ART+BASS 2 : SALA exhibition & DJs on opening night : Fri 5th Aug, Duke of York

ART+BASS II
Opening night, Friday 5th August, 7pm
Upstairs bar, Duke of York Hotel, Currie St

It’s back!
Dubstep/D&B/Bass DJs Desh (Ben Keynes), Jayar (Julian Rutt) & (Stuntman) Jesse Schuppan are joined by Vilen (Scott Hastings) & Troub9l on the decks in Art + Bass II for the 2011 SALA Festival. Photography, illustration & drawing to live DJing across the bass music spectrum on opening night.

http://salafestival.com/Details.aspx?showid=854

Long standing Adelaide dubstep & drum&bass DJs who are at home expressing themselves graphically and behind the decks… This exhibition sees them come together to showcase more of their art works to a soundtrack of dubstep, drum&bass, breaks, hiphop and whatever else they feel like playing on the opening night. Friday night, 5th August from 7pm, free entry till 10pm (after that a venue cover charge may apply). Exhibition runs daily until August 28th, upstairs bar, Duke of York hotel, Currie Street, City.


Jayar aka Julian Rutt took up mixing D&B while living in the UK late last century, and soon began playing regularly in Adelaide and supporting some of the biggest names in that scene including Pendulum, LTJ Bukem, Marky & Fabio. By 2006, dubstep took his interest and Jayar began to push the sound locally and began the promoter crew/collective The Redline Dubstars for the very first local all-dubstep show featuring the (at the time) relatively unknown Benga, and has since been involved in putting on & supporting some of the biggest names in the scene including Caspa, N-Type, Doctor P, Borgore, Seven, Truth, Tes La Rok, Reso, Noah D, Trolley Snatcha, Plastician, Addison Groove, Crissy Criss, Kito, Oneman, DZ, Chasing Shadows & SPL and began Adelaide’s dubstep radio show “The Bassbin” on Fresh FM in early 2008 with Skippy and then Desh, and has had his mixes played on Triple J’s ‘The Club’ three times. A keen drawer and photographer since film days, Julian’s work currently focuses predominantly on the nude female form, taking friends & regular everyday people as models and attempts to show them in differing themes or capture a part of who they are in an unusually public context.

Originally from the Barossa Valley, Desh aka Benjamin Keynes moved to Adelaide to study illustration at uni and has quickly become a prominent figure in the local dubstep scene under his DJ moniker, Desh. Part of the Redline Dubstars crew, Benjamin has helped to promote and play at some key dubstep events over the last few years, including N-Type, Reso, Seven, Truth, Kito , Doctor P, & Addison Groove on top of a slew of local shows including 10 Buck Bass, 5 families and Boombox. He can be heard across the local airwaves co-hosting the weekly dubstep radio show "The Bassbin" alongside Jayar on Fresh FM 10pm-12pm Thursdays, and weekly soundpond.net broadcast "The Left Hook". Currently studying Illustration and Graphic Design at uni, Benjamin has been drawing since he could hold a pencil. Whilst constantly refining his style, his personal aesthetic is at equal parts dark, futuristic, introspective and stylistic, a clear reflection of the music that he loves and is so heavily involved in, and has started dabbling in animation.

Stuntman aka Strife aka Jesse Schuppan: Using pencil and charcoal his art tends to focus on the human form on a more abstract view, creating expression from almost expressionless forms. Strife has also been a long time D&B DJ and mixing dubstep since early when it appeared in Adelaide and co-hosting “The Left Hook” with Desh on Soundpond.net from 6-8pm.

Vilen aka Scott Hastings, a long standing local D&B DJ is TBC and we are hoping he is available to exhibit & DJ for ART + BASS II

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