Freestylers:
After a 15 year career the Freestylers have covered a full 360 degrees in the Bass music genre, from appearing on Top Of The Pops to the biggest festivals and most talked about nightclubs in the world.
Having achieved the kind of success most artists can only dream of, they’ve not rest on their laurels and are constantly working on new releases all the time.
Aston and Matt started making tracks together in the mid ‘90’s after discovering a mutual love of hip-hop, electro and beats. From being voted ‘Best Band’ by Musik Magazine to touring with Lenny Kravitz on his American Woman tour, rocking a crowd of 30,000 at Glastonbury Festivaland performing at MTV’s Times Sq Millenium Party – it’s fair to say they’ve have had one big adventure so far.
They’ve released 5 Albums-We Rock Hard,Pressure Point, Raw As F**K,Adventures In Freestyle and The Coming Storm and are currently working on a 6th
Their ever-eclectic style and renegade approach to production focusing on everything in the bass music spectrum knows no bounds . Whether they’re performing as a live band, sound system or DJ set, you know they’re gonna rock hard.
Dub Pistols:
Reggae-breaks-jungle mashups, from these gangster-swaggering festival stalwarts.
Over an 18-year career the Dub Pistols have worked with heroes like The Specials, Busta Rhymes, Horace Andy, Madness and Gregory Isaacs. They’ve burned through different members and hundreds of thousands of pounds on assorted capers and hedonism.
It should have been a recipe for oblivion. “We’ve got a saying in this band,” says Barry: “Whatever can go possibly wrong, will go wrong.” Instead it was the making of the Dub Pistols. The band that started out in the mid-90s with Barry DJ’ing while musicians jammed over the top (“a right fucking racket,” he laughs) has metamorphosed into a mighty reggaematic bass-driven live machine, a super-tight festival regular that keeps winning over new fans, across the UK & Europe festival scene.
The Dub Pistols are one of the few remaining working class bands who carry the flame of reggae-driven sound system music, the secret rhythm of Britain from ska and rocksteady through Soul II Soul to grime and dubstep and beyond. “I always thought that being in a band wasn’t for people like me,” Barry admits. “It was more a middle-class thing. It was the Mondays that changed that. We’re part of street music, working class music. That’s never going to go away.”