JAMIE KIDD

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By the arrangement of depth, his unhinged musical taste and genre-defiant mixing style, musician, producer and dj Jamie Kidd will induce a hedonistic temper tantrum of pleasure on the dance floor. With his traumatizing bass, elicit fingering, and blatant knob violation you know you are witnessing someone undeniably charged by the inventive sincerity of jazz. Straight out derailed and engaging.
This story begins after graduating from a highly regarded jazz composition and performance school in the year 2001. While playing in several funk and rock bands, Kidd started experimenting with production, creating his own species of ambient techno using drum machines, FM synthesizers and live bass lines. During this time he also immersed himself in the history of techno and electro allowing his first influences to come from producers such as Amon Tobin, Cari Lekebusch, Matthew Herbert and Monolake. Listening led to obsession and Kidd steadily began to gain a personal understanding of improvisation using turntables, effects, and a computer.
Kidd joined The Chameleon Project in 2002, a live breakbeat/ dub/ drum and bass quartet. Wielded by his bass lines, the group’s hybrid of jazz harmonies and propulsive rhythms attracted praise from all parts of Canada. The Chameleon Project released its first album, "Stereoscopic" in two thousand and three, and a year later released their first 12" on Reptile Vision Records, which included a remix by Kidd.
Since 2005, Kidd has released music on Toronto’s Thoughtless Music, Halifax based Stratagem-Musik and Belgium’s Alfa-Matrix. His well sought after dj sets have been featured on numerous radio shows including Proton Radio, die Maschine, the FreshPage, NetMusique, Vinylslut Radio, and XanuRadio. Jamie’s deliciously infectious performances have been featured at many of Canada’s foremost electronic events including the Beats, Breaks, and Culture Festival, the Harvest Festival, Eclipse, and the OM Festival as well as for promotional companies including Platform, Tone, Tempo, Fukhouse, Alieninflux, Promise, Make It Funky, Next Offensive, A.D/D. Events and A.F.E. Society.
Kidd has performed alongside some of the world’s most diverse and respected artists such as Adam Beyer, Extrawelt, Trentemoller, Speedy J, Chris Liebing, Tony Rohr, Dietrich Schoenemann, Alex Under, Rob Hood, and Robert Babicz to name a few. Within Toronto’s immense wealth of talent Jamie has distinguished himself among the city’s finest including Noah Pred and Kenny Glasgow. Most recently, Kidd has been collaborating with Boshke Beats producer Frederik Hatsav, to form the newest reincarnation of METALOGIC. Together, they produce a fresh driving minimal sound, cut with a growling undertone that leaves you feeling properly assaulted on the dancefloor. Their hypnotic 12" ep ’Atom Eater’ was released on New York’s ADDON in the spring 2007.
Jamie’s taste for the unknown and skills as a bassist has inspired him behind the decks and attests for his love of live music. A fetish for bass-heavy pulsating sub textures, dubbed-out effects, and long teasing blends, Kidd hijacks your mind on an impulsive journey in and out of deep unauthorized darkness, and manic but pleasurable innocence.