MELBOURNE 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.
artist bios... 
Lord Lingham Lord Lingham's plays what he calls 'International Booty Beats' and darker hypnotic global electronica. His sets treat his audiences to a feast of post-modern global beats fused with exotic elements from distant lands.
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...
Melbourne based Dom Evans is VJ Sdzeit (pronounced 'state') and has been actively generating digital light for the past two years at Kent Street's 'Plug n Play' and at all of the bigger UberLingua events in Melbourne during that time. He also worked with Barcelona based cultural conjuerer 'Filastine' when he toured Australia in '06, performing video work at both the Melbourne and Sydney show. His work combines his illitrative art, sampled imagery, self made animations
and other elements, often flowing between dark abstraction, urban psychogeographics
and scientific surrealism. His work with Uber Lingua is sensitive to the
cultural intersections that are being exlored and the collisions of ancient
worlds with the modern hi tech... the results are stunning. Dom is also
currently in his final year studying animation
Panika is an acoustic singer songwriter by day, an electronica-hop MC by night and when the clock strikes twelve, she turns into an Uber Lingua DJ inflicting her genetic and cultural heritage thru party music onto packed dancefloors.
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...
VJ Super Cat Genius is a multi-skilled rock star fashionista of the arts, making the act of VJing something to rock out to. When not VJing he indulges himself in making video clips, photography and relief aid work, planning a one year adventure to teach children photography in the 3rd class world.
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.
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.
is a Melbourne-based percussionist, who originates from the lush coastal state of Kerala in Southern India. Coming from a musical family (his sister plays the violin and veena and his father plays the sitar), he began learning the tabla from the age of nine and later studied under the renowned guru, Ustad Narayan, for 8 years. In his late teens, Prem got into western styles of music, such as jazz, hip hop, and house, and his mind began to wander around the application of his skills in carnatic music (South Indian classical music) to contemporary sounds, and consequently, got involved, in the local pop music industry in Kerala, as a session musician and composer. Prem moved to Melbourne in 2005, and motivated by the desire to jam with electronic artists and DJs, migrated to the surreal Roland Handsonic electronic tabla, designed for ethnic percussionists.
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.
SYDNEY Saturday Dec 15th : 9pm till very late
Gemma, atone, Ollo DJs, Charlie McMahon, Veren Grigorov vs Mr Mantek, Mashy P, SPS crew, Mario Gordon (perc), Stu Buchanan, Spex, Flatmax, Jack Shit... & from the Melb crew: bP, Mr Fish, VJ SDzeit, Presyse RifRaf, Aysu C, Pataphysics & Guido Melo $10 entry
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