Slick Chick is a 27 year-old disco-freak from Rotterdam. She started playing records about seven years ago. At the time she and her friends were throwing nonprofit parties in dirty warehouses throughout the Netherlands and beyond.
Wanneer Redevice een pionier en levende legende op het gebied van sonische experimenten uitnodigt om te komen optreden binnen de ideale setting van Studio 80 met z’n moddervette sound system, dan weet je zeker dat het voorgeschotelde geluid je niet alleen zal verrijken...
Terwijl de Sint z’n zak met pepernoten leegschudt en onze grote Kerstvriend de arrenslee weer voorrijdt, dropt Arctic Boogie vrijdag 12 december feestelijke acid en oldskool in club Innocent in Hengelo.
Loveland organiseert dit jaar het grootste Oud & Nieuw spektakel van Amsterdam. De organisatie viert de jaarwisseling in Amstelborgh onder de naam ‘Loveland NewYear’.
During Hip-Hop's 30yr+ history, few names have become as well known to music lovers across the globe as that of DJ Grandmaster Flash. Not only is he one of the three pioneers responsible for the musical genre called Hip-Hop, but his use of the turntables made him the first dj to play the turntables as a musical instrument, thus helping to elevate the status of the dj to a masterful, artistic position. He is also responsible for assembling one of the earliest and greatest rap groups of all time - The Furious Five. These are some of the hallmarks of a career which has extended from the Bronx in the early 1970s to all corners of the globe into the 21st Century.
Of Bajan decent, Joseph Saddler, professionally known as "DJ Grandmaster Flash": was born and raised in the Boogie Down Bronx. It was the area's streets and nightlife that provided his inspirations. He developed his first crush on vinyl when he was just a boy playing with his father's records. By the time he was a teenager he was studying electronics and engineering in school, and spinning records at block parties and public parks.
By 1971, Flash was inventing and demonstrating innovative dj techniques with turntables in response to his many observations at parties, and of other djs, thus later claiming the turntables to be an instrument.. The invention and technique of djing that Flash displayed and changed the way djs played forever was “Cuttin”. This is when the dj literally places their hand on the embodiment of the vinyl, or middle section of the record, and proceed to move or rub the material in a backward or forward motion in conjunction with their fingers on the dj mixer in a left to right, or right to left lateral movement. In Flash’s first years of displaying this technique he was known for “making the record dirty” because not until his time did djs ever place their hands in the body of a record.
"The Quick Mix Theory", which encompassed the innovative technique of "cutting", is the technique of using duplicate copies of a vinyl record and scientifically and percussively rearranging the arrangement of the music and extending the break parts of songs. This technique of cuttin’ included sub techniques such as: “Front door/Back door”, which is the on-time repeat of a song with the use of duplicate copies both playing while one is one beat behind the other to give the song an echo effect. “Fake Phasin” is using duplicate copies of the record, allowing one copy to be playing and having the other copy used to insert a short musical section in momentarily. Ex: Good Times break playing on 1 turntable and throwin in or rubbin the word “Good” on top as an enhancement to the song. And, doing tricks with toes, mouth, elbows, behind the back, and 360’s are all techniques that are a part of the Quick Mix Theory of Cuttin’.
The "Clock Theory", another technique of cuttin’, allowed Flash to find the break of a recorded song quickly by eye, and chooses to repeat or percussify an element or fragment of a sound by, once again, moving the disc in a backward & forward motion while using 2 turntables, a mixer, and duplicate copies of a song, and proceeds to physically spin the vinyl in a counter clockwise direction to arrive or re-arrive with pinpoint accuracy to a chosen area that is marked or taped by magic-marker, crayon, or sticker. This manual display of taking a song apart and rearranging its structure live contributed to the early development and rise of the DJ as a remixer, artist, and producer.
In the late 70's, Flash took his inventions to another level, by recruiting emcee's to rap over his music. The unity later became worldly known as "Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five". Their reputation grew around Flash’s unrivaled DJ skills and the group’s blending and trading off lyrics. Flash also gained notice for the visually dynamic and acrobatic way he could spin and cut records using his feet, toes and elbows. Blondie immortalized Flash in the 1980 hit "Rapture": "Flash is fast, Flash is cool!" And, in 1981, Grandmaster Flash recorded "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel", which was the first record to feature complex cutting. The 80's brought many albums, hits, shows, and recognition worldwide as hip-hop was becoming the new popular music. Even into the 90's and now, DJ Grandmaster Flash still tours the world, still receives awards for his pioneer ship to hip-hop, and still creating musically and mechanically. He is a true definition of an icon.
And to top it all Joseph Saddler - DJ Grandmaster Flash has been nominated for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame making him the First DJ and Hip Hop Artist ever to be nominated along with the Furious Five.
