THE STRANGER ‘into’ NECTAR this week
We have a smashing week of music to serve up this labor day week…back to school blues? We gotcha covered…from Brazilian Electro to Reggae to Back-Packin Hip-Hop to Metal, we’re keeping things eclectic.
The Stranger wrote up a few highlights from the coming week, and what better way to brag than to use other’s words!
BUG IN THE BASSBIN by DONTE PARKS
For DJs—and other music nerds—music is a never-ending quest for the Holy Grail. No matter how large our music collections grow, there’s always the nagging sensation that the quintessential track, the musical unifying theory, is just around the corner. So we keep digging, caught up in a quixotic adventure for completion. DJ Sujinho’s quest has taken him from the clubs of New York to the favelas of Brazil, whose baile funk brings him closer to his own nirvana…..more
UP & COMING
Sat 9/1 FAVELA ON BLAST! W/DJ SUJINHO, KRNL PANIC, RECESS
(Nectar) A veteran of the NYC club scene, DJ Sujinho drops baile-funk bombs straight from the hearts of Brazilian favelas, raunchy gems that combine the ass-motivating qualities of ’80s electro and Miami bass. Most famously championed by Diplo, the sound has trickled into the American club consciousness over the last few years, playing nicely with our more homegrown booty music. One of America’s top DJs of the genre, Sujinho fearlessly moves between the foreign and the familiar, using baile funk as a backdrop for forays through various incarnations of the “party jam,” whether that involves hiphop, Baltimore club, or ghetto tech. The evening also features a “welcome home” set by KRNL PANIC (aka Rama), who left Seattle for NYC last year. DONTE PARKS
Mon 9/4 LMNO, SLEEP OF OLDOMINION
(Nectar) Sleep is from Portland and a founding member of Oldominion. So far, his solo career has produced two full-length CDs. The better of the two releases is the first, Riot by Candlelight, which came out in 2002 on Under the Needle Records. Sadly, it didn’t receive the attention that his weaker and second solo CD, Christopher, did in 2005. Christopher, however, is not bad; it has its solid moments—like the track “Testimony”—but overall the production is just not as good as its predecessor. (Christopher also has the distinction of being released by a nationally recognized label, Up Above Records.) Like most of the rappers in the Oldominion camp, Sleep’s style is dense, psychologically twisted, and confessional. CHARLES MUDEDE
Local Band VINDALOO (performing 9/6) snagged Band of the Week to top it off, and with these glowing words:
VINDALOO
Riff-rocking trio Vindaloo are hot. Real Hot. Hot enough that it’s best to keep back a few feet when they’re onstage. “We used to have beards,” says guitarist Ben Harwood, “until mine caught on fire at a show and someone tried to put it out with a bottle of undistilled Kentucky whiskey.” These guys are to rap metal what the Saturday Knights are to Rap Rock-that is, they have way more fun with the genre and barb it with way more hooks than shuld be allowed. JONATHAN ZWICKEL
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