MAGA BO (Rio de Janeiro) & FILASTINE (Barcelona)

Friday January 9 at View Factory, Newcastle

+ DJs bP (Melb), Mashy P + VJs Siadatz & Square Eyes,

Tickets $8 at the door

GOTO: TOUR PAGE

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.

www.filastine.com

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.

www.magabo.com

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.

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.

Demos can be sent to Uber Lingua PO Box 2613 Fitzroy 3065 Australia