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symmetrik

electro, breaks, booty, dubstep

About Me


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I have promoted various successful club nights in London and Brighton for the last 8 years. For the past 6 years or so I've also been a dj.

Things began when I began playing dub and breaks at the first breakbeat and psy-trance night in the UK, 180degrees which I also promoted. As resident I played alongside System 7, Juno Reactor and Eat Static, as well as regularly adding a different angle in the second rooms at many nights in London and Brighton.

After this I went onto promote u-need music which concentrated more on electro, breaks and techno, playing alongside Coburn, New Zealand’s Pitch Black, Salmonella Dub, Fat Freddys Drop and Evil Nine.

This led onto me becoming resident at Brighton’s biggest and best breaks night- Slackers Convention. Here I gave the breaks crowd a mixture of electro, breaks, and techno starting off only in the bar in the early days to playing the last set in the main room of the 600 capacity Concorde club in Brighton. At these nights I played with General Midi, Smithmonger, Matt Cantor from the Freestylers, Si Begg and Toob to name but a few. With them I've also played at the massive Breaking Ground event at SE1 alongside many of the breakbeat scenes big players.
As well as being residents at the above nights I have also played at various other electro and breakbeat events in England and across the globe including Prague, Bulgaria, Wales, Reading, Cornwall, Spain (both years of the Rocket Festival), New Zealand (4 date tour including Splore Festival) and Australia. At these events I have joined DMX Crew, Product 01, The Dexorcist, Tim Exile, Minuit, Kansas City Prophets, Stormfield, Jake One, Tim Wright and Transparent Sound.
Since moving back to London in 2006 after 9 years in Brighton I have been made a resident of Baselogic, so will be performing at 2007’s massive electro and techno event- Bloc Weekend, and I am also now a regular dj at Grunk at Herbal in Shoreditch. I'm also going to be starting a new night incorporating all of my styles in London very soon.
My style varies a lot these days and my sets always contain elements of electro, minimal house, techno, booty bass, dub step and breaks but all with a heavy bass influence. This style has come about due to the wealth of music that I'm now open to due to my part time job at London’s Phonica Records and also as I do music reviews for various websites, such as www.hyponik.com, www.myspace.com/hyponik, www.myspace.com/phonicarecords, www.myspace.com/blocweekend, www.littledetroit.net and of course my own www.myspace.com/riksymmetrik.
I also do event management and event promotion so here's some of the things that I'm involved with:

My Interests

We Are The Robots - Kraftwerk

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Paul Blackford - Latitude

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The History of Booty Bass

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Darkbeat An Electro World Voyage

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Si Begg Video

Beardyman Video

Beatbox Fame Game
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I'd like to meet:

people who are into hearing, reading about, buying and dancing to quality bass heavy dance music

Music:

electro, breaks, booty, dub step, minimal, ghetto tech.

Combat Recordings, Hyper Dub, Haywire, Bowwow, Soma, Rag & Bone, Wide, Rephlex, Flameboy Records, Planet Mu, Local Zeros, Trust, SMB, Lo Recordings, Boka, Tyke, BPitch Control and many, many, many more...

My Blog

Rik Symmetriks June 07 Reviews and DJ Chart

Rik Symmetrik's June 07 Reviews  techno, electro, minimal and dubstep   Singles:   David Carretta, Dany Rodriguez and Digital Coalition  Sweet EP (Destination Records) Quality elec...
Posted by symmetrik on Tue, 29 May 2007 02:27:00 PST

April 07 techno, electro, minimal and dubstep reviews

April 07 Reviews   Singles:     Cutlass Supreme  The Real Ale EP (Wide Records)     More great booty action from one of the best players in the UK bass scene  Cutlass...
Posted by symmetrik on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:43:00 PST

March 07- electro, techno and dubstep reviews

SINGLES:   Tam Cooper - Galactica (Jimpster and Exercise One remixes)(Simple Records) His name maybe not one that you may recognize straight off, but he's also a member of breakbeat band Precis...
Posted by symmetrik on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:41:00 PST

January 2007 dubstep, electro, techno and minimal reviews

January 2007 Reviews   SINGLES   Cass & Slide - Lost Life (Wall of Sound / PIAS) After a long gap of not releasing records together Cass & Slide pair up for this vocal based elect...
Posted by symmetrik on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 01:17:00 PST

December Reviews

December Reviews by Rik Symmetrik (Hyponik/ Phonica/ Baselogic)   techno-minimal-electro-dubstep   Singles:   Markomen- Psychederelict Dubs Vol 1 (www.virusb-23.co.uk) (MP3 download) &n...
Posted by symmetrik on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:13:00 PST

OCTOBER/ NOVEMBER S*P*A*M MAGAZINE TECHNO AND ELECTRO REVIEWS

OCTOBER/ NOVEMBER S*P*A*M MAGAZINE TECHNO AND ELECTRO REVIEWS by Symmetrik   SINGLES:   EPY - AFFLUENZA (TRUST)   Berlin-based sound scientists return to Trust with yet another top ep. ...
Posted by symmetrik on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:07:00 PST

August Electro and Techno reviews by Symmetrik

August Hyponik Electro and Techno Reviews by Symmetrik   Singles:   FZV Assimilator Rag & Bone   New artist to the Rag & Bone roster FZV aka Richard Herbert follows on from re...
Posted by symmetrik on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 02:41:00 PST

Symmetrik DJ Chart

Symmetrik DJ Chart Hyponik / Phonica Records / S*P*A*M Magazine (Brighton) / Slackers Convention / u-need music 1. Alex Smoke - Make My Day (actress mix) - Soma 2. FZV - Assimilator - Rag and Bone 3....
Posted by symmetrik on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 03:12:00 PST