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Bookings: ben@paramountartists.com
Other: yemiolag@gmail.com
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FORTHCOMING RELEASES:
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Blacksmif - Hoop Dreams / Microweight 12" Single [BlahBlahBlah - BBB004]
(May 21st, 2012)

Oculus - EightyThree (Blacksmif Remix) [Smudge Music]
(June 2012)

Submotion Orchestra - Pop & Lock (Blacksmif Re-Shuffle) [Exceptional Records]
(July 2012)

Blacksmif - ? [Space Hardware]
(July / Aug 2012)
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UPCOMING GIGS:
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Sat 9th June @ Digital (Brighton)
w/ Joy Orbison & Ben UFO

Fri 15th June @ Glade Festival
Hypercolour & Sneaker Social Club presents: Pryo-Mid Microtent
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BlahBlahBlah Records Stage

Aug @ Hidden (London)
w/ Throwing Snow, Deft + many more

Fri 7th Sept @ Dimensions Festival
Sound of the Cosmos Stage / Boat Party
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Description:
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"Incredibly strange & wonderful... Stunning... Absolutely phenomenal..."
(Mary Anne Hobbs - Radio 1 / Xfm)

"A producer that we think is destined for big things..."
(Goldierocks - NME Radio / Radio 1 / 4Music)

"Londoner Yemi Olagbaiye is the model of a new generation musician for whom the dissolution of genre categories means not homogenisation but an opportunity for greater individuality... His productions are lush and immersive, but unlike a great deal of "post dubstep" electronica there's nothing washed-out or polite about them: his bass tones retain the aggression of his drum'n'bass past, and the narrative twists and turns of his tracks' structures are often as disturbing as they are seductive."
(Joe Muggs - The Guardian / Mixmag / The Arts Desk)

"Blacksmif is a very convincing future prospect for electronica/bass music. The North London raised producer has created a very unique and exciting sound using elements from genres such as dub, soul and jazz which are welded together to form a new ingredient in the ever growing bass music revolution. Blacksmif has a large catalogue of unsigned music and has been producing track after track of the highest quality, however does he have what it takes to rise above the growing clamour that is British Bass Music?...

...The sound of Blacksmif certainly has a different twist on the bass music revolution. Unlike some of those around him he is not falling into the trap of following the herd and serving up watered down copy's with tried and tested sounds, rather he is finding his own path. It is our opinion that once the right people find out about him he will become a much more recognisable figure in electronic music!"
(words by Jonny Cravenwood - Shimstar / Blah Blah Blah Blog)

"North London genre-juggler, Blacksmif, welds together elements from over two decades of musical exploits into bass maidens that should get the likes of Gilles Peterson nodding their heads in sonic agreement once they find out about him."
(words by Errol Anderson - The Independent Blogs / MTV's Urban Blog - The Wrap Up / Decibel Soup)

[Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.]