The SYDNEY GYPSY & BALKAN BASH
Another month comes along and that means another Uber Lingua party at the Abercrombie... March's Uber System Charged! party was the biggest yet with more punters seemingly discovering the musically freeform ways of the Uber crew... For changes sake, the Sydney UL mob felt the need to do a themed party... Hence the GYPSY & BALKAN BASH idea was born and invitations were sent out to all known Eastern Euro & Gypsy DJs and musicians... Featuring DJs VIT (Czech Republic), DJ Sveta (Russia),
FSB
(Bulgaria),
Aindrias
de Staic (Galway, Ireland), bP (UL Melb),
SATURDAY 19th APRIL 8pm till late
Catch a preview DJ set from FSB from Bulgaria on 2SER on Saturday between 4-6pm 'Departure Lounge' DJ Sveta is known for her work with Star Fuckers and the Gay party scene, yet her Russian genetic heritage calls from time to time and she'll be dropping a set of all Ruski dancefloor tracks... V.I.T. is a Czech DJ who promotes a monthly Czech and Slovak night in Sydney and Uber made contact and offered him to join in the fun and the chance to fling out tracks un-heard in Australia from his language group. FSB is a first generation Uber DJ who moved from the weekly club in Melbourne to live in Perth and work as a Sound Engineer. His residencies in clubs on the dead sea cost of Bulgaria are still talked about back home. Aindrias de Staic is Irish Gaelic speaking Musician, Broadcaster and Theatre actor from Galway. When he comes to Australia (this is his 3rd visit), Uber Lingua forces him to DJ his vast selection of trans-Gypsy music. Usually he cant help but get out the fiddle. Representing the locals and pulling out all the fave Gyp, Balkan, East and Northern European tracks are Mashy P, bP, Ollo DJs and DubChaman... Working the LIVE STAGE are renowned Electronic Gypsy minstrels The Gypsy Dub Sound System. This four piece have been central to the growth of the Uber Lingua movement in Sydney and feature members from Macedonia (Sam Golding - Tuba, Trumpet) and Bulgaria (Veren Grigorov - Violin, Dancing) alongside a skankin reggae guitarist (Dirk Krithoff) and Band Leader Trevor Brown on Saxophone, clarinet & laptop programming... Also playing their debut set are The Gyp-Rocks... featuring Richard Mann from seminal electro-balkan band Mama Voltash, working with the illustrious Raven on dastardly string situations... a collision of hard edge beats and exotic acoustics... should be fun as!... Also, Uber's rounding up a bunch of performers & dancers for spontaneous moments so punters should stay alarmed but not alert. This event will be configured differently to the past 3 Uber-Abercrombie events... More on the artists
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.
FSB is from Bulgaria, a wild child who's played regularly at several clubs on the Black Sea coast as a resident... like Dracula, Sea Station, Festival Complex, club Boonkers in his home-town of Varna, and Astoria at a place known as Golden Sands. FSB is on a journey to find new sound experiences through DJing in the Southern Hemisphere. For three years FSB escaped the comfort and worked in southern Africa (Zimbabwe to be exact) and now finds himself travelling Australia and doing spontaneous DJ sets...
Russian born-Sydney based Sveta is widely known around Australia for her unforgettable and explosive sets at SydneyÇs annual Mardi Gras, the largest party in the southern hemisphere. Sveta plays a diverse and eclectic range of funky, twisted, deep and dirty grooves, her sets ranging from electro, rock, lounge, vocal house, deep-tribal house, funky tech-house, progressive house and techno. Sveta began her career as a radio DJ over and maintained a solid 12 years on underground community radio station 2SER-FM and joined FBI upon their launch. She has also hosted programs on other community stations such as all-dance station Radio Dex and Free-Fm. Sveta has held a true national club DJ profile and has played regularly all over Australia for well over a decade. As well as playing regularly with the Bang Gang DJÇs during their three year long stint at Moulin Rouge and Club 77, Sevta has held a diverse range of residencies spanning from Hellfire to the Chinese Laundry. Amongst her achievements Sveta played at THE BIG DAY OUT, DJing in between Chicks on Speed and Gonzales in the Hot House. She has supported The Detroit Grand Pubahs and Larry Lee at Killer for Fuzzy and launched the Sydney Opera HouseÇs new Recording Studio with Deiter Meier from legendary electronic band Yello. Sveta also specializes in thematic events including art openings and launches. 
V.I.T. (Czech Republic) V.I.T.'s Dj bio reads like this... "Hi, my dj nick is V.I.T. , used to be F@jt, but because of wrong english pronuncation I decided it to swop my nick, same as I changed my nickname I changed my music style as well , instead tech-house closer to techno I play now more funky house, but I still like to play my old records:) I have been djing and have been making parties since 1998, Im from europe/Czech republic, at this stage live in Australia/Sydney. I play from decks and laptop/cds" V.I.T. has agreed to play a very Czech and Slovak set of very dancey tracks with lyrics... 
Aindrias de Staic (Ireland) Touring the world presenting his "around the world on 80 quid" theatre/comedy
piece, Irish gypsy fiddler Aindrias de Stiac AKA Pikey is back from his
adventurous travels in europe, the galway boy is back in town with sounds
form the west of Ireland, the latest european gyspy remixes form prague
and barcelona and much moreÖ Expect to hear the unexpected an dance to
global beats that rock your innner gyspy soul. Dance! dance! dance!!!!!!
The Gyp-Rocks Raven started on violin at age 6 but after a year or so old his music teacher died whilst giving some one a piano exam. music lessons stopped. picking it up again at 19 after hearing a Paganini gypsy piece, he has been playing since in a self taught style of gypsy cross Hendrix..... Mr Mantiki initially schooled in a few classical instruments
but draws inspiration from his Polynesian roots and his electro hip hop
background. despite DJing funk, soul, exotica locally and internationally
for the past 10 years, was never the same after returning from a recent
stint of electro-acoustic collaborations in China and the Middle East.
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.
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. ______
Ollo are a well known Sydney electronic act and moonlight as Ollo
DJs. When they play with Uber their cultural heritage rises to the
surface and the Germanic tendencies lead them to play a selection of music
not often explored... the 'Neue Deutsche Welle' is basically Germany's
answer to new-romantics... quite electro, very raw, a little trashy, lotsa
fun... at this event they're going much further east!
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,
The World Bar, The Hippo Bar, and The Marquee to name a few. As a member
of Uber lingua DJ's, Dubchaman has also played at St Jeromes, in Melbourne,
Uberlingua Nights @ The Abercrombie Hotel, and The Sydney Laneways Festival,
often under SPS Cru, a Sound System with MC's and Percussion. In addition
to his musical adventures, Dubchaman is a Graphics and Web Designer with
more than 15 years experience.
Previous GYPSY & BALKAN BASH events
Dec 9th 2006 - St Jeromes, Melbourne previous UBER SYSTEM parties..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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