Sound Liberation Festival 2009 – Family Jam
Jul 28, 2009 Event Listing
SLF Fest 09 brings funk to the youth! We’ll have 5 hours of hands-on activities, including dance and music workshops specifically geared towards the festival’s younger fans and their parents, and more creative, art-related fun kids will want to get involved in.
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Music Workshop
Introduction to DJing with DJ Shiftee
Finally—the turntable is no longer off-limits! Your kids may not yet know what a turntables is, but they’ll love this intro to using records to create music. You might learn a thing or two yourself!
DubSpot is an electronic music production and DJ school in New York City, and the premier music school for both experienced and aspiring young artists alike. In this workshop, kids get a taste for DJing through basic mixing and scratching. They’ll get a hands-on tutorial in DJ equipment and learn how to handle, play and mix records through Serato Scratch Live.
The workshop will feature DJ Shiftee, one of the premiere battle DJs in the world. Turntablist. Party rocker. Harvard math grad. Battle DJ. Composer. Producer. He is the 2007 DMC Supremacy World Champion (only U.S. champ ever), 2008 IDA/ITF World Vice Champion, and the self-proclaimed greatest sandwich maker of all time. Using two turntables and a mixer as his instruments, Shiftee actively performs turntablist showcases, experimental group projects, and party sets throughout the globe. Known as an established force on the international DJ scene, Shiftee has translated his intuitive math geek mentality into far-reaching success on the turntables.
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3-6PM
Gallery Area
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Dance Workshop
Intro to Mosaic Soul Style of Dancing
Mosaic Soul is the dance style, Afro Mosaic Soul is the collective.
The newest form of African American social dance has risen from the underground. It carries the genetic traits of its forbears: African dance, Latin dance, tap, modern, popping & locking, break-dancing (b-boying), hip hop, house dance, lofting and capoiera to name a few. This new style was forged when the love of dancing to soulful house music expanded.
The Mosaic Soul style of House Dance tutorial is open to all ages. The technical aspect of the movement might not catch on right away but the rhythm and flow catches on at a deeper level, to access and connect to at a later time.
Music provided by DJ Special (Afro Mosaic Soul) & DJ Gibril Kuyateh of The GiKu Experience Radio Show (Giant Step Jukebox, Afro Mosaic Soul)
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4-6PM
Performance Area
All Ages
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Art & Music Activities
Workshops to be announced
The courtyard area will be transformed into a creative playground with DJs, hands-on art activities, food vendors and good vibes for the entire family.
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2-7PM
Courtyard
5-12 Years Old
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Sound Liberation Festival 2009 – Main Page
Jul 28, 2009 Event Listing
Sound Liberation Front announces the first annual Sound Liberation Front Festival at Littlefield Performance and Art Space in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood.
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Sound Liberation Family JamEducate the youth… children oriented art, music and dance workshop plus food vendors, DJs and good vibes.
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2-7pm
All ages
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Sound Liberation PartyAn evening full of music, from classic hip hop, soulful house to electro afro funk…
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7pm-2am
21+
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Sound Liberation Festival 2009 – Party
Jul 28, 2009 Event Listing
An evening full of music featuring music legends, upcoming artists and DJs from some of New York’s hottest parties. This is going to be a memorable evening… Join the Sound Liberation movement!
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DJ
Easy Star Records
Ticklah aka Victor Axelrod is a world-class dub producer, dj and pianist whose musical family tree includes Antibalas, The Dap Kings, and The Easy Star All-Stars. Having produced Dub Side of the Moon, Ticklah has made a name for himself as a meticulous producer with an ear for authenticity.
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7pm
Courtyard
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Music Nerd Club
The Music Nerd All-Stars is a duo born out of the synergy between Lil Tiger, a carribean-born, Texas-raised DJ, and French-Vietnamese DJ Q-Mastah. Combining their diverse background and passion for music, they are building a reputation for throwing parties and events that put music and good vibes at the forefront.
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8pm
Performance Area
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Electro Afro-Funk
Kindred Spirit Records
Chico Mann is the multi-faceted side project of Marcos Garcia, guitar player from Antibalas. Casio keyboards, turntables spinning afrobeat breaks, latin percussion and vocals combine to make up Chico Mann’s dance floor pulsating presentation. What had started as Marcos Garcia’s personal Casio Afrobeat experiment has blossomed into a genre-defying, life-affirming, sweaty, politicized dance party that is evolving at an exponential rate.
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9pm
Performance Area
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DJ
Boogie Down Productions
DJ Kenny Parker-is a dj producer who’s been working with Boogie Down Productions & KRS-ONE for 18 years. He’s been deejaying in clubs all over the U.S., Europe & Asia for 15 years, produced numerous recording artist & singers, and produced television commercials for Nike.
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10pm
Performance Area
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Classic Hip Hop
Featuring Grand Puba, Sadat X and Lord Jamar
Originally made up of Grand Puba, Sadat X, Lord Jamar, and DJ Alamo, Brand Nubian followed in the footsteps of early De La Soul, with funky beats, upbeat grooves, and rhymes of positivity. On their classic debut album All For One, their easy flow and laid-back rhythms served as the platform for the declaration of their Islamic faith and the teachings of The 5% Nation.
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10:30pm
Performance Area
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The Rub
DJ Cosmo Baker of the legendary international dance party “The Rub” has a reputation for making dance parties explode. Raised in Philly, but now a Brooklyn legend, Cosmo has hit the decks all over North America and Europe.
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12am
Performance Area
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DJ
Libation/Tea Party Music
Armed with a passion for the arts, Ian Friday is on a creative mission. This New Yorker has been seen on stage and film and has performed throughout NYC as a poet. In 1994 he founded a nonprofit arts organization called the Tea Party which provided a platform for upcoming and established artists such as Erykah Badu, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Saundra St. Victor, Vernon Reid, Corey Glover, Saul Williams, Antibalas and the Last Poets. Ian is the resident dj at the legendary bi-weekly throwdown Libation at Sullivan Room, a party that contends for the most consistently lively in the city.
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1am
Performance Area
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