UBER SYSTEM REMIXED! @ ABERCROMBIE
Featuring international guests : Räuberhöhle (Berlin) - Childish electro with fem-German
MC, a puppet show and a 'Bear'.
This episode of Uber Lingua at the Abercrombie takes the live end of things to the extreme with the famous beer garden filled up with live performance from 8pm, alongside the traditional BBQ that is a mainstay of all the gigs at this venue. At about midnight the noise cops do their job and the party moves inside with both the front bar and the fairly recent gallery space upstairs playing host to a solid selection of trans-global DJs that explore the outer realms of international sonics.As with the last Abercrombie event in December, UBER SYSTEM REMIXED! showcases DJs, VJs, turntablism, percussion, instrumentalists and an emerging crew of multi-lingual MCs doin' stuff in their mother tongues... an all-in, non-stop, global sound system party, mashing up the worldís cutting edge music movements. Saturday Feb 9th : 8pm till very late
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Nova (East Java) Nova is one half of TwinSista a female hip hop outfit from East Java
Indonesia and the daughter of the guitarist from Indonesiaís legendary
rock band Suami. In 2000 as a 19 year old Nova made her first forays into
hip hop with her best friend Indry. Influenced by the Fugees, and Lauryn
Hill they eventually entered a hip hop competitions to try our their own
stuff. And TwinSista was born. They contributed tracks to independent compilation
album Perang Rap (2001) and then toured through Java. With the support
of a music producer, Iqbal (Calludra) and Pasukan Record, Twinsista released
their first album, "Mother of Nature" in 2003. In March 2007 Nova returned
to Yogya to record her first solo single, "Dikawinkan Alam" which was released
in a compilation album called "It's Hiphop Poetry Battle"
Once upon a time (let s say 1999) there was a grrrl. (let s call her
krawalla.) she used to live in a pretty untidy appartment (let s call it
a räuberhöhle/robber cave). she was bored from time to time.
"what should i do? - working? nooo? studying? - booooring! becoming a popstar?
- hm, why not?" a friend gave her a very little keyboard (let s say a casio
sa-11) which had a lot of cute sounds and drumbeats. so she started to
play on it like crazy and after a while there were some little melodies.
she recorded it, mixed it together and later she also sang on it. she got
obsessed and started to collect more and more crappy childish instruments
like stylophones, baby guitars, old computers (c64, atari, amiga...), synthies
and everything that just can say "beep" or "toot". she started her own
website (let s say www.megapeng.net), uploaded her songs and made them
downloadable for everyone who wanted to hear it. after some years she got
responses. people asked for shows and all that, but since she were bored
to death by the classical laptop shows, but on the other hand she was unable
to play the instruments by herself and sing at the same time... she thought
of a plan. "why shouldn t i come up with a puppetshow that explains the
story of the krawallmädchen?" she built up a small theater called
"räuberhöhle" and asked her friend "the bear" if he would go
on tour with her and luckiely s/he said "yes"! since march 2003 she and
her friends are playing every little or big place that she can reach. and
she loves it!!!
Pochoman (Cuba) Ever since he was a child, Pocho liked to dance, act and sing and believes that he inherited the music in his blood. In 1998 he started working with a group called Onda Expansiva and this was when the name Pochoman became his artistic name. Onda expansiva won an audition out of 500 other hip hop groups to perform at the International Hip Hop Festival of Cuba. Pochoman was offered the chance to sing in America, Brazil and Europe
however due to his country's system of government he was unable to go.
He has sung on radio and shared the stage with various other famous cuban
artists such as Haila, Polo Montanez, Los Van Van, Carlos Manuel among
others. He claims to be the only hip hop artist that has had the honour
of singing in front of Fidel Castro.
Merchants of the sublime Gypsy-scape... Gypsy Dub incorporate Eastern
European and electronic composition, combining Bulgarian strings, traditional
brass and the skankiní riffs of a reggae guitarist. A favourite of the
Uber Lingua summer series of 2006/07, GDSS has grown out of a search to
bring the passion, excitement, skill and juice of European music into a
fat and funky club and festival context.
Black Symbol Black Symbol (Ahyesondee) have been around for a few years now, gradually
evolving as the years have gone by. Ghanaian 'high life' & 'hip hop'
combine to create 'hip-life' and these guys take strong cues from this
genre... Recently they've taken stronger influence from the global reggae
movement. They rap in English and Akan (the lingo spoken in Ghana) to produce
a unique and new Australian style. They are part of a bigger movement of
Australian based African Hip Hop producer-performers that includes the
likes of Tanzanian 'Mr Zux' and the high impact female MC duo 'Killah Kweens'...
They have performed at Uber Lingua events in the past, bringin down the
house back in '05 and '06...
Post-Japanese Brisbane MC Potato MasterÇ sings, raps & raga MCs
in Japanese, broken English and Gibberish alongside creating abstract beats
for himself & DJing what he describes as 'funny music'. His style is
deliberately out of control and is one of the most infectiously hilarious
performances available toAustralia's East Coast, and VERY Japanese. In
2002 he joined 19-t records in Kyoto Japan, and toured Europe with them
in '03. In '05 he moved to Australia and linked up with locals including
equally zany hip-hop crew 'Curse Ov Dialect', Brisbane's Anglo-Asian dub
system 'Taste of tea', DJ Skyfish, Heavy weight champions and the 'Lao
mirador' reggae radio show on Vegas's legendary 4ZZZ. He also became a
central vocal entity in Uber Lingua Sound Sytem and has toured Melbourne
twice, once as the headline artist at St Jeromes. He literally brought
the house down with his solid beats, ultra-precise raps and hysterical
ways...
Dub Chaman Argentinian born, DJ Dubchaman represents the Sydney alternative Latin scene. A cumbia beats, reggae, dancehall and dub specialist, also plays bass guitar and efx as a member of 7 piece Sydney act 'Social Progression System'. With a flair for the rare groove, be it dub, free jazz, roots reggae, rub-a-dub, afrofunk, dancehall or musica latina and an ever expanding taste and knowledge of music styles, Dubchaman has been following this passion for music and honing his talents for more than twenty years. His focus is always about the feeling, the music and its message. Dubchaman never plans a set, avoiding predictability, never just settling for what's current. At the dawn of 2003, Dubchaman, together with other DJ's and MC's started Chimichanga, the first latin alternative night in Sydney, with a residency at the World Bar. Since then, Dubchaman has played sets at many different Clubs and Venues,
such as The Basement, Canberra's Old Parliament House, Candy's Apartment,
Lorna It began, as these things often do, with a record, a needle and a passion for music. The record was Gary Glitter's 'I Love, You Love, Me Love', the needle was on a portable stack system turntable and, even at 5 years old, Lorna already understood the power of a great beat (and a really bad song). Fast forward through years of tragic haircuts and even worse fashion statements, to the hub of Sydney dance music - Oxford Street, Darlinghurst. It's 1993 and Lorna has a particular taste for the funkier end of the musical spectrum, especially breakbeat. No-one seems to be satisfying her dancefloor needs however so she takes things in hand and promotes Sydney's first dedicated breakbeat night - Trip Hop Skip Jump. Fellow beat worshippers congregate and dance 'til the wee hours, glad to know they're not alone in their addiction. Between '94 and '96, Lorna established herself in Sydney clubland, regularly playing a mix of house/tech/breaks and electro at nights. In '96 a short trip to the UK turned into a 3 year stay. During this time Lorna lived in London where she began a new career in music PR for dance labels such as F Communications, R&S, and Hydrogen Dukebox. Her djing also took hold in London's fertile soil. Her record box clocked up plenty of frequent flyer points as it traveled to gigs in Holland, Scotland and Germany but it was in London where she based herself. Most importantly however she landed residencies at two of London's most respected clubs - Track @ 333 Club (electro) and Funkt @ Brixtons 1200 capacity club, Mass. Lorna ended up mixing a live DJ set on air for his Friday night show on Kiss FM. In '99 the sun, sand and surf lured Lorna back to Sydney's shores where she quickly fell back into djing at key club nights such as Kooky, Tweekin', Basscode, Warm Up, Mint Bar, Chinese Laundry, Scissor Paper Rock and The Globe. Able to cater to the any size of dancefloor, Lorna was handpicked as the exclusive Sydney tour support DJ for international acts such as Goldfrapp (The Metro), Kruder & Dorfmeister (The Enmore Theatre) and Thievery Corporation (The Basement) as well as major festivals such as Livid Festival (Sydney), Good Vibrations (Sydney), Vibes On A Summers Day (Sydney), Splendour In The Grass (Byron Bay), Sydney Festival Bar (Sydney) and most recently in June '07 at Sonar (Barcelona). Apart from DJing, Lorna is music editor of PagesOnline. For the past
10 years Lorna has produced and presented a weekly radio show, starting
on 2SER with her show Top Shelf back in the 90's. Currently she hosts a
weekly 2 hour radio show, Under The Influence - every Monday from 9-11pm
on Fbi 94.5 FM whilst also filling in from time to time as guest presenter
on national youth station JJJ. As a dedicated purveyor of local music Lorna
has also initiated a new event in Sydney called CDR - based on a similar
project happening in London. Initiated in 2006, CDR invites local music
producers to bring their unreleased music down to the club where Lorna
selects and programs the music from the CDR's handed in on the night.
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 Tasmania's Edge Radio.
Sven Simulacrum Born in South Asia / Made in Australia. This Sydney based mix n mash
slasher selecta brings chutney rebel baile bass bhangra bashment bump n
grime. DIY diasporic culture clash!
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 travelled 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.
Stu Buchanan Hailing originally from Scotland, Stuart Buchanan is the host of the international music show, FAT PLANET on Sydney's FBi Radio and editor of the popular international music blog, fatplanet.com.au . A comrade of the international and multi-lingual music movement, Stuart has become deeply involved in Uber Lingua over the last couple of years, DJing baile funk, dancehall, afro hiphop, reggaeton, Baltimore, kuduro, bhangra, balkan beats and much more at the Sydney residencies and at the 2007 Laneway festival in Melbourne.
BFG To quote BFG "I've been DJing publicly for a little over 6 months now, starting in the world of Dubstep and DnB, but I always had a love of Hip-Hop, Dancehall, Balefunk, Reggaeton, etc.. So, whilst in India and Nepal on a recent overseas trip I went searching for an equivalent from that culture, and found Bhangra and it's many interpretations including Desi versions of many other popular styles like Breaks and DnB. I've now found myself with quite a unique collection of music from the sub-continent." wow, what a lineup!
previous UL parties at the ABERCROMBIE...
here are some of the more beautiful punters and crew at previous UBER parties...
check out photos from previous Sydney Uber gigs...
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