Bass from everywhere. Cofounder of of SubVersion (PHL), of HEAVY (NYC), member of Dutty Artz (NYC), cofounder of Surya Dub (SF) and her take: genre smashing heavy sounds:  a junglist approach taking on everything from jungle and dancehall,  kuduro and baile funk, footwork and breakcore, afrobeats and soca, champeta and cumbia, gqom and dub, grime and garage rubbing up against booty bass and jersey club. You won't know what's coming but you will feel it when it hits!
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Kid Kameleon is a Oakland-based performer pushing an eclectic mix of genre-defying bass music. 

He’s an electronic music veteran who’s been performing since 1997, recognized internationally as a tastemaker and energetic innovator with over 100 mixes to his name. He performs live with Ableton and APC40 – cutting and layering loops at lightning speed, blurring the line between a live and DJ’d set. His signature “future bass” sound is filled with tricked-out drums, head-nodding beats, heavy bass, and full spectrum synths that tug at your heartstrings. His style hits the sweet spot between dance floor madness and headphone listening. As a world-renown music journalist and performing DJ, he’s on a mission to expose international listeners to fresh new sounds from rising artists.

Drawing sonic connections and blending styles is part of the Kid’s DNA – that’s why “Kameleon” fits him perfectly. His current sound is a mixture of glitched-out and cutup instrumental hip-hop, slow/fast drum and bass, intricate post-dubstep, global beats like digital kudoro, footwork, trap, dub, and even the broken end of garage and techno. He’s always on the lookout for tunes from unexpected places – like “Pixelhouse” from the far corners of Japan, club tracks from Africa or “VHSwave” from the heartland of America. A sense of humor and theatrical spirit are big parts his live shows – they give him a unique ability to connect to his fans. Kid Kameleon is a reminder to the universe that no one can connect to a dance-floor crowd like a great DJ.

A born traveler who's been touring internationally since 2002, he first planted roots in ‘90s New York City warehouse culture with DJ Spooky and the Soundlab crew. Together they explored a fusion of underground hip-hop, jungle, techno and dancehall. Next he spent 9 years contributing to the vibrant San Francisco scene, throwing genre-bending events of future beats, downtempo, dubstep and global bass with his crews Surya Dub, False Profit, and The Den SF. In total he’s played in over 25 countries and with 1000s of artists – a tiny slice include Mala, Porier, Starkey, Richie Divine, Dizzee Rascal, Squarepusher, Machinedrum, Kode9, Pole, Bassnectar, The Glitch Mob, Tycho, Flako, Robot Koch and even Coxon Dodd.

Kid Kameleon’s mixes have been going “viral” since before YouTube existed. People still point to 2004’s Absolutely Shocking and Even More Shocking as an important moment in eclectic bass music culture, on par with mixes by Coldcut, dj/rupture and The Gaslamp Killer. Featured on Kid606’s Shockout label, they were praised by influential music writer Simon Reynolds, who went on to interview the Kid about technology in DJ culture for his seminal book Energy Flash. Career highlights include the 2nd ever XLR8R Podcast, a unique mix of “discarded loops” for Electronic Explorations (Rob Booth lists Kid Kameleon as a major influence), a guest spot for Tom Ravenscroft on the BBC, the raucous Must Love Loops on Cock Rock Disco, and dozens of others for Percussion Lab, Mashit, Modyfier, Spannered, Dublab, Memekast and more. Kid Kameleon has also been a music journalist for the past decade, writing under his given name Matt Earp. Often “calling” groundbreaking performers years before they become international stars, he’s interviewed 100s of artists including The Bug, James Blake, Flying Lotus and Mary Anne Hobbs. He spent 6 years as a staff writer at XLR8R in the 2nd half of the ‘00s and wrote the world’s first column dedicated to bass music (‘Basic Needs’). He currently writes for Create Digital Music and Vice’s Thump.

Kid Kameleon moved to Berlin in 2013 to further explore his “future bass” sound and connect with boundary-pushing artists and shows in Europe. After 3 years, he returned to Oakland in the Spring of 2016.

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Welcome to APP, "the one-man-label", home for the many monikers and productions of Silviu Costinescu, best known as Alien Pimp in the music world. International creative powerhouse, active in most things art / media , particularly known as a Bass Music OG, founder of DubKraft Records and several other labels, creator of the seminal album series "Eastern Sound Architects" and "Cinematic Dubstep / D&B / Bass Music", artist, DJ, producer, writer, videographer, jack of all trades in arts and media.  	

For bookings / rmxs / videos / other inquiries: alienpimp2003 at yahoo dot com

At the age of 7, Silviu Costinescu, the real name behind Alien Pimp and SubJazz, was living in the slums of Bucharest, Romania, playing football during the day and reading Jules Verne during the night.
At the age of 14, he was still living in the slums, but having his own show of alternative music on one of the first private radio stations in Bucharest, Radio Nova 22.
At the age of 20, he was awarded First Prize @ Assos Music New Talent Festival and started to get wide recognition as a local producer and performer.
At the age of 27. New York Times was seeing him as one of the main figures of the new Romanian music scene, had his face shown on CNN for pioneering Internet as a medium for artistic collaborations, he was long after 100 stage performances. He was also writing for several magazines and newspapers, most notably the Romanian Playboy and Popcorn. Also did a crazy Tarantinesque photo-shooting for FHM as a fashion model.
At the age of 35 he was a prominent name in the trenches of bass music in Barcelona, Spain, as a DJ, producer and promoter, after having toured half Europe.
Nowadays, in his early 40's, he started to discover Africa, taking a temporary break from the stages, but very active in the studio and on Internet, involved in many music projects, running a few record labels, managing bands and directing music videos.

Media: BBC, MIxmag, MTV, CNN, New York Times, Knowledge Mag, Ministry of Sound, Ibiza Global Radio, Bravo, Popcorn, AtomicTV, SubFM, Resident Mag, DubstepFM, KaneFM, Radio Free Europe, InMadrid, Radio France International, and 100+ more radio stations and magazines.

Clubs played: Flex (Vienna), Razzmatazz (Barcelona), BeCool (Barcelona), Studio Martin (Bucharest), Twist Club (Madrid), BlackBox (Sofia), Fabrica (Bucharest) and 100+ more locations and festivals

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