Posts made in February, 2010

Rebel Up @ 20 February :: OT301 with Bomb Diggy

Posted on Feb 19, 2010 | 0 comments

another tropical dance night in OT301

and we are very happy to announce…
THE RETURN OF AKWAABA MUSIC!

BBRAVE (Akwaaba – Los Angeles)
Labelboss BBRAVE of the mighty Akwaaba Music label will once again
drop the finest true Kuduro, Hiplife, Gnawa & more tropical madness from the African continent.
stay tuned for we will put his live recording of his dj-set on the
Bomb Diggy AMSTERDAM DANCE EVENT Special online very soon!

DJ SAXIXA (Worm – Rotterdam)
also playing tonight DJ Saxixa… finally! this guy brings a case full of classic cumbia records with some those 70′s & 80′s cumbia bombs from Colombia, Mexico and Argentina we love so much.

REBEL UP! SOUNDCLASH
our friends from the Rebel Up! crew will join us for the final tropical mayhem you need. Bhangra, soca, dancehall, baile funk, tecno-brega and what-not… Traditional sounds from around the globe…
Rebel Up! will mix it up!

BOMB DIGGY CREW
residents and organisers of the night, will celebrate their 1 year anniversary as a crew by dropping massive tunes and remixes, and drink beer with you to celebrate!

OT301 AMSTERDAM
OVERTOOM 301
WWW.OT301.NL
WWW.BOMBDIGGY.NL
5 EURO ENTRANCE
22.30 – late

Saturday 13th of feb; Rebel Up! Soundclash @ OCCII, A’dam with DJ Zhao (DE/CN) and more!

Posted on Feb 3, 2010 | 0 comments

Ahoy all you globalsound loving people out there!

This time we will have a special guest from the far east!
DJ Zhao is the Chinese ambassador of boom bringing heat from around the world, connecting ancestral rhythms with hyper-modern sound. Active since 2000, Zhao has organized critically acclaimed long running events in the US from Sound Art to Experimental Techno. After moving to Berlin, he started the Ngoma Soundsystem collective and organised series of Global Bass parties in Berlin. This has brought him to various festival and parties allover Europe and now to Amsterdam for the first time ever! Equal parts ethno-musicologist and booty shaker, Zhao brings unique perspective and vision to every occasion, and has played nights with artists such as Pan Sonic, Rhythm and Sound, Cooly G, Shackleton and others.

Check his sounds here and look for the awesome Ngoma mix!
http://soundcloud.com/djzhao
http://differentwaters.blogspot.com/
http://myspace.com/zhaoism

Vrijdag 12 feb; Rebel Up! Soundclash @ Vechtclub, Utrecht met DJ Zhao (DE/CN) en meer!

Posted on Feb 2, 2010 | 0 comments

Ahoi,

Deze Rebel Up! avond hebben we een speciale gast uit het verre oosten!
DJ Zhao is de Chinese ambassadeur van warme wereldse tonen en vermengt voorouderlijke ritmes met moderne electronica. Via China kwam hij terecht in Amerika, waar hij in 2000 begon met het maken van muziek. Een paar jaar geleden besloot hi naar Berlijn te verhuizen waar hij het Ngoma Soundsystem kollektief oprichtte en ook een reeks Global Bass feesten in Berlijn. Dit bracht hem snel naar diverse festivals en feesten verspreid over heel Europa. Zhao’s stijl is de balans tussen een ethno-musicologist en booty shaker en zo heeft hij het podium al mogen delen met artiesten als Pan Sonic, Shackleton, Rhythm & Sound en Orchestre Poly-Ritmo de Cotonou.

Check zijn muziek en mixen hier, vooral de geweldige Ngoma mixen op zijn blog!
http://soundcloud.com/djzhao
http://differentwaters.blogspot.com/
http://myspace.com/zhaoism

new 1-Speed Bike record *Pashto Translator Needed*

Posted on Feb 2, 2010 | 0 comments

good old Aidan Girt (ex-Godspeed You! Black Emperor) is back at it on the sociopolitical musical path made a new record under his 1-Speed Bike moniker. it’s a darn inspired one.
here’s what he says about it;

hello strangers

i made another record, this time about afghanistan…
http://1-speedfukinbike.bandcamp.com/
to get it for free…

twitter/share/link it around!

What is this war? They claim it’s to liberate woman and to fight drugs and terrorism but woman are worse off then under the Taliban and opium is triple and you can’t win a fight against a tactic. Anyways Osama Bin Laden used to work for them, like Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein, who will be next? Maybe its just to punish Afghanistan for being a mess because its been fucked over by other countries? So lets fuck them over too? People do fucked up things in Afghanistan, they hate woman and aren’t tolerant of other religions. We hate woman and anyone who isn’t christian so let’s bomb ourselves? Why do we only hear about Canadian soldiers dying? Why doesn’t the CBC report on how many Afghanis we kill every day? Do we ever kill any? Are we not very good soldiers? Does killing people get in the way of trying to save them? We don’t give a fuck about Afghanistan or Somalia or Haiti or Yemen or Ethiopia or Colombia or any Native Reserve in this country, of course not, no one in charge of this country cares about anything except making money and keeping power. And most people not in charge don’t care about anything beyond getting laid, making money, buying stupid shit they don’t need and pulling weird power trips on those closest to them. So fuck you too. Oh by the way, fuck your yellow ribbons, it’s a volunteer army, you take your chances, those bumper stickers are just a distraction. But what the fuck is wrong with us? Why do we let this go unopposed? Why aren’t we out there in the small town high schools talking to kids, the ones that the Canadian Army is out there recruiting? Why aren’t we out on the streets and malls about this?