In the expanse of the Australian outdoor festival culture, Winter Solstice Lifestyle Gathering holds a special place in the hearts and minds of punters from not only Cairns, but from around the country and indeed the globe as well. The annual event, in its fourth year in 2009, was one of the region’s biggest and most creative festivals, attracting well over a hundred acts, performers, healers and artists over four days and three nights in the rugged beauty of the Atherton Tablelands.
The thing about Winter Solstice is that it’s much more than a Far North Queensland event, instead being one of Australia’s premier alternative life style festivals with a strong focus on entertainment for all the ages and a holistic festival experience. Thousands of punters have been known to travel from interstate and overseas just to attend, proving it’s not only one of the region’s top music and arts events, but a global tourism drawcard as well.
With a broad range of musical styles – from electronic music to live bands and solo acts – as well as roving performers, fire shows, healing areas, sustainability exhibitions and market stalls, Winter Solstice definitely deserves its spot as the winner of the Best Festival in the timeOUT Awards 2009.
DJ Sifu is Touring New Zealand @ the moment & is now taking bookingz
BIO:
DJ Sifu has been spinning since 1977 & is a pioneer in dance music, & is working in australiaz & New Zealandz top clubs still breaking the latest House, Electrohouse, Breaks & Phat Beats. DJ Sifu Employment History Specific to the DJ Industry: Professional DJ 2009-live shows, http://www.ustream.tv/channel/djsifu Club DJZ UndergrounD Wellington NZ,Club 3D Melbourne, Fridays nightclub & Fridays Riverside - Glamour Bar 2008 - 2009- Platnum Lounge Mackay 2 weeks on 2 off 2002 -2008 Sapphires, Court House Hotel, Boss Bar, Met Bar, Inbox Club, The Chapel Club Aug 2000 – Sep 2001 XS Club, Cairns Jango Jango Night Club, Cairns Bassment Underground Night Club, Cairns Homebass Underground Night Club, Cairns Promotor and DJ for: 2001 DJ Mark James (Melbourne) 2001 DJ Tom (Germany) 2000 New Years Eve, Synergy (Rave), 9-12pm 2000 New Years Evez, Court House Night Club, 12-4.30am 2000 Tina Cousins (UK) 2000 PHATTS & SMALL (UK) Apr 1989 – Aug 2000 Rythym King Entertainment Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane Jun 1991 – May 1992 The Hilton Night Club Cairns Nov 1988 – May 1991 Splains Night Club Brisbane Masy 1986 – Oct 1988 Warholes Night Club Brisbane May 1985 – May 1986 Ryders Night Club Melbourne Nov 1983 – May 1985 The Circus Night Club & The Beat Night Club Brisbane Mar 1981 – Nov 1983 N.Y Hotel Night Club Brisbane 1979 – Mar 1981 George’s Night Club Sydney CBD 1977 – 1979 Penthouse Night Club Gold Coast 1973 – 1976 Mamies Night Club Brisbane 1971 – 1973 Coolangatta Hotel Night Club Tweed Heads
LRRecords have just set-up a T-shirt and merch shop with Spread-Shirt…
Some great stuff here!
T-shirt printing has never been easier: with Spreadshirt you can make your shirt online, have it printed and shipped directly to your home. You decide how your custom shirt will look – simply use our Designer to create your own t-shirt and order it. We will print your personalised item to the highest quality and have it ready to ship within 24-48 business hours. We are more than just a shirt company – we also offer custom hoodies, baby clothing, hats, bags and aprons. Those are just some of the more than 100 articles in our apparel assortment.
Check out one of our great products we have designed:
Sub Continental Dub the pioneering Australian electronic label
> specialising in Dubstep, Techno and Electronica that hit the market in
> 2007 with first release by Melbourne Producer Spherix - Dub Chemistry
> 12”/digital worldwide… and in 2008 a second released by Sydney Producer
> Westernsynthetics - Engine No. 999 12”/digital worldwide.
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Sub Continental Dub brings you the brand new Deepchild 12” and
> digital release titled Shameless In Seattle with remixes from top shelf
> Producers Gravious (EU) and Westernsynthetics (AU). This special release
> has been a long time in the making and it is certainly the biggest release
> in the label’s history.
Conceived on his recent US/UK tour, these fresh tracks take us on a trip in an abstract, futurist dubby tech house direction while retaining that dance floor goodness he is so famous for. Deepchild has performed alongside Konrad Black, Stacey Pullen and Jeff Mills and shared the auspicious EXIT Festival’s Dance Arena stage with Richie Hawtin and Trentemoller. He has also completed remixes for New Order and Booka Shade. Deepchild releases and remixes can be found on labels including Trapez, Resopal Schallware, AFFIN, Anabatic Records, Freerange Records, Om Records, BEEF Records, Get Physical Music and Breakout Audio.
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> SUBDUB003 is Deepchild – Shameless In Seattle > Check it our HERE
Guvera has spent several years negotiating rights all around the world and designing this new system to make music free by having advertisers pay for our downloads.
As an added bonus we have removed the very concept of “Disruptive Advertising” and replaced it with “Engagement Advertising”.
What that means to you and me is we have removed the white noise of irrelevant crap being thrown at us - and now we only see brands that are actually speaking to us, as opposed to everyone seeing everything.
You’ll see when you experience Guvera - You select the brand that will pay for each piece of music you search for, then you visit their channel and discover a whole bunch of other music that may be interesting… then you channel hop, this is how you discover new music, all the while not being interrupted by ads you cant click past and now, you simply enjoy the music.
Best yet, those artists that create all these goodies we download will be paid in full for the inspiration they make for all of us.
And if thats not cool enough, film & TV isn’t too far behind.
Hip Hop Construction 2 is the sequel to FatLoud’s bestseller “Hip Hop Construction King”. Containing 10 hip hop/urban construction kits built from over 220 loops plus 90 one-shot drum hits. Includes 1,20 GB of multiformat material.
Do you feel you can become the next Soulja Boy, Lil Wayne, Knaya West, Timbaland, Lil Jon or Dr Dre? Maybe you need a lil inspiration for your latest project, and need a lil something to make your productions BANG?
Or perhaps you’re simply looking for a solid library of professional high quality HipHop Construction kits, that will take you to the next level.
Whatever your musical needs, ‘Hip Hop construction Kings- Volume 2′ is sure to meet them. Containing over 1.2GB of banging original royalty-free drum loops and construction kits.
Hip Hop Construction 2 contain multi-format material (WAV, REX, Acid, AIFF, Apple Loops, Reason 4.0 ReFill) ready to use in your favourite sampler or sequencer, hardware or sofware like: Logic, GarageBand, Soundtrack, Digital Performer, Sony Acid, Ableton Live, Adobe Auditon, Cakewalk Sonar, Pro Tools, Stylus RMX, Emagic EXS24 and many more
Check out the MP3 preview demo for a small taste of the sounds featured within this pack. If you really wanna make your speakers bang and make the floor shake and the dancefloors go crazy, ‘Hip Hop construction Kings Volume 2′ has exactly what you are looking for!!
This product is available at an amazing low price of £19.95 as a digital download and available only from Producer Pack.
ISBN: 1859737137/ ISBN-13: 9781859737132
Inside Clubbing: Sensual Experiments in the Art of Being Human
(Trade paperback)
by Phil Jackson
5 out of 5 3 customer reviews
Berg Publishers, 04/2004, 256 pages, English
Inside Clubbing puts the spotlight on club culture - in all its sweaty, visceral and seductive glory. Moving from hip-hop clubs to fetish events and beyond, the author guides us through the huge spectrum of the contemporary club experience. Drawing on interviews with clubbers from a variety of backgrounds, the author dispels myths and offers new insight into the clubbing scene. Contrary to popular perception, for example, clubbing is not just for youths. The clubbers in Inside Clubbing range from mid-twenties to mid-fifties. Many have been on the scene for years and offer a historical perspective on changes over the last decade. The range of clubs and clubbers discussed also demonstrates the diversity of club culture its more than just an ecstasy-fuelled dance scene. Taking us into queer, trance, Asian, techno, drum n bass, and sex clubs - among others - Inside Clubbing explores the real practice of clubbing. It looks at what people experience and how it affects them, as well as their values and concerns - from friendship and community to drugs, the body, and life outside the clubbing space. This book breaks new ground in offering us the most balanced and sophisticated understanding of the club scene to date
Block Rockin Beats has tons of cool grooves and fills for the intermediate to advanced drummer. This book reflects recent musical trends by focusing on funky rock, hip hop, jungle and drum n bass influenced patterns for the drum kit. As time marches on, popular music continues to evolve and change. Block Rockin Beats is designed to give the drummer more ideas and tools to help function in a musical environment that was not only influenced by jazz, blues, gospel, country, soul, latin and funk styles but also shaped by D.J.s, samplers and electronic music. Drummers are often called upon now to replace or ad to programmed drums in the recording studio. For live shows, live drumming might be melded together with electronic elements or D.J.s, or both Rock and popular music are incorporating so many different elements and styles at this point, its hard to keep track! Update your rhythmic vocabulary with some Block Rockin Beats
Green Music Group, a coalition of musicians, industry leaders, and fans working to inspire widespread environmental action. We want you to be a part of this exciting new initiative.
Sign up with Green Music Group now and get a free song download from a special all-band jam featuring members of Maroon 5, The Roots, Dave Matthews Band, and Guster. You will also be entered to win an autographed eco-friendly guitar: a Gibson Les Paul Smartwood, a Martin Sustainable Wood acoustic, or a First Act Bambusa.
More awesome dub from our friends in Spain - oh so good..If ya love dub, start downloading!
Hotdrop - Dis[Cover] Showcase,
Greetings! Good news in the reggae-dub planet with Hotdrop’s new release ‘Dis[cover] Showcase’ a delightful selection of powerful covers that aim straight to the heart of Jamaican rhythm lovers.
‘Dis[cover]’ will rock you with its authentic showcase format, each track has a first vocal part which later gives way to a totally atmospheric ‘Hotdroppic’ dub.
On this occasion, the Spanish band leaves its mark with a unique covers compilation, often played live by Hotdrop, which renders tribute to souls classics (William Devaughn, The Spinners) and legendary late 70s reggae singles (Matumbi, Dennis Brown, Inner Circle).
Entirely recorded in Madrid city and mixed analogically in a 8 track device, ‘Dis[cover]’ works as a time machine that brings us these vintage scented unique covers, never loosing Hotdrop’s refreshing sound.
The record travels from soul grounds with the mellow ‘Be Thankful’, passing the rhythmic soulful-reggae with ‘Bluebeat & Ska’ and the indomitable ‘I’ll be around’, to end up flowing into the wild Caribbean sound of ‘Should I’ and ‘Reggae Thing’, culminating this musical trip in ‘Straight to the Greencat’s head’, dubwise from the caverns. Hotdrop - Dis[Cover] Showcase
Tracklist:
1.- Be thankful extended version
2.- Bluebeat & ska discomix
3.- I’ll be there
4.- I’ll be there pt.2
5.- Should i ft. Carlos Alonso
6.- Drum & bass version
7.- Reggae thing ft. Quique Vaz
8.- Straight to the greencat’s head
Mixed by Puppashan @ discoinferno.
Masterized by Nick Litwin at Mastering Mansion Madrid.
Produced by Hotdrop, Madrid 2010.
The Space Hijackers are a group of Anarchitects which was set up at the beginning of 1999.
Our group is dedicated to battling the constant oppressive encroachment onto public spaces of institutions, corporations and urban planners. We oppose the way that public space is being eroded and replaced by corporate profit making space.
We oppose the way that users of space are being put under increasing scrutiny and control by those who own or run it. Be this via CCTV installed to monitor us, or architectural elements designed to control our moods.
We oppose the blanding out and destruction of local culture in the name of global economic progress. Newer and Bigger is not always better, it is usually both impersonal and imposing.
Through our various actions we attempt to raise awareness of issues within spaces and change how these spaces are used and percieved in the future. We intend to destroy heirarchies within spaces and claim back public ownership. Our projects act as another voice within space, and become engrained upon the places we Hijack.
Our aim is to change the way that ownership and usage of space is percieved, to put users of space in a more level position. We want to have a say in how we all exist within public space, on where and how we meet. We are fed up with being treated like criminal cattle by the institutions and corporations that decide on the shape and content of our environment.
The Space Hijackers in no way want to become leaders of some kind of resistance movement, our actions detailed on this site should act as a catalyst for others. If we can, you can. However we want to expand our membership in order to create a forum for discussion and development of these ideas. Our agents area is a space where interested parties can meet in a non heriarchical manner and help each other in their quests.
Our first major event was the hijacking of a Circle line carriage on London Underground . Since then we have expanded our operations to include everything from building miniature “City farms” all over the square mile through to producing “Experimental Pedestrian Schemes” in Brixton, and the production and design of Hijacker Equipment.
Its cool what great products you find amongst your affiliates! Alibris seems to come-up with a few goodies, and I can share them with the world!
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Check out this latest dubstep gear:
Description: 2006 compilation tracing the roots of Dubstep and some of the most respected artists of the genre. 14 tracks from Steve Gurley, DJ Abstract, Menta, Phuturists, Horspower Productions and others. Tempa.
and some classic dub…
Police & Thieves [Bonus Tracks] (1977)
by Junior Murvin
About this title: This is one of those albums that winds up on just about every list of essential reggae recordings, and with good reason. Like Max Romeo’s War Ina Babylon (which is equally essential, and can be considered a companion to this one), it was recorded under the auspices of Lee “Scratch” Perry at his legendary Black Ark studio, and is saturated with Perry’s trademark dense, murky sound. Murvin sings in a fierce and beautiful falsetto, a voice that lends a unique weight to such dark masterpieces as “Lucifer,” “Roots Train,” and the title track (which was later recorded by the Clash). Perry surrounds Murvin’s voice with great washes of echo and reverb and keeps the tempos slow and intense, giving the album an almost Biblical feel. Ignore the goofy album art on the CD reissue — there is nothing lighthearted about any of these songs, nor is there a single wrong note or misplaced effect. There may be eight or ten perfect reggae albums in existence, and this is certainly one of them. [The 2003 reissue of Police & Thieves adds expanded liner notes, photos, and five tracks to the original running order. “Childhood Sweetheart” and a cover of Curtis Mayfield’s “People Get Ready, ” retitled here “Rasta Get Ready,” are previously unreleased. “Memories” is the B-side of the “Police & Thieves” single. Also included are extended mixes of “Bad Weed” and “Roots Train,” which features additional vocals by Dillinger.] ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
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