Fox Theatre Presents EMALKAY, 4/25

Rooster Magazine and Z2 Entertainment present Emalkay at the Fox Theatre on Wednesday, April 25th. Visit www.foxtheatre.com for more information.

Los Angeles based People Under The Stairs, Double K (Michael) and Thes One (Christopher Portugal) are an independent hip hop duo. Since their initial full length release in 1998, People Under The Stairs have performed more than a thousand sold out shows, festivals, and world tours spanning 6 continents and 40 countries. With a pioneering DIY ethic, "The P" as they are referred to by their fans, have self-managed, produced and engineered 7 full-length albums and countless singles and side projects. 

Producer Emalkay refuses to define himself by anything other than his own musical evolution. From his early years producing grime and garage, right through to 2011 and the release of debut album ‘Eclipse’, he has continued to break new ground and move forward with each and every track he makes. 

Away from the hub of any kind of scene, the Birmingham-based producer made things happen for himself from the start. Early experimental releases on his own Morphic Sounds label put his name on the map, and it quickly paid off as he subsequently signed to Boka. Following a string of well received 12”s for the label, he then found a home at Dub Police, and hasn’t looked back since.

Following his debut single for the label, ‘Explicit / Heroes’, things blew up at the tail end of 2009 when ‘When I Look At You’ was released. It catapulted Emalkay to the forefront of the expanding dubstep scene, where he has remained resolutely ever since. Since then, he has continued to draw listeners with further releases on Dub Police, as well as its sister label Storming Productions, with his latest ‘Crusader / Power Tool’ 12” again testing soundsystems and finding its way into record bags everywhere.

A handful of carefully chosen remixes for Pendulum, Faithless and Miike Snow, have opened up the ears of a whole new audience to Emalkay’s music, and as a consequence, a burgeoning DJ schedule has seen him bring his music to bigger crowds, taking in a number of festivals on the way. 

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