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THE LAST UBER LINGUA AT ABERCROMBIE EVER!!! SATURDAY DEC 19 : 9pm-late
Run for your lives!!!! After fourteen Uber Lingua parties at the Abercrombie, the 'Ogre of sound systems past' has risen up to claim its dues! Emitting prejudice-melting frequencies that get the party started (and ended) right! UBER SYSTEM MELTDOWN - the last Uber Lingua at Abercrombie party ever! The Sydney Uber Lingua crew return for one last jaunt before the lease runs out at the 'crombe' in Jan... Counting the summer Sunday's 06/07 weekly residency, that's over 30 UL events at this centrally located, grass roots art-deco pub known for it's raw energy and funky vibe. The Sydney Funk Ball was held on a Sunday but rates as a stand out stand-alone gig in our history. Uber System, Uber System Remixed, Uber System Charged, Uber System Liberated & Uber System Solstice took the diversity concept to the next level. The two Gypsy and Balkan Bashes ramped up the eastern euro action in Sydney beyond belief. Post World Party 1 & 2 tried out some techie concepts. Carrera Espacial (Latin Space Race) & the recent Explosion del Sonido Futuro offered up future-Latin sounds. The Russ Jones gig was our one international feature event & Continental Collision threw three themed parties in one. Over 50 DJs, VJs, MCs, dancers and live performers have showed their wares over the history. UBER SYSTEM MELTDOWN - the last Uber Lingua at Abercrombie party ever! Pulling from the roster of selectors featured over the
many parties a stellar lineup has formed. Mashy P, bP, Ritual,Trevor
Brown, Sven Simulacrum, Flatmax, VIT (Czech Republic),
Vapor
(Chile),
DJ Patto (Chile) , Ollo DJ Lars & Afro-hip hop crew Black
Symbol. MCs Alice & Jax will jump up for a few tracks
each.
As 'interstate interlopers' have been a constant feature we've added Melbourne's own club DJing addict Paz to the line-up, flying up with bP for one show only. facebook event - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171621719861 check out photos from previous Sydney Uber gigs... Artist Bios
Vapor (Chile)
DJ Patto (Chile)
Sven Simulacrum Born in South Asia / Made in Australia. This Sydney based mix n mash slasher selecta brings chutney rebel baile bass bhangra bashment bump n grime. DIY diasporic culture clash!
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 traveled 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.
V.I.T. (Czech Republic) V.I.T.'s Dj bio reads like this... "Hi, my dj nick is V.I.T. , used to be F@jt, but because of wrong english pronuncation I decided it to swop my nick, same as I changed my nickname I changed my music style as well , instead tech-house closer to techno I play now more funky house, but I still like to play my old records:) I have been djing and have been making parties since 1998, Im from europe/Czech republic, at this stage live in Australia/Sydney. I play from decks and laptop/cds" V.I.T. has agreed to play a very Czech and Slovak set of very dancey tracks with lyrics...
Paz - Holder of M-Box and Serato D/A converters. Resider of Melbournes inner North, cycling at 35k/ph, entrering a 320 Kbpm to a club limiter at 150bpm. Hybrid master of cold crushing club rock. A discosaurus of upfront digital dutty. Highly arrogant about M.O.S requests, death to sleepers. A swagger formed from a raodmixin' carnival wine. A front thats all macho street charm. A Nokia N80 with 30 reference mixes on heavy rotation. A rag that represents the sweaty dancefloor, puttin' it in de air.....
Black Symbol Black Symbol (Ahyesondee) have been around for a few years now, gradually
evolving as the years have gone by. Ghanaian 'high life' & 'hip hop'
combine to create 'hip-life' and these guys take strong cues from this
genre... Recently they've taken stronger influence from the global reggae
movement. They rap in English and Akan (the lingo spoken in Ghana) to produce
a unique and new Australian style. They are part of a bigger movement of
Australian based African Hip Hop producer-performers that includes the
likes of Tanzanian 'Mr Zux' and the high impact female MC duo 'Killah Kweens'...
They have performed at Uber Lingua events in the past, bringin down the
house back in '05 and '06...
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.
featuring
MC Alice
& Jax As a songwriter and musician, Jacqueline's first recording was the 'Grow' EP in 2001. In 2003 she was in the UK recording her single 'Angel' which featured on the compilations - 'The Sound of Bondi' and 'Music for quite places'. In 2005 she put together a seven - piece band and wrote, arranged, produced and co-engineer her second EP 'Orchid'. Jacqueline has performed in Los Angeles, London, India and in Australia at The Woodford Folk Festival, Peats ridge Festival, The Basement and The Sydney Metro among other venues and live-to-air performances. When not interviewing local and international acts for Street TV, Jacqueline lives in Melbourne working on her first full-length album, and for Beyond Empathy mentoring and facilitating musical outreach programs in rural communities.
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..___
Trevor Brown is a composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist. He has performed in a multitude of situations from Symphony Orchestras in Australia and the UK, to International Dance Troupes to post-industrialist performance art to street theatre. He has also worked in theatre as a performer and director, receiving Australia Council and NSW Ministry funding for many projects since 1990. Trevor is also an award winning composer for film and theatre. He has played and recorded and toured with groundbreaking Sydney bands and artists including, currently, Waiting for Guinness and the Gyp$y Dub Orche$tar and previously Ju Ju Space Jazz, The New Acoustic Collective, Meta bass n Breath, Morganics, La Fiesta Sound System, Proffesor Itchy's Kitchen and many more... Trevor has, for many years, worked in many aspects of community cultural development, from Darwin to Horbart, and in the UK and France, in various activities including directing festivals, developing and running workshops with disavantaged communities, Juvenile Justice Arts Programmes and working with people with disabilities. He is also respected for his collaborations with poetry and spoken word artists including Miles Merill, Tug Dumbly, Lisa Greenaway, Edwina Blush. Trevor has also been strongly involved in electro-acoustic audio manipulation,
building instruments and systems leading him to be invited to perform and
collaborate at IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique)
in 1995. Oh, yes, and he also enjoys surfing, bushwalking and gardening
;)
DJ Ritual Ritual is a DnB DJ known around that scene in Sydney... He jumped at the chance to play an Uber party and explore the musical roots of his genetic heritage... Here's the blag from his myspace... "I guess I'd better put something up real quick... Ritual has been a boy in love with music for all of his almost 30 years. Like a lot of people seem to say, he grew up listening to loads of Motown, Funk, Jazz and guys like Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. I developed a massive love for the Police at the age of 4 thanks to my uncle (who has amazing taste in music and had a massive effect on everything I love from music to my ridiculous desire and love for Nike's). Dad was a drummer in a band (called Nirvana Express) and both him and his brother were DJ's in India in the 60's and 70's which worked out great for me as I now have all these original copies of Hendrix and Jazz albums - thanks dad).I was a very serious tennis player and on one Saturday as I was going to coach and dad says "son, since you're playing guitar now I think you should here this" I was about 13, the album was Hendrix 'Band Of Gypsies'. I knew then that music was going to play a massive part of my life (if I really had to chose just 1 album that is the greatest ever - I'd have to say that one). Ok, let's speed things up a bit here... Years of guitar playing ensued, studying for a time with Sydney Jazz guitar legend Carl Orr who was an absolute inspiration but unfortunately (for me)left Oz in 95 and another transformation begun... In '94 it was all about Bukem, Acid Jazz guys like Incognito and Mondo Grosso, Mo' Wax and fusion jazz. Time went on and 3 of my very close buddies and myself started a club night called Green n' Jazzy which was a night of everything from funk, to downtempo and DnB - but all with a distinct party vibe and the bizness of the beats has never stopped running from there. Over the next 10 years, it was Bukem, then Full Cycle, MIST and now Calibre as far as taste in DnB goes (if I was to give u the bare essentials). I play a lot of other stuff to from broken beat, Detroit techno, hip-hop, funk, beats, dub and reggae - u know I just love music. It so happens that my current passion is DnB. I also write breaks with Q45 and Kid Kenobi as 'Red'. We got commissioned to do a remix of Barcelona a JDS tune called rock star and a couple of other bits. It's great as we are 3 great mates that get to get in the studio together and the results have been well received... Gig wise, I've been lucky to play with most of the big internationals from Roni, Goldie, Bukem, Marcus Intalex, Zinc, D Bridge, Hype, Suv, Krust, Die,Groove - the list is huge and I'm gonna stop there. Being the first person to tour Marky and Bryan Gee in Sydney, Calibre too, I guess you could say that I got involved with all aspects of DnB. Coming to now (finally - thanks for sticking wit me) and I've been getting a lot of support for my music from my 'big brother' Spikey Tee (check the Congo Natty Outernational MySpace), RCola (big love for your support blud) and headz like Suv and Bryan Gee who are constant help and inspiration as well as my local boys like A.L.F. who I do a lot of DJ'ing and radio with as Rollers Music and NZ headz who seem to show me more love than over here in Oz. I'm sure I've missed out some shit and I'll amend that later but here's the rough info for now. ...Enjoy the beats as they should really speak for themselves.." Video by NativeResolution
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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