Skank is the rock in my step
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world : alxquentin@gmail.com

Earl Gateshead began DJing in 1979 when he played Reggae records between punk bands in Brixton......... Today Earl tours the world, always playing original, first press, vinyl, which he maintains has the best sound. He spreads the original positive message of love, from Jamaica’s golden era of Reggae music. Earl has a unique voice on the microphone, his 'Yeah Yeah" Catchphrase has spread right through Reggae music.

Earl's career began in the late 70s, when he built his own Sound System, one of the first built by a European, and installed it at the world famous Dive Bar, in Soho, London, where he established a respected reputation throughout the U.K. Earl had a 23 year residency at The Dive Bar, sadly brought to an end in 2002 when the venue was closed, after the lease ran out. Throughout the later part of his Dive Bar years Earl became the Saturday night resident at clubs such as the internationally acclaimed Blue Note and later Fabric, where he became their resident Roots Reggae specialist.

In 2000 Earl began to organise and perform at a series of events called “Reggae Nights” at seminal London club "Plastic People." This legendary series of concerts received world wide attention, with performances from international legends such as; Alton Ellis, Dennis Alcapone, Sugar Minott, Cutty Ranks, Adrian Sherwood and Saxon Sound System. This run of great success gave Earl a huge boost in profile, leading him to be one of the most sought after DJs in the world. In high demand from international Reggae artists. He went on to tour Europe and Australasia with Big Youth, Dr Alimantado and Cutty Ranks amongst others.

Earl was the first Reggae DJ to play at Fabric, The Ministry Of Sound and Space in Ibiza. Probably the world's three greatest nightclubs.

World renowned graffiti artist Banksy asked Earl to D.J at the first three exhibitions of his work. Earl is still the only D.J that Banksy has ever worked with.

With such a distinguished career and fantastic attitude, Earl has become a figurehead in UK Reggae. He was invited to lecture at the prestigious Red Bull Music Academy in Sao Paulo. Earl gave a comprehensive lecture on Reggae DJing and recorded a radio show for Red Bull....... In April this year Red Bull invited Earl to play with Red Bull Culture Clash winners Rebel Sound on the London leg of their U.K tour.


GIDEÖN
HOMO-CENTRIC RECORDS / NYC DOWNLOW / ADONIS / R3 SOUNDSYSTEM / BLOCK9

GIDEÖN has a background in music spanning 33 years. In addition to his studio practice as a recording artist, his work as a creative director, stage designer and curator, he is also a touring DJ and an avid collector of vinyl. Since his first set of turntables in 1990, GIDEÖN has devoted his life to collecting vinyl from the US, Jamaica, Latin America, Africa, and the UK. He specialises in Northern Soul, Latin, Reggae, Gospel, and Disco rarities. House Music, above all else, is his first and greatest love. 

He is currently Creative Director of a new opera being developed in partnership with English National Opera. He has a degree in Music with Visual Practice (BA Hons) and was guest Creative Director of Music for London Borough of Culture 2022. Recent projects have seen Gideon head up Creative Direction for Dua Lipa’s record breaking Studio 2054, winning the MVA’s Music Video of The Year award. He was production designer for lead artists at Live at Worthy Farm, Glastonbury’s virtual festival livestream. 

As a curator, he programmed two events for Chaka Khan’s Meltdown Festival in summer 2024 and is currently Head of Music at The Roof Gardens in London. Other projects include work with Anohni, Banksy, Imperial War Museum, Finnish Opera House, Hercules & Love Affair, Lana Del Ray, Skrillex, Brian Eno, Roisin Murphey, The Blessed Madonna, Honey Dijon, and Jorja Smith.

GIDEÖN co-founded, co-directs and curates Block9’s festival nightlife institutions The NYC Downlow, Genosys, Maceo’s and IICON at Glastonbury Festival. He is also resident and co-booker at London’s hottest queer club night Adonis. As a radio DJ, GIDEÖN has been actively involved in broadcasting for over three decades. Since cutting his teeth on London’s pirate stations in the late nineties, he hosted a weekly show on London’s Soho Radio for 3 years. Recent guest appearances include New York’s Beats In Space, London’s Rinse FM, NTS Radio and BBC 6 Music. He recently held a residency at BBC Radio 1.

GIDEÖN has been involved in political activism his entire life and is now increasingly focussed on organising hybrid cultural-political events partnering music and protest, often under the banner of R3 Soundsystem. Together with charities Love Music Hate Racism & Stand Up To Racism, GIDEÖN has organised major sound system interventions on many of the Stop Brexit and Stop Trump and Anti-Fascism protests. He is actively involved with fundraising for several LGBTQ+, human rights and social justice organisations including AllOut, Medical Aid For Palestinians, Prepster, Human Dignity Trust and Refugee Community Kitchen. GIDEÖN sits on the advisory committee for The Right to Dance, part of War Child’s NGO Network.

R3 Soundsystem is a consortium of DJs, musicians, producers, record labels, festivals, nightclubs, sound systems, activists, and cultural organisations, all united by love of music and the rejection of right-wing nationalist values. R3’s three Rs stand for RESIST/REJECT/REVOLT.

GIDEÖN’s House Music label HOMO-CENTRIC RECORDS launched to showcase both his solo productions and collaborations with close queer comrades. The label focusses on the LGBTQ+ heritage of House and attempts to pay homage to its lost heroes. Its manifesto states the intent to re-establish the lines of queer musical tradition at the heart of House, lost to AIDS and the capitalist desecration of dance music itself.

Booking / Contact:  carleskarlix@gmail.com

Karlixx is a recognised dj/producer from the spanish jungle scene. In 2004, he started to play his first reggae and drum’n’bass sets to audiences. He focused his sets on an innovative mixture of dubwise and neurofunk creating a fresh new style.
Since then he´s continued to delight crowds with sets full of double drops, original mashups and a technique honed through his years of playing and his passion for music.
Over the years Karlixx has released a large number of raggajungle , reggae and electronic sets with thousands of downolads , his famous sets and mixtapes have earned him respect from the music scene. His mixtape “ It’s a Reggae Morning” was selected by industry recognised website ´Reggae. es´webmembers as the best reggae mixtape of the year 2014.
After more than ten years smashing dancefloors in Spain he decided to make the leap into producing music in the studio in a totally self taught way. Releasing his first tunes through the mexican label Low Freq as well as free downloads, and collaborations with friends, artists and new talents.
The essence of his production fuses electronic beats with caribbean influences like dub, dubwise, and dancehall plus hip-hop, with the heavy bass of jungle, tunes range from 140bpm to 175bpm.
Collaborations and fresh vocals feature highly. As he started to collaborate with more renowned and international producers Karlixx and friends created a new label.
In 2016 the spanish reggae and jungle label South Yard was launched , creating a new platform to release their own music.
During this period his gigs have evolved from the darkest sounds to the pure jamacian and caribbean sounds, loads of his own and his friends dubplates and productions have created good vibes on the dancefloor He has been resident for two years at The Bus sessions, Razzmatazz Club and the mighty Canibal Sound System sessions in Sala Apolo, in Barcelona, his hometown. Without any doubt Karlixx is one of the “numbah one” djs in the drum’n’bass and jungle scene in Spain.
His sets are a blast for the ears from the first beat to the last , always loaded with dancing riddims. There is little more to be said about this junglist who has played with the best, and in the best clubs and festivals all around Spain.



Introducing Cassandra London.  A fast rising singer/songwriter currently based in the UK whose passion for music has now rightfully fruited into a budding career.  Within months of making appearances at some of London's top venues for unsigned artists in 2013, Cassandra landed the opportunity to perform at the world famous Jazz Cafe in London.  Her emotional and intense performance gained the attention of Roots FM’s Dj Gussy Roots.  This meeting would prove fruitful, with Gussy playing a key role in getting Cassandra’s voice heard for the first time over the airwaves.  Since then she has released multiple songs, many of which were released on her debut  EP 'Too Blessed,’ launched on the 28th August 2014 at Brixtons’ Hootananny.  Tracks from this great debut were produced by Stingray Records, Senator B of Vibes FM and other UK based labels.  The work with Senator B has produced probably her most known track to date, "Just Cool” which has already been covered by others, and is only testament to her great writing capabilities. 
She has performed at many different venues and events, from Notting Hill Carnival, the Mayfair Hotel, plus numerous concerts and festivals.  Having created a large buzz for herself, some of Cassandra's first bookings were as a support artist for legends such as for Sanchez, Etana, Sandra Cross, Susan Cadogan, Winston Reedy, Carroll Thompson, Dennis Bovell, Sylvia Tella and Dawn Penn to name a few.  After travelling up and down the country now being booked to headline her own shows, she was billed in 2015 for the annual Giants of Lovers Rock show, where she wooed the crowd in the arena alongside Jamaican and UK heavyweights of reggae.  
                                                                                           Cassandra, quickly being recognised as a serious figure in the industry, landed the opportunity to work with  UK veteran Lloyd Brown, where she penned the track "Here With Me”, produced and released last year by Carlton ‘Bubblers’ Ogilvie (Ruff Cut Band) on his own Nu-Edge record label.  
                                                                                                                                She also has featured on house tracks with London based duo Ed Case & Dan Genal (State Unknown), with tracks "Need 2 Know" , "Giving Out Your Love" & "Fantasy Of Love" getting airplay on mainstream radio.  She has also collaborated on a song entitled "Taking You Down" with production team Flawless Order.  This particular song was used as the entrance anthem by boxer Mitchell Smith, who won a European title which was aired on Sky's Boxnation.       
           Cassandra London is just 3 years into her career and is currently working with Ten Mile Media. Currently being produced by Prince Malachi, the single, "Magic Touch,” a cover of the Rose Royce classic hit, is the first single from her debut abum aptly titled ”First Steps,” which will be released in the oncoming months. The song, distributed globally by Zojak Worldwide, is becoming hugely popular, garnering maximum airplay and support from community and internet radio stations alike, and also resounding with her now growing legion of fans and admirers. 
                                                                                                                                                                             Cassandra London has her sights set high and is now well on her way to achieving her life long dream of becoming a successful performing artist. The best is yet to come. Watch this space……

BASSFoundation is a crew originally formed in New Delhi, playing and promoting drum & bass, dubstep and reggae-dancehall in India and abroad. The collective consists of deejays Big Daddy Klein and Praxis, with Delhi Sultanate on the mic.

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Formed back in early 2009, BASSFoundation were one of the first crews to promote drum & bass and dubstep in India, and the first ever regular night to hit New Delhi. Almost four years on and the scene is thriving, with a range of home-grown producers and DJs, and underground and established names from all over the world regularly touring the country.

BASSFoundation’s combination of the traditional reggae sound system format with newer electronic genres has drawn a large, dedicated following at their own jam-packed monthly nights in Delhi, as
well as numerous gigs across the country and further afield. Musically they rep a broad spectrum of drum & bass, from melodic soulful flavours and reggae-tinged sounds to deeper rollers, as well
as mixing things up with jungle, dubstep and dancehall. BASSFoundation’s ever-growing box of dubplates features specials by leading recording artists from Jamaica and the rest of the world.
Delhi Sultanate – with his background as a dancehall MC – provides unique and uncompromising, politically-conscious lyrics, reflecting the fiercely non-commercialist ethos of the crew. They have played to capacity crowds at almost all of the major venues in India, as well as being regulars at the Sunburn, Holi Cow and NH7 festivals.

In 2012 they were invited to play at Outlook Festival in Croatia - Europe's largest and most respected bass music and sound system culture festival, featuring the biggest artists in world. BASSFoundation were also asked to host the official Delhi Outlook Launch Party, which featured D&B legend Alix Perez, as one of three ground-breaking events across India (co-organised by Krunk).

Promoting underground music further, BASSFoundation regularly host some of the scene’s best names from India and abroad. Guest artists have included: Ant TC1 (Dispatch Recordings), Alix Perez (Shogun Audio), Nymfo (Critical), EBK (Renegade Hardware), Shiva Soundsystem, REDS, Klute
(Commercial Suicide), Kush Arora, Subatomic Sound System, Nucleya, B.R.E.E.D, Vachan Chinnappa,              Ska Vengers, Reggae Rajahs, Bay Beat Collective, Osmani Soundz (Anokha, Nasha Records), Sub Swara, and many more.

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