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Kode9’s hyperdub sound is difficult to define, sometimes with beats, sometimes without, sometimes with a vocalist, sometimes without, the only continuity is the heavy sub bass. Currently, Kode9’s DJ sets travel through a selection of dancehall influenced bass heavy skank, currently referred to as grime and dubstep. In 2006 he mixed the Dubstep Allstars Vol.3 CD compilation on Tempa records with vocalist Spaceape and released their debut album, ‘Memories of the Future’. Kode9 runs the record label Hyperdub (releasing artists such as the Spaceape, Warrior Queen, the Bug and Burial). For 4 years, he hosted the weekly Fwd>> show on Rinse FM, London’s grime and dubstep pirate radio station, and he is one of the rotating DJs at DMZ, the seminal dubstep night in London. Throughout the years, he has released tracks on Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label, pioneering dubstep labels Tempa, Domino and his own Hyperdub imprint, and has recently remixed artists such as the Junior Boys and Dabrye Feat. His DJ sets have helped spread the South London sound internationally, to East Asia, Europe, South America, North America and Australia.
The ‘Bass Fiction’ project set started in 2007 with a tour starting at Sonar in Barcelona and ending at Mutek in Montreal. Since then Kode9 and Spaceape have created a new, unparalleled and intense, bass-submerged mutation.