Meet Ashes & Download "Dubvine"
Ashes is a drum and bass/dubstep sound slayer hailing from of Ottawa, Canada.
Ashes has been handling the dubplates for six years now and after coming onto our radar via everyone's fav sharing site, Soundcloud, 507 asked Ashes to answer a few questions, and being the rad dude he is...
STATS: Ashes, 25, Ottawa CAN
What do you use to produce and mix your tracks?
Hardware Macbook pro 2.4, KRKv8 Series2 near field monitors, KRK10S sub, Saffire LE, Novation RemoteSL25, Ableton 8, Massive, Sylenth, VintageWarmer, Decapitator and Ozone4 are the ones I use the most.
What artist(s) have you been listening to the most of late?
Lots of indie rock. I discovered Broken Bells recently which is a team up of Danger Mouse and James Mercer (lead singer of The Shins). They have this tune “The Mall & Misery” which I must have played at least 100 times last week. I don’t really listen to a lot of Dubstep on my own time but some of the tunes that I really dig are:
- Pendulum - Set me on fire
- Blame Ft Ruff Sqwad -- On my own (Drumsound & Bassline remix)
- Example - Kickstarts (bar 9 remix)
- Noisia - Machine Gun (16 Bit remix)
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We’ve got a pretty intense dubstep scene here in Minnesota. What’s the scene like in Ottawa, dubstep or otherwise?
Ottawa has a pretty small scene but it’s picking up. We recently had Borgore down which was awesome from what I heard. I didn’t get the chance to go due to lack of funds. Come to think of it I actually have never been to an all Dubstep show. I think that would drive me crazy since I’m not a big fan of a lot of stuff that gets played. I find it’s either too quiet and dubby or too squelchy. I like going to shows where there is Dubstep, Breaks and DnB. That’s the perfect party.
You recently started dabbling in dubstep the last few months, was there something specific that drew you to the sound? Or was it more about getting on the bandwagon (when Deadmau5 starts dropping dubstep wobbles, it’s safe to say the sound is trending…)?
I heard the potential for Dubstep to be awesome but nearly all of the songs I heard annoyed the hell out of me. My buddy played Giant - Drumstick in one of his sets and it was the first time I had heard a nice melody in a Dubstep tune instead of the same old squelchy disjointed madness. I decided to see if I could remake the song from scratch which was a ton of fun to do. After I did that started digging Dubstep a lot more and at the same time I discovered a bunch of epic tunes and I was hooked.
The line between dnb and dubstep exists, but can get hazy. How do you find the equilibrium between them?
They serve different purposes. DnB is good for jumping around like a maniac while Dubstep is good for gettin’ down. They compliment each other very nicely in DJ sets - I pepper Dubstep throughout my sets to provide a break from the jumping. Tempo changes are very effective at keeping the dancefloor’s attention. There is a huge variety in the kinds of DnB and Dubstep that you can get. That’s my favourite thing about broken beats - they can take on whatever vibe and influence you want them to. There are really organic mellow tunes, robotic synthy tunes and everything in between.
Any shows coming up?
July 15 @ The Lotus Lounge
July 22 @ TBA
July 31 @ The Cajun Attic
August 28 @ Warning: Incoming Game (Montreal)
Anything else you’d like 507projex’s readers to know?
- Remix of Giant - Drumstick
- Demo mix for anyone interested in hearing what I DJ.
- For those of you that get down to Ragga Jungle, check out Ashes' homie, DJ Ramza
Links
- Ashes Soundcloud
- Ashes Facebook
- Ashes Twitter
- Ashes YouTube
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Large up my man Ashes, killing it on the production tip. Been rinsing the Drum Stick remix for time!
you got that all right bro!
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