SATURDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER – CUBISM PRESENTS ROB PEARSON PLUS NEW RESIDENTS ASHER JONES & RICK NICHOLLS

Cubism returns to River for another session this month after Soma Records' Harvey McKay showed us at the last party why he was on warm up duties for Richie Hawtin at Pressure in Glasgow over the bank holiday weekend!

This month we are excited to welcome two new residents Asher Jones & Rick Nicholls who will be making the trip down from North Wales every other month to play alongside Mark Gwinnett & Mike Healey at River. Our special guest for this session is Evasive Records head honcho Rob Pearson! This is going to be quality tech house of the highest order all night!

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Here's everything you need to know about our special guest Rob Pearson and the two new residents Asher Jones and Rick Nicholls who will be lining up every other month at River with Mike Healey and label boss Mark Gwinnett.


ROB PEARSON (EVASIVE RECORDS, AREA38, CUBISM)
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House Music supremo Rob Pearson was lured into music at an early age, growing up in South London with a staple diet of electro, hip hop, and eighties soul. Inspired by the turntable wizards of the time Rob spent many hours perfecting and earning his art, initially as a scratch DJ, cutting up the early hip hop beats of the time. A passion for collecting records soon developed and he set about mastering his techniques on whatever equipment was available to him.

Inspired by the early acid house scene Rob started to fuse the sounds coming from Chicago and Detroit with early Breakbeat and Hardcore to create a more London based sound. Venturing into pirate radio he was soon doing regular slots on Energy 87.9 FM, Don FM and Dream FM - honing his style into Drum & Bass and scoring slots at clubs like Labyrinth and Turnmills and even playing a warm up set for the legendary Happy Mondays at Concorde in Brighton.

His humble home studio was now growing and sporting some serious gear; Akai samplers, various keyboards and drum machines and the classic Atari ST computer. Gaining respect from his piers and getting his material played by LTJ Bukem, Grooverider and Fabio helped him to clinch his first record deal with Basement Records. Working alongside label mates Wax Doctor, Peshay, Roger Johnson, MJ Cole, and Top Buzz and producing under the name of Blinded by Science, he quickly became a player on the nascent Drum & Bass scene, releasing on a plethora of other labels at the time including his own Online Recordings Imprint. By 1995 Rob’s ever growing music equipment collection and the need to create a proper workspace for his projects led on to him starting his own recording studio, Online Studios in Croydon, South London. As an engineer, producer and remixer he's worked with a diverse range of music artists including Tippa Irie, Cedric Myton & The Congo’s, Marc Almond, So Solid, UKApache, Sway and in 1999 co-wrote and produced a top 40 number 1 single that sold over quarter of a million records. This was also the year that Rob launched his Evasive Records imprint to release the underground house and Tech House tracks that he was writing, finding that this style of music gave him the most creative freedom to express himself by being able to draw on his many other musical influences.

Releases and remixes followed for some of House music’s most prestigious labels including Swag, Defender, Wrong, Dorigen and Uhuru Beats, whilst at the same time producing over 20 releases for his label Evasive. Rob has also been a regular guest on London’s biggest dance radio station, Kiss 100 and continues to do slots on various internet stations. At the end of 2004 he launched a sister label to Evasive, Drugsex Recordings, which has been showcasing new artists and a deeper dirtier style of house music. Now with the labels and Online Studios established Rob is continuing to produce new material and is spinning alongside many of the the scenes leading players (Colin Dale, Nathan Coles, Asad Rizvi, Inland Knights, Terry Francis etc…) and playing well respected events like Kerfuffle, Abstrakt Dance and Reverberations. He's also been travelling to Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Germany and Miami whilst still managing to find time to spin at some of the UK’s best parties. In 2007 Robs tracks have been remixed by top artists The Timewriter and Demarkus Lewis. Rob has also collaborated with legendary vocalists including a single with Robert Owens and 2 projects with Rose Windross (Soul II Soul) and plans to work further with other vocalists and musicians for upcoming tracks including Cubism boss Mark Gwinnett. After a decade of studio production work Rob is now working on his debut album project whilst pushing his unique sound forward with DJ gigs worldwide. Watch him fly!


ASHER JONES & RICK NICHOLLS
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NEW BI MONTHLY CUBISM RESIDENTS @ RIVER

Hooked from the age of 14 Asher Jones developed an intimate and intense obsession with music... Acquiring turntables at 17, he was soon frantically collecting and tasting as much music as humanly possible. Taking influences from Juan Atkins, Jeff Mills, Leftfield & Pink Floyd to Laurent Garnier, Frank Zapper, Prodigy & Santana, the list runs on... A couple of years down the line Asher inevitably ended up in a recording studio and everything started making sense for him...

Now, having spent the last decade of his life producing electronic music in its ever changing guises, Asher is primarily recognised for his work with cohort Neil Barber (Nelsk) as Rhythm Code. A project that has certainly had its fair share of success over the years with labels like Steve Angello's Size Records & Chris Lakes Rising Music, Noir, Gusto and Kickin Music to name but a few.

Rick Nicholls hails from a new generation, 5 years Asher's Junior, Rick immersed himself in music from childhood. No wonder then, at the age of 18 he was managing a record store and embarking on a 5 year residency at one of the UK's premier club nights, 2 Kinky. His DJing ability is second to none, quite comfortable playing alongside the likes of Pete Tong, Slam and Francois K and just as happy single handedly rocking a dirty house party...

Ricks obsessive musical passion quickly drove him into the studio where he has carved out his own truly unique production technique, releasing records under numerous pseudonyms over the past decade.

In 2007 Rick and Asher joined forces. Their debut single 'Mogadon' on Noir Music smashed into the top 100 on Beatport and gained support across the board from the likes of Digweed and Sasha to Deep Dish and Laurent Garnier. Not to be out done by their own work they followed up 'Mogadon' with their tech-house bomb 'Boogie Night' to devastating effect, again on Noir Music... Now the guys can be found working alongside the likes of Oliver Klien,Kevin Over, Adam Shaw, Flow & Zeo and Toni Rios on labels like Brazil's Tropical Beats and Kompact's Soap Records.... Watch out for some huge tracks and remixes from the duo forthcoming on Cubism!

FULL LINE UP:

ROB PEARSON
ASHER JONES
RICK NICHOLLS
MARK GWINNETT
MIKE HEALEY

Expect the usual great drink deals, FREE ENTRY! and the sound delivered on the best system in town! See you there x

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