SOUTH CHINA'S BIGGEST CELEBRATION OF BASS & UNDERGROUND MUSIC CULTURE

 

Outlook Festival is the largest Soundsystem and Bass Music Culture festival in Europe, bringing together the biggest names from the most vibrant and cutting edge dance scenes around.

 

During four days at the end of summer, the festival is set in an abandoned fort perched above the Adriatic sea, next to a beach right near Pula, Croatia.

 

When we talk about bass music we don’t mean the bastardised commercial version currently being sold to children, we mean underground dancefloor music, whether it be house, techno, dubstep, reggae, dub, hip-hop, garage, grime, electronica, etc.

 

As Duke Ellington puts it “There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.”

 

Now approaching its eleventh year, Outlook has grown rapidly and is going from strength to strength. Anyone who has come to any of the last 10 Outlooks will tell you how amazing the vibe was, how wicked the music was, how beautiful the smiling people were and how stunning the setting is.

 

Live performances this year from the likes of Wiley, Andy C, Shy FX, dBridge, Noisia, DJ Hype, Digital Mystikz, Loefah, and many more…

 

Outlook Festival partners with some of the most exciting promoters in sound system culture to bring Outlook Festival to the most vibrant music cities around the world! Now for the second year in a row Unchained are bringing Outlook to Shenzhen! This is the first time it will be held at Oil Club and also the first time Oil Club will have a two room event!

 

 

 

 

 

 

A veteran producer and one of the most experienced artists in Drum & Bass, Darren White known as dBridge, is an artist whose multiple transformations and evolutions glide through a staggering list of achievements. Over the course of a long and distinguished career, he has been at the heart of some the most exciting collaborative partnerships Drum & Bass has ever seen, from Future Forces to Bad Company and Club Autonomic.

 

dBridge has also devoted a large amount of focus to his label Exit Records, releasing compilations, ground-breaking singles, and artist LPs as he continues to mentor a new breed of producers inspired by his career. To that end, he launched the collaborative 'New Forms' project with Kabuki, and in conjunction with Red Bull Music Academy, that has seen events take place at Watergate, Robert Johnson, Circus Tokyo & more, and also works with Native Instruments creating sounds and packs for their 'Maschine' hardware.

As a solo artist, dBridge remains versatile with his own productions for labels including Exit, Metalheadz, R&S Records, Hotflush and many more, and continues to drop equally diverse and genre defying DJ sets at events across the world...

 

 

 

Somewhere deep in the Surrey hills, armed only with a laptop, a few choice records and a bucket load of creativity and ambition Peter Goebel AKA Arkaik began his career within drum and bass. Fast forward 15 years and Arkaik has since become a pioneer for the stripped back and half time sound. As an original, core artist for the infamous label Diffrent Music, Arkaik saw his first major release 'Stress Relief/Second Bass' in 2010 gaining him instant recognition. During his success with Diffrent Music, Arkaik managed to propel his status further when he won the Octane & DLR remix competition hosted by the mighty Dispatch Recordings.

 

Arkaik then moved to Shanghai & started making more dance floor orientated music. He completed tours of Australia, China, Europe, Japan & Taiwan. He had his debut release of Flexout Audio entitled ‘My Love EP’ had his hugely successful ‘Timelapse EP’ on Dispatch. He collaborated with Hyroglifics on ‘Phone Drone’ for Critical Music & released the mighty ‘Shadow Creatures EP’ on Vandal. As a DJ, Arkaik has a formidable reputation. After spending over a decade perfecting his craft Arkaik has played at some of the most prestigious events around the globe including Outlook Festival, Boomtown and Innovation in the Sun. Whilst residing in the UK, Arkaik frequently played at a number of prolific drum and bass events in and around Europe. Upon his arrival in China, Arkaik quickly became a resident for ‘Sweatshop’ one of China’s most prestigious and long standing drum and bass events & regularly plays in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Chongqing & Guangzhou.

 

 

 

Hailing from Hong Kong, Joseph Yuen, AKA L’Homie produces what tastemakers have referred to as ‘exceptional electronic music’ spanning Future Beats, Downtempo, Lofi and Trap. Whilst his sound has been embraced and pushed widely across Asia by local Hong Kong label Heybavibes, one of his greatest supporters, Complexion, has pushed his sound global through his Future Beat radio show. As a DJ, he honed is skills in Boston, playing with acts like Savoy, Getter, Loudpvck, Yookie, Dirty Audio, Steve Aoki, Josh Pan, and most recently Yellow Claw in Hong Kong.