Instinctive journeys along the paths of Turntables & Rhythm with Kristian Hernandez & MC Shureshock.

Turntables and Rhythm 20
By DJ Kristian Hernandez and MC Shureshock

Kris and Cam met over 20 years ago in the Brisbane music scene when kris was doing a weekly radio program called Blackbeat and learning to be a turntable-ist soon to win the DMC’s and cam was mc’ing raves and beginning his crossover into the Live music scene with his band Zephyr Timbre.

When Kris came on board with ZT to work as the resident selector and scratch DJ the two grew to know each other and appreciate each others musical wealth and skill.

Cam was moved by Kristians love for soul and all things smooth and Kris appreciated cam’s style of MC’ing leaning toward the UK and Jamaican roots rather than the US hip hop.

The two would get a chance to work together on night’s like “UP Tempo” and “Fresh n Funky” for where a shared love of 2 step and garage would see the duo freestyle flavor into the early naughties.

They reconnected after Kris relocated to the Phillipines at the Malasimbo festival and performed some DnB and mash up sets for the festival.

This mix is a reflection of the recent times during lockdown from the worldwide Coronavirus with an overtone of surrender, humility and understated beauty ! A celebration of the soul in liquid Drum n Bass marking Kristians debut liquid mix and featuring fresh lyrics from cam commenting on the current pandemic and from his new outfit “Tha Fun Police” as well as soulful toasting and lacing the mix with his unique flavour.

Designed to Train to, chill to, make love too or just sooth the soul.

Enjoy the mix, soundtrack to surrender.

Contact:
KRISTIAN HERNANDEZ 
kristian@heavyboogie.com
IG: @heavyhernandez

MC Shureshock
mcshureshock@gmail.com
IG: @mcshureshock

Turntables & Rhythm - DJ Kristian Hernandez & MC Shureshock

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To all who know just how good it feels to surrender body, mind and soul entirely to a beat. Where what matters isn't where you are but where the music takes you and how it makes you groove. How it reminds you that nothing else can matter more than the moment right here, right now, simply because it feels right. This is for the ones who aren't afraid to let it all go on the dance floor and for you who define this "dance floor" simply and as the ground beneath your feet. 
A space in time where you are urged to indulge in being entirely yourself. This is Heavy Boogie. Go on, put your weight on it.

KRISTIAN HERNANDEZ
DJ, turntablist, producer, musician and visual designer, Kristian Hernandez has rocked dance floors across the globe from Sydney to Paris, London to New York, Barcelona to Tokyo and everywhere in between. Equally at ease playing for small crowds in underground circuits as in amphitheatres filled with tens of thousands of people, one thing stands true: he knows just how to make a body move.

Incessant travels and immersion into diverse cultures both practically and musically has refined Krisitan's understanding of the inherent language of the beat: that it is universal and that it runs deep into the human psyche. It is no surprise then that his musical tastes span a multitude of genres and forms where he has parlayed his early education in latin rhythms, jazz subdivisions, funk meters, soul melodies and hip-hop culture into fluency with more expansive sounds such as the beats of house, the etherealness of world music, the excess of breaks, the irregular meters of jazz, the heat of latin grooves and the surge of drum n' bass.

Kristian possesses the uncanny ability to stir up a dance floor regardless of the setting and has moved audiences along with acts like Basement Jaxx, De La Soul, DJ Craze, LTJ Bukem, Felix Da House Cat, DJ Jazzy Jeff, The Black Eyed Peas, Carl Cox, Gang Starr, Mark Rae, Miguel Migs, Mix Master Mike, Moby, Norman Jay, Public Enemy, Roger Sanchez, Jojoflores and many others. He first gained notice as a gifted turntablist when he won the Australian Qld. DMC Championships in 1999 and 2000. Soon after, he set dance floors and air waves alight as the host of Australia's longest running Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk and R&B radio show called ‘Blackbeat’Apart from his world tours as a DJ, he has lent his talents to bands like the legendary Australian act Regurgitator, the jazz/funk/fusion band Zephyr Timbre and the electronic Soma Rasa. Has been the Maestro at world rewound clubs such as Cielo in New York, Loft in Sydney, The End in London just to name a few

Currently based in Asia, Kristian has fostered the first and only club night in Manila, Philippines that is dedicated to the dancer where world-renowned dance crews come out to play. All styles are represented and free form is more than encouraged. It doesn't matter if you're a pro— the deranged monkey dance is just as revered as Breakdance, House, Afro, Broken, Latin, Hip Hop, Funk, Jazz, and the likes. Kristian also endorses ‘gotsoul’, working hand-in-hand with long-time friend Jojoflores.

Although it is easy in this day and age to lay claim to the art of being a global nomad, few can truly embody this post-modern sensibility. Calling the world his playground, Kristian is the product of a distinct combination of ethnicity's and exotic locales. His Asian and European heritage, Australian upbringing and lifelong experience of travelling and performing his music has created a unique individual whose resume and musical influences transcend longitudes, latitudes and attitudes. You never know where you may find him next but it is certain that wherever he is, people will be dancing.

In Australia’s mainstream music business, the name MC Shureshock is a familiar one. Within the country’s thriving dance music scene, Shureshock’s reputation is legendary.
 
The performer (real name Cameron James Brown) is a heavyweight of the dance culture, a triple-threat comprising talent, versatility and durability. Shureshock has crashed the national sales charts and entertained hundreds and thousands of fans at home and abroad. 
 
It's no surprise that the plaudits have come hard and fast over a stellar career, during which time Shureshock has joined forces with many of the globe's finest DJs, from Carl Cox to Goldie. And this year is proving to be another frenetic one for the artist, who is striding towards the next phase of his recording career.
 
Originally from Brisbane, Shureshock honed his mic talents on the city's vibrant rave circuit in the early part of the 1990s, initially performing under the moniker MC NO3.
 
His skills matured and evolved. By decade's end, the artist was tuning into the emerging underground breakbeat sound stemming from the U.K., a fresh style which fused hip-hop party jams and electro synth lines with rumbling basslines. It proved the perfect platform to suit the performer's vocal range, who by this stage had emerged as Shureshock.
 
The emcee spread his creative wings to form Zephyr Timbre, a local five-piece outfit that quickly built a national reputation with its blend of tight rhythms, sultry vocals and party-rocking percussion. Darlings of the Triple J radio network, Zephyr Timbre secured spots on the Big Day Out lineup and supported Jamiroquai on the U.K.outfit's 2002 Australian tour, a trek which saw Shureshock perform in the prestigious Sydney Opera House and on the stage of Melbourne’s imposing Rod Laver Arena.
 
Breakbeat would re-assert itself as Shureshock's central musical focus. At the turn of the decade, he met with collaborator Kid Kenobi (Jesse Desenberg) who later was voted Australia's No. 1 DJ in the Technics InTheMix Top 50 for three straight years.
 
By the middle of the 2000s, MC Shureshock and Kid Kenobi were recognized as Australia's premier MC-DJ tandems, having completed sell-out tours of the U.K., U.S.,Canada, Brazil, China, Switzerland, New Zealand and Singapore. Closer to home, the Shureshock-Kenobi tandem has been a regular fixture on the Australian festivals circuit, playing the Big Day Out, Park Life, Field Day, Good Vibrations and many more. It’s an enduring partnership which in 2010 celebrates 10 years in the game.
 
Shureshock has taken his vocal skills to the studio and into the charts on a raft of Ministry of Sound compilations, including the popular "Clubber's Guide to Breaks" series and the "Kid Kenobi Sessions" and, more recently, mc'ing on the first-release compilation via Kid Kenobi's new label Klub Kid's. Shureshock holds the remarkable honour of being the only MC to lend vocals to a globally-released Ministry of Sound compilation.
 
Now based in Sydney, Shureshock is very much an in-demand vocalist and performer in the international dance music community. The likes of Fatboy Slim, Stanton Warriors, Krafty Kuts, Goldie, Andy C, Freq Nasty, The Crystal Method, Sub Focus, and DJ Q-Bert have all worked with Shureshock, as have Australian artists Bexta, DJ El Hornet from Pendulum, Greg Packer, Q45, Will Styles, The Humpday Project , James Taylor and The Vinyl Slingers.
 
With a debut solo album in the works, Shureshock has spent much of 2010 locked away in the recording studio. Coming up is a solo single "You're the One" on Funktrust record label. And there’s a string of collaborative tracks on the slate, including remixes with Will Styles, The Humpday Project, Greg Packer and DJ Mark Walton. Shureshock's first solo E.P "The Shureshock Project" sees him team with Danny Rhodes and Greg Packer to deliver a drum ‘n’ bass series of EPs, to be released on Interphase from July 2010. Shureshock's vocals will also feature in "Mighty Dub," a new single from Kid Kenobi's 2010 solo EP, while a venture with Japan-based producer and DJ Jaxx Da Fishworks will yield the track "Fat Tiger," due in 2010 through Sushi Records. U.K. audiences will sample the Shureshock-fronted recording "Do it Right Now," lifted from British producer Pimpsoul’s July 2010 debut through Bombstrikes. And Shureshock will guest on Aussie DJ/producer Cutloose's debut album "Raspoww," released through San Francisco-based D-Fault Records.
 
“I’m really focusing on building a body of work,” explains Shureshock. “It’s all about creating music which reflects my passions, as opposed to reverse-engineering tracks for clubland. And I’m doing it all with the producers and musicians that I really respect. There’s a lot of love inside the camp, and the results I’m getting are pretty exciting.”
  
In a nod to his versatility, Shureshock has jumped off the stage and in front of the camera for www.unseentv.com.au, hosting spots and interviewing artists behind the scenes at the DMC Championships and at various Australian dance music fests.
 
Away from the spotlight’s glare, Shureshock devotes much of his time to community endeavours. During 2010, Shureshock has played a mentoring role for the teenage youth music projects through Sydney’s Milson Point Community Centre. And later in the year, he will impart his know-how to the next generation when the "MC Shureshock" Personal Tutoring program launches through The Ableton Live School.
 
Shureshock’s busy itinerary has taken the star to indigenous communities in Far North Queensland, where he contributed to a project that aims to preserve ancient languages and dialects threatened with extinction through the use of music and dance.
 
“That has been part of my vision for twelve years,” notes Shureshock. “As much as it is for helping other people, exploring that side has enabled me to relate with a dance-floor of different cultures and worlds, people I hadn’t met and wouldn’t have had the chance to meet.”
 
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I was born in Aktau, the former Kazakh SSR, when I was three years old and moved to Moscow. As I remember, music has always accompanied me on my life path. When i was 13 years old my older brother introduced me to quality Trance, House and, of course, drumnbass, very early. Since then, music has won my heart forever.I went to a lot of parties, listened to a ton of everything. I'm a music lover and I listen to a lot of different music every day in my mood. My first experience of making music was in the late nineties in the era of Dance Mashine.

I never know what happens when I sit down to create. It's always a new Journey into the unknown. But I know for a fact that it will be the best emotions and experiences of our world.
For me in the first place music is the charming atmosphere, melody and harmony. Music is designed to carry Light. 

My philosophy is simple - to do what the inner best Self requires. This is our Flow, from where I get my musical ideas and me.

Real Music is designed to leave a trace in the soul. An indelible impression. Imprint. And my imprint - elements of house, funk and disco, rolling beats, soulful grooves and head nodding selections.

Music is my landmark, my resonance, my soul reflections. If our sensations are similar, come with me...

To be Imprinted