Pure Solid
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Biografía
- Pure Solid is Dplanet (audio) and spo0ky (visuals). Together they create an intense audio-visual assault on the senses. Dplanet describes their music as 'Robot Army Dub'. It is rooted in a variety of militant genres including dub, digital steppers,..Pure Solid is Dplanet (audio) and spo0ky (visuals). Together they create an intense audio-visual assault on the senses. Dplanet describes their music as 'Robot Army Dub'. It is rooted in a variety of militant genres including dub, digital steppers, grime, hip hop and all kinds of rebellious 'soundsystem' music. spo0ky creates bespoke graphic design and video treatments that interpret and enhance the music, providing a powerful, immersively hypnotic experience. Originally from England and Belgium respectively, Dplanet and spo0ky have lived in South Africa for many years are determined to address current local and global socio-political realities through their audio visual work. Pure Solid recently released an album with South African rapper Ben Sharpa called '4th Density Light Show'. The album was released on French label, Jarring Effects. They completed their first European tour in 2012, where they opened for Roots Manuva, Dope DOD, Porter Robinson and Filastine. They recently completed their first solo tour of Europe where they performed at Riddim Collision in Lyon, France. They also have an extensive European tour schedule lined-up for 2013 and will also be performing at The Cape Town International Jazz festival with Ben Sharpa. PRESS: "Owing largely to a knocking beatscape that marries dubstep to hip-hop, and then flavours that union with electro and dub oscillations, what you’re given here is doom to dance to." - Masande Ntshanga, Rolling Stone SA (Apr 2012) "4DLS is less a throwback to older rap dystopia albums like Cannibal Ox’s transcendent ghetto-sci-fi epic poem The Cold Vein and more a hip-hop classmate to M.I.A.’s eminently noddable and genre-bending Zeitgeist think-piece." - Masande Ntshanga, Rolling Stone SA (Apr 2012). "If an earthquake had lyrics." - Halley Bondy, MTV Iggy (June, 2012) "Sharpa and Pure Solid’s offering injects energy into a morose, meme-obsessed musical consumer’s conscience, straying from conventional sonic territory in favour of a more affecting end-product that challenges the boundaries of how dub and rap are allowed to co-exist." - Ts’eliso Monaheng, Mahala (July, 2012) "Derrière, batterie, basse et synthétiseurs massifs renforcent l’aspect martial de l’ensemble, en lui ajoutant un côté futuriste." - Frédéric Péguillan, Télérama.fr (June, 2012) "4DLS hypnotise par sa mécanique répétitive des temps modernes et envoûte avec ses refrains comparables à des hymnes. Justifiant pleinement l’appellation que Sharpa attribue à son travail : ‘Robot Army Music’"| - Frédéric Péguillan, Télérama.fr (June, 2012)̸Ghetto Dubs (Pioneer Unit Records) 4th Density Light Show - Ben Sharpa & Pure Solid (Jarring Effects)
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