Kevin McPhee

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Kevin McPhee (Idle Hands / Naked Lunch / Tectonic / Hypercolour)

Something about Kevin McPhee’s music has always been a little bit UK, despite his Canadian origins. Holed away in a bedroom in Toronto, McPhee quietly built up quite a library of his own breakbeat-heavy dubstep-ish tunes. Sending tunes around to a few like-minded names, his track “Be” caught the ear of legendary dubstep DJ Distance, and after being played on Rinse FM ended up in the hands of the mysterious Irish label [nakedlunch], who gave McPhee his first release. “Get In With You” was a creakily gorgeous dubstep-time stunner, like Burial rendered in aged crackling wood, and was deservingly lauded upon its release, receiving rave reviews from publications like Resident Advisor.

Around the same time, McPhee’s tracks found favour with Bristol artist Kowton, who played them in the city’s legendary Rooted Records shop. Shop worker Chris Farrell fell in love and later gave Kevin McPhee a new home on his own fledgling Idle Hands imprint, signaling a shift towards house perfectly suited to his meticulously stitched breakbeats, hushed and haunting but still able to work a dancefloor. It’s a testament to the strength of McPhee’s music that a novice from Toronto found his first releases on one of the UK’s most reliable tastemaking imprints and another based in one of its most fertile cities for dance music: even if a little geographically remote, McPhee’s vital music stays firmly in dialogue with the most exciting happenings in dance music UK and beyond.

The initial success has landed him a string of gigs in his hometown of Toronto, now a local scene fixture, and his profile is growing at a rate so rapid it’s almost hard to keep track. House heads have gone nuts for McPhee’s latest direction, with UK imprint Hypercolour -- home to Maya Jane Coles, Tom Demac and others -- releasing his “Blue Organ” EP to massive acclaim from all sectors, and he’s been tapped for remixes by artists as diverse as Adam Marshall, Sepalcure, and Jack Dixon. This resulted in DJ MAG naming him one of their “Ones to Watch 2012”. Of course, his first attention came from the dubstep world, an allegiance which he hasn't yet forgotten: his gutturally stomping "Outs" has been selected by dubstep legend Pinch for the third in Bristol's cherished Tectonic Plates compilation series. His recent collaboration with UK wunderkind Gerry Read showed off a tough, bulldozing techno sound, and it’s only the first in what will prove a fruitful collaboration between two of underground dance music’s most brightly shining talents.

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1 x Allen & Heath XONE:32 or PIONEER DJM 600/800

Extra set of turntable needles

2 x Pioneer CDJ2000/CDJ1000/CDJ800 CD player

2 x High quality monitor speakers (levels of which can be changed by the DJ) placed left and right of the DJ

High quality soundsystem