Charge your pulses with two electronic acts as they bring down the house at the Bass Camp 2 music fest this weekend

Charge your pulses with two electronic acts as they bring down the house at the Bass Camp 2 music fest this weekend

If the words electronica, drum and bass, funk and dub step get you all wired up, then you can look forward to the quarterly electronic music festival that's going to hit our fair city this Friday.
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Head to the Bass Camp 2 festival at Friends & Bacchus (F&B), courtesy Krunk, a booking agency that books DJs, bands and other performers in the electronica genre.
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The festival, which happened for the first time in Feb 2010, is on a three city tour of Bangalore, Delhi and Mumbai.

Bay side story

Mumbai-based act Bay Beat Collective is one of the acts performing at the Bass Camp festival.
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The act is a collective of Kris Correya (a Mumbai-based DJ) Sohail (founder of KRUNK) and Raffael Kably (another Mumbai DJ) formed in 2008. "We got a great response the last time we performed.
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We are looking forward to a great gig this time too." Arora told us over a telephone interview from Mumbai.
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He wants the Bangalore electronica loyalists to look forward to bass heavy genres of sound along with dub step (a genre of electronic dance music), funk and loads of drum and bass.
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Apart from unleashing a fresh sound of electronica on the crowd, the performance will be pumped up by a visual show of psychedelic images and abstract forms by VJ Harish.

Going solo

He is a one-man army but that does not make him any less. Nucleya aka Udyan Sagar is all set to give Bangalore a real sound of bass heavy Indian electronic music.

"When I produce music, the ideas that I get in my mind come from all sorts of angles, influences and experiences.
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What goes inside my brain is almost like a nuclear reaction. That's from where the name Nucleya came," Sagar told us from Goa.

Sagar, who was earlier a part of the rock band Bandish Projekt will be blending Bollywood snippets with some heavy bass line music for this concert.

"My music is melody based even with a bass effect. It will be a mix and match," Sagar says. "Everybody tells me that Bangalore is the place to be for electronic music," he adds.

Fatafat Five

Your best and worse moments on stage?
At one of my gigs in Mumbai and Shankar Mahadevan happened to be there and later on complimented me on my performance and also showed an inclination to work together. That was the best moment.

When not playing what else do you like doing?
I like watching films, make circuit bent music instruments.

What's lacking in Indian electronic music scene?
Awareness I believe, we have enough bands and musicians doing Indian Electronic music, but for some reason the scene is still not as big in India as it is abroad.

Your "the" location to perform?
Royal Opera House in London

Five musicians you would like to jam with?
I would like to jam with MIA, V. Selvaganesh, Timbaland, U Srinivas and Bjork.

At Friends & Bacchus, St Marks Road
On May 22, 8.30 pm to 11.30 pm
For Cover charge Rs 500 per person redeemable at the bar