Methods and the False Aristocracy crews are teaming up to bring you Starkey. If you can remember Unit.One brought him to Dallas in 2007 for DJ Select’s Birthday Celebration and again to NYC at the Knitting Factory in 2008 with Akala & Star Eyes. You can actually download the live recording of the dallas set here. We also did an Audio Interview with him and Dev79 here.
Starkey is co-owner of Slit Jockey Records and a member of the Seclusiasis and TROUBLE AND BASS crews. Following his recent success stateside, Starkey was selected by Vex’d as one of seven new DJs for Radio 1’s MARY ANNE HOBBS’ low end special ‘Generation Bass’ and was the only non-UK DJ to be chosen. If you like grime, dubstep, hip hop and all things bass then Starkey’s hard edged spaced out street bass is the sound for you.
Starkey’s first full-length album “Ephemeral Exhibits” was released late 2008 on the seminal Planet Mu label. It has received rave reviews around the globe, with the Wire saying “Ephemeral Exhibits is compressed into mid-range blasts of yowling, plastic synth lines over peg-legged stutter-beats. (Starkey) has allowed (himself) to see the forest for the trees, and locate (his) place within a tangled history of electronic dance music.” And NME wrote, “(Starkey’s) tracks sparkle with sonic wit and real tenderness. His Stateside ‘street bass’ sound is a bright neon beacon of hope.”
Over the past five years, Starkey has had a string of vinyl, cd and digital releases on labels such as Peace-Off/Ruff (France), Keysound (UK), Nonclassical (UK), Dead Homies (US), Starksound/Rag&Bone (UK), Offshore (US) and LoDubs (US), Creative Space (Greece) and Dress 2 Sweat (UK). In 2009, Starkey and MOVES!!! tracks appeared on Mary Anne Hobbs’ “Wild Angels” compilation, the “LA Dubstep” mix and Modeselektor’s “Get Physical” mix cd.