OBEY! SOUND ESCAPE

Obey! return with another blog post accompanied once again with a mix and featuring introductory bio and some tunage.

Bio/Manifesto:

We are Tom (Onemandub) and Jon (The Kingdom) from Obey.

We’ve been promoting for roughly four years in Cardiff and have been involved in various different projects during this period. We started off with dark drum & bass events under the moniker Elemental which featured such artists as Keaton, Dom & Roland, Skitty & Nolidge, Loxy, Vicious circle and Manifest to name a few. After that we did a run of events under the name Experimental bringing a harder more experimental sound to the city. These events were a mixture of breakcore, jungle, post - dubstep, minimal techno, etc trying to branch out in territories unknown here in Wales at the time bringing down the likes of Jahba (USA), Bizzy B, Synkro, King Cannibal and Atki2.

After 6 months of the Experimental brand, we decided to take a leave of absence from the promotion scene to concentrate on dj’ing and producing. During this period there was a shift in the UK Bass music scene in Cardiff as more and more people began to take interest in the post-dubstep/future garage sound which we had been immersing ourselves in around that time. Due to this we thought that maybe it was time to start pushing these sounds again as it wasn’t really catered for here so we started pulling together plans for what is now known as Obey!

We don’t really have a set guideline of genres at our night, more a tempo limit if anything (we try not to go higher than 160 bpm) so our events change sound night to night but all hinged around bass weight music. Our previous acts include Synkro, RSD, Doc Daneeka and Indigo with Warlock lined up for the 8^th of April (which is a Vs. event with Traffic) and plenty more lined up for the future. We also currently run a monthly versus night with another night, Signature which is in the same musical vein as Obey.

Brand new mix from Obey! Mixed by The Kingdom and Onemandub the Sound Escape Mixtape captures a wide range of moods and genres

Obey! Sound Escape Mix for WTD? by What's the Diff?

Tracklisting:

Moving Ninja – Uranium
Sigha – Expansions
Geiom – Reminissin’ (Shackleton Refix)
L-ow – Diver (Furesshu’s Die Welle Edit)
SCB – Hard Boiled (V.I.P)
TRG – They Know (Berlin Wall V.I.P)
Asusu – Small Hours
Scuba – 3 Sided Shape
Sigha – Light Swells (In a Distant Space)

Obey! have also come up with a Top 10 (5 each) for your delectation...

Onemandub:

1. Rude and Deadly - Lightning and Thunder (youtube)

2. Rhythm & Sound - King In My Empire (youtube)

3. TRG - See Other People (youtube)

4. Scuba - Before (youtube)

5. Burial and Four Tet - Moth (youtube)

The Kingdom:

1. Asusu - Togetherness (youtube)

2. Appleblim and Geiom - Shreds (youtube)

3. Ceephax - Hull Drum and Bass (youtube)

4. Kontext - Plumes (Relocate Remix) (youtube)

5. Breach - Man Up (youtube)

Upcoming Events: