PSEUDO FUNK

DELETE @ Dusk Till Dawn, Bournemouth
Monthly Residents

Delete is very proud to boast residents as talented as Pseudo Funk. As well as their monthly appearances at Dusk Till Dawn, they regularly play at nights in London and beyond, with a steadily increasing profile in the UK scene and releases on some of the most exciting underground labels around at the moment. Tone Def Tone Def is someone who lives and breathes techno. Having immersed himself in the scene for some seven years, his underground techno credentials can't be argued with. He dropped his debut release as Tony Guinness, the 'Almost EP', on the excellent After-Dinner Recordings net label, as well as notching up a track on the Metroline compilation 'Metroline Buskers'. As well as future label releases in the pipeline, he regularly appears at established nights on the London circuit such as Multivitamins, and now he is behind the new net label Alt Recordings along with the Delete team. Heading straight for the weird, darkened corners of minimal techno, Tone's productions display a deep understanding of what makes people move, whilst at the same time tweaking the part of the brain that needs something a little more challenging. His diverse DJ sets attest to that, and if you pick the right month you can catch him and Mr Smith pumping out a live set to bring the basement ceiling down. When he's not knee-deep in twisted beats (which isn't very often) you can find Tone enthusing about the wonders of Mike Patton, Jamie Oliver or skulking around doing night-shift work in unfortunate places. Mr Smith Having spent 6 years immersing himself in electronic music, Mr Smith finally unleashed his sound on an unsuspecting public when he hooked up with Tone Def to form Pseudo Funk. Combining his hefty technical knowledge with a love of the deepest clicks and pops, he provides the perfect foil to Tone's obsession with wobbly wrong-ness. Ever the perfectionist, Mr Smith (better known as Sam to his nearest and dearest) has been locked into producing tracks since the age of fifteen, and the launch of Alt Recordings has given him the chance to share the loops going round inside his head (check 'Out For The Chopping Block' for a lesson in stripped down sickness). In March 2007, Pseudo Funk debuted their live set, comprised of two laptops running Ableton thumping out a hypnotic racket, with live saxophone piercing filling the gaps. Keep an eye out for the next installment of this latest side to the Funksters which will be appearing very soon at an all-night event of some description. When he's not slicing down beats to their barest component parts and then re-arranging them, you'll find Sam forcing the sickest Detroit techno damage (a la Underground Resistance, Basic Channel etc) on anyone who will listen, even his Nan (so I heard).