Featuring my original 2Cap and my remix of Blind Prophet’s ‘Recollection’

Grab it @ JUNO

As most of you know, my first collaboration with Atlanta’s Distal, has been widely received in recent months, and even featured on the legendary Gilles Peterson’s “Worldwide” show on BBC Radio1!

Well, finally wait for it’s release is over!

Check out the XLR8R giveaway of Typewriter Tune also!!!

Reviews of the tune can be found @

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As alluded to in a previous post also, we got some love we got over at Kmag, declaring SFS003 as one of the “Essential Bass Music Releases of 2010″

Head on over to these fine retailers and grab your self the 12″ or a digital copy to satiate your craving. Ha!

JUNO // JUNO DOWNLOAD // BOOMKAT // REDEYE // CHEMICAL // iTUNES // BEATPORT

http://www.kmag.co.uk/editorial/blogs/dubstep/essential-10-bass-music-releases-jan-2011

“Distal & HxdB – Typewriter Tune / Mayhem & Distal – Frozen Barnacles (Surefire Sound – SFS003)
After a prolonged hiatus since the second release, the Surefire Sound imprint makes a welcome return with this EP, featuring three producers from across the pond. Typewriter Tune VIP exemplifies perfectly the anything goes attitude that is freeing up the new wave of bass music producers as we enter 2011. Taking the soca snare patterns associated with UK funky and tying them into the rapid-fire percussion of juke, the drums have an insistent shuffle, while the heavily warped synths and vocal chops provide an infectious off-kilter groove. Frozen Barnacles is driven by the swell of the filtered house chords, while the injection of horns recalls seminal early dubstep tunes. The digital also comes with the original version of Typewriter Tune.”

For all Vancouver heads, we are featuring our second return show at Goldies Rustic Pizzaria! We’ve brought our friend DISTAL from Atlanta…I myself will be warming things up then DJ CURE will bless the decks and the entire affair will be hosted by CHADIO.

Mr. Distal and myself have also been hard at work in the studio and have 2 very nice things to unleash on the world very soon…Stay tuned for that!

In the meantime go check out this video of DISTAL playing at Dub War in NYC to get a taste of what tonight will hold.

It was our great pleasure to have been chosen to represent Vancouver and the music that we so love for this article printed in Discorder Mag. Big up Dashiell for pulling it all together!

Original link to the article: http://discorder.ca/discorder-magazine/index.php/2009/10/31/cure-and-hexadecibel/#more-1095

Article text:

Cure & Hexadecibel

Big Bass Booming

By Dashiell Brasen

Cure & Hexadecibel – Art by Aisha Davidson

Local residents DJ Cure and Hexadecibel are helping take Canadian bass music to new heights. Together the two DJs have served up hysteria inducing dub tracks for the last year at Goldie’s Lounge, turning the basement of a Pender pizza joint into one of Vancouver’s (literally) hottest night spots.

Cure and Hexadecibel are not alone in popularizing the dubstep movement. With dubstep artists like Rusko remixing Katy Perry and Kanye West on big time indie electronica imprint Mad Decent and Chase & Status lending their “Eastern Jam” out to Snoop Dogg for “Snoop Dogg Millionaire” (which was coproduced by R&B and hip-hop mainstays Kurupt, Murs and John Legend, and features Slumdog Millionaire star Tanvi Shah), yesterday’s underground subgenres are crossing over into the main stream.

“I like to try and create music that can be felt, whether someone is on the dance floor or listening in headphones. I like to fuse traditional musical elements and instruments with futuristic sounds and palettes. I want to keep the listener interested. For this reason, I often try new techniques on different projects, just to keep things different,” he said, explaining his own style.

“When I DJ out, I go hard or go home. I like to play big tunes with lots of energy. I tend to touch down on all ends of the spectrum on my radio show on SUB FM. I’ll play anything from bangers to deep, techno influenced [music], to hip-hop-fused weirdness,” said Cure. Mirroring Cure’s experimental ear, his label Aufect’s releases are dark, techy, glitchy and unafraid of the 4/4. [ed. Ironically in dubstep the 4/4 time signature is considered experimental.]

While Aufect Recordings (www.aufect.com, www.myspace.com/aufectdigital) is showcasing the best the Canadian beat scene has to offer, Hexadecibel’s sets for Rob Booth’s Electronic Explorations podcast has attracted unprecedented attention for Canadian dubstep. Hexadecibel first recorded a collaborative set with Vancouver’s most prominent bass crew, Lighta Sound. Booth then selected him to mix one of his own. Both sets have been downloaded over 10,000 times.

“This podcast was very significant to me,” said Hexadecibel. “It gave me the opportunity to showcase some of my newest songs, demonstrate my mixing skills, and, most importantly, promote my current and future releases … [EDIT FOR POSTERITY] Once my release [Prism EP] on Mindset hits shelves, the snowball really gets rolling, as I have four more vinyl releases lined up over the next 12 months.” Prism is available on websites like Boomkat, Juno, Chemical and Redeye.

Back at home, energized by bass music’s constantly merging and shifting array of new styles, Cure envisions his label “mutating into an out of control beast,” housing a “sub-sub-genre not even invented yet.” With Aufect’s digital releases reaching the top 10 on electronic music website Juno’s online music downloads, it’s a good indicator that Cure’s mutations will be heard soon enough.

Cure owes Aufect’s early success to knowing some talented producers. DZ, who was featured in ATM Magazine’s “Leaders of the Nu Skool” article, and Loetech, of Bombaman and XI, put their faith in him and helped him get Aufect started. “Now I run the label myself … My girl does all the accounting and paper work, and my boy Nick Lazerface is A&R and is repping as a DJ in Montreal,” Cure said.

Cure brought his girlfriend from Ontario in 2007 with the express intention of starting a dubstep label in Vancouver. He describes the crowds here as “real music lovers,” who “just go off!” He feels the city can stake a claim as “one of the top three cities representing dubstep in North America, maybe even number one.”

Hexadecibel agreed, “People’s acceptance of the sound in general, and willingness to hear new music, [makes Vancouver’s dubstep scene unique and special] … The ‘heads’ in this city are well versed in electronic music … the local producers, DJs, promoters, etc. It seems like a very fertile place for creative people, and what’s better is that almost everybody involved in the scene here is cooperative and helpful.”

“I think dubstep is showing signs of going mainstream,” Cure added. “[But] I’ve never been happier with bass music as a whole.”

Hexadecibel followed up, saying: “It’s an exciting time right now, with bass music reaching around the globe and more and more talented people joining the ranks daily. I am truly amazed, literally every single day, with the level of creativity and talent I see from younger and younger producers, not to mention the old hats who have been at it in the music biz for years who are again hitting their stride with a renewed interest in music. I think dubstep is a conduit, a place where people from so many other disciplines are coming and bringing their experience to create something totally new and fresh.”

In the same vein, Hexadecibel has helped to revive the audience driven label Pressing Issues, to keep things different. Hexadecibel is one of the label’s committee heads, who are responsible for whittling down demos presented by their online community and presenting them to be voted on for potential pressing and releasing. The label has successfully released two 12-inch vinyls which are distributed by ST Holdings UK and is getting a third installment going.

“We will be creating an active poll for dubstep fans to vote on in mid-November, and the vinyl will likely hit shops in late December or early in the new year,” Hexadecibel added. “We’ve pre-signed our A-side for the album, [XI's 'Gravity']. ‘Tis a big tune.”

In the meantime, if you want to catch Cure, he’ll be at Goldie’s on Nov. 6.

“Goldie’s Fridays will be no longer be a crunked-out-thrust-womp-raver-bass party spot. Not to worry, though, the night will still be there. Just chilled out though with more of a house and two-step vibe,” he said. On Nov. 13 he’s opening up for the Dub Police label owner, Caspa. He’ll play Nov. 20 at the Suave Assassins One Year anniversary party, and on Nov. 27 at a venue that has yet to be announced, so keep your eyes peeled and ear to the ground. He also has a new residency, Whatever’s Dope Wednesday, every Wednesday in the backroom at Shine, hosted by Emotionz. Check out his radio show every Thursday 6 to 8 p.m. on SUB FM.

Hexadecibel regularly releases tracks on his website at http://soundcloud.com/hexadecibel.

keep your eyes peeled

This is the new online home and conduit for all things hexadecibel! I’ll be rolling more content out as the site comes along, approaching the official launch, soon! Watch for some freebies, and lots of fresh goodies…