Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Oxford o2 Academy In October

Dub Politics and Wordplay in association with Ctrl Alt Shift are taking over the O2 Academy in Oxford on October 1, 2010 for a night of Dubstep and Hip Hop.

Excision, Akil The MC, Reso, Louis Logic & The Disablists

Time: 11pm - 4am

Date: Friday 1st October 2010

Venue: The O2 Academy Oxford, 190 Cowley Road, OX4 1UE

Tickets: £10 + BF More on the door

18+ Under 21's may require ID to purchase Alcohol

www.o2academyoxford.co.uk Ticket Hotline: 0844 477 2000 (24 hr)

Excision [1]

Rottun Recordings and EX7 boss Native British Columbian Excision started making music in '06 after dropping out of a business degree and found his footing almost instantly in merging elements of Drum and Bass, Metal and Hip Hop to create a filthy, heavy hitting, robotic signature sound. For lack of a better explanation of his work, he once stated, "I might imagine a crazy heavy guitar riff, but instead of using that directly I'll play the same riff with a gnarly wobbling bassline." The method in this madness has made him one of the world's biggest dubstep acts and one of North America's biggest selling musical acts. Excision impacted the mainstream in 2008 with a remix of Pendulum's Showdown and his notoriety continued to soar after playing one of dubstep's most lauded over DJ sets at Shambala '09. He followed up the frenetic but intricate performance by going on a remix spree adding his touch alongside cohort Datsik to tracks by WuTang, Freestylers & Ctrl Z and Apex. All this has him now in very high demand. Follow @Excision on Twitter

Akil The MC

Dante Givens A.K.A. Akil The MC One member of Jurassic 5. He played a big role in the group's success, penning hooks and verses and production credits on some of J5's best known songs Concrete Schoolyard on the acclaimed Jurassic 5 EP & LP, Quality Control, and Thin Line. After the group split after the feedback LP. Since the group's disbanding, Akil has dropped his debut solo LP Soundcheck and recently appeared on old friend Chali 2na's second Fish Market mixtape reminding us of the vibe they brought to collabos in the past like on DJ Format tracks The Place & We Know Something You don't know as well as lesser known but equally dope releases by Mabanua & Sareem Poems.

Reso

London dubstep DJ Reso is said to have wanted to be a drummer in a jazz band but dubsteppers the world over will be glad he changed his mind and turned his hand to making chameleonic grotty, dark tech productions that earned him co-signs from the likes of Benga, Freq Nasty Mary Anne Hobbs and can put engineering for Burial down on his musical CV. This year the acclaim and big name remixes keep on coming. With major support for Technetium and the massive Kalemba remix for Buraka Von Sistema, it looks as if Reso will be taking dubstep into new territory for some time to come.

Louis Logic [2]

Known in the UK from his former association with New York's Demigodz crew originally known as The Drunken Dragon, he announced his arrival during hip hop's "backpack era" in 2002 on The Godz Must Be Crazy EP. The Demigodz connection was relatively short lived as Louis Logic's first solo Sin-A-Matic saw him moving away from the punch-line battle style of rhyme that was all too common in the early noughties. By 2004, he and the Demigodz had parted ways and after releasing The Odd Couple with Jay Love went on to sign for Fat Beats steering clear of collaborations outside of his original working partnership with J.J Brown dropping Misery Loves Comedy in '06 where he manages to convey his thought process and unique sense of humour to great effect on Morning After Pill All, Girls Cheat, Classy McNasty. Will be on tour in the UK this summer promoting his most recent release Me & Everyone You Know. Follow @LouisDorley on Twitter and Facebook [3].

The Disablists [4]
Consecutive triple UK DMC team champions, third in the world in '05 and runners up on '06 Asian Hawk, Clever Monkey & Mighty Atom were "drawn together through a mutual love for weed, porn & bollywood records" and they have been working the DJ circuit together since 2002 "with a musicality over technicality" approach that makes them more a band than three blokes scratching. Follow @Disablists on Twitter