Whoa, total drum ’n bass flashback time, as one of the original innovators, Roni Size, reprazents on Friday at 103 Harriet with toasty Dynamite MC providing the wicked verbiage, and — what the freak — dub legend Mad Professor and the “dubstep prodigy” craziness of DJ Seven providing backup. Apparently Size still matters.The Bay’s fiery Compression crew opens up, so time to do some bass drops.
This party oughta be an ear-hair-blazing connect-the-dots from dub to drum ‘n bass to dubstep for all you hedz out there… and damn if looking up old Roni clips isn’t already hearkening me back to simpler days and thicker floors (especially this track, which pretty much worked as atmospheric-breaks gods LTJ Bukem and MC Conrad‘s main template for years — check out the second half of the live video below).
Roni Size w/ Mad Professor and Seven
Fri/17, 10 p.m., $15 advance
103 Harriet, SF
www.sunsetpromotions.net
Roni Size, “Dirty Beats”
Roni Size with Dynamite MC, live in Milan 02/08
Mad Professor, Kunta Kinte Dub ’91 (love, love this)