Calibre | Boiler Room Festival Amsterdam: SYSTEM

Calibre played Boiler Room Festival 2022 in Amsterdam, and the recording of his set was issued as a DJ mix with a release date of 25 November 2022. Boiler Room Festival Amsterdam, held from 24 to 26 November, was the first time Boiler Room staged its flagship festival in Amsterdam. Boiler Room Festival Amsterdam opened on 24 November 2022 with a first day devoted to live R&B, experimental rap and hip hop. Boiler Room Festival Amsterdam was spread over seven sites in the city, with SYSTEM named among its partners next to BR X, SPIELRAUM and Broadcast Lab. Calibre is the working name of Dominick Martin, a drum and bass producer and DJ from Belfast in Northern Ireland. Dominick Martin started producing drum and bass in 1995 under the influence of Goldie and LTJ Bukem, and his debut single as Calibre appeared on Quadraphonic in 1998. DJ Fabio applied the label liquid funk to the music Calibre was making and signed the Belfast producer to Creative Source. Calibre set up his own imprint, Signature Records, in 2003 and puts out mainly his own work through it. Calibre received the Critics Choice award at the Drum&BassArena Awards in 2019. Speaking to Apple Music about the Amsterdam festival set, Calibre said he concentrated on dubs and classics that connected with each other. The Calibre set from Boiler Room Festival 2022 in Amsterdam was issued as a standalone DJ mix of seventeen tracks running about one hour.

Sources: music.apple.com, mixtapemadness.com, boilerroom.tv, glamcult.com, en.wikipedia.org

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