RAW, UNDERGROUND, ANALOGUE & ACID HOUSE & TECHNO PARTY

Hot on the heels of our 4th birthday bash, White Rhino charges on with Toronto native Basic Soul Unit. With releases on Techno’s leading labels, Perlon and Creme Organization and every other dope label plus a forthcoming EP on Boddikka’s Nonplus Records, you can expect finely crafted Detroit-style futurism with a little acid thrown in for good measure, raw textures plied with mind fucking filtered disco drones, hypnotic synth patterns, swirling jazz-trained keys and deep atmospherics. He effortlessly blends between Techno and House, smooth and rough, sexy and tough, with his eyes to the past and his ears to the future…
This stuff lasts all night long.

Supported by Walrii, Rikki Newton, Adam Swain, Percy Miracles, Lone Pariah.




FORTHCOMING on BODDIKAs Nonplus Records

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Way to many super dope and diverse releases under his belt. Here's a few..

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Basic Soul Unit - Yellow River - Creme Organization - YouTube

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Basic Soul Unit - For Some - YouTube

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RAW, UNDERGROUND, ANALOGUE & ACID HOUSE & TECHNO PARTY


BASIC SOUL UNIT midnight shift podcast -

That podcast is great, as is his forthcoming nonplus release. KEEEEEEEEEN!!

Tracklist for the above Midnight shift podcast

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Basic Soul Unit – Deep Diving (New Kanada)
Morphosis – Wild In Captivity (Delsin)
Argy – Ethiopia's Rise (Cadenza)
Basic Soul Unit – For Some (New Kanada)
Empty Set – Altogether Lost feat Cornelius Harris (Ben Klock's Glowing Clap Mix) (CLR)
Basic Soul Unit – Late Night Shift (Midnight Shift)
Cosmin TRG – Fizic (50 Weapons)
Instra:mental – Pyramid (3024)
Robert Hood – Track 5 (CLR)
Joey Beltram – The Start It Up (Claude Young Mix) (Trax)
Basic Soul Unit – Soulspeak (Shed Mix) (Dolly)
Francois X – Code Red (Marcel Dettman Remix) (Deeply Rooted)
Traversable Wormhole – Exiting The Milkyway (Surgeon Remix) (CLR)
Peter Van Hoesen – Axis Mundi (Ostgut Ton)
Vozmediano – There's A Light (Rolando Remix) (Be As One)
Roots Panorama – Threee (Deetron Mix) (Versatile)
Braille – Riverbed (Hotflush)
Machinedrum – Now U Know Tha Deal 4 Real (Planet Mu)

Some more Basic Soul Unit background to get you into the mood for the gig.

Waveforms Podcast Episode 13 - Basic Soul Unit

Tracklist:
01 Automatic Tasty / Small Hours / Lunardisko
02 D'Marc Cantu / I Want To Ride / Creme Organization
03 Basic Soul Unit / Come On (Unbroken Dub remix) / Other Heights
04 Juju & Jordash / Bleached Roots / Rush Hour
05 Javier Logares / Silicon Drift (Roman Fluegel remix) / Get Physical
06 Gemini / Spirals / Kahua
07 OCP / Convoy / Aim
08 Achterbahn D'Amour / Trance Me Up (Skudge remix) / Absurd
09 Boddika / Steam / ?
10 Skudge / Ursa Major (Cosmin TRG remix) / Skudge
11 Marcel Dettman / Duel / 50 Weapons
12 Nighttripper / Phuture (Robert Hood remix) / Underground Liberation
13 Format #1 / Solid Session (Nostagia remix) / Night Vision
14 Imugem Orihasam / Gleam From Distant Gate / NYSDE

SN Podcast 005: Basic Soul Unit

Tracklist:
Stanley Cowell – Travelin Man [Strata East]
Nathan Davis Quintet – Carmell’s Black Forest Waltz [SABA]
Tenorio Jr. – Nebulosa
Tania Maria – Para Chick [Barclay]
Norman Connors – Mother Of The Future [Buddah]
Eddie Kendricks – Date With The Rain [Tamla]
Alice Clark – Don’t You Care [Mainstream]
Jon Lucien – Do You Believe In Me [RCA]
Djavan – Nereci [EMI]
LOGG – Dancing Into The Stars [Salsoul]
Truth – Open Our Eyes (Marshall’s Elevated Dub) [Big Beat]
Fingers Inc – Mystery Of Dub [DJ International]
Millsart – Every Dog Has Its Day Vol 4 C1 [Axis]
Pharoah Sanders – Love Is Everywhere [Impulse]

I've been getting right into this

http://soundcloud.com/basic-soul-uni...l-unit-mix-for

Gerd / Palm Leaves (Larry Heard remix) / Royal Oak
Hunee / Folga / Future Times
Achterbahn D'Amour / JX2 / Frank
Vakula / Saturday (Fudge Fingas remix) / 3rd Strike
Perseus Traxx / House Music / Bunker
Basic Soul Unit / Growing Pains / Other Heights
Makam / Good To You / Dekmantel
Tears OF Velva / The Way I Feel (4 Daye Club) / King Street
Red Rack'em / Kalimba / Philomena
CCO / Nothing To Lose But The Chains / Drum Poet Community
Helium Robots / Jarza (Theo Parrish translation 1) / Running Back
Morphosis / Too Far (Marcel Dettman Definition 2) / Delsin-MOS-Morphine
B.D.I. / Decoded Messages Of Life / Rush Hour
Blawan / Peaches / Clone Basement Series
Conforce / Within / Delsin



Wicked line up, see you there!

Liking the tracklist on that mix Baax!

Great booking lads.

Looking forward to playing at a White Rhino party for the first time.

It's a great mix Rikki,

Vakula - Saturday (Fudge Fingers mix) is something else, what a tune!

I've got the Midnight Shift mix going now, solid gear!!

All great mixes! Another quality booking by the Rhino crew and nice to have a Sat night shindig too

gonna be plaing sounds like this one

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This week, yes!

Kevin McPhee

Really excited about Saturday night.

Great interview by the Kana crew with BSU as well that's floating about at the moment.

Review of his 1st gig in Australia 2 weeks ago on ITM.

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HAHA pres. Basic Soul Unit @ Marrickville Bowling Club, Sydney (07/07/2012)

Last Saturday saw the latest edition of HAHA Industries’ ongoing series of parties at Marrickville Bowling Club. It was my first time at a HAHA event and I’d heard plenty of good. From the names they’ve booked in the past I figured it would be right up my street. The place was not packed, but the crowd that had made the journey to this “oasis in the middle of an industrial wilderness” (as the sign at the door advertises the club) on this chilly winter’s night was pretty up for it. Eric Downer was warming up the floor with a well-paced set that included a good deal of electro breaks.

Just as I got settled Downer faded into Slam’s 1993 classic A Positive Education, a dark and sinuous implosion of progressive/acid house quintessence that always gives a set a majestic feel. Someone on the dancefloor, which was still gradually populating, called out “Ohhhhh! Yeahhhhhhh!” That’s what I’m talking about. It’s a good instance of how a well-played classic can set the tone for an evening perfectly. Headliners Basic Soul Unit and Alphatown definitely work the same vein as Slam and their influences from the old school, bringing to the party different variations on hard-hitting but funky tech-house with with a welcome sheen of soul and melody.

Once Caldwell got things thoroughly cooking, the three lads in Alphatown stepped up to their machines, which had been set up right on the edge of the dancefloor, as if they were punk musicians at a loft party. Alphatown are a locally grown act – as one of them reminded us, “These tunes are created right here in Marrickville!” – and their enthusiasm was offset with a warm, familiar welcome from the crowd. I hadn’t heard them before and I was pretty impressed. Live PAs of house music can be hit or miss; the test is always, “Is this as interesting as what a decent DJ could be doing right now?” In this case the answer was a big thumbs-up. These guys have been at it for a while and their sound is pretty tight: thumping bass, just the right kind of choppy, clattering mids and highs (with the occasional sunny splash of tribal percussion), tweaky electro sounds, and trippy vocal samples of Janis Joplin and the like. Whenever it started to get a bit too same-same, they’d flip the script – with the three of them working together, there was a great organic feel to the proceedings.

Next up was a DJ set from Toronto’s Stuart Li, also known as Basic Soul Unit. Li has plenty of quality productions under his belt; as often seems to be the case with producers across the border from the Midwestern capitals of house and techno, he brings a particularly raw, twisted take on both sounds, along with rugged, melodic feeling as befitting his moniker. I fell in love with his sound thanks to tracks like Things Pass (off Tensnake’s brilliant In the House mix), a wickedly beautiful tribute to the acidy roots of deep house that had the heads back in New York going mental when I dropped it at a party there.

But as often happens when a producer headlines as a DJ on a Saturday night, Li left the deep stuff in the back of the crate, throttling up the sound, going right for the tech end of the spectrum. Pounding kicks and gut-churning bass were offset by cascading sheets of analogue synth, generally of the darker variety. At several points you wouldn’t have said this was house at all, more like banging funky techno a la Dave Clarke. That seemed to suit the mood of the smallish but passionate crowd of punters just fine. But Li, who was spinning vinyl as well as MP3, also lived up to his moniker, ensuring there was plenty of melody swirling in the mix, and throwing in Norma Jean Bell’s ghetto-garage classic I’m the Baddest Bitch as if to prove that house is as hard as techno any night. It may have been windy and cold out in that industrial wilderness that night but Li kept us warm with some basic soul.

Source: http://www.inthemix.com.au/events/re...ydney_07072012

Sounds good to me!

Kana Broadcast 034 Basic Soul Unit -



Interview & Mix from Kana

"I think my music is an ode to that moment in an underground warehouse party when the rawest tune comes on and people are losing it in the deep end"

How cool is that quote!

This sat guys guys!! Will most probably be our last international for the year as we re-assess things so come and make it count.

Looking forward to 2 hours from Rikki and Adam after just recently returning for a euro trip and most definitely some new inspirations

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Basic Soul Unit - Fly By Night (Void) - YouTube

Gutted i'm not in Brissie tomorrow night!!!
Get along and support this one kids, proper music for the heads and the feets!

Any word on set times?

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Any word on set times?

Pfft. You'll be there anyway. I knock off work at 830 so maybe pre drinks at yours could be best.

set times are looking something like
9-10: me
10-12: adam swain b2b riki newton
12-1: lone pariah
1-?: BSU
?-close: Walrii

Super excited for this!

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set times are looking something like
9-10: me
10-12: adam swain b2b riki newton
12-1: lone pariah
1-?: BSU
?-close: Walrii

Loving those set times. Looks we'll be in there nice and early.

Nice wan!

Rikki, Achterbahn D'Amour - In the middle of

What a night! So much fun. I'm finding it hard to put into words how awesome the night was, other than to say I haven't had this much fun in awhile.

BSU covered a wide spectrum of genres, acid and deep house, techno too. Scuba, Boddika, Blawan tracks left right and centre. Heard a Shed track and plenty of solid deeper stuff.

This tune went down pretty well One of my highlights of the night. <3 Conforce.

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Conforce - 24 (Gesloten Cirkel Remix) - YouTube

Hat's off to White Rhino for a cracking night.

Really enjoyed Stuart's set from start to finish.

It's been a while since I've been to Barsoma and was good to see such a busy night!

That was all types of fun!

Great set from the Subtrakt honchos as well and I enjoyed Simon's analogue sounds.

Thanks to everyone who came along to Basic Soul Unit on sat. Support dj's killed it all night as well especially the warm up from Adam and Rikki! Was an epic night! Probably going to be the last WR party for a while so was good to have such a solid turn out. Untill next time!

i hadn't planned on going to this at all but ended up there randomly. so good! very glad i did, this guy was awesome..and it was cool to see all the crew out.

massive shame it was so excruciatingly loud that i had to dance up the back, i hate that.

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i hadn't planned on going to this at all but ended up there randomly. so good! very glad i did, this guy was awesome..and it was cool to see all the crew out.

massive shame it was so excruciatingly loud that i had to dance up the back, i hate that.

i was ok with the volume and i was right up front although i am fine with it pumped up