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Celebrated
Asian-Underground music collective 'Shaanti' marks 11 years in the industry
with a celebration of their new residency at Cargo in London on 12th June
2010. This club night will feature Shri Live, Tim Whelan from Transglobal
Underground, Pandit G, Champion Sounds and visuals by SKA. Having advocated
complex leftfield Asian breaks as its musical road map since arriving
in 1999, this UK instiution returns with a celebration and 'Champion Sounds',
a showcase platform predicting the future Asian Sounds of the electronic
and dance generation.
Based
in Birmingham, with roots firmly placed in the progressive Asian fusion
and breaks and bass industry, Shaanti’s wild mash-up of dub-step,
drum and bass and Asian electronic ,Western and Eastern fusion hybrid
sounds, and its firm policy of quality over quantity has been the guiding
principle: making them one of music's great-untapped resource.
“What
started out 11 years ago with only 50 people in attendance has steadily
grown into a UK institution and a innovative pioneering event far exceeding
anyone's expectations," said Manga, founder of Shaanti. "We
are all very proud of this accomplishment and grateful to our fans and
to all the artists like Nitin Sawhney, Talvin Singh, Asian Dub Foundation
and everyone who played for us and who helped get us here.
Full Line-Up
- Shri
(Full Live Band)
- Pandit
G presents A.G.N.I (Angry Generation Needs Inspiration) Live
- Tim
Whelan (Transglobal Underground – DJ Set)
- Juttla
(Eastern Pressure Recordings)
- Fusing
Naked Beats (DJ Set)
- Dulz
(Bazna)
- Visuals
by SKA
- Champion
Sounds present:
- Universal
Taal Project
- Trav
'saXingh' Panesar
- S-Endz
- DJ,
Fluid
- DJ
Razor Rekta from Anti Social UK
- The
Dhol Player Collective
- Hosted
by Manga from Shaanti, more names to be confirmed!
About
Shri
Tempering
heavier indo-jazz alternative influences with the tabla, drum and bass,
Shri leaves an unmistakable mark. Performing live with his band, Shri
aims to assimilate the qualities found in music - including rhythm, tempo,
mood, intensity and compositional structure - within relentless classical
melodrama. Taking cues from the folk and alternative music scenes of the
'90s, with undertones of Indian sub-continent roots and a global jazz
infusion, multi-talented musician Shri’s expressiveness lends a
spectral quality to the group's brooding alt-world fusion sound. While
one of modern music's best-kept secrets is about to be blurted out - make
sure you're within earshot.
About
Pandit G
With
no signs here that Pandit G seeking a safe middle ground and regardless
of how conventionally he reaches his goals, he's always at his finest
when he is being ferocious with his music, and as such this with A.G.N.I
exclusive for Shaanti, possibly his best performance to date.
This
legendary artist is further evidence of Britain's finest music hero's,
most notably, though his new collective A.G.N.I (Angry Generation Needs
Inspiration) is an intoxicating mix of apocalyptic riffs, super sharp
shooter raps and spits, and Pandit G’s deck wizardry. It’s
important to underline this as he is arguably one of the biggest names
who have thrown out the rule book while being in Asian Dub Foundation,
but its highly impressive that this ambitious incarnation, vivid nature
of this band makes that seem entirely justified. While Tim Whelan will
take to the decks next in this astounding line-up.
About
Tim Whelan
Know
for touring the world with the infamous Transglobal Underground, Tim Whelan
takes time out from his busy schedule to join Shaanti for a special DJ
set. Whelan’s DJ sets are mind-bogglingly and inspiring as he sets
up tension between the often gentle sounds of Indian raags and its benevolent
club surroundings, and this, his play-list of re-arranged traditional
classics, extraordinary, trance-like oscillates between dub, drum and
bass, Asian underground, with all genres in between, are mix in effortless
and often to great success. In contrast to our next artists, who founded
out of an obsession with collecting film, photography and slide projectors
Shaanti’s next guest, SKA, has forge a unique style of image-making,
from print and motion graphics for a audiovisual for screen jumping performance.
About
SKA
SKA’s
visual mash-ups work often feature television, film, music and video game
footage sliced and diced into blistering, post-modern dance floor video’s.
Her visuals varied mix brings in a host of influences from all over the
electronic music spectrum, meaning you'll get the Bollywood film ‘Disco
Dancer’ idiosyncratic disco mixing seamlessly into M.I.A tones in
a mash-up with DJ Eli. Whereas some real quality lies within the next
feature of the night.
Champion
Sounds Platform
Champion
Sounds, brainchild of Sharnita K Athwal, co-partner of Shaanti shares
all: “Champion Sounds is a showcase platform to sound-clash many
creative musical forms and genres into one night; it also a chance for
us to promote and hear DJs and exclusive live performances from artists
we’re predicting will be the future sounds of the electronic and
leftfield music generation.
“Consisting
of live experimental sounds I’m delighted and proud to present for
the first time a diverse group of performers – Musical explorer
and frequency experimenter Universal Taal Project, electronic futurist
rapper S-Endz, saxophone house supernova Trav 'saXingh' Panesar, drum
and bass DJ, Fluid, dub-step DJRazor Rekta from Anti Social UK and artist
The Dhol Collective to the Champion Sounds and Shaanti’s main stage.”
She ends.
They
will also be joined by DJs Dulz (Bazna), Juttla from Eastern Pressure
Recordings and Fusing Naked Beats and others.
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