Calibre 50, El Komander | th

Dominick Martin aka Calibre is the 1st exclusively Irish Drum and Bass artist. Classically trained in violin, he dropped this for drums and began playing in various bands, before finding early Detroit techno and house. His inspiration around that time is said to wander around the likes of Kenny Larkin, Carl Craig, Juan Atkins, the Orb. His brother introduced Calibre to drum and bass and jungle, which at first he couldn’t follow the pattern as he felt it was too relentless and 'beaty', and so at that point he preferred four to the floor drumbeats from the US house style....

.Calibre (with the dot) was a vegan/straight edge band that rose from the hardcore metalband Facedown. .Calibre played a kind of funk/metal/crossover with socially engaged lyrics. Guitarplayer Niko and leadsinger Daniel are now in a band called A School of Quiet (www.aschoolofquiet.com). .

Hardcore band from São Paulo,Brazil. Songs with political postures. Also a Southern rock band from France .