Get Ready to Get Your Circuits Dirty
Written by M Vincent Miller Saturday, 09 January 2010 01:40
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“Yeah man, that Speak n Spell in the pic is Circuit Bent by Fast Matt out of San Fran, I use it on tunes a lot.”
-Ale Fillman
Dirty Circuit Records. It just sounds so right. Even though dirt is bad for circuits. I caught up with Ale Fillman, the man behind signing new talent and setting up releases. I remember him from a show years ago, and years ago, I had label on Beatport for oh, nine months. I didn’t sell anything.
DCR’s last release from Hot Mess called Settle The Score was a featured release on Beatport and in their Top 10 Must Hear Dubstep track list.
Dirty Circuit Records is good for digital retailers.
There’s something about dirty electronics. ‘Experimental’ and ’noise’ were never this popular . To stay afloat on Beatport a label has to sell. Experimental circuits and their human mad scientists are not only taken more seriously, and more popular, they’re making hit records. Maybe it isn’t quite Top 40 yet… but the yet scares me a little.
This is my first article on CMB and I wanted to point out that Colorado is home to some the most cutting edge music, music technology, and music business in the world. I will go more in depth in subsequent articles, but Beatport and Beta’s sound system aside, this state is host to a party. The quintessential icon of a now past era is, of course, STS9. Say what you will, all I’m saying is that heirs to the Dead throne play p.a. sets. Rothbury was brought to us by Boulder based talent agency Madison House.
Not only that, but perhaps the post-contemporary icon within that scene, is the ‘laptop d.j.’ Bassnectar, Flying Lotus, and Alex B to name a few. In two words, dubstep happened. I’m not saying what or what isn’t dubstep. The use of the term started in the U.K. The official documentary came out in 2007.
Boulder producer and d.j. Jansten recently had a release with Bassnectar, and there is a clear connection to the ‘psyphy’ scene on the west coast. Call it what you will. I’m just trying to call it how I see it. Write me and fill me in if you know. And all of you Boulder and Colorado heads: I will get at you. I had to start somewhere.
Up next in this impromptu series I will be interviewing Nicole C from Sub.Mission, as well as some other friendly faces you may or may not recognize.
Along the way I'll give you my thoughts on the situation and I am happy to hear yours.
Also coming up we have Adam Wexler, CEO and founder of Rank'Em, a 'crowdsourcing music discovery' site which is still in private beta. Between you and me, CMB is getting some access codes to the private beta, so stay tuned.
Check out Kill Sound at the Catacombs in Boulder. Find out when if you care. You should.
If you can’t do that, tune to DJ Aporia on Sub.FM the second Sunday of every month 4-6pm MST.
