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find it on GOOGLE MAPS see the FACEBOOK event check out the FLICKR photos email melb@uberlingua.com to be on our email list From mid-March 2004 Uber Lingua has hosted a weekly Thursday event in Melbourne with the ambition of promoting a diversity of language & global culture thru cutting edge party music. Over the years the Uber crew have gained a loyal following, a solid network of local and international collaborators, generated many a spin off event in other cities of Australia, and gave birth to other creative parallels such as the 'Uber System' MC vs DJ performances and a multi-lingual game show!? Happening at The Laundry, Melbourne's weekly post-world party is free to get in, and goin thru till late each week, with the renowned international sets of UL DJs pumping thru the Funktion One sound system that's standard issue across the entire venue. featuring a dance performance each week by
COMING UP: 10th of July - Magic steven, Zaibatsu, David Thrussell, Prussia LIVE (Bris), bP vs Prem K, Samedi SS (Bris), VJ Siadatz & underbelly's Melusina 17th of July - sakamoiz, DJ3, Mr Fish, Gonzo, Lord Lingham, VJ Siadatz & underbelly's Andrea 24th of July - Russian Disko, Vulk Makedonski, bP vs Prem K, PK, VJ Siadatz & underbelly's Malia 31st of August - Jacinta, Panika, Mashy P, Mr
Fish, VJ Siadatz & underbelly's Sarah
Fridays at Mink, Prince of Wales Hotel, St Kilda
Mink Bar in St Kilda enlist the chilled out DJ talents of the Uber Lingua crew every Friday night with a rotation of international specialists... Hired by Mink each Friday to provide the more chilled out end of the international music spectrum, both Melbourne based and visiting selectors from other cities of Australia and the world offer global escapades in a martini glass.. 9pm till 3am each Friday ... free entry 04th of July - Mr Fish & Gonzo
check out www.minkbar.com.au
UL LOOKING FOR CREW As always, UL is looking for Melbourne based artists and collaborators with the shared passion for international, multi-lingual & cross-cultural music, performance and visual arts... Those who love musical and cultural diversity, what's referred to as Australia's multi-culturalism, and other forms of stimulation related to 'languages other than English'... Vocalists, Instrumentalists, MCs, DJs, VJs, graphic
designers and even whole acts with multi-lingual or bi-lingual communication
skills or who
We're also looking for admin & production
crew with a similar drive. Individuals keen to get involved in running
and promoting events, or
Uber Lingua in Melbourne since 2004
We did two quite special events in late June downstairs at Laundry
On the 19th of April 2008, We did another MELBOURNE GYPSY AND BALKAN BASH
check
out the flickr photos
On April 11th we played with The Bird and Mista Savona at the Northcote Social Club...
On the 5 Fridays in Feb we provided DJs and a
LIVE support set for The Red Eyes at Revolver
6 of us played the opening party of the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2008 & Family Weekend the next week
Uber Lingua started at St Jeromes in the beginning of 2004. The Finale for this residency was on Feb 14 2008... For 47 months (about 200 weeks) since March 2004, Thursdays at this impromptu venue have been the local hot spot for cultural, linguistic and musical diversity, some fairly left field global wanderings, over 300 guest DJs (much respect!) and many a special occasion. Most of the International acts that have performed at Uber Lingua have claimed it to be one of their favourite stops on their Australian tour... We've been privileged to feature people like Filastine (Barcelona/Seattle), Deadbeat (Canada), Skist (Japan), Dunkelbunt (Vienna), Nortec (Mexico), Alejandro Davila (Mexico), Dododdo & Ove Naxx (Japan), Russ Jones (UK), Sinpare (Kenya), Aindrias de Staic (Ireland), DJ Olive (NYC) & Makenz (Japan) amongst others on makeshift stages and DJ setups... CD launches for acts such as Coldcut, TTC, N'Fa & assorted compilations have been promoted & we've done other one offs like Melbourne Funk Ball 2, the Gypsy & Balkan Bash and two Laneway festival spots during this time too! Uber Lingua grew from a figment of bP's imagination to what it is today thru the on going support St Jeromes has offered during this time. From week one where a small sound system and DJ setup had to be hired, to offering a stylistic thread to the other international style nights across 2005, to watching multiple generations of bar staff and punter discover the place, enjoy it as a weekly ritual, then get over it... experiencing varying levels of technical proficiency thru time... this has been a great growth phase for both UL and St Jeromes itself. Over time Uber Lingua has gone on to do many other things, events, fests, venues, tours... here's a run down of whats happened in Victoria... The finale for Uber Lingua Thursdays at St Jeromes was on Feb 14th 2008 ...
Nova from Java Indonesia played at the Thursday Finale...
Nova (East Java) Nova is one half of TwinSista a female hip hop
outfit from East Java Indonesia and the daughter of the guitarist from
Indonesiaís legendary rock band Suami. In 2000 as a 19 year old Nova made
her first forays into hip hop with her best friend Indry. Influenced by
the Fugees, and Lauryn Hill they eventually entered a hip hop competitions
to try our their own stuff. And TwinSista was born. They contributed tracks
to independent compilation album Perang Rap (2001) and then toured through
Java. With the support of a music producer, Iqbal (Calludra) and Pasukan
Record, Twinsista released their first album, "Mother of Nature" in 2003.
In March 2007 Nova returned to Yogya to record her first solo single, "Dikawinkan
Alam" which was released in a compilation album called "It's Hiphop Poetry
Battle"
___ On Feb 7 in Melb we played alongside Overproof
Sound System from Birmingham... bP's followed these guys since the
20th century... The Syd crew played with them also the next night...
In 1999 a European promoter attended the club
and so impressed with the good spirit and almost tribal quality of the
party he invited Overproof
This is gonna be a great show. If yer on the Melb list by accident and live in Sydney we're also playing with them on the Friday the 8th at The Oxford Arts Factory... check out http://www.myspace.com/overproofsoundsystem
or
http://www.gcorp.co.uk
for more on them
8 of us from 3 cities played a 3-hour set at Exodus Festival in Northern NSW
Friday Jan 11th 2008 we presented BABYLON CIRCUS from France, at the Northcote Social Club...
Here's the hype: Babylon Circus, French blenders
of ska-punk, chanson, funk, afro-beat, dancehall reggae and Eastern European
folk rouse the Bar with their multi-lingual antics and big-top energy.
This 10-piece big band have been zigzagging the globe with their epic sonic
spectacle so if you loved Leo and Java don't miss them.
A few of our crew did this gig in London... CLICK ON THE FLIER for more info
Uber DJs played at "PACHANGA Latin Fiesta" hosted by Prof Hernan Palacio and featuring: "El Fun Que" (Latin Funk, 3 members of San Lazaro), "Reflejos" (world music, band members from Chile, Canada and Australia), Uber Lingua DJ's: DJ Mono (PBS) and Gonzo "The Mad Peruvian"
We played Falls Festival NYE 07/08
bP, Presyse RifRaf, Aysu C and Pataphysics made up Uber Lingua's 90 minute set in the tent stage at the legendary festival that is Falls! ____
Dunkelbunt (Vienna) played Dec 27th at St Jeromes [dunkelbunt] is not only well known for remixing international artists such as Balkan Beat Box, Unified Gecko, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Orient Expressions, Harry Stoijka, Niftys, Eastenders, !Deladap and many more. Within his long-running "Balkan Hot Step" Club Night, [dunkelbunt] has been setting audiences ablaze with his eclectic world music mix and is now considered to be above reproach within the Viennese Balkan scene. check
out the flickr photos
We played before EDU K on Dec 22 '07... here's the hype tfor that show... "After co- presenting three massive fundraising
Brasilian Funk Ball charity events in Sydney and Melbourne over the past
couple of years, we're happy to announce we're playing alongside Brasilian
baile funk legend EDU K at Revolver on Saturday December 22nd...
Brazilís #1 MC and pin up boy of the baile funk sound that blasts from
the favelas of Rio, Edu K is touring next month. His live show mixes rap,
rave and bass, bringing the vibe of the "funk ball" (baile funk), Brazil's
version of the block party ? the most exciting and dangerous underground
club scene in the world! Co-presented with The Late Show, On
The Fly and Miller Chill... Uber lineup TBA shortly, but we
can reveal it will have more than just DJs...
We did this in early December at St Jeromes... an Italian night!
On Saturday December 1st we played at the Big West Festival Immersion 2 AFRICAN TIME at Footscray Community Arts Centre, Featuring Diafrix, Sudan Azza, Eritrean Star Band, Ajak Kwai, Musiki Manjaro and Uber Lingua Sound System. 45 Mooreland St Footscray. 2pm - 9.30pm, then we play in the nearby festival club until Midnight. check out http://www.bigwest.com.au
On Friday the 30th of November we played at this...
goto
www.myspcae.com/lanocheorphanage
for more info
We did this gig on November 23rd 2007 at Revolver
Australiaís most linguistically dynamic crew, Uber Lingua take over the front bar to present 'Uber System'... an all-in, non-stop global beats party incorporating DJs, VJs, turntablism, percussion, instrumentalists and an emerging crew of multi-lingual MCs doin' stuff in their mother tongues... Lineup includes selectors bP, Mr Fish (Reunion Island), Panika and Lord Lingham (Bengali)... MCs are Potato Master (Brisbane/Japan), MC Andres (Chile), Aysu C (Turkish), Presyse RifRaf (Zimbabwe) & Pataphysics (Sri Lanka)... the VJ duo on the night are Uber Lingua video mainstay SDzeit and VJ Supercat Genius who's famous for his work with recent ARIA award winning Gotye. The percussion lineup includes electronic tabla player Prem K. check
out the flickr photos
we did this at Horse Bazaar late October 07
Three of our Dub head DJs played with these guys Organic Roots Saturday October 13th 2007 ... at the Emperess...
Uber Lingua DJs bP and Russian Disko played alongside Regurgitator,New Pants (China) and I heart Hiroshima Friday the 12 at the Corner Hotel...
sakamoiz and bP representid Uber Lingua at this gig with Upper Hutt Posse from Aotearoa... also featuring Combat Wombat and a film screening.
At the end of September 07 12 Uber crew came from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to perform at the Bellingen Global Carnival...
We did a set at High Vibes 07 that revealed new Multi-Lingual MC tangents to the masses...
Mid September 07 DJs bP and sakamoiz played at the Melbourne STEREO TOTAL event... These guys are like our heroes due to their incredible multi-lingual flexibility! What an honour...
Mid August Uber Lingua DJs played this fundraiser & film screening of 1 Giant Leap. Raising cash for a Orphanage in Tanzania, La No Che.
In June 07 bP, sakamoiz & Uber Sydney's Mashy P and Sheerien went to Mexico to play with members of the Nortec Collective and other cool Tijuana crew... St Jeromes on a Thursday was looked after by the likes of Dubwise, Palacio Brothers and Gonzo until the beggining of August... Much respect!
Rogue State at North Bazaar was looked after by Aysu C, Vulk Makedonski and Russian Disko... until it was canned mid July... In late May, we got involved in the Emerging Writers Festival of Melbourne in 2007... Uber Lingua DJs played at the opening party, provided the festival club at Horse Bazaar, and the Zine fair on the Sunday... Most importantly this collaboration gave birth to YA LINGO!, Uber Lingua's multi-lingual MC game show at the feature event SCRABBLE at Federation Square's BMW edge! click here for more on that incluing audio and photos...
Japanese ultra-minimal MC Makkenz visited Jeromes mid May 07
It was integrated into this Baddums tour of assorted people from Brisbane, the resulting three fliers were plastered all over Melbourne.
our production of the Melbourne Funk Ball 3 party at Miss Libertine went thru the roof...
During Easter 07 we did another one of our massive Easter Thursday parties at Jeromes and also helped our Sydney mates Ollo launch their album the IfIf up at Horse Bazaar
Our Melbourne support of Lady Sov at the Prince Bandroom was heaps of fun... she's a total larf and smashed a backstage toilet with a beer bottle Rock N Roll Style... alongside drawing all over bP's T shirt... Her band were great guys too..
our 3rd Birthday was a total corker!
In Feb 07 we played both the Sydney and Melbourne Laneway festivals...
In collaboration with Inertia we gave TTC's album 3615 a big launch at St Jeromes
in late Jan 07 (Australia Day eve and invasion day itself) we hosted touring DJ Olive
In early 07 we helped launch the Kings of Techno compilation, and in the process dug out some of some of Melbourne's closet Techno lovers...
pre-xmas/nye 2006/07 we did another live event, this time with local 'music of the old world' crew Croque Monsieur
The St Jeromes
GYPSY
& BALKAN BASH by Uber Lingua
Uber Lingua SOUND SYSTEM STYLEE This basically means that our DJs went back to
back continuously with a bunch of local and interstate live performers
and MCs appearing over these sets and occasionally going solo... including
direct from Japan/Brisbane
Potato Master
In early November we launched our second weekly thing up in Northcote called ROGUE STATE... It lasted until July 07
DEADBEAT ... and the following week we had the next of our special LIVE events... Thursday October 26th we presented DEADBEAT (Can) and DJ Alejandro Davila (Mex)... Deadbeat is Scott Monteith, an adopted Montrealer who has been releasing his own special blend of dub laden, minimal electronics since 2000, for labels such as Cynosure, Intr_version, Revolver , and Scape. Whether crafting quirky, not-quite- dancefloor techno, or rumbling digital dub,Scott continually strives to create music that honours the past beyond empty tribute or cultural appropriation, by infusing the digital tools of the present with a little of the magic known as human imperfection. Alejandro Davila lives in Guadalajara, Mexico... Over the course of the past decade he's dedicated a great part of his personal time to the promotion and expansion of electronic music that explodes around the globe.
NORTEC's surprise appearance ...only two weeks later we had a surpirse appearance by the NORTEC crew with two of their key composers BOSTICH and PANOPTICA playin lap top sets... Bostich is one of the most representative electronic musicians in Mexico. His track "Polaris", gained Bostich the title of "The Godfather of Nortec". Panoptica (AKA Roberto Mendoza) has been one of the main figures in the Mexican electronic scene since the late 80ís, founding bands like electro pos-industrial outfit Artefakto, and in the late 90ís the critically acclaimed Nortec Collective... here are some photos...
FILASTINE then on October 5th we had the pleasure of havin Spanish based American born FILASTINE perform at Jeromes as part of an east coast tour... alongside Samm Bennett (Japan), Haruno Ito (Japan), John Lee (Mountains in the Sky), Mashy P (Sydney Uber ), bP & Raceless... + VJ: SDzeit.[state]. We also did the Sydney event. Click here for theFILASTINE TOUR PAGE To quote his bio... "Filastine creates music and live sets that wreck genre, charting a new sonic map by synchronizing mutated hip hop, smashed-up beats, and international obscura. This year Filastine dropped Burn It on dj/Rupture's Soot Records.... For the last two years Filastine has brought his sound clash to clubs, squats, festivals, and underground spaces across the globe, performing with laptop, midi triggers, loudspeaker, and percussion mounted on a shopping cart, sometimes joined by a guest mc or vocalist..."
MELBOURNE FUNK BALL 2 On September 23 we produced the MFB2 event fund raising for the street Kids of Rio... A stack of DJs, performers, a video artist & a few surprise guests came together playing for nothing at a fully fitted out St Jeromes (extra PA and stage) on September 23rd... The lineup included Ennio Styles (RRR), Guido Melo and Ortiz Pinto (from Brasil), bP, sakamoiz and Zaibatsu (from Uber lingua), Lord Lingham (PBS) and event instigator Gringo Branquinho... play alongside Video Maestro SDzeit.[state]... A donation of $6 got people in and put them in the running for a considerable stack of door prizes and giveaways throughout the night including dinners for two, slabs of beer, lingerie, clothing and other exciting donations from generous Melbourne businesses. click here for the full event details, wrap up and photo gallery...
MISO and NUBIAN KNIGHTS On the 31st of August 2006 we started a series of LIVE events over the 06/07 summer featuring both local and international artists... This gig featured Miso and Nubian Knights... Miso is a conglomerate of an ever-growing collective of acoustic and electro sounds. The present ensemble is Double Bass, Cello, broken beats and gritty vocals. A result of 3 years of electronic composition by producer Thomas (Soup) Campbell and his integration and collaborative composition with instrumentalists Supina Bytol, Martin Hadley and Benjamin Skepper.
In August 06 we helped local Hip Hop producer N'fa launch his debut solo release... it worked surprisingly well with the Uber punters who love hip hop...
LILY ALLEN On the 9th of August we supported Lily Allen at her industry night at St Jeromes(who's album went number 1 in the UK)... The word was out and Jerome's was jamm packed... About 400 punters had to be turned away from the venue unfortunatly, but this gig was pretty much to forge a good relationship between her and St Jeromes... so there's a good chance she'll play again in future... Here are some photos of Lily we gathered for promotions...
EASTER THURSDAY 06 FULL MOON PARDY!!!! On Easter Thursday 06 Uber Lingua hand picked three killer guests from very different sonic scenes. Ex-UK Video artist Arnold Eye Irons puts his DJ cap on to play the early pioneers of modern electronic music (we're talking the 80's here, not the 20's)... Guido from Brasil has been a regular guest DJ at Uber over the years and has returned to his home land a few times since to gather a solid South-East American music collection! Travelling Irish Gypsy Andreas dug out a mind bending selection of Trans-Gyp-minimal beats that break that type of dance music back to it's core. The resulting dancing on tables by people in suits was an indication of how big a night it was for us... one of the only days in our history at Jeromes when the next day is a public holiday! Maybe the full moon had somethin to do with it.
Around this early part of 2006 did a few CD launches in collaboration with local distributor Inertia incluing a DJ Kicks release and Coldcut's new album...
SINPARE at HiFi The show Sinpare did at the HiFi bar was on a Wednesday night so we changed the schedule so Sinpare played between the two support crews COMBAT WOMBAT and DIAFRIX with no changeover time so it was just one continuous 3 act live set complete with MC Cyphers between SInpare and the locals... was lotsa fun... Click here or on the flier for the dedicated web page
Peats and Onepare loved Australia, here they are hanging out on the southern headland of Bondi in Sydney...
2nd BIRTHDAY BASH - March 23rd 2006 Recently Uber Lingua LIVE events have happened where the venue is fitted out with a stage, Live PA, multiple video projectors and lighting. The first of these in March 06 was our 2nd Birthday Bash that featuring touring Kenyan Hip Hop crew SINPARE with local supports including CURSE OV DIALECT. Click here or on the flier for the dedicated web page...
GLOBAL TRASH at the ESPY The GLOBAL TRASH at Espy event was our first real attempt at a going off dance event in Melbourne. The lineup was impressive with UK GLobal beats selector RUSS JONES (Future World Funk), 10 piece Russian Criminal band VULGARGRAD, Afro-hoppers DIAFRIX, Costa Rican Reggaeton Maestro HOT PROERTY and Uber regular bP... alongside video artists Arnold Eye Irons, Dom and naH. Click here or on the flier for the dedicated web page...
Russ Jones from Future world Funk played the above gig and also dropped a set at St Jeromes... twas fun
In early 2006 some other interesting things happened like the very tounge in cheek ALL AUSSIE - 12 HOUR Australia day event that must have been one of the hottest days in Melbourne recorded history... featured DJs were Lord Lingham, Johnny Topper (3RRR), Idar Alvestad (Norway), Djedi, Paso Bionic (Curse & TZU),Saigon Sausage, Vulk Macedonski vs ADP, Michael Correa (Syd), bP & Raceless... there was no flier for that one... here's the flier for the DODODDO & OVE NAXX event we did with our mates Dual Plover on October 13 2005
Early 05 was spent getting stuff in other cities happening for Uber Lingua... Hobart parties, a Sydeny residency... but we did play the first ever Laneway Festival at St Jeromes to great affect on the 27th of February 2005.
click here for more photos of Laneway Festival 2005 Other stuff... heres' Hiro's faces... developed for assorted uses by UL in 2005
Over time Uber Lingua has been involved in events in collaboration with other crews including nights organised by local International Student Organisation Polygot, a one off event at the Ace Morning Bar, and Opulent magazine's (now postponed) tour of French MC Cuizinier.
and some more...
Oh and lastly... here's a very early St Jeromes concept night we did with a BIGWEST BOGAN theme (thought up by early Uber collaborator Saigon Sausage unsurprisingly!)...
and here's a shot of the infamous St Jeromes streaker who appeared the night of the COLDCUT CD launch...
Here's Mashy P's take on the incident... "I was playing the St Jeromes venue in central Melbourne the other night, having just flown into town. Got myself a beer and settled into a set behind the decks. I started playing some latinesque dance tunes, when this dreadlocked guy came up to me, armed with a quick succession of 'up yours' fingered salutes. I said "whats up" and he started ranting about a guy with a Led Zeppelin T-shirt - who from what I could gather didn't like the selection. I saw the Zep shirt dude sitting in the venue, and he seemed happy enough. Trying to humour the guy, I suggested the T-shirt wearer perhaps was donning the top as a trendy retro thing, maybe he wasnt really into Led Zep. On this he said "well at least you talk" - and with further 'up yours' gestures he dissapeared into the crowd. I was forgetting about the incident, when he returned stark naked about 10 minutes later. He came up to the booth and said, "This is because of the Led Zeppelin T Shirt" - before being escorted out of the venue by a security guard, confused smiles and raised eyebrows abound."
email: info@uberlingua.com to be on our email list... Demos can be sent to Uber Lingua PO Box 2613 Fitzroy 3065 Australia
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