Bassweight Presents
?ILL GATES [MUTI MUSIC/CANADA]
SATURDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 2010
SANDWICHES | KENT TERRACE
?$15 PRESALES AVAILABLE FROM COSMIC CORNER | SAMURAI | REAL GROOVY
SUPPORT FROM:
?OLIE BASSWEIGHT [Bassweight Recordings]
?DOUBLE NEGATIVE [Empathy Recordings]
?MUFASA [No Ordinary Moment]
?LOUNGE: WODGER WANT
?ILL GATES [MUTI MUSIC/CANADA]
Diverse blend of Dubstep, Hiphop, and other memorable bassy treats
iill.Gates is a Toronto-based composer, performer and educator. Over
the past 15 years, he has established a global fanbase and a
reputation as one of the most dynamic electronic music artists around.
He regularly tours across North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.
Gates has headlined at such festivals as Burning Man, Shambala, the
World Electronic Music Festival and the New Orleans Jazz Festival.
His first full-length release, Autopirate (Muti Music, 200
, reached
#1 on many esteemed charts; and continues to sell strongly. Many of
his contemporaries cite Gates (aka The Phat Conductor) as a key
artistic influence and inspiration in their music. While on tour,
Gates frequently teaches workshops to grateful and attentive
audiences, in which he shares his highly effective approach to
producing quality finished music as well as insights into the
mentality and strategies necessary to succeed in the music business.
Recent highlights from his travels & adventures include:
> Having drinks with his namesake, Bill Gates; while playing a
private party for Microsoft at the Sundance Film Festival (2010)
> A thriving creative partnership with the San Francisco-based
bass music icon Bassnectar, including a chart-topping remix of
'Maximum' by DJ Vadim that sold so fast the duo were accused of chart
hacking (2010)
> Recording a free album live in Vienna to be released in the
Summer of 2010
> Developing Ableton Live production packs and tutorials for
Eskamon, the new collaboration between Eskmo & Amon Tobin (2010)
> Headlining the world's first concert for the deaf, using
Emoti-Chairs developed by the Alternate Sensory Input Devices (ASID)
Lab at Ryerson University (2009)
> Dance accompaniment by world-famous Chinese dancer Dino to his
song 'Eggplantation' in front of a massive live audience in Singapore,
which led to licensing of Autopirate in Korea (2009)
> A collaboration with the A/V & performance art collective
Advanced Peace Technologies (APT) in San Francisco, resulting in an
acclaimed short film (2008/09)
> Composing 'Adagio for Disney Hall and Coffee Grinder' for an
upcoming DVD by architect Frank Gehry which explores the relationship
between architecture and music (200
Callout Quote
“...speaker-shaking bass lines and big-time breakbeats that kept the
crowd dancing through every element of his ever-evolving set...
glitched out hip-hop, cut-up vocals, reggae twists and all the grime
you’d ever need or want on a Saturday night in the city.” ~Duke
LaRock, sinninginla.com
www.illgates.com
www.myspace.com/thephatconductor
www.facebook.com/illGatesMusic
www.twitter.com/illGatesMusic
ill.Gates appears on: Muti Music, Amorphous Music/Child's Play/Om
Records, Addictech, Noodles, Innerflight, Low Motion, Made In Glitch,
Soot, Tube10 & Chi Recordings
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