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UL has a great history promoting and performing in Sydney. The Sydney crew are a diverse bunch of culture lovers and the multiple one off events, festival appearances and UL weekly and monthly gigs we've presented have left a reputation for cutting edge global parties not to be forgotten... Highlights have included playing host to the Nortec Collective from Mexico and presenting 3 months of weekly gigs at Candy's Appartment in 2005, our HARBOUR LINGUA cruises round Sydney Harbour in 2006 featuring the likes of Curse ov Dialect and UL toured Kenyan Hip Hop duo Sinpare... presenting touring electronic culture jammer Filastine in late 06, then launching our relationship with the Abercrombie Hotel... Weekly Sunday gigs happened between Nov 06 and April 07, with events such as the massive Sydney Funk Ball fundraiser (for Brazilian street kids) being one of the many highlights... In 2007 we did a DJ space at the St Jeromes Laneway Festival, and later that year (after our tour of Mexico) started our monthly residency at the Abercrombie that's grown into something pretty huge, across 3 rooms... every month... events such as the multiple UBER SYSTEM parties and the two SYDNEY GYPSY & BALKAN BASH events... Presenting a 4 stage multi-lingual AV performance space at Festival First Night in Angel Place & playing multiple times at Becks Bar (including a set at UBER BRAZIL with Monobloco) had UL featured in the Sydney Festival 2008 many a time... In Summer 07/08 we wandered up north a bit, playing Bellingen Global Carnival 2007, Exodus Festival in Tenterfield 2008 and a smaller thing in Newcastle. In July 2008 Sydney's 2SER chose to broadcast the in-house Uber Lingua radio show DIALECTIC each week... Saturdays from 10.30pm to be exact. In August 2008 we presented the Sydney leg of the National tour by Japanese artist Tujiko Noriko at the Sydney Opera House Studio... |
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Our next event is
Saturday September 27th at the Abercrombie
Featuring DJ Sveta, Evrim & Mashy P plus bp, Lord Lingham & Mr Fish from the Melbourne crew... more to be announced an official event of anode
in the meantime there's this... The UL Sydney crew and our PA lovin mates at Figure 8 are doing the Global Village stage at this year's free Earthdance event
Saturday 13th September 2008 Prince Alfred Park, Cleveland Street : Redfern / Surry Hills 9:30am: YOGA WORKSHOP WITH MEERA DULLABAH
We presented this event on Saturday August 23 at the Abercrombie Hotel.
The SYDNEY GYPSY & BALKAN BASH TOO!
Feat DJs Vulk Makedonski (Macedonia) VIT (Czech Republic), DJ Sveta (Russia), Evrim (Turkey), Russian Disko (Melb), bP (UL Melb), Mashy P, Jack Shit, Ollo DJs & DubChaman... + VJs Videokidz (Polski) + LIVE ACTS Gypsy Dub Sound System featuring violin virtuoso Veren Grigorov (Bulgaria) & The Ticklers featuring Edouard Bronson of ARIA award winning Monsieur Camembert. CLICK ON FLIER OR HERE FOR MORE INFO
Uber Lingua presents Tujiko Noriko on Friday August 22nd : at the Sydney Opera House Studio
Tujiko Noriko (born Noriko Tsujiko in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese avant-pop, experimental musician, sometimes compared to múm, or Björk. Much of her music consists of repetitive layers of samples and electronic beats and melodies being gradually added on top of each other, with her singing on top of that. The lyrics are in Japanese and English. She has worked for the Austrian label Mego, and the German Tomlab. In 2004 she teamed up with Peter 'Pita' Rehberg to form DACM making the album Stéréotypie. She is currently living in Paris and is also working on experimental short movies. According to an article in The Japan Times, she has completed two movies: Sand and Mini Hawaii and Sun. UL's Stuart Buchanan DJed before her performance...
we went 'POST WORLD' on Saturday July 26 at the Abercrombie Hotel.
Uber DJs played alongside CHECKPOINT 303 in June 08
Check out the flickr site for photos of this gig. SAT 14TH JUNE : 12 HUTCHINSON ST, ST PETERS Checkpoint 303 were joined by DJs Gemma, Stu Buchanan
and Mashy P.
Uber System Liberated! was on May 24, 2008 Check out the flickr
site for photos of this gig.
We presented a GYPSY & BALKAN BASH at the Abercrombie on April
19 and it WENT OFF!!!!
The SYDNEY GYPSY & BALKAN BASH
Featuring DJs VIT (Czech Republic), DJ Sveta (Russia),
FSB
(Bulgaria),
Evrim
(Turk), bP (UL Melb),
Check out the flickr site for photos of this gig. here's some shots of assorted Uber punters & crew...
check out photos from previous Sydney Uber gigs... We presented UBER SYSTEM CHARGED!
UBER SYSTEM CHARGED! featured Cuban reggaeton performer Pochoman, Chinese-Malaysian dancer and vocalist WeiZen, Brasilian batucada percussion troop Timbalada, Local Gypsy-Jazz maestro Trevor Brown, Ghanaian Hip Hop producer MC Gee, Argentinian Cumbia performer MC Hernan and grass roots breaker and MC Morganics... Alongside DJs Bruno LT (Rio de Janeiro), Mashy P, Jack Shit, Luke Snarl (Sub Bass Snarl), Bentley (Drop), Sven Simulacrum, Stu Buchanan (Fat Planet) and from the Melbourne crew sakamoiz and bP. In house developed video material by Melbourne based VJ, SDzeit will also be screened. Check out the flickr site for photos of this gig. We presented Gypsy Dub Sound System at the Beach Road, Tuesdays in March 2008
6 of us played the opening party of the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2008 & Family Weekend during February 08
Uber Lingua had a fairly mad early January 2008. The Sydney Festival 'Festival First Night' 4 stage laneway space in Angel Place has been heralded by many punters as their 'favourite spot' of the night and the thousands of people who ventured through the video and multi-language drenched zone we're all smiles. Uber Lingua reckons it's doubled it's audience in Sydney from that single event! Just before that major production, Uber hosted it's first event at the Beach Road Hotel in Bondi with in house Latin crew SOCIAL PROGRESSION SYSTEM bringin the house down alongside UL VJs and DJs playing supercharged multi cultural music and imagery. In the second week of Jan, the Uber Lingua Sound System comprising of crew from both Sydney and Melbourne, performed at the UBER BRAZIL event at Becks Bar alongside MONOBLOCO, and then ventured up to Tenterfield, Northern NSW for the EXODUS FESTIVAL. Then we did this: UBER SYSTEM REMIXED! @ ABERCROMBIE : Saturday Feb 9 at the Abercrombie Hotel.
Räuberhöhle (Berlin) - Childish electro with fem-German
MC, a puppet show and a 'Bear'.
Check out the flickr site for photos of this gig. On Feb 8th 2008 in Syd we played alongside Overproof Sound System
from Birmingham... bP's followed these guys since the 20th century... The
Uber Melb crew played with them also the night before...
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
we played at Gang's Kampung Festival Day!
8 of us from 3 cities played a 3-hour set at Exodus Festival in Northern NSW
In 2008 we were involved in losta Sydney Festival 2008 events
On Jan 12th 2008 DJ Trevor Brown put down his brass for a second to DJ alongside Babylon Circus and True Live at Becks Bar...
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.
The MONOBLOCO SHOW features several percussion and rhythm instrumentalists
selected from the Carioca music scene, playing samba as well as funk &
pop music. The group recorded its first CD in 2002 and has been travelling
through several cities in Brazil giving workshops and performances of their
rhythmic feast. Their repertoire ranges from traditional sambas to classics
of Brazilian Popular Music such as Tim Maia, Jorge Benjor, Chico Buarque,
Nazao Zumbi, Luiz Gonzaga and many other major names. The MONOBLOCO SHOW
Check out the
flickr site for photos of this gig.
A few of our crew did this gig in London... CLICK ON THE FLIER for more info
On Jan 5th 08 we presented our 4 stage - 28 crew - zillion video projector laneway space on the FESTIVAL FIRST NIGHT in Angel Place...
Click here fro the official page... Click here for the full bios on the artists Check out the
flickr site for photos of this gig.
UBER LINGUA AT BEACH ROAD HOTEL, BONDI BEACH ON JAN 3rd
We had a killer lineup sorted for our first appearance at Beach Road Hotel... including some of our Melbourne crew
Check out the
flickr site for photos of this gig.
On December 15th 2007, we did UBER SYSTEM at the Abercrombie Hotel
Here's how we hyped the lineup: Lineup includes Gemma of Club Kookie & Arak fame, playing the luscious modern music she finds from the middle east, Argentinian DJ Spex, Bondi based beats DJ/MC Flatmax, and local provocatuer Jack Shit... Ollo DJs will emminate the techie 80's sounds of the Neu Deustche Welle (New German Wave) alongside the recently Mexico-USA-Canada toured cultural conjurer Mashy P... When it comes to Live stuff, Gondwanaland member Charlie McMahon plays his didgi-bone based material with a synth player, accomplished Bulgarian Violin & Viola player Veren Grigorov goes up against Mama Voltash main man Mr Mantek... atone's pulsating deep electronic dub beats were one of the highlights of the 06/07 Summer series finale back in March, and they'll do it again...From the Melb crew comes urban-internationalist bP with a fresh batch of world tour gathered tracks, Afrobeat specialist Mr Fish from Reunion Island, UL's central VJ SDzeit... plus MCs/vocalists Presyse RifRaf (Zimbabwe), Aysu C (Turkish) & Pataphysics (Sri Lanka). Canberra based Panamanian Mario Gordon will percuss with these guys, amoungst others at the party... For those of you who enjoyed the Brasilian sounds of the Sydney Funk Ball, you've not been forgotten... Melbourne's Guido Melo returns with his flamboyant DJ and microphone style and Stu Buchanan drops the Baile Funk beats that matter... Check out the
flickr site for photos of this gig.
Mashy P & Stu Buchanan played this gig...
Mashy P and Jack Shit played alongside Regurgitator, New Pants (China) and I heart Hiroshima as part of this tour...
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
NO SLEEP 'TIL TIJUANA on June 8th was a Mexican fiesta, send-off
and fund raiser for the Uber Lingua DJs who are traveling to the
US-Mexico border taking up the invitation to play a series of shows in
Tijuana - hometown of the Nortec Collective.
The Mexican crew opened the first Uber Lingua residency in Sydney during 2005, and returned to give one of the highlight shows at last year's Melbourne International Arts Festival, alongside playing once again with Uber Lingua at St Jeromes. Nortec Collective is not a thing or a genre or a group or a band, but an entire electronic aesthetic. It is a convergence of high-tech and low-tech, of North and South, of all things techno with all things norte?o, of all the things that are a part of the rural and urban. The sound of the Nortec Collective is the sound of the First World in the Third and the Third World in the First. The proceeds of this event went to help Uber Lingua represent all they have done in Sydney, Melbourne and other Australian cities over the past three years with photographic, graphic, video and audio documentation, alongside their signature DJ sets... and to link up with underground music and socially progressive groups in Mexico. Check out the flickr site for photos of this gig. Uber Lingua was represented in Mexico by DJs sakamoiz, Mashy
P, Sheerien and UL founder bP
.
Uber Lingua presented the first ever Sydney appearance of renowned Japanese MC MAKKENZ, along with his producer and collaborator KAGEYAMATENKI.
Sydney's Uber Lingua DJ lineup at the Laneway fest 07 had some of the city's most diverse music selectors mixed with a few MCs, two percussionists and a few imposters from Melbourne! Mashy P, bP, Flatmax, Ortiz Pinto, Stu Buchanan, DJ Sheerien, Ollo DJs, Chaman, MC Hernan, Mario Gordon, & Panika. Click here for more the specific page
Click
here for the photos from that event
Sunday's at the Abercrombie 06/07 Between November 2006 and April 2007 We presented a weekly Sunday afternoon
gig at the Abercrombie Hotel. With Sheerien, Mashy P, Stu Buchanan and
occasionally bP (from Melbourne) in residence, and with asolid back up
crew of technical and logistical peeps... Big Ups to MatFalx, Rob J, Kath
Q & Amy for doing the behind the scenes stuff...
other DJs to play this season include Jack Shit, Man About Town, James Locksmith, Jimmy Sing, Eli, Ollo DJs, Yellow Peril, Spex, DubChaman, Hezekiah, Prince V and others... Live acts included Mama Voltash, Black Symbol, Wei Zen Ho, Wire MC, Morganics, Atone and Miso from Melbourne.
The finale at the Abercrombie featured Irish based global beats DJ Phil B who's worked and toured with many legends of world music, including Femi Kuti, The Wailers, King Sunny Ade, Orchestra Baobab, the Skatalites and more.
March 18 was the Sydney edition of our 3rd Birthday (3 years since the first ever UL gi)
In Early Feb 07 we did the Sydney Funkball... What a mad party! About 400 people turned up to raise cash for the kids of Rio's Favelas... click here for more pre-event info
Click
here for photos from the Sydney Funk Ball
DJ Olive played Uber on January 21st at the 'Cromb' DJ Olive was raised in Boston, Nova Scotia, Trinidad, Rhode Island and Australia. Prior to his 2003 debut solo album "Bodega", Olive has had a long and varied collaborative career working with the likes of Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke, John Zorn, Thurston Moore & Jah Wobble to name a few, & playing with crews such as We and Multipolyomni (including an appear at Sonar in Barcelona)and, in 1999, co-founding the renowned The Agriculture label. The Agriculture has since released material from artists such as David Last, Ladyman (aka Badawi / Raz Mesinai), Nettle (DJ Rupture), Once 11, QPE and the successful Barbeque Beets series.
We launched the Electric Gypsyland 2 compilation... out on Filter
Music, through Shock. Electric Gypsyland 2 is the follow-up to the
album which helped define the shape of electro/Balkan fusion, Electric
Gypsland, this new &
The launch of the weekly Abercrombie Hotel season was on the 19th
of November...
FILASTINE then on October 8th we had the pleasure of havin Spanish based American born FILASTINE perform at Spectrum as part of an east coast tour... alongside the Gypsy Dub Sound System, MC Wire, Morganics, Sven Simulacrum, bP, sakamoiz, & Stu Buchanan... + VJ: SDzeit.[state] We also did the Sydney event. Click here for the FILASTINE 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..."
In August 06 we started programming DJs for the Newtown DIY Markets and we did a room at this killer convergence party... ...
Here's some shots taken by bP and Mashy P a Channel Zero... Click on each image to see a larger version...
in early 2006 we did the first of our HARBOUR LINGUA EVENTS with Tony Spanos and his vintage ferry 'Mulgi'
Here's some (just some, not all) of the shots from Harbour Lingua on Feb 19th ... Click on each image to see a larger version...
and then 4 weeks later we toured Sinpare from Kenya! There was a show at the Gaelic Theatre featuring guests 4:20 who were and are a killer operation, and surprise guest MC Morganics who jumped up and jammed with the Kenyans... click here or on the image below for more info
and the next day we did HARBOUR LINGUA 2 featuring the Kenyans
Uber Lingua at Candys Sunday nights (July 17th - October 30th 2005) We had a ball putting on a weekly LIVE event at Candy's apartment. Complete with the services of the in house Sound Engineer, we featured a LIVE act each week and a stellar bunch of guest DJs... Thanks to everyone that played at, or supported the events as a punter... We've got lots of photos (like the one above) and every event was recorded so the DJ sets in particular are now featuring on our assorted radio projects... Big Ups to Mashy P, Sheerien and our ever welcoming door beauty Amy for puttin in the energy... This project gave birth to many collaborations and will be the basis of our new residency... Here are some posters (not all of them) from those events... click on them to see them a bit larger... one day we'll get round to doing a photo gallery...
we cant bring ourselves to remove this photo from our 2005 Candy's days so here it is...
on the October long weekend we didnt have use of Candy's so we collaborated with Dual Plover on an event at Hermans featuring touring Japanese experos DODDODO and GULPEPSH... Inner Pony... click here or on the flier to see the page we put togetehr for it...
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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