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SUMMARY:Bass Drive Wednesdays: Toronto Invasion!!
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DESCRIPTION:Stoked to announce a special installment of Bass Drive Wednesdays.\n\nDUBCOMM [DCS905 / Gun Recordings / CHC / CIVILIAN CLOTHING / 89.5 FM ]\n+\nMISS BLYSS [DCS905\, General Misconduct Entertainment\, Two Tone]\n\n\nDUBCOMM\n\nAcross the spectrum of drum'n'bass\, it is said that only the strong will survive. DCS905\nmastermind and CEO Tyler ”Dubcomm" Metford is a shining example of this statement.\nFull time producer\, DJ\, graphic designer\, promoter\, and all around purveyor of drum'n'bass\nmusic\, his ascent from underground obscurity on the outskirts of Toronto to the forefront\nof its once again unyeilding electronic music movement has been a natural progression\, so\nto speak. Amalgamating his networking skills with computer knowledge and a love for rave\nculture and music\, Dubcomm has spent the better part of the last decade working the dnb\nparty circuit in the concrete jungle of Toronto.\n\nHe was quick to soak in the sounds and culture of the scene and soon began to develop a\nhunger to create and further the sounds that were coming out of Toronto at the time. After\ngraduating from one of Toronto's most prestigious media colleges with a degree in audio\nengineering\, the music he was creating began to drastically improve as he pumped out\nbanger after banger. Early on in his career\, he caught the attention of Impure Productions\nwho had a wildly popular weekly event at a club-district venue called Mad Bar. Dubcomm\nsoon became a regular performer at Mad Bar\, opening up for big name acts from all corners\nof the globe. He & partner DJ Faktah also won a prominent mix competition early in his\nDJing career\, put on by Torontojungle.com\n\n2002 brought the formation of DCS905\, a group of artists selected by Dubcomm that possess\n100% dedication to promoting "the Future of Toronto's Drum and Bass." After\nthrowing several diverse events on their own\, as well as collaborating with many of\nToronto's finest artists and promoters\, the DCS905 crew has developed a sound of its own\,\nheavily influenced by the "techy" drum'n'bass sounds from the UK and across\nEastern Europe and parts of the United States\, which many purists refer to as "tekno\ndnb".\n\nDubcomm produces a prime-time radio slot on 89.5FM Saturday nights in Toronto\, featuring\nDCS905's resident roster of artists\, DJs and performers\, as well as special guests and\ninternational exclusives which air each and every week. The show is considered to be a\nstaple of the Toronto drum'n'bass community. He has also headlined events in virtually\nevery city in Southern Ontario\, and received international attention for his intricately\nproduced tracks.\n\nKeep watch for his production projects\, as Dubcomm put together the label launch tracks\nfor US based Gun Recordings\, and is currently building an EP project for the same label.\nHe also has forthcoming projects including collaborations with Catacomb\, Jeph & Symbiant.\n\n\nMISS BLYSS\n\nMusic is something that affects us all on some level. While some are content to\nsimply remain avid listeners and enjoy the correlation of human thought intertwined\nthrough rhythms and lyrical prowess\, every so often comes along someone that not only has\na great ear for original and subsequently groundbreaking music\, but simply cannot suppress\ntheir adoration for the sounds which they know and love. It is often said that open minded\npeople with diverse tastes make the best DJs\, as they have a broad knowledge of different\nmusical structures and Toronto native MISS BLYSS is no exception to\nsuch a statement.\n\nHer story begins in Calgary\, Alberta on the West Coast of Canada where Calgary\, she grew\nup listening to everything from rock music that was coming out at the time to the\nearly-mid 90s g funk and oldschool analog-style production of the hip hop greats of that\nera. She packed up and left the busy city surrounded by countryside landscapes and the\nRocky Mountains and moved ship eastward at the tender age of 14 she settled in to her\nnewfound home in Ontario.\n\nShe began spinning underground hip hop and classic anthems at the ripe age of 17\, digging\ndeep in to the party favour-rich catalogues of such classic genre-defining artists as\nDigable Planets\, Warren G\, Slum Village\, Da Brat and Point of Pressure to name just a few.\nThe driving basslines\, danceable break beats and party inducing lyrics helped her keep\nhouse parties rocking for years around the Greater Toronto Area. She soon began writing\nher own lyrics and ciphering local Toronto clique the Golden Mic Kids. After spending time\nperfecting her craft she began leaving other MCs in her path in awe of her skilled\ndelivery and clever word play.\n\nAround the same time she started playing hip hop\, she began to fall in love with the\nsounds of drum and bass. The same musical elements in a lot of the party anthems and funky\nhip hop beats she had grown to love were present in a lot of the classic DNB she grew up\non. She discovered the sounds of Nicky Blackmarket\, Shy FX\, Kenny Ken\, Ed Rush + Optical\nto name a few. She began attending parties in Toronto and discovered other types of\nelectronic music that she had a penchant for as well\, including breaks and booty house.\nHer foray into the world of drum’n’bass took a sharp turn uphill in 2006 when she hit the\nToronto circuit like a bat out of hell\, lighting a fire up behind the competition she\nquickly surpassed.\n\nHer ever-improving skills behind the decks earned her spots opening up for prolific\nartists from around the world including T Power\, John B\, Annalyze\, DJ K and cemented her\nstatus as one of Toronto’s go-to up and comers. She continues to maintain a steady flow of\nbookings within and beyond the borders of Ontario\, having headlined events in Montreal\,\nQuebec. Miss Blyss was instantly adopted in to Markham’s premier drum’n’bass organization\,\nDCS905 with whom she works closely and holds a residency on DCS905 Radio (Saturdays on\n89.5 FM in Toronto). Her style quickly caught the eye of General Misconduct Entertainment\nwho instantly granted her a residency into one of Toronto’s most diverse and ground\nbreaking crews in recent memory. She has been a key player in GME and is/has been a\nresident of Prolifik Radio (Saturdays on www.planetdnb.com)\, Taste of Bass Radio\n(Wednesdays on www.bassjunkees.com)\, Frenzy Fridays @ The Apothecary\, as well as the End\nOf The World Tour in `06 and the Resurrection Tour in `07.\n\nWith her place held firmly within Toronto’s tight-knit DNB community\, Miss Blyss is poised\nfor great things in the future and has plans of expanding her horizons into the realm of\nproduction.\n\n\n**** Please note\, 5$ cover for this week\, support Canadian talent!!!*********************
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