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MAGA BO (Rio de Janeiro) & FILASTINE (Barcelona)
Friday January 16 at HiFi Bar & Ballroom + DJs bP (Melb) vs Prem K (Tabla), Mashy
P, Zaibatsu (RRR) & Bass Bin Laden (PBS)
Tickets $20 + BF from www.hifibar.com.au
GOTO: TOUR PAGE Check out Filastine performing his current set http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4y86q_filastine-live_music
Filastine (Barcelona) Filastine creates music that bends genre, cutting mutated hiphop with other street rhythms and international obscura to build a new sonic territory defined by nomadism, collaboration, beat science, and massive bass. In 2006 Filastine dropped his debut release, Burn It, to much critical acclaim on DJ Rupture's boutique imprint Soot Records. In the year that followed Burn It was licensed and re-released on CD three more times; by French label Jarring Effects, Japanese label ROMZ, and the anarchist media collective Crimethinc. Other releases include a CD mix and a 12" on Tigerbeat6 subsidiaries, and some vinyl on compilations and diverse labels. In 2009 he launches Dirty Bomb on Uber Lingua, Soot, Romz, Jarring Effects and Post World Industries simultaneously. Filastine has brought his soundclash to every type of club, squat, and festival imaginable across the globe, delivering beats with laptop, midi triggers, loudspeaker, and percussion mounted on a shopping cart. In 2007 Filastine played some huge festivals, opening for Coldcut in Morocco, Diplo in Portugal, and Rebel Familia in Japan. Filastine tracks have aired on the UK radio shows of Mary Anne Hobbs & the late John Peel, and peaked at #15 in French independant radio charts. Less visible are the spins on pirate stations in the Americas, or the more than fifty thousand downloads of his mix on Blentwell.com. Filastine founded the Infernal Noise Brigade, a 20-piece marching band active in international radical movements. He produced a record for a street band in Marrakech, Majmouat AbdelHakim, and is a composer for the butoh dance ensemble P.A.N. Sound is also a tool of direct action for Filastine. He conducts guerilla audio interventions and has been assaulted or arrested by police of many uniforms in the course of his work.
Maga Bo (Rio de Janeiro) Based in Rio de Janeiro, Maga Bo is a DJ/producer working with an international collision of styles, sounds, location recordings from all continents and beats that have yet to be classified. A study in the digital contortions of transnational breakbeat based bass music, his sound is an amalgamation of smashed up batucada, rai, capoeira, bhangra, loudspeaker jitter and skewed electronic beats in a borderless conundrum of gritty street sounds, found, stolen and modified rhythms and melodies from Brazil, Morocco, India and beyond. DJing and producing tracks with a portable laptop studio, he has worked and performed in Africa, Asia, North and South America and Europe. Having travelled widely, his collaborators range from Mr. Catra, B Neg_o and Piveti (ex-Pavilh_o 9) to Marcelo Yuka and Marcos Suzano in Brazil to Pee Froiss, WA BMG 44 and ALIF in Senegal to Prince Wadada and Kalaf in Portugal to K-Libre and Bigg (Mafia-C) in Morocco to Teba Shumba, DJ Dope, Max Normal and SiBot from African Dope Records in South Africa. He has remixed and been remixed by Ghislain Poirier, Dr. Das (Ex-Asian Dub Foundation), Nettle (DJ /rupture's live project), Genetic DruGs, Digitaldubs Sound System, Quantic, TM Juke and others. His work has been released on Soot Records, WordSound, and Tru Thoughts as well being re-released on numerous compilations. Aside from his varied solo work, he also represents one half of Sonar Calibrado Sound System in collaboration with Filastine. His live performances are a hybrid mix of DJ set and live PA where pirate cassettes bought on the street in various parts of the world, MP3s from the internet, obscure vinyl found in underground shops, original beats, unreleased remixes and exclusive tracks are selected, juxtaposed and mixed in a unique narrative . His performances often include the presence of guest MCs and musicians. When the freelance sound engineer works outside of his Brazil home-base, Maga Bo stays for weeks at a time: voicing dubplates, recording musicians, doing things like skills exchange and workshops (i.e. teaching young African hiphoppers how to rock pirated audio software...) Call it what you want - creating community, deconstructing the exotic, making collaborations in a fair and respectful way - the music speaks for itself.
Mashy P Mashy P has been active in Sydney's underground playing, remixing and creating left-field beats from hip hop and dub to electro and techno since arriving from England in 1987. A few years back he traveled to Qatar and remixed local radio broadcasts putting together arabesque electro, beats and drum 'n bass. Since then, he's begun producing global music influenced electronic music, and has DJed at Uber Lingua parties in Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide alongside running the Sydney residencies since 2005. Most recently he toured Mexico, Canada and the USA gathering music.
With cultural diversity his primary passion, Australian DJ/producer 'bP' (Brendan Palmer) has been representing the musically 'not so represented' for nearing two decades. He has wandered the world gathering sounds and has performed in places as diverse as Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, London, Tijuana, Mexico city and Helsinki to name a few... In 2004 he launched Uber Lingua and his sonic activity has grown exponentially playing literally hundreds of gigs and promoting culturally charged music in most capital cities of Australia. bP's sets traverse language, culture, genre, history and social scenes; deliberately defiant of mainstream music fashions, he presents an intersection of underground and outernational sounds that capture his imagination. Roots to Futurism, East to West, Minimal to Maximal are all sonic stops on bP's translingual express. Brendan additionally works as a producer at the legendary Melbourne radio station Triple R during the day and presents the weekly 'Dialectic' radio program on the web and nationally on the Community Radio Network satellite.
Bass Bin Laden (Melb) Bass Bin Laden will boost new n feverishly wild tunes from across the globe and be the glue for the evening binding psychedelic electronica, downtempo, dubstep, glitch hop and breaks into one hellova stimulating sonic spectacle! 
VJ Square Eyes Square Eyes makes videos that might be termed "the thinking woman's MTV". Her work explores themes of identity, pop culture, race and cultural iconography. A new addition to the Uber fold, Square Eyes favours things kitsch yet beautiful and infuses her live sets with samples and original materials that marry Aussie with Orient. Square Eyes is video artist Eugenia Lim, a member of Melbourne audio-visual collectives Tape Projects and OUTPOST. She has exhibited in galleries and festivals in Melbourne and New York and in 2009 her work will be included in Figuring Landscapes, a major touring exhibition of work by UK and Australian artists to be exhibited at venues such as the Tate Modern and ArtSway (UK).
VJ Siadatz (formerly SDzeit) Melbourne based Dom Evans is VJ Siadatz and has been actively generating digital light for the past two years at Kent Street's 'Plug n Play' and at all of the bigger UberLingua events in Melbourne during that time. He also worked with Barcelona based cultural conjuerer 'Filastine' when he toured Australia in '06, performing video work at both the Melbourne and Sydney show. His work combines his illitrative art, sampled imagery, self made animations and other elements, often flowing between dark abstraction, urban psychogeographics and scientific surrealism. His work with Uber Lingua is sensitive to the cultural intersections that are being exlored and the collisions of ancient worlds with the modern hi tech... the results are stunning. Dom is also currently in his final year studying animation and electronic music at RMIT. 
Melusina The rhythm of the darabukka and plaintive notes of the ney first enticed Melusina's hips to sway in the mid 1990's. Since then she has maintained a passionate love for Middle Eastern dance that has motivated her to devote much of her life to the study, practice and teaching of this beautiful art form. Melusina has studied intensively under many inspirational teachers of varying styles of bellydance both here in Australia and overseas. Her fondness for both classical Egyptian dance and Contemporary Tribal Styles has extended her studies to Egypt and America. She has an impressive history of performing experience, dancing at many high profile events including working in television, festivals, concerts and at functions both around Australia and internationally. She is a popular instructor and choreographer who regularly travels to teach workshops. Melusina's style is unique and passionate, demonstrating technical precision and musicality with a strong emotive presense. Melusina is best known for her expertise in sword dancing, her innovative tribal fusion style and her expressive classical technique. 
Andrea (Underbelly dance - Melbourne) Andrea, the co-director of Underbelly dance studio in Fitzroy, has been performing and teaching various styles of Belly dance since 1999. With a strong foundation in Greek music and dance, Andrea is experienced in folkloric and modern styles from Egypt, Turkey, Morocco and beyond and has been a popular choice for performances at festivals and special occasions. She has also toured in the USA with fellow Underbelly dancers and has studied in Egypt and London with master choreographers. more info on multi-lingual MCs and the remaining Underbelly dancers shortly... 
Malia Malia Walsh has a background in Ballet, Jazz and Contemporary Dance. After discovering Fire Dancing in 1994, she quickly found herself performing at festivals and parties. In 1999 she embarked on a yearlong solo busking tour of America and Canada, cutting her teeth in performance the hard way. Malia returned to Sydney in 2000 to perform in the Olympic Opening and Closing ceremonies as an on-field supervisor for the Fire Segment. From 2001 to 02 she collaborated on performances with Concentrate, Atmosfire and Pyrotechnique, performing at Crusty Demon's, Rod Laver Arena, Docklands, corporate events and private parties. This lead to Malia's appointment as Fire Dancing teacher at Underbelly in 2003, a position which she holds to this day. In 2004, she choreographed 6-person shows for the opening of the N.G.V and the opening of the Melbourne Grand Prix. She also did shows at the Grand Hyatt, Hilton M.C.G, Telstra Dome and other major event venues across Melbourne. Malia travelled to New Zealand in 2005 to study traditional Poi and Taiaha with Rimona Peni of the New Zealand Maori Arts and Crafts Institute. She also started to train with one of Australia's leading Adagio performers, Shannon McGurgan. She headlined New Year's Eve count down at Melbourne Docklands, performing a duo Fire Show with That Girl Entertainment. Travelling back to the Pacific Islands in 2006, Malia went to Samoa to study Fire Knives under Lene Leota who was a student of the first and original Fire Dancer, Freddie Letuli. She performed in Tasmania and Canberra with Robinson's Family Circus in The Strong Man Show, a 7 minute Adagio(acrobalance) act complete with handstands, flips and standing on head. She also performed Fire at the Edinburgh Festival later that year. 2007 has been a whirlwind year for Malia, starting with a Fire show in the Maldives, performing under Pyroptix alongside Jennifer Lopez and Ricci Martin. Following this, she headed off to Malaysia with Nocturnal Sunshine for a 3 week Fire show tour. Throughout the year, she has travelled to Tasmania, N.S.W, Queensland and all over Victoria for workshops. Malia performed Hula Hoops in Sydney, Tasmania, White Haven Beach, at the Zingy Marley concert with Bomba. She also performed The Strong Man Show in Japan in October, and then embarked upon a European tour with Fire and Hula Hoops in November. 
Zaibatsu RRR music co-ordinator Simon Winkler is also known as 'Zaibatsu' when DJing. He has many musical interests but one is highly culture charged electronic urban dancehall and the like coming out of the third world... A conjurer of all things mashed up... remixed... and re-worked by underground producers areound the planet... be it pop hits, dance tracks, traditional music or stuff in other languages... Uber Lingua has released Filastine's new album DIRTY BOMB
email: info@uberlingua.com to be on our email list... Demos can be sent
to Uber Lingua PO Box 2613 Fitzroy 3065 Australia
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