Uber Lingua at the Exodus Live Festival 2008 Renowned for their weekly events in Sydney & Melbourne alongside many others around the country, Uber Lingua was recently invited to its first international festival in Tijuana Mexico promoting their inclusive international music aesthetic, associated video work and Australia's contribution to the outernational culture movement. Other mid-2007 ventures by UL DJs have included trips to Chile, Brasil, Peru, San Francisco, New York, Jamaica, Ireland, UK, Italy, France, Spain, NZ, Japan and Canada as part of their continuous mission to gather international sonics and grass roots level connections the world over, alongside some rampant disc spinning. The Uber Lingua Sound System will pull talent from up and down
the east coast of Australia to present a 3 hour set of cutting egde global
music at 5pm on the main stage.. we cant wait!
RifRaf is Uber's Zimbabwean vocal talent. Performing in his native tounge of Shona as well as English, he's performed to crowds multiple times during his time living in Melbourne including the Afrobeats festival and more recently as part of the first ever Ya Lingo! MC Cipher at BMW Edge, Federation Square as part of the Melbourne Emerging Writers Festival 2007. A Rhythmic assasin, RifRaf glides verbally over his DJs like an african sonic boxer...
Born on Reunion Island, where African music is part of everyday life, Mr Fish moved to France in the 80's. He was involved in the creation of the electronic music Borelais festival in the south of France, he then moved on to play & live in Sweden, Germany, Holland and finally London in 1997, before moving to Melbourne in 2005. In '99 he joined the groovÇnÇbass movement with his friend Eric Soul,incorporating African rhythms with hip hop grooves and techniques such as scratching into his sets... Since moving to Melbourne he has become a part of the furniture at Uber Lingua events as resident Afrobeat specialist at the weekly club nights, mixing in the music of the French world* playing the Melbourne Afrobeats Festival and Laneway Festival Melbourne in 2007.
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.
Post-Japanese Brisbane MC Potato MasterÇ sings, raps & raga MCs in Japanese, broken English and Gibberish alongside creating abstract beats for himself & DJing what he describes as 'funny music'. His style is deliberately out of control and is one of the most infectiously hilarious performances available toAustralia's East Coast, and VERY Japanese. In 2002 he joined 19-t records in Kyoto Japan, and toured Europe with them in '03. In '05 he moved to Australia and linked up with locals including equally zany hip-hop crew 'Curse Ov Dialect', Brisbane's Anglo-Asian dub system 'Taste of tea', DJ Skyfish, Heavy weight champions and the 'Lao mirador' reggae radio show on Vegas's legendary 4ZZZ. He also became a central vocal entity in Uber Lingua Sound Sytem and has toured Melbourne twice, once as the headline artist at St Jeromes. He literally brought the house down with his solid beats, ultra-precise raps and hysterical ways...
Aysu Fevziye CogurÇs first public appearance as a singer was at the age of 13 in front of an audience of 500. Since then Aysu has gone on to extraordinary heights with her music career. This began with her band Funk the Distance, and more recently with Aysu Soulz, Gypsy Crims and Zaray. Aysu has also madeappearances with bands and DJÇs including the Gotan Project (France) during their visit to Melbourne in early 07. She has performed in countless bars and venues in Melbourne and has been a DJ since the age of 18. As an Australian Turk, her sets with Uber Lingua focus on global underground artists that influence her own music. AysuÇs enchanting voice and inspiring lyrics embrace almost every musical genre available to her. Hip Hop vocalism is a natural progression from her as it draws from her passion for the Turkish language.
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.
Tamil & Singhalese speaking Australian-Sri Lankan Pataphysics is an MC, trumpet player, sonic landscaper & rhythmic sound shaper. He began rapping in Singhalese a few years ago as an excellent way to learn his mother tongue, performing as a solo artist and with Uber Lingua, Astro Flava and the Ubiquitous Dub Legitimizers. With a history that's seen him perform alongside the likes of Megabias, Elf Transporter, Combat Wombat, Illzilla, Nicky Bomba, TZU, Jeff Lang and the Agency Dub Collective, PataphysicsÇ raps deal with everything from local & international politics, indigenous resistance and dreaming to eastern philosophy, existence and spirituality. His live shows draw deeply on elements of Sri Lankan culture.
MC Hernan MC Hernan neither accepts the status quo - nor sounds anything like them! Taking an intriguingly insightful approach to writing lyrics, this dancer-vocalist-song writer come MC is a social commentator, fighting against the system. Lyrically gifted, always moving forward - eyes open - this Newtown based MC seamlessly brings to the surface honest themes in lyrics that can only be described as controversially catchy, unanticipated and powerful arrangements. Wind it back to the beginning and Hernan (born in Argentina, raised in South-Western Sydney) had no choice but to fall in love with music from birth! Hernan's Latin roots have always held strong and been the foundations to the path that has lead to his dancing, music creating and vocal career pursuit. From Latin dancing at the tender age of 6 and break dancing to NWA and Public Enemy in the 80's, MC Hernan then picked up the microphone and composed his own messages of empathy, awareness and public progression. His influences have now mutated also combine reggae, with the mash of Latin Hip Hop. The result, Social Progression System! MC Hernan first launched his lyrical career merging with 3 piece group - 'Dub Progression'. From here, regular collaborations with DJ Spex, Dub Chaman and Uber Lingua ensued. Currently MC Herman's societal deprecating approach to writing lyrics gave birth to - Social Progression System (SPS). SPS is an 8 piece band that have grouped together to produce original songs punctuated with personal experiences, insight and human nature.
Previous gigs up Northern NSW At the end of September 07 12 Uber crew came from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane to perform at the Bellingen Global Carnival... Click here for the specific UL page...
CLICK HERE for our photos from BCG 07
Music can be sent to Uber Lingua PO Box 2613 Fitzroy 3065 Australia |
