After two seasons of weekly residencies in 2005 and 2006, the Harbour Lingua cruises, the huge Sydney Funk Ball, our space at the Sydney version of the Laneway Festival... Uber Lingua kicks of one mad summer with UBER SYSTEM, our first all night party ever! Across three spaces at the Abercrombie Hotel, UL ropes in an incredibly diverse lineup of culturally rich selectors, live acts, performers, multi-lingual vocalists and video artists to make this one night to remember... The Beer Garden will be used as the Live space from 9pm until just before midnight, a traditional Argentinian Barbeque (with vege option) by the same mob who do the DNBBQ's will go most of the night outside... Upstairs in the Grafitti art filled rooms of the Abercrombie, the more rootsy Latin-Gyp end of the DJ lineup will play to a full house party vibe... In the main bar on the big system a non stop beat driven DJ vs MC zone will keep things rockin... Video will be eminating thru the entire venue... 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... Saturday Dec 15th : 9pm till very late
here's who's playing this massive bill...
DJ Gemma Gemma has been DJing since the wee hours of the eighties with many projects and parties. From Mardi Gras to hosting Club Kooky which has been going strong for over 12 years, DJ Gemma's aim is to showcase artists and performers from all over Australia and Club Kooky has released 13 CDs so far featuring a selection of those artists. She has played Womadelaide, the Sydney Biennale and for the past 4 years has presented Club Arak where Arabic music stemming from North Africa right across to Turkey is Celebrated. Club Arak celebrates Arabic culture in all it's rich diversity and contributes positive voice during these difficult and questionable times... DJ Gemma has also released a Club Arak CD with the collaboration of local artists and beyond. The above photo is a shot bP took of her performing at the recent Bellingen Global Carnival 07.
atone have been around since the mid-90's, the act founded by Andy Fitzgerald in Manchester UK, before he moved to Australia and released the hugely successful and definitive 'atonement' album co-produced by bP on the Zonar Recordings label getting rave reviews including a 5 star review in the Sydney Morning Herald and Rolling Stone. atone went on to release many more successful releases over the years and have maintained a strong presence through simply being prolific with their signature bass heavy beats. Recently, Steve Stanislowski has joined the act and the two have developed a solid live show.
Veren Grigirov vs Mr Mantek previously billed as almost naughty and performing the wettest day in
Uber's summer 06/07 season, these guys combine the rampant ways of electronics
with passionate violin... Bulgarian born of a musical family, Veren
Gigorov started playing violin at the age of 3. At the age of 5 he
commenced studies at the Conservatorium of Music in Sofia, Bulgaria. Since
then his classical music studies have taken him through some of the best
conservatoriums in the world, such as Neustrelitz, Sondershausen, Vienna
and Hannover taught by Masters such as Prof. H. Bayarle and W.Durie. That
led on to many, performances and recording dates with some of Europe's
most renowned orchestras. He has toured extensively with the Vienna Soloists
, Johann Strauss Sinfonietta, Vienna Serenade Chamber Orchestra, Australian
Opera Orchestra, and others. Apart from the classical scene, Veren has
enjoyed working with artists such as INXS, Sleepy Jackson, Champion Jack
Dupree, Mara, Fourplay, Coda Veren has composed and performed for many
stage productions such as The Loaded Ute, The Shearston Shift, Anthony
and Cleopatra (dir. by John Howard, Sydney Theatre Co.), The Golem (dir.
by Barrie Kosky, The Australian Opera), Kafka Dances (dir.South Australian
Theatre Company), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (dir. by Baz Luhrman, The
Australian Opera). As well as that, he has composed music for The Great
Outdoors TV, Disney Channel program and a number of commercials. More recently
he was awarded the Jury Award for the Best Original Score at the Hamptons
International Film Festival in New York for the film The Lifejacket is
Under Your Seat.
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.
Stu Buchanan Hailing originally from Scotland, Stuart Buchanan is the host of the international music show, FAT PLANET on Sydney's FBi Radio and editor of the popular international music blog, fatplanet.com.au . A comrade of the international and multi-lingual music movement, Stuart has become deeply involved in Uber Lingua over the last couple of years, DJing baile funk, dancehall, afro hiphop, reggaeton, Baltimore, kuduro, bhangra, balkan beats and much more at the Sydney residencies and at the 2007 Laneway festival in Melbourne.
Ollo are a well known Sydney electronic act and moonlight as Ollo DJs. When they play with Uber their cultural heritage rises to the surface and the Germanic tendencies lead them to play a selection of music not often explored... the 'Neue Deutsche Welle' is basically Germany's answer to new-romantics... quite electro, very raw, a little trashy, lotsa fun...
Flatmax performs as both a DJ and MC. As an MC, Flatmax treats diverse content ranging from party to conscious. Rhyming mainly in English, Flatmax also hits on the Yiddish language tip. As a DJ, Flatmax performs at various random venues playing diverse range of music ranging from Bossa Nova to Jungle and enjoys different hip hop styles.
Spex is a proud Latin DJ spinning alternative tracks that fuse with his background to offer energy unlike others in this townÖ Latin-Rock, Latin-Ska, latin-Reggae, Latin-Hip-hop. He's a regular at the DNBBQ's and works closely with MC Hernan. Spex has been a regular at Sydney Uber Lingua parties since they kicked off in 2005.
Mario Gordon (perc) Mario is a real connoisseur of international urban music, Reggae, Reggaeton, Retro Salsa, Alter Latin, Afro Pop and more. As DJ/Percussionist he has taken adventures into future world beats to venues such as Hippo Bar, The Basement, Sydney Opera House 'Studio' and Sydney Festival Beckís Bar. He's also performed in Tasmania, the Vic Music Festival and night clubs in Barcelona.
McMahon took up playing the didjeridu as a child and has become one of the most acclaimed didjeridu players in Australia. While Charlie revered the playing of the Aboriginal people in their traditional ceremonies, he did not seek to mimic their performance, but took the didjeridu to contemporary music. At 16 years Charlie lost his right hand while experimenting with rockets in his backyard. In 1983 he started Gondwanaland with synth player Peter Carolan & percussionist Ed Duquemin doing epic outback tours and other projects including Sound Cloud to 120,000 at Sydney Cove in 1988. SPS CREW made up of the Argentinian/Uraguayan combo of MC
Hernan,
Alice and El Tupa
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.
A flamenco dancer, singer, songwriter, MC and dance teacher, Alice is a lead vocalist in Social Progression System and also does some MC work with Foreign Dub. She's also working with other MCs including her partner in crime MC Janny from RastawookieÖ To quote Alice "Being a performer is the best kind of enjoyment there is Ö whether it be dancing or singing. I love it!"
El Tupa a true latin rebel...
Jack off with Jack Shit, an FBi presenter and musical provocateur.
Musically he'll almost go anywhere for a bit of fun and or though provocation
in his audience.
and from the Melb Uber Lingua crew:::
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.
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
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.
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.
Guido Melo - From Brasil, now living in Australia... one very passionate man. His mother used to be a Capoeira champion music is part of his life since before he was born. Although he calls himself a Carioca (person natural from Rio de Janeiro) He was born in Salvador da Bahia in BrazilÇs northeast. His first flirt with the DJ scene happened in the late 80Çs when he used to go to the Baile Funks around town in Rio. After making his move to Melbourne in 2003 He has played at several events... This is gonna be a great gig so best not to miss it... cheers UL
We did this one on November 23rd 2007 in Melbourne
Lineup included 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. previous UL parties at the ABERCROMBIE...
here are some of the more beautiful punters and crew at previous UBER parties...
check out photos from previous Sydney Uber gigs...
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