Promotional Support from: Loyal Family, Nasty Rumor, Messe Productions, Up & Up Productions, The Untz

Sponsored by: Scion, Grassroots California

+ DJ sets by: The Mad Russian & Michael Kuelker

MartyParty – DubStep / Purple / FutureBass / Progressive HipHop (Johannesburg, South Africa)

MartyParty has been taking the electronic dance music scene by storm, blowing up festivals and dance floors with his original style of dubstep-crossing-hip-hop-big-bass bangers. Born and raised in South Africa and now residing in Brooklyn, NY, MartyParty has released over 50 tracks in just two years both prominently and frequently featured on the iTunes, Addictech and Beatport charts. Aside from that, he’s constantly crossing the US and Canada on tour with the MartyParty live show with headlining spots on the Monsters of Bass tour, Lightning in a Bottle, Camp Bisco and several other festivals around the US and Canada.
He has also shared the stage with some of the biggest names in the scene such as the The Glitch Mob, Skrillex, Bassnectar, and Steve Aoki; not to mention countless collaborations with his PANTyRAiD mate, Josh Mayer (Ooah of the Glitch Mob). With multiple tracks under his belt, countless plays from some of the worlds biggest DJ’s, and an endless perseverance to reach that next step, MartyParty has set himself apart as one of the most sought after dubstep producers around. If you love hip hop, dubstep and purple music – catch a MartyParty show!

http://martyparty.com/

More details to be announced soon!

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After four years of independently released tracks that spread like wildfire across the web, Idle Warship will released their first official collection of songs entitled Habits of the Heart on November 1st, 2011. The 12-track album has Idle Warship storming the music scene with a bold and indefinable mash-up of influences, from soul to hip-hop to alternative to electronic. Idle Warship brought an incredible range of musical sensibilities into the studio for this amazing project!

Idle Warship is a perfect example of how a whole can become greater than the sum of its parts – and that is saying quite a lot given the musical components of this project. A collaboration between longtime friends and collaborators, hip-hop luminary Talib Kweli and critically acclaimed soulful singer and songwriter Res, Idle Warship was born.

With an obvious chemistry, a dedication to free creative expression and now a new album, Talib and Res’partnership has become a musical force to be reckoned with. The St. Louis debut of Idle Warship at 2720 Cherokee is definitely on the short list of “DO NOT MISS” shows for 2012.

www.idlewarship.com

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Yellow Dubmarine *Beatles Reggae Tribute* (Washington D.C./Baltimore, MD.)

Forty years after four legendary musicians crafted a classic album named for the studio they made famous, another group of supremely talented musicians is re-imagining that same album in their own unique way.
For Dub-Reggae rockers, Yellow Dubmarine, who formed in the fertile music community of the Washington D.C. and Baltimore areas, the choice to take on the Beatles masterpiece, Abbey Road, was a simple one.
There was a natural vision for it, they explain, It is more of a concept album, and we knew it would be the perfect place to start.
The resulting album, Abbey DUB, is an aural journey through the history of reggae with The Beatles as your guide. From “Come Together” through “Her Majesty,” Yellow Dubmarine finds new life in all of the legendary album’s 17 songs, keeping the heart of each tune present, but simultaneously re-creating them in an entirely new light.

Producer Kenny Liner of The Bridge, crafts a sonic landscape that in one instant recalls traditional Nyagbinghi drumming, before becoming a simple Rock-steady cadence which subtly evolves into a horn-laced, Ska groove full of Caribbean and Calypso overtones that gives way to a bass heavy Dub “riddim” that sways and bounces and gets everyone up and moving.
The decision to work with Liner was an easy one for the band, proclaiming, There is no one we would trust more musically or professionally with this concept than him.
The development of the identity of Yellow Dubmarine’s horn section as a strong singular voice and separate entity within the band helped create a wholly unique sound that allows the instantly recognizable tunes from Abbey Road to take on a whole new personality, a personality that is full of intoxicating, deep, danceable grooves.
Abbey DUB is a shockingly original take on the legendary album. Horns where there were once voices, a slinky groove where there was once none, and a smooth mellow essence that seems to find the long lost island-roots soul of Abbey Road. A blissfully exuberant, rock-steady, Jah-worthy celebration of the Fab Four, Abbey DUB is quite simply a chance to hear this much loved classic again for the first time.

http://yellowdubmarine.com/

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