Music : Electro and Breaks
INFECTIOUS BREAKS MEETS JAY CUNNING.
FRI 2nd OCTOBER @ THE HIGH TIDE LOUNGE ( DRIFT BAR ), SOUTHSEA, FREE ENTRY B4 11/£3 after
Infectious Breaks returns with our next installment for the month of october. With one of the worlds best and most recognised dj/producers that the UK has to offer right now! Allow us to introduce......
CUT LA ROC
Cut La Roc remembers the look on his mum's face when he bought his first Technics. She was horrified! 'You paid two hundred pounds for a record player?!' And that was before she found I needed two! Well, Mrs La Roc, rest easy. Your son did the right thing. As if there was a choice. La Roc - real name Lee Potter - was already hooked by then. He was 15. He'd already got into bunking off school in Brighton to doss around with the local b-boys, already began to memorise their breakdancing moves and intricate scratch tricks. Needless to say, the second Technics followed soon after. Lee immersed himself in the world of hip hop, scratching and editing his productions on cheap samplers and battling it out at local jams. Then something happened.
Or rather, nothing very much happened at all. "All of a sudden, it must have been about 1989, and acid house came along..." And Lee was seduced all over again. Which all casts a little light on the mixed up musical mind of Cut La Roc. And why his debut album 'La Roc Rocs' for Skint hoovers up everything from deft rap cut-ups to camped up jump-up jungle. Or Mills-esque techno pressure. And... Well, you get the picture.
If anything, it's a testament to the years Lee has spent almost consistently DJing in Australia, America, across Europe and the Far East. Still, it's in the UK where he's caused the most damage, the two early EPs in his 'Mad Skills' series stand alongside Fatboy Slim, Midfield General and Bentley Rhythm Ace's finest as the foundations the Skint empire was built on.
In 2000 he released a mix album for the Ministry Of Sound's FSUK imprint and set a his first world record for DJ'ing with 8 decks! His sets continued to be revelatory affairs too, Lee either turning on the showmanship by scratching with all manner of limbs or slapping down a wall-to-wall selection of party-stoking anthems.
Crowd-thrilling scratch tricks and a unique DJ'ing technique remain Cut La Roc's speciality when he's playing out and his DJ sets combine the best of party hip hop/breaks/house..whatever!!. No stranger to the big time, Cut had already appeared on Top Of The Pops as the late Wildchild's DJ on the top ten hit 'Renegade Master'. His critically claimed first album for Skint 'La Roc Rocs' was released in July 2000 featuring the hits 'Freeze', 'Fallen' and 'Makin' It Hot'.
Cut La Roc held a 4 year residency at the famous 'Big Beat Boutique' and performed alongside the infamous Fat Boy/Armand Van Helden (Brixton academy Boxing Ring gig...Nuts!!) As well as touring the world over numerous times rocking shows all over the globe.
Among the legions of seamless fader-flippers who inhabit clubland, he sticks out as entertainer and vinyl conoisseur alike - a reputation that he is upholding even today.
This year he has had some pretty outstanding releases in the forms of ‘Hypertension’ on Westway & ‘Classic’ on his own Rocstar label, Plus he has put out many a good remix, Including one for Portsmouth’s very own label Dusted Breaks and we are assured there is shedloads more to follow next year!
Check out his Glade set from this year, It’s damn good! rocstar.twistedbeats.com ... de2009.mp3
For more info on the man himself or his top notch label Rocstar, check out rocstar.co.uk or myspace.com
The residents providing a glint of devilishness are the distorted, techy bleeps of MIKE CUBIST, the bootlicious bounce of IGNITION and the throbbing beats and feelgood tech-funk of LEE + MARK MARTIN alongside the always effervescent SIDEKICK MC.
INFECTIOUS BREAKS
DUSTED BREAKS
FRIDAY 2nd OCTOBER
DRIFT BAR
78 Palmerston Road
Southsea
Hampshire
PO5 3PT
Time 9pm - 3am //FREE B4 11 £3.00 AFTER // 18+ id.required // R.O.A.R