CLANDESTINO FESTIVAL

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Timeblind was born in Los Angeles, grew up in Minneapolis and was educated at Eastmond School of Music, where he studied saxophone and composition. He has long been known for a well-produced mix of Dancehall, jungle, hip-hop and techno on the Polar Bear Club, The Bunker and Tonic, which he ran between 1998 and 2004 in New York. On his turntables Coltrane, Mego, Timbaland and Roll Deep were brought together, along with everything from UK Garage, disco, funk, Arabic dance music and psychedelia to full break core. The Bunker remains one of NYC’s hottest places with guests such as Matmos and Anti-Pop Consortium. As UK garage, dubstep and grime became viable concepts in the media, his pioneer status has become clearer. On Kid606’s Shockout Records Timeblind released digital dancehall with Come Back Wicked feat Wayne Lonesome. The Myanmar remix (2004) for DJ / Rupture technically chiseled in a UK Garage proto-dubstep style. One favorite is the classic doub-tronic-joint The Rasta Bomba, where a liquid hip-hop groove is transplanted onto a mysterious (and to this date untraceable) nightly broadcast from “the beautiful village of ‘arlem”. Full length Rugged Redemption (Orthlorng Musork, 2001) conquered several top 10 lists by stretching and blurring genre boundaries. Since then, Timeblind has completed several tours in Europe and played at festivals such as Sonar and Mutek, often associated with artists like Richie Hawtin, Joey Beltrame, Sven Vath, Derrick Carter. To Gothenburg, he will come from Berlin, where he now resides after a prolonged inspiration stay in the Congo. He is currently busy with, among other things, remixing Grimeland artists CIAfrica from Ivory Coast.