Soul, Funk, Reggae, Ragga, Punk, Rock, Hip-Hop, Electronic Musics, Serge Gainsbourg, Keyshia Cole, The Brothers Johnson, The Isley Brothers, Donny Hathaway, William Devaughn, Gnarls Barkley, Lilly Alen, LKJ, Al Green, Jimmy Hendrix, Digital Underground, Dr Dré, Curtis Mayfield, Gregory Isaac, The Neptunes, Soul II Soul, Ken Boothe, AC/DC, Outkast, Brian Wilson... Graffiti, Digital Culture, Martial Arts (Viet Vo Dao, Wing Tsun, Bagua zhang) and too many to mention...
Kush began on the French drum & bass scene at the end of 1996, as one of its co-fonder and as a DJ of course. In 1998 he formed the collective "Dragon Krew" (with Brooxs, Le Lutin, Sti, Peyo & Youthman) and he took part in many drum & bass residencies and gigs in Toulouse.
As he was noticed by the quality of his mixes (eclectic selection, precise mixing and his ability to mash up the dancefloor) Kush got booked on the biggests electronic events and bombed more than 700 dancefloors across France and Spain since 1997 : Paris / Rennes / Bordeaux / Montpellier / Marseille / Lyon / Nantes / Toulouse / San Sebastian / Barcelona / Madrid / Valencia and many more...
Influenced by the Afro-American musics and also by Reggae, Punk, Rock and new electronic tendencies, he decided to start producing D&B around 2003 and he released his first vinyl "Frisco E.P."on his own label. Since that, Kush works on several collaborations with different artists (SKS, Peyo, Redeyes, Kafra, Brooxs, mc Youthman...) and many of his last tunes have been playlisted on BBC 1, 1XTRA, BASSDRIVE.COM and played by djs such as Syncopix, Crissy Cris, Redeyes, Stunna, dj Science... (for releases and forthcoming, see my blog)
Since 2000 dj Kush runs his own radio show, "Punk Phunk" alongside dj Dread-I-Licious on www.radiocampustoulouse.com from 8:00 to 10:00 pm GMT each saturdays (France : 21h/23h).
He has spinned records at the sides of Dillinja, Hype, Zinc, Shy FX,TC, Doc Scott, Marky, Wildchild, Dom & Roland, Marcus Intalex, Smokey Joe, Danny Wheeler, MC Wreck, Dee Nasty, Le Lutin, Brooxs, Flow, Miss Ficel, Science, Natty Bass, Kafra, MC Youthman, MC Jamalski, MC Kray z b, MC Fearless, Redeyes, Peyo, Flore, Star-Eyes...
He's truly one of the few french D'n'B artists that big D'n'B promoters trust in.
Releases :
"Frisco EP" 2003 Fourth Pole rec (4THP001)
"Wonderland" - SKS & Kush - out on 1st Apr 2008 on Solé Digital (SOLEDD005A)
"Hook That Sleng" - Kafra & Kush - on "Fresh Connection" out on February 2008 more infos on www.myspace.com/dafreshconnection
"Hook That Sleng" out on 5th Jan 2009 on LIQUID BRILLIANT LP 1 (LQBDIG025LP-1)
Forthcoming releases :
"The Cure" Solé recordings 2009 "Closer To U" Solé recordings 2009
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•DJ Kush [prononcez keuch] est l'un des précurseurs de la musique Jungle / Drum&Bass en France.
Il est l'un des initiateur des premières soirées D&B de Toulouse (la Torpille, le Bikini...)
on le retrouve à l'origine d'une des scènes musicales les plus intéressantes que l'on puisse trouver en France.
Il a notamment organisé toutes les soirées bimestrielles du Dragon Krew de 1997 à 2002.
•Ayant à son actif + de 700 soirées depuis sept. 97 (Paris / Rennes / Bordeaux / Montpellier / Marseille / Lyon / Nantes / Toulouse / San Sebastian / Barcelona / Madrid / Valencia et bien d'autres...
Kush se fait un devoir de faire monter la pression pendant ses sets avec des promos et des dubplates exclusives tout en privilégiant les rythmes
« groovy » ainsi que les basses et les sonorités chaleureuses.
Ses mixes dans lesquels on retrouve l'influence des musiques Soul, Funk, Dub et Techno, vont du cool au percutant !
•Kush anime et mixe également dans son émission ‘Punk Phunk' Jungle, D‘n'B, BreakBeat, 2 Step, UK Garage...
Tous les samedis de 21h à 23h sur Radio Campus Toulouse 94 FM et sur www.radiocampustoulouse.com
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Critical Soundsystem présente: 2 soirées placées sous le signe de la basse!
Le 14 novembre nous vous donnon rendez-vous pour un meeting qui devrait tenir toute ses promesses.
Une rencontre au sommet avec I-Station soundsystem ( http://www.myspace.com/istationsoundsystem ) qui viendront avec leur sono complète! 2 sonos pour une soirée Roots to dubstep.
Au programme: du très lourd avec Ackboo et Zion uk pour un set stepper digne des meilleures soirées anglaises ( http://www.myspace.com/ackboo ) et pour finir Critical Soundsystem pour un set dubstep très riche en basses fréquences.
hey hello, greetz! very nice music! Keep the good work! take 5 mnts of your time please to visit my page, and check my drum n..bass sound. Paz! (Im open to any oportunity) PLOMO
Yep M. Kush, ça va ? j'ai pas eu le temps d'upload la démo encore ^^ mais je vais essayer de me speed. Et au fait, ce remix, t'as commencé ou c'est mort ?