Wed 10/1 (8pm) @ Subterranean
2011 W. North Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
Cost: $13/$15 Buy Tix ->
London low-end wrecker the Bug + Montreal bounce maestro Ghislain Poirier = one hell of a sick combo.
Add to that Kingston Jamaica born, london bread dancehall vocalist Warrior Queen; Panamanian born, Chicago bread electro-reggae vocalist MC Zulu; Boston-bounced, bass-heavy genre destroyer DJ C, and it goes without saying that this party’s gonna be off the hook!
“The term rogue producer applies to Kevin Martin, who’s worked with the likes of John Zorn and Sonic Boom as well as curating some of the weirdest comps of the ’90s. Now, he’s latched onto the dubstep boom and basically conquered it with a fine album as the Bug. Tonight, he headlines with Montreal’s Ghislain Poirier—an intercontinental bass mechanic whom we quite like. Chicago’s DJ C makes us feel lazy with his productivity. We’re dying to hear what he digs up tonight. The ace MC Zulu is on hand, putting a Panamanian twist on the whole shebang.”
This international drum ‘n’ bass weekly from the BassByThePound crew is a cornerstone at the intimate Lava. There’s a new emphasis on local and domestic talent to balance the high-profile gigs from U.K. breakbeat and jungle artists, with spotlights on new genres like dubstep to broaden our horizons. On September 24, DJ C, Code Blue and 40oz. host a drumn-dub-hop night.
I’ll be holdin’ it down solo tonight, Monday, Sept. 22 on our bi-weekly Chicagoland radio series — Joystyxx Radio. I’ll be busting out some of the faves from my set last night with Maga Bo as part of the Chicago World Music Fest; bassed-up sounds from around the world.
Joystyxx Radio: Every other Monday evening from 8 to 10 pm we kick it old-school, new-school, and everything in between-school over the airwaves of Loyola University’s WLUW, 88.7 FM in Chicago and on the web at www.wluw.org.
Wayne pointed out this post on Vibe’s blog about the abundance of M.I.A. “Paper Planes” remixes floating around. I had already collected a bunch over the past year, but recently they’ve been popping up like mushrooms on shit after a rain storm. Many of them seem to be legit/official (or semi-official) versions featuring prominent rappers like 50 Cent, Jim Jones, and Bun B.
To top it all off, the new T.I. track “S.L.U. (Swagga Like Us)” features a “Paper Planes” sample as the main refrain. M.I.A. repeats “No one on the corner has swagger like us” while T.I. and his brothers in top-40 rap Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, and Kanye West, do their thing over the top.
In light of this situation I felt the best thing is to make a mixtape, reggae-style, on which I juggle the “riddim” — in this case Diplo’s crunked-out, Clash-lifting beat.
I attended the fair last year and it was absolutely wicked! Division St. between Damen & Hermitage in Wicker Park close to traffic and fill up with 250 booths and over 300 indie artists selling their hipster, hand-crafted, arts-wares. This year it’s Saturday and Sunday, September 13 + 14, Noon - 10pm each day.
There will also be at least one other music stage (last year there were 2 DJ stages and one band stage) featuring some great bands like Northern State, Califone, Mahjongg, and a bunch more.
So swing on down and stop by the CHIRP stage on Sunday evening between 7:30 and 10 (yes you can drink beer and dance in the street!) to hear some o that bass for your waist.
Our boy DJ Flack has been organizing a set of 2/dub/bass-step slammers for to rock the house at The Good Life in Boston on Wed:
In the past year and a half, there’s been a small explosion of club nights in Boston devoted to bass-centric genres first spawned in the clubs of London: bassline, 2-step, and (most famously) dubstep…
…This Wednesday, Operation Underground kicks off its ‘Home Grown Sessions,’ a series of parties spotlighting DJs and producers from the thriving local scene. The first of these features DJ FLACK (Tony Flackett), who runs the Beat Research weekly at Enormous Room.
It’s been just about a year since we re-launched Mashit.com as a blog, online shop, podcast, and all around place for fiends. Over that year Mashit boss DJ C has produced and released a whole slew of bastard-pop-style mashups and remixes, many of which have been available as part of our Free Tunes series.
Now we’ve decided to release those mashups all together as a free download album, along with a few secret bonus tracks. The album, entitled “Mas Hits”, is out now. This is the teaser, in the form of a mini-mix (leaked here by Time Out Chicago), and music video.
DJ C “Mas Hits” Mini-Mix (’80s Cartoon Music Video Version)
Meanwhile, If this post over at Mad Decent is any indication, DJ mini-mixes are hot right now. Check the Bang Gang DJ’s mini-teaser for their upcoming mix album on Modular which features the DJ C and MC Jorge Stylo track “Juce”; forthcoming on Man Recordings.
The Bang Gang Deejays “D is for Disco, E is for Dancing!” Minimegamatronicmix Download here ->
Time Out Chicago / Issue 183 : Aug 28–Sep 3, 2008
Fall Preview 2008 | Clubs Vital man C
With an online label, global mashing mentality and futuristic dancehall album, DJ C’s got the sonic nutrition you need.
At the crossroads of the genre-blending, digital-remix and bouncing-bass–obsessed international DJ scene, DJ C and Mashit.com have a rep for pushing underground dance culture forward, both online and off. Radio One legend John Peel picked Mashit as his label of the month in October 2004 when the then-Boston-based producer was releasing tracks by DJ C and others with a jungle bent. More recently, DJ C, who relocated to the Chicago area from Boston a year ago, has turned the vinyl label into a download site, podcast and blog that serves as an outlet for his (and his friends’) mixes, mash-ups, original tracks—even full albums—that don’t tuck neatly into any genre. He’s a DJ expanding his curatorial role online and a Chicago producer of growing influence.
Nice write-up on MC Zulu in the Chicago Reader today. "Space Dancehall: MC Zulu works on Planet Lazer Bass?" http://bit.ly/lazerbassTwitter ->2008/11/20
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Are you ready for the bass?
There will also be at least one other music stage (last year there were 2 DJ stages and one band stage) featuring some great bands like 
Time Out Chicago / Issue 183 : Aug 28–Sep 3, 2008
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