(Chch) THE UPBEATS Album tour Ft DJ Fresh & LowQui Mc

Non-Vogue & Wise present!

THE UPBEATS - Big Skeleton Album tour
Feat ; DJ FRESH (Breakbeat Kaos UK)
& Hosted by LowQui MC (UK/AUS)


Saturday october 3rd 2009 @ MINISTRY
R18 / ROAR / 11pm-6am

Ltd earlybird tickets available now for $45+bf from cosmic corner and http://www.iticketexpress.co.nz

or direct link http://www.iticketexpress.co.nz/events/2009/oct/the-upbeats-album-release---big-skeleton/



THE UPBEATS (Wellington / Non-Vogue)

If you're The Upbeats, you never know when inspiration is going to hit, or leave you curled up on the floor with laughter-induced abdominal muscles pains.

And in this particular scenario, their inspiration was a whispered Brazilian ghetto story related to them by a friend. The story of the Caveraos (English translation: Big Skeleton), a super-tank full of Navy Seal trained Brazilian gang members known to terrorise the favelas of Rio De Janeiro, or on good days, distribute Nike sneakers and free cable. Sounds fucked up right?

Anyway, as you’ve probably gathered by now, The Upbeats were suitable taken with this story, and having already floated the idea of a haunted-house album, decided to title their third album Big Skeleton, out of homage to the Caveraos; and horror in general.

Be it the haunted click’n’bass soul of ‘Bones’ (featuring Ned Worboys of Harbour City Electric), the sub-grinding, stream-of-consciousness narrative driven breakbeat insanity of ‘Carousel’ (featuring MC Kemo from Germany), their speaker-rupturing foray into dubstep on ‘Macabre’ (co-produced by the mysterious Crushington) or the drum’n’folk atmospherics of ‘Through The Night’ (featuring award-winning country singer Jess Chambers); Big Skeleton lives in equal balance between the headphone headspace and the mindset of the club, which is a rare and terrifyingly beautiful combination in drum’n’bass. And that’s not even touching on the collaborations with State of Mind or Japanese rapper Cardz.

This September with Big Skeleton, The Upbeats wake the dead, and the whispered terror walks once again. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.




DJ FRESH (U.K,Breakbeat Kaos ) // LowQui MC (U.K, Metalheadz)

New Zealand powerhouse production/dj team The Upbeats will be joined by super weights DJ Fresh and MC Lowqui all the way from the UK. This is one night at The Ministry you'll never forget!

Timeout magazine named him Uberproducer, Knowledge voted DJ FRESH best producer in the world two years running and refer to him as a legend. DJ Magazine has said his label Breakbeat Kaos is a sonic juggernaut.

Joining Fresh from the UK and with over a decade of experience at some of the biggest club nights across the UK and beyond, it’s no surprise that LowQui is Goldies number one MC of choice!






Additional tour dates:
04 Sep, Fri - Zen, Auckland
11 Sep, Fri - Flow, Hamilton
12 Sep, Sat - Phat Club, Nelson
19 Sep, Sat - Bath St, Dunedin
26 Sep, Sat - Uno Wine Bar, Palmerston North
02 Oct, Fri - Subculture, Queenstown
03 Oct, Sat - Ministry, Christchurch

http://www.myspace.com/theupbeatsnz