Since last October, I have been a featured guest of the Celtic/Bhangra fusion band outta B.C.- Dehli2Dublin. I am featured on their latest CD with the track “Celtic Dub” and we have performed together now a few times in Canada and California. This is an awesome band full of nuff energy and I enjoy it everytime I step on stage with them. The latest time was at the Non Stop Bhangra party in SF over the St. Patricks Day weekend and it was MASSIVE! Don’t take it from me, check the youtube clip up above and see for yourself. Also check the other clips available on youtube from this nite and other nites at the event. And check D2D in my top friends and go peep Celtic Dub. So, maximum respects to my D2D/Canadian family- Tarun, Kytami, Sanjay, Ravi and Andrew. Glad to be a part and I look forward to the next show……
While I was down in SF this past weekend, a friend of mine joked about how many music/social networking sites I’m listed on. (5, I think) One of those music sites is Garageband, which was the first I signed up on. Anyways, my track “Bombay Rokk” is the World Fusion track of the day on the site. You can click on the award badge below and it’ll take you there. This tune is starting to make some noise down in SF. It was dropped by DJ Sep during her opening set for Mad Professor and it was an awesome moment during my Dub Mission show when the Dholrythms came out on stage and did some Bhangra dance steps during the song! Enjoy!
Wow, I haven’t had a St. Patricks Day weekend be so exciting! (well, not since the one in Paris 6yrs ago-but that’s another story…)
Anyways, I’ll be travelling down to SF for some awesome upcoming shows then coming back home for Jam Jam right on St. Paddy’s day! Alrite then, here are the deets for the shows and if you’re from SF, come down and party with us!
Non Stop Bhangra 33 - St. Patricks Day Weekend w/ Delhi 2 Dublin
Breaking the mold from the typical St. Patricks Day weekend, Non Stop Bhangra puts on a green party like no other! After finishing up a short Canadian tour along side Vancouvers Delhi 2 Dublin, the NSB crew decided to book the full 6 piece band for what will be an explosive live set SF has ever seen! Effortlessly blending Celtic strings to Bhangra laced dance beats over nasty dub bass, this group is a straight up party starter and one of the most unique bands touring the festival circuit. Joining D2D will be DJ Collage from Seattle, who will also be joining resident & founder Dj Jimmy Love on the mic for some wicked Ragga vocals. The lovely ladies of Dholrhythms Dance Troupe will lead the night with the legendary early dance lesson, as well as a new special performance. Rounding out the night, NSB host a night of live visuals by VJ Amar and live paintings each month by Marcus Murray, as well as the banging drums of Rav-E and Bala with raise your hands toasting by Mandeep Sethi!
You can also check Dehli2Dublin’s tune: “Celtic Dub featuring DJ Collage” here.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Dub Mission presents a night of live dubstep, grime and dub-flavored dancehall with
DJ COLLAGE (Masse-One/Jam Jam, Seattle, WA)
plus DJ SEP and MANEESH the TWISTER (Surya Dub)
at Elbo Room (647 Valencia Street x 17th ) SF - Club is 21+ - Club info: 415 552 7788
9 pm to 2 am - $6 advance / $7 door – advance tix: www.jambasetickets.com and www.ticketweb.com
More info: www.dubmissionsf.com/collage2008.html
West Coast ragga toaster/producer/mc DJ COLLAGE returns to the Dub Mission stage with his own unique
brand of dancehall toasting, chatting the mic over Dutty Larrys genre-mashing, dub-flavored dancehall &
grime riddims performing some of his classics as well as newer material. You can check out DJ Collage’s 3 track
sampler- “DJ Collage aka Mr. Chatman” on his virb music page here.
Monday, March 17th: ST PATRICK’S DAY Bashment at JAM JAM!!
Baltic Room
1207 Pine Street
Seattle, WA
Come out and celebrate the red, gold and especially GREEN at the Jam Jam tonite with your residents-
DJ Element (Zion’s Gate Sound) and DJ Collage aka Mr. Chatman on the mic!
Strictly rub-a-dub reggae classics and classic/newer reggae dancehall all nite
Bless Up! My post from last week is when I uploaded the “Boogie & Bop” ep from 02′ to my Soundclick music page. After the first day, the tune “Play it Back Again” was at #24 on Soundclick Dancehall charts. Now today, a week later-the track has risen to #1! See it for yourself at this link. I kept Bulletins going on MySpace to announce to all my friends the songs’s progressions as it climbed the chart. People kept listening in and it made it to numba 1! And it can’t go any higher than that, can it? So biggup to all those who checked out the tune, and here’s the link so you can play it back one more time!!!
During my guest performing on the Sofa Surfers “Encounters” tour throughout Europe in 2002, I carried this ep as solo merch to sell on the tour. Didn’t really sell that many and even had to leave a bunch of them at a friend’s apt. in Vienna. But yesterday, I pulled it out and starting vibing on it all over again. Recorded in San Francisco and Oakland in 2001, this 3 track ep was another phase of my dancehall meets hiphop musical experiments. I loaded up 2 tracks from the ep to MySpace yesterday but enjoy the sound from my other music page on Soundclick a bit more. So, I’m providing a link to go and check out the tunes. One of the songs (Play it Back Again), touched off Soundclick’s dancehall charts at #24 upon entry! Enjoy….
Well, yunno how I’m always coming a bit late with the posts….So, it is already inna new year and this show took place December 13th in Vancouver. It was the Dehli2Dublin CD release party. Just as the name of the band states, it’s a cross between Celtic music & Indian Punjabi music. Tarun & Kytami who I played with in the Workless party are in the crew along with Sanjay (vox), Rav E (dhol, preshna (guitar) & Adam who was helping out that nite. I am a guest vocalist on the new CD, contributing ragga vocals to the song “Celtic Dub”, so I was invited up to Van to perform in the release party. And what a party it was! 400plus ppl came out to the Red Room downtown to celebrate the release. Jacob Cino (Third Eye Tribe) & Sunskript also rocked it out live on the lyrical tip right before I came out and did my thing. Nuff respects to the D2D crew and we’ll be ramming it up again later this month!! To hear “Celtic Dub” or some of their other selections, just go and visit them on MySpace. You can also see a snippet of us ramming up “Celtic Dub” live by following this link. “It’s a worl’wide ting, it’s a worl’ wide ting….”
After an awesome after hours party performance in Seattle last Friday nite, (I went on at 3am!) I headed up to BC to perform at the Work Less Masquerade Ball in Vancouver. I was an invited member of the T Spoon & Suga Soundsystem. T Spoon also heads another group called Dehli2Dublin, and their new CD is probably one of the most inspiring discs of world music fusion I’ve ever heard. I am a guest on their new CD and the track we do together, (Celtic Dub) is a straight up mix of Celtic, Bhangra, Dance, Dub, and Ragga all in one. I never thought I’d hear my voice over a fiddle, but it all works like a charm. I’ll post samples once it’s all done. But back to the party, the soundsystem was made up of Kytami (fiddle player from Dehli2Dublin), Sunskript, Gopi (dhol drum player), myself & T Spoon. It was a masquerade ball so we were all in costume. Mine was kinda like a space pimp with a silver hat, star etched shades (think Bootsy Collins 70’s era), white shirt & pants and a star necklace. Sandy Dee went with me and she was dressed as a saucy devil. And T Spoon dressed as a teaspoon made from aluminum foil! Anyways, the party took place inna huge auditorium (Japanese Hall) and was pretty packed at about 1,000 peeps. The sound system didn’t seem to be quite adequate for the room, so there were sound issues for most of the nite. But the fun of the party and our vibe onstage rose above it. It was great trading verses alongside MC Sunskript and Kytami simply slayed the place with her engaging fiddle playing. And T Spoon’s mix of funk, dancehall, bhangra and breaks riddims kept the place jumping! We even threw in 2 original Collage riddims and I did 2 new songs for the massive dem. (The sound played on….& Bombay Rokk) Good times fe real! There’s a possibilty for some Dheli2Dublin shows that will be coming up inna near future, I’ll keep u posted….
The next nite in SF (Sunday, Oct. 14th) was my headlining show at Dub Mission at the Elbo Room. I was playing with Kush Arora who also played a wikkid opening set of middle eastern flavored dubstep & dancehall. All his own productions & remixes. He also loaded my riddims in his computer and was my selector for the evening. This was one magical evening as DJ Sep started out the nite with an x-tra crucial set of modern roots, lover’s rock & dancehall. Supa nice, wish it had been recorded. Then Kush did his set and I came out and joined him, then we went into my solo set. The vibes were much higher for me this time around at Dub Mission. Last time I was there, I was a bit under the weather and didn’t feel 100%. Also, the sound engineer this time was really into the show and threw on those splashes of dub delay on my voice at just the right times. There were girls grabbing my legs from offstage, I-shence was filling the air, and the crowd was loving it straight from the first song! And after my set, Maneesh the Twister played a short but sweet dubstep/dancehall set and Sep came back on and closed the nite. Big , big, big respects to the Dub Mission massive for having me back at the nite. This was mos definitely a high point of all my performances so far this year. Nuff respects to DJ Sep, Maneesh the Twister, Kush Arora, Shockman (damn, why didn’t the video camera work tonite??), Elan & all the cool kids at Dub Mission. Simply awesome. One Love……
Alright, I’m late again with the blogging. But I’ve got some things to share, so I’m gonna bring ya up to date. (to all those even reading this) This post is regarding my recent San Francisco performances: Oct. 13-14. So, here goes….It all started on Friday nite when me & Sandy Dee arrived in SF after a 5 hour plane delay. We checked into our hotel and immediately went out to see the world travelling mashup DJ/Producer- Maga Bo at a club called Madrone. I had just performed with Maga Bo in Seattle the nite before, so I got on the mic a sec to run some vibes in SF as we had in Seattle. It was cool but really hot in the club and we were tired from the trip so I didn’t hang too late.
The next nite (Saturday, Oct.13th) was my first show. It took place at Temple niteclub in downtown SF. I was booked to chat the mic alongside my lyrical partner in crime down there, Emcee Child over the crucial dubstep sounds of Benga & Hatcha straight outta London. It was super hott!! B&H totally DESTROYED it. Definitely took the crowd on a Dubstep journey which even was branching away from the typical sounds often heard in the genre. The crowd was pretty packed and the energy was super hype. Also playing that nite was local Selector Dub-U & DJG. Unfortunately I missed DJG’s set but was there for Dub-U. He threw down a pretty wikkid set too and as far as rocking the mic goes, I think I had a bit more fun rocking over Dub-U’s riddims. Also on the bill was Martyn from the Netherlands who kept the party going untill wee hours of the morning. All in all, an excellent event in San Francisco. Nuff respects to Surefire productions, Miro, Emcee Child, Selector Dub-U, DJG, Martyn, Benga & Hatcha, and all the SF Dubstep massive & crew!!! Now, here’s a Youtube clip of the nite and a couple pics of me & Child. Enjoy!
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