This week we celebrate the end of the 2nd year of helping the crowd engage with music they've never heard before in languages they (in most cases) dont understand...

with special guests, direct from Kenya!

SINPARE 
( pronounced: sin-par-ay )

Sinpare was born in 1999, when two budding actors met at the Kenya National Theater.  "No mountain exits without a name, and it was not long when we discovered that we had something in common something that was so synonymous with the kids from the ghetto: single-parented.  Thus the name Sinpare," explains Peats.

Sinpare have performed at events such as Carnivore and at the Kenya National Theatre, and recorded their first album at Hill Media Studios. Sinpare are currently based in Nairobi, running a studio in the ghetto' Lavinton Amboseli Road known as 'Tuff Audio'.  Their Australian tour of 2006 is to be their first appearance outside their African homeland.

and holing up the local front!
CURSE OV DIALECT

With a diverse range of backgrounds (Maltese, Macedonian, Indian, Maori, and Pakistani), their music comes off as a non-homogenized tapestry of culture. Their political raps, razors sharp writing, unique flows, and standout production accurately represents their knowledge of hip-hop as world music and the multi-cultural climate of their homeland. 

Their live show combines unrelenting energy, fine tuned execution, and jaw dropping costumes to create a one-of-a-kind concert experience that tears the hip-hop rulebook to pieces. Curse ov Dialect leave their mark after just one performance or listen... 

Not content with recycling the same old beats and rhymes, Curse ov Dialect reach for the next level by reinterpreting sounds from all eras and arenas into unique sonic collages with a hyper edge and extreme bounce. Their debut on Mush Records, 'Lost in the Real Sky' is an 18 track introduction to their sound. With political raps written with the skill of a multi-cultural Public Enemy, a punk-rock esthetic, and production that balances melodic samples and classic drums with world class turntablism, their focus is clearly on music as avant-garde hip-hop opera. Curse represents cultural backgrounds. 

As a DJ, bP  focuses on cutting edge music in "...as many languages as possible...", influenced by his time working with SBS.  Different languages use different parts of the brain, and as languages not understood by a listener become a non-contextual sonic elements of any given piece of music, bP is inspired to discover as much 'post-world' music he possibly can...

A musical visionary with Maltese, Welsh and French genetic background, Raceless is an MC from the act 'Curse Ov Dialect'. Curse are a Hip Hop crew who emerged out of the raw multi-cultural suburbs in Melbourne and are one of only two Australian crews to be signed to a US label ('Mush') ever! They are also on Regurgitator's record label 'Valve'. As a DJ Raceless plays a pretty varied selection of global Hip-Hop, folk and esoterica.

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.

OKRad (Croatia)

Lord Lingham

Originally from India, Lord Lingham had wandered with his gypsy-like family through West Africa, South East Asia, and Europe, where he immersed himself in diverse musical cultures and styles, before moving to Melbourne in 2000.

With a rapidly growing music collection and the lover of anything left of centre, Marguerite plays a mix of underground and abstract hip hop, electronica, and ethnic miscellania.

EMILE ZILE

Emile Zile is an Australian-born media artist of Latvian origin. A multi-disciplinary artist, his single-channel videos, text installations, live video performances and photography have been exhibited at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Melbourne, Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich, Tel Aviv cinematheque and Seoul Fringe Festival.  Themes of his work include the phenomena of celebrity, mass-media, fame, language, desire and death. 

Arnold Eye Irons
 

& Ganzeit

Ganzeit first displayed work as a pavement artist in 1998. Since 2004 his films have been shown in various venues around Melbourne, including a group show for the '04 Next Wave festival. Beginning in '06 he has been conducting video performances, based on live cut-up and re-edits of his original films and animations. 

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