The Upbeats 20th Anniversary
Addington Raceway
16:00 – 22:30
Music You Can Feel In Your Bones
There’s music you hear.
And then there’s bass music: the kind you feel moving through the floor, through your chest, through your bones.
Sound waves that travel through space, through bodies, through walls.
A TOUCH OF BASS brings that energy together in the heart of Tāmaki for a full immersion.
Featuring Paige Julia, Optimus Gryme, and Sorchalula: Artists who are shaping this wave of bass culture in Aotearoa. Each bringing their own sound, their own rhythm, their own relationship with the sub.
WHERE SOUND
BECOMES PHYSICAL
PAIGE JULIA: Paige Julia is a creature that lives on an island in the South Pacific Ocean that spends her time tinkering with sound machines. Whilst a well-known force in Aotearoa’s underground bass music scene for some time, Paige Julia is now being embraced by the global music community as one of the very profound artists emanating from Aotearoa.
OPTIMUS GRYME: A true veteran of Aotearoa’s bass underground, Optimus Gryme has spent over a decade dedicated to the craft, moving from early trip-hop experiments in the late ’90s into a lifelong commitment to drum and bass culture.
SORCHALULA: Mysterious, mercurial and multi-faceted. SorchaLula has as many shades to her music as she does to her personality. A dynamic producer/DJ, she flows from slinky sensuality, to fierce filth, to the uncompromising underground.
