recs.)

Download the mix HERE

Gigs:

Flight Club w. Geiom - Nottingham - 12th February

AkaAkaRoar w. Whistla- Brighton - 15th February

Girls Go Free w. Scuba & Spam Chop - Nottingham - 19th February

Girls Go Free w. Hot City - Nottinghma - 26th February

Catch Dawntreader & Littlefoot on Sub.FM every Saturday 9-11

Dawntreader myspace

GREAT EXPECTATIONS: TRU:TEK

Tru:Tek is a new dubstep outfit formed by producers/DJs Rutile, Panza and Senate. Meeting over 8 years ago, Panza and Rutile became close friends through their diverse love of music, and it was this diversity that has ended up forging the styles they drop today.

With early interests ranging from funk and reggae to hardcore metal, to the eclectic idm of aphex and barry lynn, the founding members (Rutile and Panza) found a common ground in the futuristic sound of drum and bass from the first few years of this decade, with their early productions focused on a mixture of dubwize and techstep styles, with labels such as Bassbin, Soul-r, Subtitles and Vision being heavy influences.

Cue Senate (Panza's brother), who was big into the UKG scene at the time, moving onto Grime and finally settling in the emerging dubstep scene, his main influences were in the dubbier side of the genre, including El-b, Mala, Loefah, Burial, Tectonic, Apple Pips and Hyper Dub. It was his influence that coerced Rutile and Panza’s expansion into dupstep. Senate plays regularly in Nottingham at events including Detonate and Basslaced and has held recent dubstep gigs in Europe including Star Wars in Belgium.

Over the past year Senate has tried his hand at production, working on tracks such as Truth Vibrations, Positive Vibes and Anansi with Rutile and Panza. With a number of solid tracks behind them and many more in the pipeline, Tru:Tek have now decided its time to take their music to the people... about f**king time!!!

The boys have sent us a few tunes so make sure you grab them below. They are on a similar tip to Kryptic Minds so check 'em out:

Tru:Tek - The Origins Of Consciousness

Tru:Tek - Truth Vibrations

Tru:Tek myspace