Bristol In:Motion has announced the line-ups for its epic series of parties happening between October and December 2011.

Taking place at the hefty club space at Motion skate park, the series sees the city’s biggest and best promoters, as well as crew from further afield – including Hessle Audio, Bugged Out!, FWD/Rinse, Field Day Night and Hospitality – each staging blow-outs over 15 consecutive Fridays and Saturdays.

Immediate stand-outs include FWD/Rinse‘s showcase with Zinc, Plastician, Roska and he mighty EZ, Shit The BED!‘s bass bash with Caspa, Dark Sky, Ms Dyamite and Redlight, Field Day Night‘s Erol Alkan and Hudson Mohawke double-header, BLOC‘s serving of Martyn, Joker, Nathan Fake and James Holden, Futureboogie‘s celebration of deep house with Henrik Schwarz, Julio Bashmore, Maya Jane Coles and more, and Hessle Audio‘s presentation of Jamie xx, Pearson Sound and Jamie Woon (live).

The headliners as they stand are listed below. More information and tickets here.

Friday 7th October – Hospitality with Danny Byrd, High Contrast, Camo and Crooked, Netsky, Cyantific, MJ Cole, Dream, Mele, Tomb Crew, Kito, Loadstar

Saturday 8th October – BuggedOut! with Fake Blood, L-vis 1990 & the Neon Dream, Boy-8-bit, Heidi, Jamie Jones, Bowski, Pariah, Waifs & Strays, Untold

Friday 14th October – Shit the BED! Caspa, Dark Sky, Ms Dynamite, Redlight

Saturday 15th October – Hessle Audio Jamie XX, Pearson Sound, Jamie Woon – live

Friday 21st October – Blowpop DJ Yoda, Plump DJ’s, Krafty Kuts

Saturday 22nd October – FWD//Rinse Zinc, Ez, Plastician, Roska

Friday 28th October – Tokyo Dub Radical Guru, Jahtari & Soom T

Saturday 29th October – Just Jack Halloween Party Soul Clap, Tale of Us, Shaun Reeves, Midland

Friday 4th November – Annie Mac Presents…

Saturday 5th November – Gunpowder Plot Bonfire Night Party Smerins, Gentlemen’s Dub Club, Babyhead

Friday 11th November – Run Rusko, Andy C, Grooverider, Scratch Perverts

Saturday 12th November – Field Day Night Erol Alkan, Hudson Mowhawke

Friday 18th November – All Gone…with Pete Tong, Calvin Harris, Cadenza Showcase

Friday 25th November – BLOC Joker, Martyn, James Holden, Nathan Fake

Saturday 26th November – Futureboogie Henrik Schwarz, Julio Bashmore, Maya Jane-Coles, Bonobo

Friday 2nd December – Hardcore Heaven Darren Styles, Gammer, Evil Activities

Saturday 3rd December – Shit the BED Skream, Jack Beats – live, Arab Musik

Friday 9th December – Beardyman, Stanton Warriors, Tayo

Saturday 10th December – Cocoon Tiefschwarz, Dyed Soundorom, Oner Ozer

Check out this video from Ninja Tune XX at In:Motion 2011

For the second year in a row, HARD is bringing their night of electronic music mayhem to New York with Digitalism, Caspa, Switch, Designer Drugs and Destructo on Saturday, August 20th at Terminal 5.  Each with their own brand of heavy bass drops and digital wobble, this will be an amazing way to hear what music some of the best dub-step and eletro DJs are currently producing.

Click here to purchase your tickets and check out videos from Digitalism and Destructo after the jump.

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We have taken notice as major vocal artists flirt with dubstep. From Snoop Dogg, Britney Spears, Rihanna, to Wu-Tang, it seems everyone interacts with the genre differently. “Love Never Dies,” from Mr Hudson is one of the best infusions we have heard to date. We didn’t expect any less after learning that British dubstep impresario Caspa was behind the production.

The song is derived from an original Caspa track, “Back For The First Time“. While the song receives raves — already named by BBC Radio 1  as the ”Hottest Record in the World Today,” we wonder how it will take hold in the States, and whether there is a future collaboration in the works for the two artists. With the success of Skream’s remix of La Roux’s ”In for the Kill,” we expect a lot more mainstream artists to test the elements of this up-and-coming genre.  Love Never Dies is available via iTunes today. Check out the video for the track after the jump.

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A trip to London would not be complete without a stop at Fabric, the world-renown superclub that not only hosts top electronic acts week after week, but has also spawned over fifty FabricLive compilation mixes. Fabric was certainly preceded by its reputation, but nothing could have prepared me for the actual experience. The line outside the club was unlike any I’d seen, but it wasn’t until I walked into Room One – the largest of Fabric’s three – that I realized the sheer mass of the dubstep scene in London.

I chose Friday, July 16th (and subsequently planned my entire trip to London around this date) for the line-up, which included the Dub Police (Caspa, Breakage, The Others, Emalkay, et al) along with Egyptrixx, Mumdance and over a dozen other artists. Upon my entrance the crowd went crazy for Caspa’s remix of “I Remember” by Deadmau5, and later Emalkay dropped pieces of his hit song, “When I Look At You”, throughout his set, building the anticipation.

Fabric is so large that it wasn’t until I had been there for over an hour that I finally came across the other two rooms. Room Two was so full that the party practically spilled out into the corridor. A sea of bodies, taking up every square inch of space and perched on platforms on both sides, danced furiously to the drum and bass breakbeats issuing from the speakers.

I came up for air and found myself in Fabric’s third room, where Egyptrixx was spinning a (comparatively) low-key set. Small but dynamic with a multi-level design, Room 3 felt like an oasis from the madness, accented with blue lights and fog.

While I am no stranger to dubstep parties in New York, (thanks in large part to our friends at Trouble & Bass), the London scene is a completely different animal. Sure, there were some familiar elements – the music, of course, and the sweaty bodies dancing in a manner that only dubstep can instigate – but Fabric managed to capture dubstep in a way that went beyond the music, an “essence” if you will, that has to do with the surroundings, the people, and the overall vibe.

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It may sound backwards to plan the dates of our vacation around the layover, but when we found out we’d be flying through the dubstep capital of the world on our way to Greece, we couldn’t resist. Our weekend of choice? July 16-19… find out why, after the jump.

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Based out of West London, Caspa drops his debut on the Essential Mix. He is the man behind Dub Police & Sub Soldiers and is considered a pioneer of the dubstep sound. Along with Rusko, he mixed one of the first commercially available dubstep compilation CDs for the legendary FabricLive series and he recently gave Deadmau5′s ‘I Remeber’ a heavy dub treatment.

Be sure to crank up your subs…

Caspa – Essential Mix

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