Red Bull Music Academy bringing Dego to Australia

PRESS RELEASE:

Back once again for their monthly Club Night series, Red Bull Music Academy have requested the attendance of 4hero founding member and 2000BLACK label head dego,who will treat Australian ears to his broken beat talents for the September edition. A visit to Australian shores will see the genre-creating / defying dance music innovator hit five capital cities – Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne - throughout the month.
 
Absorbing a lifetime’s worth of soul, reggae and hip-hop growing up in North-West London, dego was a sound system selector before he had left school and a pirate radio DJ not long after. Developing as a producer, his first releases were at the dawn of the 1990s as part of 4hero, dance music pioneers for whom jungle and drum n’ bass was their work’s exoskeleton, shooting off into techno and jazz. The collective turned out a slew of albums – among them 1994’s Parallel Universe, the Mercury Prize-nominated Two Pages in 1998 and 2001’s Creating Patterns - each one a thrilling statement of musicianship, a shade ahead of the pulse of modern British black music.
 
At the start of the 2000s, dego, Phil Asher, IG Culture and a cast of other likeminded Londoners started Co-Op, a clubland icon which would find a home for their emerging scene at the legendary Velvet Rooms and Plastic People (RIP). The sound of Co-Op was maybe best captured in 4hero’s ‘Hold It Down’, a dego-written minor hit.
 
Dego’s 2000BLACK label, meanwhile, carved out its own niche via a series of singles, albums and compilations of London boogie. In 2011, dego’s first solo album A Wha’ Him Deh Pon?, won across-the-board acclaim, while in 2013 and 2014 he embarked on a string of hotly received 12” releases on pioneering label Eglo, Brooklyn producer Falty DL’sBlueberry Records and Theo Parrish’s Sound Signature. In May this year, dego released his highly anticipated second solo LP The More Things Stay the Same via 2000BLACK, a long player rooted in Jazz Fusion, classic Funk and Electro.
 
Undefined by any singular genre and a pioneering force in London club music culture,dego will be sure to enthral and enthuse he as continues to forge electronic music’s soulful future via the dance floor this September.
 
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TOUR DATES:
Thursday 17th - Brisbane - Woolly Mammoth - 633 Ann St, Fortitude Valley
Doors 9pm
 
Friday 18th - Perth - Jimmy’s Den - 69 James St, Northbridge
Supported by Mike Midnight, Ben M, Henry Maxwell & Ben Taaffe
Doors 8pm
 
Saturday 19th - Adelaide - Rocket Bar - 142 Hindley St, Adelaide (Limited free entry via RSVP)
Supported by Troy J Been, Olmos & Big Bubba
Doors 9pm
 
Friday 25th - Sydney - Goodgod Small Club - 53-55 Liverpool St, Sydney
Supported by Simon Caldwell & Ed Seven (Lioness)
Doors 10pm
 
Saturday 26th - Melbourne - Boney - 68 Little Collins St, Melbourne
Supported by Kano, Jimmy James, Richard Campbell & Myles Mac
Doors 9pm