Get ready to listen to the amazing artists, part of the incredibly promising lineup at Budweiser’s Turn It Up Nights!
It’s time to get excited, because Turn It Up comes to Mumbai on October 24 at blueFrog, Lower Parel, with DJ Sa, B.R.E.E.D and Kumail. The Bangalore edition on October 23, at the Humming Tree has Daddy G from Massive Attack, B.R.E.E.D, Raka Ashok, with The Untitled One as the supporting act. The shows will have mesmerising visuals to complement the music, and these are done by Moebius.
Daddy G, born Grantley Evan Marshall, is a British musician and a founding member of the popular trip-hop band, Massive Attack. Although he’s best known for comprising one half of Massive Attack, Daddy G has been DJing ever since he started making mixes on a cassette recorder at the age of ten. His devotion to a good bassline grew out of his mid-teen experience of Jamaican sound systems. From around 1982, he ran the Dugout club in St. Paul’s, part of the unique Bristol scene where reggae and funk collided with post-punk – and eventually produced trip hop.
In the last few years, the Indian music duo, B.R.E.E.D, is gaining more and more recognition with an increasing international fanbase. Cranking out their chart-topping album ‘Binate’ and ‘The Inside’ EP in 2014, their exotic sound and passionate performances have attracted fans far and wide. This prolific duo consists of Ritesh D’Souza, producer/composer and two-time DMC (India) champion, and Tara Mae, vocalist/composer and classically-trained pianist, who describe their sound as “future-exotic.” B.R.E.E.D are also the first Indian artists to play at Coachella and The Low End Theory! CHeck out The Sherp’s interview with them HERE.
DJ SA has been called India’s best Hip-Hop/Trap DJ, and is said to have taken the genre to a whole new level in the country. He can be seen performing regularly at clubs all around the country, and 2013 saw Dj SA playing the NH7 Weekender,Pune with rave reviews. Opening for the likes of Akon, Charmillionaire, Kardinal Ofishall, Sean Kingston, Snoop Dogg (Lion), MIMS and DJ Green Lantern, he’s cemented his status as a key player in Indian club culture.
Raka Ashok is a music producer based in Bangalore. He’s said to “indelibly inhabits the crossover point where art merges with music”. Versatile, experimental and truly indie, his sound in blurring the lines between genres to create unique and good music. His music is engineered with a heady mixture of heavy hitting drums and tight snares, garnished liberally with unconventional sampling and tied in together with good old bass.
An electronic music DJ with special interest in drum and bass, The Untitled One makes sure his listeners connect with the music thus leaving the crowd sway with the bass beats. Also a co founder of the community ‘Drum & Bass IndiaT’, he intends to make people more fanatic about this frisky genre. He has shared the decks with DJs such as, Sub Zero, Mosillator (Bandish Projekt), Hilton Caswell (MOS London), Arctic Moon, Vachan Chinnappa, Indecent Noise and others!
Kumail Hamid is a 21 year old music producer, who for four years has been experimenting with music of genres ranging from rap to dubstep. This has led to his current work in what can only be classified under the ambiguous label of “electronic music”. His music boldly pushes the level of experimentation of the current “scene” beyond its club friendly confines, exploring the more ethereal regions of sound.