HOUSEWORX - Rennie Foster - Dark Arps(Live Set) Em.Ash

Houseworx brings you a fun, underground night of House Music featuring a double headline bill. Canadian pioneer Rennie Foster takes the closing set while label mates Dark Arps(Vancouver) plays a live modular set and Em.ash brings his signature style down from Courtenay.

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RENNIE FOSTER :: RF :: Vancouver

Rennie Foster has been a well-respected figure in the Canadian music and art community for three decades. He influenced many as an early pioneer of the Hip-Hop / B-Boy movement, a member of the pre-Swollen Members rap group Sound Advice which introduced Juno Award winning artist Moka Only, and then later the House Music and Techno / Rave scene, participating in the first events in Western Canada during the birth of these now widely known urban subcultures. He is also very well known within the niche of graffiti art for his early work, having been archived in several published book such Digital Orgasm : The History of Canadian Graffiti Art and Rave Evolution by author Jimmy Fritz.

Rennie relocated to Tokyo Japan in 2004 and became an important part of the Japanese club scene, playing all over Japan in venues such as Womb, ageHa, and Yellow, maintaining DJ residencies in Tokyo and Kyoto at the legendary Metro club and at the bi-yearly Nagisa Music Festival in Tokyo and Osaka. Rennie was consistently ranked in the top 50 DJs in Japan by LOUD Magazine until re-locating back to Canada in 2011. Rennie is currently a resident DJ at Western Canada’s top after-hours club, Gorg-O-Mish in Vancouver, BC, regularly playing as a guest at underground venues across Canada, Detroit, New York, Paris and has played festivals such as Shambhala, Bass Coast, Rifflandia, Tall Tree, Soundwave, among many others.

Rennie Foster has released music with Jack White’s Third Man Label, classic dance music labels including Derrick May's Transmat, Laurent Garnier's F-Communications, Ben Sims' Ingoma label, Synewave, Teknotika, Subject Detroit, Thoughtless Music, Manual, Monoid, and is widely recognized for his underground anthem Devil's Water on Rebirth Records. Rennie has remixed, or been remixed by, some of the top names in dance music such as Juan Atkins, James Zabiela, Rick Wade, Uner, Edu Imbernon, Altern 8, and Swayzak. He has released many singles, EPs, and four full length studio albums. In 2017 Rennie collaborated with celebrated Detroit painter Abdul "HAQQ" for the cover of his LP Game of 100 Ghosts, his debut album The War of Art release ten years earlier featured artwork by MoMA resident Alexander Gelman, or GLMN. He runs a signature record label RF releasing artists such as Amir Alexander, Hiroshi Watanabe, Satoshi Fumi, and continues to produce tough urban house music and stylish techno for cutting edge dance music imprints including Goldmin Music and Skylax Records in Paris and the Detroit based Soiree Records.

DARK ARPS :: LIVE MODULAR SYNTH SET :: Vancouver

Dynamic, deep and progressive, with contrasting vibes of tension and optimism, Dark Arps’ sound is a blend of broken beat and techno underpinned with dark, razor-sharp melodies, progressive hooks and tough basslines… futuristic, emotional and always danceable. Equally comfortable on stage or in the studio, his improvised live sets remain faithful to these tenets while pushing into unknown genres with live-patching, modular synthesis and in-the-moment experimentation.

He has provided support to notable artists such as Rrose, Stelios Vassiloudis, Ramon Tapia, Darren Emerson, Dave Seaman, John ‘00’ Fleming, Jay Tripwire, Matthew Dear, Karsten Sollors, Tyler Stadius, and Max Ulis.

Currently producing as one third of production group DASK (inc Savaggio, Kostiya). Recent productions and releases include EPs, remixes and singles on Traum Schallplatten, RF, Three Records, Submarine Vibes, and Suprematic Sounds.

Em. Ash :: RF :: Courtenay

Em.ash is a Courtenay based curator of underground dance music, creating a hypnotic mix of deep, groove-infused house, rhythmic bass, and low-slung techno on Vancouver Island.