merry xmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS

grandmaster flash

Joseph Saddler

was born on January 1, 1958 in Barbados
brought up in Bronx
and was named Flash in school
cause he hung around with another guy named Gordon.

"He became involved in the earliest New York DJ scene,
attending parties set up by early luminaries.
Flash played illegal parties
and also worked with rappers such as Kurtis Blow and Lovebug Starski.
He formed his own group in the late 1970s.
Soon gaining recognition for their skillful raps,
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five pioneered MCing,
freestyle battles
and invented some of the staple phrases in MCing"

pan sonic

Pan Sonic

(they were also called Panasonic before legal issues took away their A)
are two guys from Finland,
Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen
who started out with long-term, low-frequency, high-decibel experiments
and organizing rave parties in the country where “hardly anything happens ever”.
The minimalistic music of Pan Sonic is composed
“from a forbidding array of pure tones, sinewaves, pulses, electronic squelches and ultrasonic waveforms,”
and a humorous attitude,
“skilfully arranged into an accessible rhythmic package”
mainly taken from the bowels of custom-built sinewave generators.

Pan sonic's final live gigs took place in
Bios, Exploring Urban Culture, Athens, Greece
while there will be one final album on Blast First Petite in early 2010
Mika and Ilpo will continue with their own solo projects |

GOGOL BORDELLO

Combining elements of punk,
gypsy music, and Brechtian cabaret,
Gogol Bordello
tells the story of New York’s immigrant diaspora through debauchery|||

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i was excitingly surprised to listen to through the roof and underground!!!
maybe it was in their playlist the previous times they've been here too
but was too ..done to realise
anyway yes i was pretty excited until they played mala vida??!
Hütz is the ultimate greencard husband ok but..

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After being evacuated to Western Ukraine in 1986 following the Chornobyl disaster, Hütz lived as a refugee in Poland, Hungary, Austria, and Italy before moving to the United States in 1993.
The group’s early gigs involved playing straight gypsy music at Russian weddings.

MANDO DIAO

and life goes on/////