Bath St International Rave!

Blambox & Tornado are proud to announce the arrival of Cambridge’s incredible musical duo of COMMIX. This is their first outing to New Zealand after many years of groundwork and the timing couldn’t be better! The boys from Commix have just released their highly anticipated mix album for the world renowned FABRIC: Live series, now up to its 44th installment. The mixes are a who’s who of the music world, and truly cements Commix’s place in electronic music history.

Commix duo George Levings and Guy Brewer were famously raised in the historic English town of Cambridge. They released their debut album ‘Call To Mind’ on the seminal label Metalheadz. It was the sound of 2007, and it’s tough to recall a drum & bass record that is quite so successful at marrying the beautifully listenable and the gloriously experimental.

It’s the experimentalism of the boys’ approach to production, and of their attitude towards drum & bass - and music as a whole - that is their most fascinating trait. But how did they reach this point? Whilst George’s route into music had been through performance, playing saxophone, flute and piano, he developed a taste for hip-hop which led him in to electronic music. Guy had gone from a broad canvas of taste that ranged from The Smiths to Dr. Dre, to receiving an education in drum & bass from a best friend’s older brother.

 Initially their records were very much in the vein of the likes of the more soulful, house and disco-influenced sounds of Marcus Intalex, Calibre and their ilk, but despite taking what they describe as “a long time to find our sound”, find it they did. A Commix DJ set has always been about smooth, rolling mixes, a continual flow – rather than the high-energy, high impact histrionics many D&B DJs have fallen into. Come to Bath Street to witness what very well could be the gig of 2009!