about Foundation Stepper

Posted by Mashup on July 26th, 2006  Loading ...    

Styles: mix of dubwise, jungle and reggae beats
Outta: Melbourne, AUS
Crew: Croaking Lizard
Started: 2001
Website/Contact: www.croakinglizard.com or @ myspace dot com

Mixes:
Reggae Mix
A selection of some sweeter reggae songs… love those vocal harmony groups, late 60’s and early 70’s. With a bit of classic stepping dub tunes to finish off. Nice!
Ant Hill Dub
Reggae from old to dub from new, UK and elsewhere. Oldies such as yabby you, linval thompson, scientist, lee perry, meets mad prof, etheralites, shaka… toasty warm music.

Live at Jungle Soundclash
April 2006 saw Melbournes first Jungle Soundclash with new school jungle junkies Livewire, Unsoundbwoy and Foundation Stepper up against the old school styling of AC23, Hybryd and Trooper. Round for round, licks were shot into the early hours of the morning, with the sound of new emerging victorious. A recording of Foundation Steppers soundclash set, pushing dub and dancehall flavours to just beyond their breaking point. Nuff new school ragga stormers. Blam!
tracklist:
Gregoy issacs/Dj C - Gone a jail version
Young ax - Sunrise
Debaser - Crazy Baldheads (Press Up Mix)
General malice - Dancehall bustlin’
Krinjah - Squeeze remix
Tuffist & lyon - My sound (false alarm)
Monkey steak - Knocking around the zoo
Bong-ra - Blood & fire
DJ C - Billy jungle (version)
Krumble - Backward country boy explosion
Soundmurderer - Lock it off
Soundmurderer - Stick Up “quick mix”
Wayne and Wax - DJ C it Dat Version
DJ C - Crazy Baldheads (Mashit Mix)
Dancehall niceness - Mi Ninja Bombing Champion Outro

About:
Foundation Stepper has selected a mix of dubwise, jungle and reggae beats out and about and around Melbourne since 2001. His reggae, dub and downbeat residencies and support slots include gigs with The Red Eyes, Chant Down, Ruffneck Souljahs, Livewire and Dialekt. He has also played gigs in NZ and Japan, appearing at Disco Beans, Osaka as well as some other venue where the reggae heads were quite confused by what he was playing. His reggae sets sway towards a roots focus, foundation era tunes and nuff 70’s dubwise… with a healthy serving of tricky dancehall riddims and outernational dub and ragga experiments… Foundation Steppers jungle sets are a polyrhythmic mash-up of new school ragga sounds, toxic dancehall and concrete jungle with smatterings of breakcore, dub bass and eleven secret herbs and spices. Foundation Stepper is a DJ project of Eliot Palmer, hailing from Christchurch, living in Melbourne…

He is currently undertaking a few too many projects - studying masters, doing sound design work and researching the effect of low frequency sound on the body, and vibration in performance spaces…. Other aspects include a Max/MSP project which aims to emulate the sound of objects resonating and buzzing to bass sounds.