This years Caversham Festival sees the addition of a new stage for Electronic Music lovers; The ‘Beats n Bass’ stage will feature a range of acts from Caversham, Reading and the surrounding areas playing sounds from across the electronic spectrum including House, Electro, Drum n Bass and Hip Hop.
Artists performing at Bass n Beats..
DUTTY MOONSHINE
Dutty Moonshine are a mash-up collective of DJ’s who lace bass heavy sets together with a vintage sound.
To call these guys Electro Swing is like trying to call Tiddlywinks a sport. They push the boundaries to controversy and really have one aim for sets: to create absolute mayhem through fun, baselines and antics to rival any cabaret.
They’re definitely DJ’s with a live act, confining them in a DJ booth will merely mean the booth will explode into unicorns and nobody will survive to tell the tale.
SWING MASH-UP / FESTIVAL BASS / PARTY ROCKERS
http://www.soundcloud.com/duttymoonshine
Twitter: @DuttyMoonshine
https://www.facebook.com/duttymoonshine/info
FREETHOS MUSIC
Freethos Music sets have a reputation for pushing bass heavy party music with energy, bounce and groove mixing up a heady brew of Electro, Techno, and Dub-fuelled Breaks.
2014 has been a boom year for the Freethos project performing at events such as Symmetry Festival, Thump, Imaginarium, Tunnel Crew and the legendary Planet Angel Parties in London as well as a string of productions due for release later in the year.
http://www.youtube.com/user/FREETHOS
Twitter @Freethos
www.Facebook.com/freethosmusic
HOLDIN COURT
Holdin’ Court are a collective of creative individuals who come together to put on Independent Hip-Hop, Funk and Soul events.
Currently they can be found running events in London & the South East alternately on a monthly rotation.
Holdin’ Court has been operating for just over 5 years on a non-profit basis and very much for the love of it.
As testament to our hard work, in late 2011 they were awarded a slot on the Kane 103.7 FM and feature at a number of festivals each summer. Holdin Court will taking over the Bass n Beats stage from 5-6.30pm with special guest MCs performing.
Twitter: @HoldincourtHQ
SIDETRAKKA
Sidetrakka appears blessed with a dependable and proven aptitude for Choonability. Be prepared to have your conceptions of dance music challenged while strutting your undoubtedly funky stuff on the altar of hedonistic bass-mashing that Sidetrakka, without question, owns. There are few DJs like her.
Sidetrakka has taken her unique blend of House Music to clubs, festivals fields and radio and she’ll be raising the temperature on the Bass n Beats stage from 3pm
http://www.mixcloud.com/Sidetrakka/
THE STEPPER
The dream of countless teenagers is to inspire crowds of others, like only a talented musician can. This 16-year-old DJ and producer The Stepper, a.k.a. Ross Duncan, has taken initiative in achieving such success, first smashing the highest grades in drums at an early age, then setting himself up as a local mobile DJ. As well as battling GCSEs, The Stepper has started a music mission, by completing the Arts Award scheme with Readipop and by conjuring tracks and uploading them to his SoundCloud and YouTube.
Festival DJing appearances so far have included Henley’s ‘Music On The Meadows’ and the Henley Youth Festival and his passion for electronic music has led him to play at Caversham Festival. He will be kicking things off on the Bass n Beats stage at 2pm with a mix of underground house and upfront electro smashers, including some of his own tracks.