March 27th
10:00pm-03:00am

@

Club Six
60 Sixth Street at Market
 

                    Visionary Underground and Dhamaal Soundsystem Joint Album Pre-Release Party
                                         Plus Specials Guest DJ Dragonfly and Riffat Sultana

 

At the forefront of dancefloor-centric Asian music, the VU’s sound is built on the experienced shoulders of DJ Feelfree and the visual expertise of VJ Coco, with collaborations from the likes of Dr Das and Chandrasonic (Asian Dub Foundation), MC Navigator, TC Izlam (Hip-Step/Zulu Nation). Aref Durvesh, Ges-E & Sonia Mehta.

 With breaks remixes of Nitin Sawhney and Asian Dub Foundation (ft. Sinead O'Connor) under their belts they have played at festivals in the UK to audiences of over 100,000. Following their appearance on BBC2’s “Malai” programme (where they performed the songs “Ektaa & Elevate”), the track “Militant 24” has been chosen to be the title track on Network East’s replacement show Desi DNA due to air for 6 weeks from Thurs 11^th March 04 (BBC2). Listen for yourselves - their album is available on the website to listen to, alongside additional FREE MP3 downloads! Representing the crew this time… Producer/DJ FeelFree and VJ Coco.

For those of you who where there last year for the VU/Dhamaal mash up - You know the score - it's going to be mental!
 

SF's very own Composers, Producers, DJs, Visual DJs, Instrumentalists, Event Producers, and Fine Artist Crew bring their art to Club Six.

 DJ, Skratch DJ, Dumbek Player, 3 Tabla Players and 2 Visual DJs perform a blazing set of dance music and live visuals.
Janaka (Selekta), DJ Zeph (Turntablist), Dhruva (Dumbek), Shabi, Adheesh and Ferhan (Tabla), Skip Intro, El Diablo, Johnny Angelhorn (Visual DJ)

 

March 27^th will see the pre-release of the Dhamaal Debut Album which is the culmination of 5 years of slamming events. Tracks produced by Dhamaalists,  Dhruva Ganesen, Janaka [Selekta], Adheesh Sathaye, and Maneesh the Twister  are currently getting heavy rotation on BBC Radio in the UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/presenters/adil_ray/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/urban/tracklistings/bobbyf_nihal/bobbyf_nihal_archive.shtml?20040131

as well as Stateside

http://www.kpfa.org/

http://www.kfjc.org/

http://www.generasianradio.com/

http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?quality=0&searchfields=TAC&genre=search&searchdesc=dhamaal

Dhamaal Debut Album Pre-Order
 

DJ Dragonfly is the creator of numerous monthly and annual West Coast gatherings . His events consistently reflect a personal mission statement of offering dance and gatherings as a celebration of self, spirit and community.  Fusing that concept to the masses is his self-defined genre of Gaiatronic Grooves a signature rough tumble mix combining funky thumpin' breaks, bangin' tribal house spiced with a decidedly global imprint. Multiple sound sources including electronic hand percussion and didgeridoo ensure the delivery of below-the-belt basslines and smacked-up by beats! His dancefloor adventures are quite possibly the outgrowth of the hedonistic lost years where he squandered his youth, money and mind while aimlessly globetrotting through some 37 countries.
 

Riffat is the daughter of Ustad Salamat Ali Khan, who was universally recognized and acclaimed as the finest Pakistani Classical singer of his time. Riffat’s family represents a 500-year lineage of musicians hailing from the Sham Chaurasi Gharana (school of music). Riffat’s vocals have been recorded for numerous labels including Ark 21/Universal, Triloka/Mercury, Hearts of Space, City of Tribes, 6 Degrees and XDot25. She has worked with producers Narada Michael Walden and Miles Copeland. A beautiful, powerful and infectious voice that always gets people dancing.

Dhamaalists Parag Chordia (Sarod), Ferhan Qureshi and Shabi Farooq (Tabla) provide Indian Classical recital.
 

Club Sights and Sounds: $12 Before 11pm and $15 After
Email info@dhamaalsf.com for reduced price admission !!

For Sale at Dhamaal
(These are all pre-release items and only available at the event)
Dhamaal Soundsystem Debut CD
Visionary Underground CD and Vinyl
Dhamaal T-Shirts
 

Dhamaal Audio Sponsor Pyramind: Dhamaal Spundsystem Album Mixed & mastered with engineer Matt Donner

Production & Training in The Digital Audio Arts: Feed your mind, the beats will follow...

Three state of the art studios and San Francisco's
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Nine workstations tied to a central mixer and VGA switcher with large screen projection. Each workstation is equipped with: Protools, Logic Audio, Reason, Ableton Live,  Native Instruments, M-Box, Oxygen8 Keyboard, the entire
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The training Lab is now open to the public!!
Introductory Offer:
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Other Dhamaal Haps:

23.April.2004
Dhamaal Soundsystem Plays in London @ Cargo alongside:
Asian Dub Foundations Soundsystem
Visionary Underground
DJ Nerm (Shiva Soundsystem)

30.April.2004
Janaka [Selekta] Plays Live on BBC Radio (Adil Ray's Show)

KPFA Media Sponsors:

KPFA's Apex Express  - Asian Pacific Islander Radio Thurs 7pm
KPFA's Music of the World with Victoria Zumba Tues 10am