12th Planet (musician)
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John Dadzie, better known by his musical alias 12th Planet, is a Los Angeles
based dubstep
producer and DJ.
under the alias Infiltrata. In 2006, he decided that he was going to make dubstep
. It was then that his new alias 12th Planet was created, in reference to Zecharia Sitchin
's book, 12th Planet. All production under the name 12th Planet is original. As one of the first individuals to bring the dubstep
culture to America (in one of the USA’s electronic meccas, Los Angeles
) 12th Planet has frequently been cited as the American Dubstep King.
12th Planet works frequently with Orange County producer Flinch and LA Local Skrillex (on tracks "Father Said", "Needed Change" And "Jam Swag" Along with Kill The Noise). He has also done collaborations with various dubstep producers including Datsik, Doctor P, Plastician, and Skream
. Many well-known dubstep DJs (such as Rusko
, Skream
, Skrillex and more) use 12th Planets productions and remixes in their live DJ sets.
As a DJ, 12th Planet has toured globally in London, Australia, New Zealand, and across the US. He has also played at many American dance festivals such as Electric Daisy Carnival
, Together As One, SXSW, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
, Ultra Music Festival
, Nocturnal, and Beyond Wonderland. He is represented by AM Only, one of the largest agencies in the electronic music industry.
In 2009, 12th Planet was listed as one of URB.com's "Next 100", and had a special feature in their 25 Now! supplemental issue. 2010 marked the release of his music video for "Reasons", presented by Scion
A/V, which was premiered and cycled on MTV 2. Diplo’s label Mad Decent
included 12th Planet’s remix of Little Jinder's "Youth Blood" on their dubstep
compilation "Blow Your Head", released in November. 12th Planet will be performing at Field Day music festival in Sydney
, Australia
on New Years Day 2012.
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
based dubstep
Dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in south London, England. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals"....
producer and DJ.
Biography
12th Planet, born John Dadzie, grew up in Los Angeles and was first introduced to the electronic music scene in high school when he regularly attended raves and jungle parties. After forming Imperial Recordings with DJ Lith, he launched his production skills on his own terms, originally producing drum and bassDrum and bass
Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...
under the alias Infiltrata. In 2006, he decided that he was going to make dubstep
Dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in south London, England. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals"....
. It was then that his new alias 12th Planet was created, in reference to Zecharia Sitchin
Zecharia Sitchin
Zecharia Sitchin was an Azerbaijani-born American author of books promoting an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. Sitchin attributes the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he states was a race of extra-terrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune...
's book, 12th Planet. All production under the name 12th Planet is original. As one of the first individuals to bring the dubstep
Dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in south London, England. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals"....
culture to America (in one of the USA’s electronic meccas, Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
) 12th Planet has frequently been cited as the American Dubstep King.
12th Planet works frequently with Orange County producer Flinch and LA Local Skrillex (on tracks "Father Said", "Needed Change" And "Jam Swag" Along with Kill The Noise). He has also done collaborations with various dubstep producers including Datsik, Doctor P, Plastician, and Skream
Skream
Skream is a dubstep producer based in Croydon. One of dubstep's first and most prominent producers, he has played an important role in the genre's development. His debut album Skream! was released in 2006, and was followed up by Outside the Box in 2010...
. Many well-known dubstep DJs (such as Rusko
Rusko (musician)
Christopher Mercer, more commonly known as Rusko, is an English dubstep record producer and DJ who was born on 26 January 1985 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.-History:Rusko graduated from Leeds College of Music with a degree in Music Performance...
, Skream
Skream
Skream is a dubstep producer based in Croydon. One of dubstep's first and most prominent producers, he has played an important role in the genre's development. His debut album Skream! was released in 2006, and was followed up by Outside the Box in 2010...
, Skrillex and more) use 12th Planets productions and remixes in their live DJ sets.
As a DJ, 12th Planet has toured globally in London, Australia, New Zealand, and across the US. He has also played at many American dance festivals such as Electric Daisy Carnival
Electric Daisy Carnival
Electric Daisy Carnival is an annual electronic dance music festival held in the South West United States on the last weekend of June. The event was held in Southern California from 1997 to 2010, and was moved to Las Vegas in 2011....
, Together As One, SXSW, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is a three-day annual music and arts festival, organized by Goldenvoice and held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley...
, Ultra Music Festival
Ultra Music Festival
Ultra Music Festival is an annual outdoor electronic music festival that occurs in March in the city of Miami usually during the annual Winter Music Conference. It is held in Downtown Miami in Bicentennial Park. It was a 1-day festival from 1999-2006, a 2-day festival from 2007-2010, and was a...
, Nocturnal, and Beyond Wonderland. He is represented by AM Only, one of the largest agencies in the electronic music industry.
In 2009, 12th Planet was listed as one of URB.com's "Next 100", and had a special feature in their 25 Now! supplemental issue. 2010 marked the release of his music video for "Reasons", presented by Scion
Scion Audio/Visual
Scion Audio/Visual, a/k/a Scion A/V, a/k/a SA/V is an in-house record label and lifestyle marketing division of the Scion marque produced by Toyota Motor Corporation for the North American market.-Marketing:...
A/V, which was premiered and cycled on MTV 2. Diplo’s label Mad Decent
Mad Decent
__FORCETOC__Mad Decent is the name of the Philadelphia via Los Angeles based record label spearheaded by Thomas Wesley Pentz, who's better known as Diplo, the Grammy-nominated producer of M.I.A’s “Paper Planes”, and one half of the collaborative music project Major Lazer...
included 12th Planet’s remix of Little Jinder's "Youth Blood" on their dubstep
Dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in south London, England. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals"....
compilation "Blow Your Head", released in November. 12th Planet will be performing at Field Day music festival in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
on New Years Day 2012.
Singles/EPs
- 2008 RedVolume - 28 Hours Later EP
- 2008 SMOG 001 – Smokescreen EP
- 2008 SMOG 002 – Ptera Patrick EP
- 2008 BASSHEAD 001 – Control EP
- 2008 SMOG 004 – 68 / Be Blatant EP
- 2008 Subconscious Recordings – Spliff Politics EP
- 2008 Argon – Element 16 (Sulfur) EP
- 2008 Noppa Recordings – Tonka EP
- 2009 10 Bag Records – C-Sick / Are Ya Feelin EP (with EmuEmuThe Emu Dromaius novaehollandiae) is the largest bird native to Australia and the only extant member of the genus Dromaius. It is the second-largest extant bird in the world by height, after its ratite relative, the ostrich. There are three subspecies of Emus in Australia...
) - 2009 SMOG 005 - Texx Mars EP (with Datsik)
- 2010 Dubsteppers for Haiti Volume 3
- 2010 SMOG Scion CD Sampler V.30
- 2010 BulletTrain Records – Reasons EP
- 2011 SMOG 007 - Westside Dub (with Plastician)
- 2011 Dub Police - Purple & Gold
- 2011 SMOG 009 - Lootin 92 (with SPL)
- 2011 SMOG 010 - Who Are We?
- 2011 SMOG 011 - What We Are?
- 2011 KILL 012 - Kill Me Now!
Remixes
- 2009 Grand Puba – “Get It (12th Planet Remix)" [Scion A/V]
- 2009 Dave Nada – “Apocalypse Theme (12th Planet & Flinch Remix)" [Tits & Acid]
- 2009 Little Jinder - "Youth Blood (12th Planet & Flinch Remix)" [Trouble & Bass]
- 2009 Ladybox – “Cookies Fly (12th Planet & Flinch Remix)" [Party Like Us]
- 2010 Villains - "Victims (ft Whiskey Pete) (12th Planet & Flinch)" [Dim Mak]
- 2010 Le Castle VaniaLe Castle VaniaLe Castle Vania is the alias of Dylan Eiland, an electronic dance music producer and DJ based in Atlanta, Georgia.- Background :Eiland began DJing drum and bass at warehouse parties and raves in Atlanta at age 15...
– "Nobody Gets Out Alive (12th Planet & Flinch Remix)" [Always Never] - 2010 RuskoRusko (musician)Christopher Mercer, more commonly known as Rusko, is an English dubstep record producer and DJ who was born on 26 January 1985 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.-History:Rusko graduated from Leeds College of Music with a degree in Music Performance...
- "Hold On (ft. Amber Coffman) (12th Planet Remix)" [Mad Decent] - 2010 DJ SneakDJ SneakDJ Sneak is a Puerto Rican house music DJ and producer raised in Chicago, Illinois. He is noted as being one of the second wave of Chicago house producers, as well as a member of the vanguard of late-1990s United States house producers.-Biography:In 1983, Sneak moved to the city...
- "Southern Boy (12th Planet & Flinch Remix)" [Scion A/V] - 2010 Rye RyeRye RyeRye Rye is the stage name of Ryeisha Berrain, an American rapper and dancer from Baltimore, Maryland, United States signed to N.E.E.T. Recordings. She is currently finishing work on her debut album, Go! Pop! Bang!, slated to be released some time in 2012.-Early career:Rye Rye began performing at...
- "Sunshine (ft. M.I.A.M.I.A. (artist)Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam , better known by her stage name M.I.A. , is an English singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, painter and director of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. Her compositions combine elements of hip hop, electronica, dance, alternative and world music. M.I.A...
) (12th Planet Remix)" [Interscope] - 2010 MSTRKRFTMSTRKRFTMSTRKRFT is a Canadian electronic music duo from Toronto, Ontario. The group was started in 2005 by Jesse F. Keeler of Death from Above 1979 and Al-P formerly of the Mississauga, Ontario electropop group Girlsareshort...
- Heartbreaker (12th planet & Flinch Remix)