While most musicians aim to avoid overly simplistic labels, Gemmy’s press kit now describes him as one third of the Bristol “Purple Trinity.” As far as marketing schemes go, this has to be one of the better ones, as getting lumped in with Guido and Joker can’t hurt his odds to transcend the Boomkat babble. […]

At the risk of reiterating Sach’s point from yesterday, it’s impossible to ignore the influence of Dre and Timbaland on bass music, particularly the Bristol iteration. With Rusko tabbed to produce for Britney Spears and Rihanna incorporating ersatz dubstep on Rated R, the two seemingly disparate genres are on track for a collision course — […]

While “progressive” American hip-hop producers dabble with “My First Dubstep” beats,  the Brits in Bristol continue to operate as the U.K. analogue to the Low End scene. Maybe it’s the proximity to the sea or the trip-hop kief buried at the bottom of the grinder, but the Purple contingent (Joker, Gemmy, and Guido) splash their […]

Photo via RA Gemmy’s Myspace features a YouTube clip of the introduction to the Back to the Future II Nintendo game. For this, he is the darkhorse of the bass brigade. While gawky geeky American twenty-somethings re-construct childhood via cassette noise tapes and Dan Deacon’s artery-clogging electronic twaddle, Gemmy, straight out of Bristol, takes two-step, […]