- where / Wellington
- what / DJ, Producer
- likes / Breaks, Dub, Electro, Experimental, Rock
Originally from a live music background playing drums in local rock bands, DJ P-Vans came in to the Wellington dance music scene inspired by the sounds of late 90's Breakbeat and 2step Garage. With an emphasis on bringing diverse upfront sounds to the Wellington dance music scene P-Vans began playing out in Wellington at Curve Bar, Studionine and Havana Bar. P-Vans would oftern play opening sets for Drum n Bass club nights with dirty Breaks and even early Garage/Dubstep sets which was fairly underground in Wellington at that time. P-Vans was a familiar face round Wellington DnB and Breaks parties with the love of getting absolutely trollied and loosing the plot on the dancefloor to heavy tunes. 4 years later nothing seems to have changed.
Around 2003 P-Vans met NZ NuSkool Breaks pioneer FreQ Nasty through connections in his day job at Weta Digital where he worked as a Digital Modeler and Paint Artist on Lord of the Rings and King Kong. FreQ formed a project titled "The FreQ Nasty Experience" a live AV show combining a 3D motion captured FreQ Nasty where P-Vans was given the opportunity to impliment his visual skills in to the project and play DJ support at the same time. The project was a success at huge feastivals overseas and NZ and eventually P-Vans became a resident DJ at Sandwiches playing a regular bi-monthly Breaks night titled "Shenanigans". Since then P-Vans has played DJ support for Stanton Warriors, Timmy Schumacher, Baobinga and 30hz and has currently had 2 tracks titled "Up to da Time" and "tk421" released on "Antidote Underground Music Compilation v1.0" which is due to be released late 2006.
P-Vans has started a regular night at Tupelo Bar focusing on initially exposing people to the atmospheric bass space sound of "Dubstep" already attracting attention from open minded people in the Wellington dance music scene and beyond. This gave an opportunity for P-Vans to play other kinds of leftfield UK underground music that would not normally work with his Breaks sets at a large scale club nights.
P-Vans continues to push new and interesting sounds in the Breakbeat scene in Wellington with the emphasis on rocking the dancefloor with variety and substance and producing fresh heavyweight Breaks and Dubstep music. P-Vans is also currently working on a live Breakbeat band project with bassist John Watt pushing the boundries of Breakbeat through live music with funky and energetic live Breakbeat drumming, accoustic Bass, electronic samples and grime synths. The aim being to bring the Live format of Breakbeat music to the future club atmosphere.
Big ups to all people in the Wellington dance music scene keeping it live, especially sandwiches and the people who paved the way before us. You know who you are. Much respect.
for more info on P-Vans
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=35644002
http://www.lowpass.co.nz/news.php?list.2
