We are delighted to welcome one of UK club music's true originals - Pinch, to our roster.
Today he releases a new mix for bleep.com which they have earmarked as "driving, hypnotic, brutal" from "one of the most uncompromising producers in modern electronic music." A true pioneer of dubstep - as instrumental in establishing the genre as he is fundamental in its continuation - Pinch began Subloaded (the first dubstep and grime night outside of FWD>> in London) in Bristol in 2004. Shortly after this he started his label Tectonic which recently celebrated it's 100th release, and continues to cultivate fresh talent who have an eye on club music's future. Away from home, Pinch's own releases and remixes have featured on influential labels including Planet Mu, Swamp 81, Honest Jons, Soul Jazz, Deep Medi, Ninja Tune, On-U Sound and Warp.
Techno's endless permutations are as much an inspiration as dub in Pinch's music. His DJ sets and productions take the term "dub techno" not as a concrete blueprint laid down by Basic Channel in the 1990s, but as a creative springboard to explore and combine two of the most versatile music styles ever conceived. The bass and dynamics of dub are interwoven with the tense soundscapes and atmospheres of techno. This is why you might find Pinch scorching the dance floor at a techno club one week, before rolling out a set of the heaviest dub, dubstep and dancehall the next. His is a “convincing vision for modern bass music: an intense salvo of disorientating grooves, dissonant melody and throbbing bass pressure” (Resident Advisor - 5 key performances of Berlin Atonal) and is displayed most recently in mixes for NTS and DJ Mag earlier this year.
Moving into 2019, and with a deadly 12-inch for Berceuse Heroique soon to drop, Pinch has lined up a brand new series of collaborations that will be tearing through soundsystems in the near future. A follow-up to 2007's seminal Underwater Dancehall album is also in the works, a project that will build upon his longstanding foundations.
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