Pioneer of the French dubstep since 2003 and of its midtempo grooves, as technical as hypnotic, Caterva is about to collide the record stores with the release of 4 concept EPs, followed by an album (planned in 2010) on IOT Records.
Early 2000s.
Manndibull, then settled in the southwest of France, toys with the trip-hop rhythmic whereas his future alter-ego, No. Prod, patrols the rave scene, propagating his DJ sets.
2003.
Manndibull moves to Strasbourg and bumps into No. Prod’s grooves. The instantaneous feeling convinces both Djs / producers to unite their riddims for the best and for the live. Violinist Anita Bomba joins in: the Caterva entity is launched.
A very first live set in Strasbourg’s venue, La Laiterie, confirms the “raison d’être” of this cutting edge threesome and of its sensual breakbeat and dub tekno customs.
From Dj sets to live sets, via the creation of the dubstep label, “Sens Inverse” (founded in 2004 by Manndibull and No. Prod), the Caterva buzz spreads and propagates its epidemic bpm alongside numerous artists as different as hard-hitting : Warlock, Les Trolls, Bunzero, Mala Dmz, 30Hrz, l’Œuf Raide, Ezekiel, 69 Db, Abraxxxas, Dalek, Fumuj, Buraka Som Sistema, Goldie, Von D...
With its sheer mix of genres and assumed open mindedness, Caterva distinguishes itself with a specific Dubstep sound and a brilliant mixture of syncopated beatz, deep textures and dub meditation.
2004.
Caterva plays in the Czech Republic with the Tomahawk sound system (from which Audictive, neocortex of the IOT Records label, is an active member). A strong alliance is sealed.
2006.
Caterva focuses on the composition of its new lives, parts with Anita and integrates a new member: VJ Kashmir, the visual director of the live performances.
Always on the look-out for new trends, Manndibull and No. Prod host the Bass Musics’s very first French radio show on Radio 404 (http: // www.erreur404.org).
Collaborations are on the increase. With DTC Records (on a Laurent De Wilde’s remix, produced by Otisto 23, the DTC Records co-founder and IOT Records sound engineer) but mostly, with IOT Records (on the “Future Exposed” soundtrack, on the “Mongolia Expedisound” Dvd and on Abraxxxas second album, “ Elektrons “).
2009.
With such a wealth of prolific and common experiences, the Eklektronik Music Factory, IOT Records, offers Caterva a series of 4 concept EPs (North / South / East / West).
Ambitious goal of this project: to investigate the various pulsations of Bass Music… From the break dubstep or “wobble” British school (North) to the south ghetto music do Brazil, including kuduro, cumbia and baile funk (South), via the Berlin minimal (East) and the reggae breakbeat inspired by Californian midtempo hip-hop (West).
On the menu :
4 Eps of 2 tracks each to be released between 2009 and 2010, produced by 4 different beatmakers and mixed by Otisto 23, the sonic color of IOT Records...
Common denominator of these 4 publications: to expose the dubstep eclecticism, its sensual grooves and spiritual beatz of 140 bpm.
Next step?
The release, sometime in 2010, of a first lp on IOT Records.
The electronic music should beware: more “original massive” than ever, Caterva is in the place and about to revolutionize with lasciviousness, the golden rules of the dancefloor.
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