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16th December 2005 from 8pm at SIRENS
Feat : DJ Sheerien (India/Sydney)
: sakamoiz : Fabio (Zimbabwe)
This summer in Hobart is heating up. The Uber Lingua LINGO dancehall parties at Sirens are back. Ever since Timbaland Got His Freak On with Missy Elliot - Bollywood samples, Bhangra basslines and eastern electronica have weaved their way into clubs, festivals and global top-ten charts. But the infectious rhythms of Africa, India and the Middle East have been erupting dance-floors for centuries before Beyonce or Britney ever thought to bellydance.
Exponent of these ancient booty beats is DJ Sheerien, a fourth-generation Australian Punjabi. DJ Sheerien's transient home is between the banana fields of North Coast NSW, the Sydney studios of SBS Radio and the nation's most pumpin' parties. From the old convict tunnels at Cockatoo Island Festival to the biggest ever dancin' party at the Sydney Opera House Studio, DJ Sheerien knows how to keep your body movin' while your head is thinkin': Where in the world is that beat from?
Also coming to town from the mainland is Johnny M, offering a heavy dose of Arabic tracks from all over the Middle East. Exclusive remixes are his specialty. Born in OZ to a German mum and a Lebanese dad, Johnny M was always culturally challenged. In the early eighties he returned to Lebanon, living there during the years of the civil war. Johnny M is also an outspoken trilingual MC rapping in Arabic, English and French, and his lyrics talk about multicultural OZ, and speak up for minorities with a fun-non-preaching-style..
Last time that the popular Hobart-based Zimbabwean star Fabio Chivandha played at LINGO, a pan-African percussion troupe arrived with him unannounced. Fresh from having played at Afritas, they kept the crowd dancing in a smooth transition from DJs to live acoustic music, and back. This summer, we welcome back Fabio and his sacred Shona Mbira instrument. As well as a surprise appearance from the Sudanese drummers that bring with them the heat of Hobart United football crowds dancing on the sidelines.
Hobart-based bodybuilding rapper Creator MC (aka Alfred Caulker) was born in Sierra Leone. He began singing to receive his sister's bowl of rice. "...There was a way for me to divert in other way: to become a rebel, to become a revolutionary..." Creator describes his tough earlier life "...but instead, I tried to go for what I wanted, for what I believe could work without getting into prison, or without being behind bar or execution. Ok, I can write song, with the refrain in English - but then rap in Creole, or rap in French, or rap in Mende. I call the Australian boys to give me the music: drums, guitar, flute. Then a Japanese boy to dance breakdance. Then me from Africa: to rap. That's a multicultural greeting. So it's like: I create that, it works..."
sakamoiz is a post-Swiss pseudo-Mexican Tasmania-based rogue, and his nomadic lifestyle benefits one of the planet's most sonically eclectic and linguistically diverse music collections. Host of the 8 to 10pm Saturday night slot 'Dialect-ic' on Hobart's Edge Radio, Sakamoiz'z selections are spiced with Latin, Arabic, African and Aboriginal grooves have been the flavour of his sets featuring everything from coin-swinging to glitch-reggae.
DJ BTC is well-known in Hobart for having co-hosted the long running dub&roots show on Edge Radio, and currently presents What I Say. DJ BTC speaks Italian, and his playlists often include Fela Kuti and MC Solaar. He is a DJ in the loosest and most original sense of the word. He'll do your 80s retro party, he'll do your white-kids-love-hip-hop party, he'll play reggae in wine bars. Sometimes he even plays his own shit and sings along. What he doesn't do is play vinyl, and go wicky-wicky-whack. Not that he's averse to this stuff, he just can't do it or afford it.
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