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Beastie Boys bring their extensive, immeasurably influential catalog of solid gold hits to the hordes of Australian revelers!
While "Licensed To Ill" put both Beastie Boys and the Def Jam label on the map, the Beastie Boys tireless commitment to producing ground breaking, genre defying albums that merge Punk, Funk, Hip Hop, Rock and an innovative sense of irrepressible energy has earned them the rare reputation of consistently being both innovative and influential.
By approaching everything with a Punk Rock attitude, Beastie Boys have had an amazing influence on - not only Hip Hop, but all modern music made in the last 20 years with Licensed To Ill, Paul?s Boutique, Check Your Head, Ill Communication, Hello Nasty and To The 5 Boroughs consistently being celebrated as landmark albums.
Key tracks: Fight For Your Right, No Sleep Til Brooklyn, Shake Your Rump, She?s Crafty, , Sabotage, So Whatcha Want?, Body Movin?, Root Down, Get It Together,Hey Ladies
www.myspace.com/beastieboys |
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| Snoop Dogg | |
A veritable superstar whose international reputation has grown way beyond that of just a Hip Hop visionary.
Snoop is never short on vision, drive or ambition. The sharp talking wordsmith has managed to redefine and reinvent himself over the course of his fifteen year career, each time revealing a distinctive cache from the depths within. As ‘Tha Doggfather’ and ‘Uncle Snoop’ or as a superstar producer, actor, entrepreneur and linguist (For Shizzle) Snoop has carved out a permanent place in musical history.
Snoop Dogg’s most recent studio album Tha Blue Carpet Treatment features Cypress Hill, The Neptunes (his production collaborators on previous chart toppers, “Beautiful” and “Drop It Like It’s Hot”), & Dr. Dre; appearing as an MC for the first time on record since Chronic 2001.
Key Tracks: Gin and Juice, Who Am I (What’s My Name?), Drop it Like It’s Hot, Beautiful.
www.myspace.com/snoopdogg |
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MC's Chali 2na, Marc 7, Akil, Zaakir (Soup), and DJ/producer Nu-Mark are on the march once again, and on display are those qualities for which J5 is now world renowned-soulful harmonizing, innovative rhyme patterning, tag-team vocal exchanges, and first-rate turntable feats; a lyricism of the highest order aligned with intricate, sample-laden production that has yet to be surpassed in quality, ingenuity and consistency; and all of this in full view in what might be the best live show that popular music has going today, a rambunctious, five-man, rolling musical event.
Key tracks: What's Golden, Concrete Schoolyard, A Day At The Races, Red Hot.
www.myspace.com/jurassic5 |
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| Timo Maas | |
Self-styled purveyor of 'percussive wet funk', Timo Maas is a man with a mission, a man sick of the "cheesy shit" that clogs up the clubs and the charts, stifling creativity: "I like the idea of building up a unique sound, of working with different sounds to create something new and fresh. I suppose I may always be the underdog but at least I won't have sold out like some other German acts."
From early days at The Tunnel in Hamburg, Timo broke through with 'Mama Konda' a top 20 Club hit in UK and US and has been consistently all over the international club scene with his remixing, production and DJ work.
Key tracks: Mama Konda', Dooms Night (Timo mass Remix), Pictures feat Brian Molko.
www.myspace.com/timomaas |
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Cassius, comprises two kings of the French Electronic scene: Philippe Zdar and Hubert Blanc-Francart (aka Boombass). After Initially recording for Mo' Wax as La Funk Mob, producing classic albums for France's only successful Hip Hop export MC Solaar and - for Zdar - forming the pioneering French House outfit Motorbass with Etienne De Crecy, Cassius officially formed in 1998 as 'two friends making music for living better.'
Key tracks: Feeling for You, The Sound Of Violence (Feel Like I Wanna Be Inside you), Toop Toop.
www.myspace.com/cassius15again |
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The N.O.W. sound nonchalantly sojourns down crisp Philly Soul production, pulsating ho-down medleys, heavy Barry White pant tones, and nerve shivering chord shimmers found in all the classic soul.
"Soul music is the earliest form of hip hop. That's why I want to create it. It might seem like recreating what was done in the past, but what I want to do is merge soul and hip hop together. That's why I'll bring in the live aspect of what happened back then into current hip hop trends. That's the angle I'm arriving at."
From the landmark 90's album Carboot Soul to the latest joint In A Sound outta Time, Nightmares On Wax have been in a league of their own for creating the deepest, spliff friendly Hip-Hop, Dub & Soul hybrid that is perfectly to suited to a Summers afternoon in the Good Vibrations Park.
Key Tracks: Les Nuits, 70s/80s, Know My Name.
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The undisputed "Godfather of Noyze? has re-defined the beat box. A self-defined "vocal percussionist", Rahzel (rhymes with 'gazelle') has perfectly mastered this quintessential hip hop art form and has emerged as a "true virtuoso". To hear him is to be converted.
Billboard Magazine proclaims: "Everyone should experience his fascinating rhythms" using just his lips, cheeks, gums, and Adam's apple he (recreates), with amazing accuracy and detail, tracks from the magic mixing desks of Pete Rock "and others".
Rahzel is best known as an original member of The Roots, but since going solo has gone on to work with an amazing list of artists as varied as Q-Tip, Brandford Marsalis, Me'Shell N'Degeocello, Erykah Badu, Pete Rock, Bjork and Mike Patton.
Growing up as a youngster in New York, Rahzel admired his cousin Rahim, a founding member of the pioneering Furious Five. "I remember watching Grand Master Flash before I could even see over the gate", recalls Rahzel. "Having that influence alone was incredible". Later, Rahzel roadied for Ultramagnetic MCs. "In every important phase of hip-hop, I was there," he says, "absorbing everything that was going on."
Key Tracks: All I Know, The Lesson Pt.1 (With The Roots).
www.myspace.com/rahzellekilla |
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London Elektricity has become a byword for groundbreaking 'fast soul music', ramming venues, destroying drum & bass crowds, leaving huge smiles from the Big Chill to Glastonbury and beyond.
Tony LE is back behind the decks with sets from London to Japan to Malaysia, Australia, California, Eastern Europe an onwards. Tony also keeps it cutting edge as always by bringing you the groundbreaking "Hospital Podcast". This regular show, available through iTunes, is smashing up the bandwith as people subscribe from Canada to Cape Town. Keep locked on as London Elektricity pushes things forward!
Key Tracks: Songs In The Key Of Life, Remember The Future, Power Ballad.
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Sydney's ubiquitous Electrofunk party outfit Sneaky Sound System have had a huge year, with a Top 30 single, Aria Nominations and a run of amazing live shows across the county.
Key tracks: I love it, Pictures (Tonite Only Remix)
www.myspace.com/sneakysoundsystem
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Just Voted #1 House DJ in the World!!! DJ magazine 2006
Long before periodicals like URB and BPM Culture began sponsoring annual surveys of the world's favorite DJs, dance music lovers had already spoken, loud and clear, in favor of DJ Dan. From his rise through the early '90s Los Angeles scene, to his non-stop international agenda today, Dan has continued to thrill audiences wherever he goes, from Sydney to San Paulo, Taiwan to Toronto. He has sold over 300,000 mix CDs in North America alone, been featured prominently on MTV and network television, rocked a crowd of over 50,000 LA New Year's Eve revelers in 1999, and was one of the first American DJs to play China.
"I don't base my mix around what the newest tracks of the week are, but rather, what would make up a great set that captures the vibe of not only where I'm at musically, but also the diversity that inspires me," he insists. "I love playing house, techno, electro, old school, breaks, and I want to represent all of those sounds."
Key Mix: Chinese Laundry 2.
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DJ Yoda is one of Britain's most admired and original DJs, having built a reputation as the only DJ to single-handedly inject humour
into Hip-Hop.
Tipped by Q Magazine as one of 'The 10 DJs you must see before you die', and
voted alongside DJ Premier as 'One of the Top Three DJs in the World' in Hip Hop
Connection magazine, DJ Yoda is no ordinary scratch DJ. Yoda represents a new
brand of mix-master who will play any kind of music to make people dance - with
a hip-hop set that can take the audience from underground rap to TV themes, to
nursery rhymes, country, soul, reggae, drum and bass, 80's pop and back again.
DJ Yoda's "Mini-Mix" for Annie Mac's show on BBC Radio 1 was voted as the
best mix ever broadcast on the show and he is on the only Hip Hop DJ ever to
have done an essential mix for Pete Tong's legendary Radio 1 show.
Key Mixes: How to Cut and Paste 1-3, Annie Mac's Mini-Mix, The Amazing Adventures of DJ Yoda.
www.myspace.com/djyodauk |
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The baron of kampbootytek, the prince of disconouveaux and the Tsar of all things electrofreakacidmuzik, Ajax was voted #1 Australian DJ in both the 2006 IntheMix Top 50 Poll and 2006 Allen & Heath Dance Music Awards!
Key Mix: Spin City
www.myspace.com/ajaxbanggang
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Cut Copy is the musical lovechild of Melbourne human giraffe and 70's MOR
fetishist Dan Whitford who joined in the recording process to form like Voltron and
make the Cut Copy sound what it is today - Scuzzy Disco, Post-Post-Punk,
Electric Lovers Rock, Sweet Space Pop. A sound that references 70's rock
staples like ELO and Fleetwood Mac, late 80's/early 90's indie like Sonic
Youth and Guided By Voices, the disco production of Nile Rodgers and Bernard
Edwards, post-punk and French house.
Since Bright Like Neon Love's release in Australia, Cut Copy have gone on to
sell out shows nationally, play the festival circuit, appear on the Kitsune
Midnight compilation, Support Mylo on his UK tour, complete a bunch of remixes, find God, lose him again, break hearts and win them back and win a massive amount of love along the way.
Key Tracks: Saturdays, Future.
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Van She are a new band from Sydney fresh on ideas, fresher than Flavor Flav, fresh like coriander, fresher than the Fresh Prince!
www.myspace.com/vanshe
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The Fort Knox Five have had a huge impact on the international funk and breaks scene over the past couple of years. With the release of five critically acclaimed singles on their own independent label, Fort Knox Recordings, the FK5 have been thrust into the spotlight and caught the attention of music lovers around the world. Fort Knox 5 were recently the tour DJ's on Gwen Stafani's Harajuku Lovers tour of the US and have remixed for artists such as Tito Puente, Louis Armstrong, A Skillz and Krafty Kuts, Mo'Horizons and Afrika Bambaataa.
Also on Thievery Corporations label ESL, Thunderball have been building a solid following over three artist albums with their unique blend of Blaxploitation Funk, Cinematic Soul, Bossa Nova Lounge, Downtempo Dub, and Jazzy Drum'n'Bass.
Steve Raskin is a founding member of both Fort Knox Five and Thunderball and will be playing back to back with FK5's main man Jon Horvath.
Key Tracks: Brazillian Hipster, Blowin' Up The Spot, Thunder In the Jungle.
www.myspace.com/fortknoxfive
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Nominated for Best Dance Release at the 2006 ARIA Awards, Dirty South has, over the past 3 years, made a name for himself in the music industry, impressing many influential DJ's and producers that have come across his remixing and DJ work.
Key tracks: It's too late (Dirty South Vs Evermore), Cicada -Things You
Say (Cicada Remix)
www.myspace.com/dirtysouth909
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Ursula 1000's style evolved and transitioned from the sophisticated & hip background score provided by his father, a renowned member of the 50's Latin orchestra, Los Chavales De Espana, to the heady rock, punk, disco, funk and electronic dance music of his generation; he smoothly moves back and forth between musical styles from the glamorous Jet Set era to frenetic Electronica.
Keeping up with the jetsetting image, you can catch URSULA 1000 dj-ing his transcontinental grooves at discoth?ques worldwide and for fashionistas like Prada, Issey Miyake, Hugo Boss, Miss Sixty, Fiorucci, H&M, Diesel and Christian Dior. When in New York you can also catch him at his weekend residencies at the swank APT and the Soho Grand Lounge.
Ursula's has just released his new studio album entitled, Here Comes Tomorrow, where he explores a mind meld of electro, latin, swing, ska, bossa nova hip hop, psychedelia and glam rock.
Key Tracks: Electrik Boogie (opening theme to this website!) The Ursadelica! Mix.
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Kraak and Smaak formed in 2003 through a series of friendships and chance meetings. Mark and Wim already knew each other from DJ'ing together and were introduced to Oscar by a mutual friend who told them about the keyboard prodigy that was studying at the conservatoire. The trio started working together and sent one of their earliest efforts into the outside world to see if anyone was interested - That track Money in the Bag was picked up by Jalapeno Records who offered the band an album deal.
K&S made some serious inroads into the UK when DJ magazine made Boogie Angst (their debut album) their album of the month and devoted a spread to the super strength Dutch funk crew declaring Boogie Angst "One of the years best albums".
The band have since worked alongside Dance luminaries such as Sharam Jey , 4 Hero, Soul of Man, Mark Rae and the Fort Knox Five.
Expect the unexpected from their DJ sets, as Mark says; "there isn't really anything that escapes our radar".
Key tracks: Money In The Bag, One Of These Days.
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Imagine Blondie jamming with Can, New Order and The Sugarcubes, The Cocteau Twins and Slowdive adding the sonics, with Daft Punk and Quincy Jones at the controls of Paisley Parks mixing desk - the result might sound everything and nothing like Cicada. With a series of critically acclaimed singles under its belt, one of the most talked about electronic bands in the UK is about to release its debut album.
Dance heads will know their reputation one of the finest alternative remixers in the business, taking in Seelenluft, The Source, New Order, The Editors and Depeche Mode amongst others. As any fan of entomology will know, their insect namesake, the cicada, thrives in warmer climes, and musically, this bands retro-fitted atari pop could define summer 06/07.
Key Tracks: Edge, Things You Say (Dirty South Mix) Cut Right Through.
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