UBER SYSTEM CHARGED!
After the jam packed UBER SYSTEM REMIXED! party back in early February, the third installment continues the cross cultural infused party energy that Uber Lingua events are well known for in Sydney and across Australia. UBER SYSTEM CHARGED! features Cuban reggaeton performer Pochoman, Chinese-Malaysian dancer and vocalist WeiZen, Brasilian batucada percussion troop Timbalada, Local Gypsy-Jazz maestro Trevor Brown, Ghanaian Hip Hop producer MC Gee, Argentinian Cumbia performer MC Hernan and grass roots breaker and MC Morganics... Alongside DJs Bruno LT (Rio de Janeiro), Mashy P, Jack Shit, Luke Snarl (Sub Bass Snarl), Bentley (Drop), Sven Simulacrum, Stu Buchanan (Fat Planet) and from the Melbourne crew sakamoiz and bP. In house developed video material by Melbourne based VJ, SDzeit will also be screened. Saturday March 29th : 7pm till very late (be early for 'earth hour
acoustic set)
As is always the case with these events, all three zones of the Abercrombie will be used... Starting off earlier this time at 7pm the legendary beer garden kicks off with some chilled beats from Dust Tones promoter and DJ Bentley alongside a meat & vegetarian BBQ. At 8pm 'earth hour' opens the door for Uber Lingua to offer it's first ever all-acoustic programming. Featuring the posse picking up old-style instruments and igniting candles in recognition of this global 'no-electricity' event. More info on this closer to the event. From 9pm the video projectors and DJ equipment are switched back on and the party gets started with Uber's multi-lingual MCs from Cuba, Malaysia and Ghana taking to the stage with DJs bP and Mashy P dropping kicking global instrumentals... From 11pm the two inside areas kick off with beat driven dance floor sets in the main bar and the upstairs gallery space going through till the early hours... Melbourne's DJ sakamoiz has delved into the new world of 'Future Cumbia', a music form thriving in Mexico and Argentina at the moment but not heard much in Australia. sakamoiz will present an hour long DJ set of this stuff, then teaming up with Argentinean MC Hernan, will present a fusion of Latin Hip Hop meets Future cumbia... After the Spanish speaking section of the night, Uber revisits it's hugely successful Sydney Funk Ball of 2007 and lines up three very Brasilian artists... First Bruno LT from Rio de Janeiro, then the full on high-energy Batucada percussion troop Timbalada takes things to a new level... Following them is the only man capable, Stu Buchanan from Fat Planet dropping the dance floor killers he's known for. Upstairs Sydney veteran party DJs Jack Shit, Luke Snarl and Sven Simulacrum offer a house party with a difference, all guns blazing.
MORE ON THE ARTISTS
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.
WeiZen WeiZen was born and grew up in Malacca Straits, West Malaysia and is of Straits-born Chinese parentage. A classically trained pianist who, in her mid twenties discovered an Eastern European style of singing in a community choir based in Manly. This led Wei Zen into Indian devotional and Qawali influenced singing. It also rekindled an interest in Chinese Opera which her grandfather introduced to her as a child. After performing in world music bands and an Indonesian jazz fusion
band, Garis in late 90s, Wei Zen co-founded a SEAsian electronica music
and visual media projection group with a theatrical edge called TUFA in
1999. TUFA held their debut concert at The Studio, Sydney Opera House in
Sept 1999 and went on to perform 97 concerts until early 2004. The group
increasingly incorporated theatrical, dance and shadow lighting elements
to the creative work. Other major performances included a two-day concert
PHOENIX LOVE at The Studio again in 2002, The Government House, Carnivale
Festivals, MusiCairns Festival, FEMALIA second album launch at Bangarra
Dance Theatre, a three-day concert at the MardiGras Festival, Newtown Theatre
which received an interview by ABC TV Asia-Pacific and a live concert for
the ABC Radio National programme SOUND QUALITY by Tim Ritchie..
Versatility may have a wider mean when we talk about Bruno LT's activities
with brazilian music and audio techniques. His full dedication led him
to work with great names of the Brazilian Popular Music. Extremely sensible
to musicality, the DJ and Producer applies the large experience acquired
on his own projects involving new talents of the Brazilian alternative
music.
Gee (MC) Agyiri Kofi Larbi , aka, "GEE" was born in Nsawam, Ghana - West Coast, AFRICA where he spent his formative years imbued with the natural rhythms of his homeland. From a very early age he was recognised as a dynamic and gifted performer. Agyiri brought his irrepressible natural energy and enthusiasm to Australia in 1994. He spent his High school years in Sydney, where he pursued his interest in music, and performance. In 2000 he took out the award for the best dancer in the African community. He was also the college's top sportsman. Following graduation, he pursue TAFE studies in IT. "Gee" began his dancing career with Black Label as a dancer for the
no1 Hip Hop artist in Japan, Bzaro, at the same time he began learning
some serious hip hop moves with the dance company Dance Skool in Ultimo,
travelling to Queensland on a 3-day tour. With Bzaro he did a show with
Fat man Scoop. Although Dancing is part of the big picture his first MC
job started with Black Label after the tour of Queensland, and performes
at the Easter show in the Champion Stand. Then with the help of Omar Selwyn's
manager as the organiser, Agyiri and a few others entered the Jim Beam
Competition as rap artist at the Coogee beach hotel in Sydney, twice. In
2005 he received first place award for the best freestyle. "GEE" ?? it's
gotta be synonymous with dynamism, vibrancy, enthusiasm, tenacity, flow,
affability, and sheer honest stuff of life fun and joy. He is energy! when
free - he loves Music.
Timbalada brings his mates down for a bang! The girls group is called Samba gilrs Batucada, and the guys are called Batucada Elite...
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. ______
Trevor Brown is a composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist. He has performed in a multitude of situations from Symphony Orchestras in Australia and the UK, to International Dance Troupes to post-industrialist performance art to street theatre. He has also worked in theatre as a performer and director, receiving Australia Council and NSW Ministry funding for many projects since 1990. Trevor is also an award winning composer for film and theatre. He has played and recorded and toured with groundbreaking Sydney bands and artists including, currently, Waiting for Guinness and the Gyp$y Dub Orche$tar and previously Ju Ju Space Jazz, The New Acoustic Collective, Meta bass n Breath, Morganics, La Fiesta Sound System, Proffesor Itchy's Kitchen and many more... Trevor has, for many years, worked in many aspects of community cultural development, from Darwin to Horbart, and in the UK and France, in various activities including directing festivals, developing and running workshops with disavantaged communities, Juvenile Justice Arts Programmes and working with people with disabilities. He is also respected for his collaborations with poetry and spoken word artists including Miles Merill, Tug Dumbly, Lisa Greenaway, Edwina Blush. Trevor has also been strongly involved in electro-acoustic audio manipulation,
building instruments and systems leading him to be invited to perform and
collaborate at IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique)
in 1995. Oh, yes, and he also enjoys surfing, bushwalking and gardening
;)
Luke Snarl is one half of deejay duo Sub Bass Snarl who have been at it since 1991. Being one half means he only plays the right channel of all the songs when he plays solo. OK just kidding. He plays half the tempo. No, but seriously, he hasn't played at Uber Lingua before I don't think.... Actually, HEY BRENDAN?!! WHY HAVEN'T YOU ASKED ME TO PLAY BEFORE? YOU BASTARD!!! What? Oh. Sorry, right, where were we? Oh yes he isn't really sure what he is going to play yet but it will definitely draw on his 20+ years of buying music, be influenced by following underground electronic genres and enjoying making people dance mixed with his current obsession with Dubstep, Hip Hop, Dub and stuff. And a fair bit of it will be unreleased and/or Australian tracks. YeahÖ OhÖ and he used to run sunday night interesting music club Frigid in sydney for a decade from 1996Ö and he mixes bands and thatÖ like some of the elefant traks ones - the herd, etcÖ yeahÖ oh and still does a radioshow on 2SER 107.3 (in Sydney) called Paradigm Shift every monday night 8:30-10pm Note: bP actually did ask the Sub Bass Snarl duo to play when DJ Olive
was in town in early 07 but only Seb could do itÖ What do you think about
that Luke?!?! eh??
MC Hernan neither accepts the status quo - nor sounds anything like them! Taking an intriguingly insightful approach to writing lyrics, this dancer-vocalist-song writer come MC is a social commentator, fighting against the system. Lyrically gifted, always moving forward - eyes open - this Newtown based MC seamlessly brings to the surface honest themes in lyrics that can only be described as controversially catchy, unanticipated and powerful arrangements. Wind it back to the beginning and Hernan (born in Argentina, raised in South-Western Sydney) had no choice but to fall in love with music from birth! Hernan's Latin roots have always held strong and been the foundations to the path that has lead to his dancing, music creating and vocal career pursuit. From Latin dancing at the tender age of 6 and break dancing to NWA and Public Enemy in the 80's, MC Hernan then picked up the microphone and composed his own messages of empathy, awareness and public progression. His influences have now mutated also combine reggae, with the mash of Latin Hip Hop. The result, Social Progression System! MC Hernan first launched his lyrical career merging with 3 piece group - 'Dub Progression'. From here, regular collaborations with DJ Spex, Dub Chaman and Uber Lingua ensued. Currently MC Herman's societal deprecating approach to writing lyrics gave birth to - Social Progression System (SPS). SPS is an 8 piece band that have grouped together to produce original songs punctuated with personal experiences, insight and human nature.
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!
Morganics is an award winning Sydney based Hip Hop artist, community
worker and director. He has performed from Bondi Beach to the Bronx, Tanzania
to Tokyo. Parallel to his career as an MC he is Australia's foremost Hip
Hop Theatrepracticioner, regularly presenting shows at The Sydney Opera
House.Morganics has taught Hip Hop in jails, community centres and isolatedAboriginal
communities all around Australia. His new album "Hip Hop Is MyPassport"
recorded in Tanzania, Brazil, Indonesia, New York and outbackAboriginal
Australia is out now - it includes a bonus one hour documentary DVD.
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.
LATE ADDITION TO THE BILL : JOINING IN ON THE SOUND SYSTEM SET
DJ Ability Also known as "The seriously not so serious dj" has been intentionally staying under the radar for the past few years using the traditional skills of hip hop to mash up all types of true school soul music. "I personally can't think of anything worse than getting famous for just playing other peoples music, its great to educate when you can and i love to rock a party but i don't really like all the hype attatched to the term dj, besides, i kind of just enjoy scratching as I feel that all i have time for is a little practise now and again. To be a respectable and sucssesful you really have to put some time into it". Hosted The prime time refresh project radio show on bondi fm for two years and Playing with names such as Che fu, Dj revolution, Mr choc, P-money and Kero one and busting cuts with lords of the fly, Morganics, versionaries, recently established crew "Grand Vinyl" alongside Mikeswun and also on the new M.I.A album; If you are genuinly into an open minded approach to music make sure you make an effort to check him out.
sakamoiz (Melb) Tri-lingual DJ and emerging wordsmith sakamoiz is a post-Swiss pseudo-Mexican Tasmanian rogue, and his nomadic lifestyle benefits one of the planet's most sonically eclectic and linguistically diverse music collections. In July 2007 sakamoiz toured Mexico DJing as he went, and featuring as a guest on Tijuana public TV and cable, and on Radio Chanulpom, a Mayan community radio station. In 2004 sakamoiz presented Uber Lingua's 6 Tasmanian 'Lingo' parties in Hobart, touring mainland DJs from the north and also promoting local multicultural live performers and selectors. He also started the Dialectic Radio show on Edge Radio that has become Uber Lingua's central radio outlet.
Bentley Bentley a.k.a. Benjamin Chinnock is a part of tribal breakbeat band
Percussion Junction and is founder and resident of infamous Sydney party
Dust Tones. Since 1999 he has been supporting local music through nights
such as Drop, Wasabi, Vindaloops and Dust Tones. As a DJ he currently holds
residences at The Art House, The Bank Hotel, The Loft and The Tilbury.
Add to this guest appearances and support slots with the likes of The Presets,
Kid Kenobi, The Herd, Sonic Animation, Katalyst, Hermitude, Soma Rosa,
Rhibosome, Bass Kelph, Ajax, The Bird, Skin, Fatt Dex, Entropic, deepchild,
meem and heaps more and internationals such as Talvin Singh, The Nextmen,
Nickodemus, Mo Horizons, All Good Funk Alliance,Mad Professor, Boca 45,
Domu, Ben Mono, Ursula Rucker, Panjea, Katchafire, Deekline and Wizard
and The Nomad. Bentley has also featured on Triple JÇs Mix Up and in The
Club. Recent performances have included a tour of regional NSW for Amnesty
International, Sydney Festival, Earthdance, Surry Hills and Newtown Festival.
It doesnÇt seem to matter where he plays - BentleyÇs ability to read a
crowd and deliver a dance floor friendly set is always evident. With one
set never being the same Bentley refuses to be pigeonholed into any one
genre. Crossing everything from Beats to Breaks, Global to Funk, as long
as
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.
Jack Shit Jack off with Jack Shit, an FBi presenter and musical provocateur. Musically he'll almost go anywhere for a bit of fun and or thought evocation in his audience. wow, what a lineup!
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