TOTAL FREEDOM (FADE TO MIND, GHE20 G0TH1K) // WHY BE (HALCYON VEIL)

Location: Whiteline Silom Soi 8
Ticket : PRESALE 350฿ | DOOR 400฿
Time : 9:30 PM - 2:00 AM - AFTER PARTY BLAQLYTE

SAINT MAFIA and TSOTA Studios present
“Total Freedom and Why Be DJ set in Bangkok”

TOTAL FREEDOM (Fade To Mind) known to be one of the most revolutionary underground DJ in LA has teamed up with WHY BE (Halcyon Veil) the unorthodox pioneering Danish producer to take over and elevate Bangkok’s underground club scene with their distinct, innovative style of DJing and identity.

+++ Ashland Mines AKA Total Freedom +++ OG member of the underground collective, Fade to Mind is known for curating and playing at the infamous cult party, GHE20 G0TH1K, with it’s founder Venus X and Shayne Oliver (founder of HBA). In addition to that, Ashland Mines have also collaborated with one of fashion industry’s most notable street wear brand, Hood By Air, on fashion and creative ventures.

+++ Tobias Lee AKA Why Be +++ Is know for turning emotional scraps into sonic fire and heat waves. Starting out from scratch, Why Be has made his way to the top of the underground music industry by building himself up to breaking himself down and recreating again to breaking the norm of his traditional way of making music. Tobias Lee thrived on radical undefinability but now he’s joined Rabit’s new label, Halcyon Veil to release his new record.


More on Ghe20 G0TH1K : http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/11/ghe20-g0th1k-party-initiates-new-fashion-trend.html
More on Halcyon Veil : http://halcyonveil.com/

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TOTAL FREEDOM
( Fade to mind, NY | GHE20G0TH1K, NY )

Adventurous, often confrontational but always playful, a DJ set from LA's Ashland Mines, aka Total Freedom, draws dancers into a whirlwind of ever-evolving texture and sensation. Unafraid to assault listeners with jarring shifts in mood and tempo, in his hands, R&B-concrète collides with rap, grime and ballroom house, while sung vocals abruptly dissolve into swamps of syrupy, drugged-out noise. As akin to real-time sonic collage as typical dance music DJing, Mines' free-associative approach places recognizable hip hop and R&B traits within abrasive, rhythmically distorting sonic space, making the familiar thrillingly unfamiliar. Alongside friends and contemporaries like Nguzunguzu, Kingdom and Arca, he's poised among the vanguard of a vibrant, still evolving new aesthetic in club music.

In recent years he's played in a host of venues across the globe, from sweaty basements in Chicago to the techno-cathedral of Berghain - events in spaces such as London's Tate Modern and New York's MoMA, as well as a few acclaimed boilerroomtv sets and guest mixes on London's Rinse FM and BBC Radio1xtra.

SEE THE FOLLOWING LINKS :

SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/totalfreedom
BOILER ROOM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKpnuLp8BDU

INTERVIEWS:
http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/34275/1/total-freedom-influence-interview https://www.timeout.com/newyork/nightlife/input-total-freedom-shayne-arca-dj-set http://www.thefader.com/artist/total-freedom


WHY BE
( Halcyon Veil, Copenhagen )
Tobias Lee is a Korean-born, Danish-raised, and Berlin and Copenhagen-based producer and DJ. After intentionally spending years on the fringes of experimental dance music, 2015 saw Lee embracing the conventional release format for the very first time, accordingly establishing himself as a formidable emergent voice in dance music's larger conversation.

The resulting Snipestreet EP on Rabit's Halcyon Veil label notably found the artist exercising a newfound mastery over original productions, in lieu of his usual, unruly approach to bootlegs and edits. Upon release it garnered widespread critical acclaim, with tracks and videos from it being premiered on DIS Magazine, a full-length interview appearing on The FADER, and Heroin Hat making it to FACT Magazine's best club tracks of the year list.

Lee's sound both on record and behind the CD-Rs defies easy compartmentalization: if anything, it is defined by its visceral uncategorizability. He's as likely to draw on ballroom and rap as instrumental grime, but it's Lee's radically singular approach to putting it all together that makes him so exciting. Even if the ingredients are familiar, the end product never is: his hectic, cathartic, and uncompromising style of club music ultimately stands completely in its own lane.

SEE FOLLOWING LINKS :

SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/ristlee2smoeger
BOILER ROOM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4BzebgYBTQ

INTERVIEWS:
http://www.thefader.com/2015/10/14/why-be-interview http://www.electronicbeats.net/played-out-why-be/

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