Producer, DJ, vocalist and multi instrumentalist Son Of Kick is making waves with his bumping, super-charged live set. A bass-feast packed full of electro, dubstep, heavy grooves and the insanely unpredictable. Catch him dropping acapella’s from Method Man or rocking snippets from the Violent Femmes alongside his own productions. On a playing field of his own right now, it was friend and vocalist RQM that recently coined his new ‘bass’ style, ‘Psychostep’.

Based in West London, S.O.K.’s sound & style has already been picked up by various labels including the Stanton Warrior’s own Beat’s and pioneering London imprint Botchit and Scarper. Recent remix credits include work for labels such as Equinox Records and Man Recordings in Germany, ESL Music (Washington DC), Civil Music (UK), and Om Records (San Francisco). Head of his label Way Way Records, SOK has a bunch of releases about to be unleashed. Out early December 2010 his current single release “Guacha” on Equinox (Germany) which is receiving major props from Rob Da Bank at Radio 1 through to Simbad in France as smashed air waves and dancefloors across the glob.

Not a man to sit about, S.O.K. is co-producing an album right now, alongside the French dj/producer Simbad for the new collective project “Klub Sandwich” with Grems & Disiz La Peste (ex-Rouge A Levre). Also producing a bunch of EP’s with the Foreign Beggars’, Pav and Ebow out in Berlin. There’s also the matter of his first solo album scheduled for july 2011 on his own label Way Way Records. Remixes for the Go! Team, Husky Rescue and Tokyo Police Club will also be dropping mid 2011 and his new solo EP “Playing the Villain” featuring: Machinedrum, Chris De Luca, Jantsen and Bang On! on San Francisco top Glich label MUTI Music.

When not shooting videos for his label or making music for TV and film documentaries he’s working hard on new material for forthcoming European shows as well as next summer’s Gilles Peterson Worldwide Festival; having recently toured dates in Germany, UK, France and Switzerland alongside Bar9, Foreign Beggars, Bar Noize, Distance and Baobinga.






Latest tracks by SON OF KICK

XTRA BACKGROUND
In 2008, Son Of Kick was selected in the top twenty talent search for Gilles Peterson's World Wide Festival and invited to play with the winner Emilie Chick and in the top 5 for "Les Printemps De Bourge". Going on to play two years later as one of the headline slots on the Sunday night, at this year’s 2010 Worldwide Festival in Sete, France.

He has released work in the past under the name D.A.T.A (Ditox At The Asylum) aka Micro Coz including composing the theme tune for The Digital Music Awards, The BBC - The Greatest Race On Earth, The L-Word,Vibe 3on3, Sky TV and more.

Over the years he has shared the DJ booth with artists such as : Beat Torrent, Scratch Perverts, Detroit Grand Pubahs, Foreign Beggars, Gilles Peterson, Diplo, Simbad, Laurent Garnier, Roots Manuva, DJ Lefto & Mr Fish to name a few.

His acoustic project with Alice Gobets as “Allover” is on hold while he concentrates on the world of Son Of Kick.


WHAT THE PAPERS SAY:

This is wicked! can i get an mp3 for my show? :) My TUNE OF THE DAY! (Rob Da Bank, BBC Radio 1 about “Guacha” - 1st Nov)

File Under ‘unexpected pleasure’. (Clash Magazine, UK)

Now see this works on every level. This is rush music. SUPERB’ (DJ Mag, UK)

"Son Of Kick brings you a refreshing new dubstep like sound that is as heavy as it is errie" (DJ Kraddy, US)

Excellent remix, I love it! It’s actually the first time I really like a dance remix someone has done of one of my tracks. My congratulations to Mika. (Federico Aubele - ESL Music) Retarded! One of the nastiest tunes I’ve ever heard from you... fuckin nuke! (Stereotyp – Crunchtime/G Stone, Vienna/New York)

Listened to these tracks though and they are killer! tell him i love that shit.. it sounds like what dubstep would sound like if dubstep was good. (Knife Hand Chop, Canada) Bass heavy freshness from Son Of Kick. Definitely a producer to watch for in 2011. (Mark, Stanton Warriors – Punk/Beats, London)

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