Please find below & attached all the details for next month's Heatwave vs Mas Fuego event - "the only dancehall/bashment meets reggaeton/Latin hip hop session in the UK" (RWD Magazine), brought to you by Heatwave, "the most exciting new luminaries of London's dancehall scene" according to Time Out. Full details and flyers on www.scandalbag.com <http://www.scandalbag.com>
Photos from previous dances can be seen here www.scandalbag.com/gallery.html; audio from past events is here www.scandalbag.com/downloads.html
We're switching it up this month, with the Mas Fuego! boys taking over the main room to drop their reggaeton bangers on the big system and host a PA from Latin Clan, London's undisputed kings of Latin ragga and hip hop - they recently supported Cuban supergroup Orishas at their only London date. Heatwave take over the back room, hosting live ragga/jungle antics from DJ C and Aaron Spectre of internationally-renowned jungle label Mashit. They're coming all the way from Boston, USA and will be linking up with Jamaican MC Quality Diamond to launch the latest single on the Scandal Bag label, Let It Billie - so don't sleep on this one! Plus the real big man Dave Stelfox (Breaking Ranks) will be dropping the hottest new bashment around.
Cheers
Gabriel
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what Heatwave vs Mas Fuego!
where The Rhythm Factory (Whitechapel)
when Friday 17th June 2005
frequency 3rd Friday of the month - next dance
July 15th
Jamaica meets Puerto Rico Uptown in East London!
SHORT BLURB
Two rooms of the finest Caribbean and Latin sounds from Jamaica to Puerto Rico and Trinidad to Cuba: top US junglists DJ C and Aaron Spectre of the Mashit label throw down a jungle-inspired dancehall set alongside Latin Clan, Dave Stelfox, Quality Diamond and residents.
LONGER BLURB
Two rooms of the finest Caribbean and Latin sounds from Jamaica
to Puerto Rico and Trinidad to Cuba: dancehall/bashment, reggaeton,
R'n'B, soca, Latin hip hop, reggae and zouk. Top US ragga junglists
DJ C and Aaron Spectre from the Mashit label
(feted by the late, great John Peel) stop by on their European
tour to throw down an exclusive dancehall/bashment live set -
and also to launch DJ C's new production on the Scandal Bag
label, Let It Billie. Vocalist on that track, Jamaican
MC Quality Diamond, will also be performing on the night.
Meanwhile, top Venezuelan rappers Latin Clan take to the
main stage fresh from supporting Cuban supergroup Orishas at
the Royal Festival Hall while DJs Dave Stelfox (Breaking
Ranks/F.A.C.T.), Heatwave (Punchline Records), Lubi
(Nascente Records) and MDK (Twice as Nice) keep things
bubbling on the decks.
Check the website for more details and photos: www.heatwavelondon.com
THE DETAILS
Friday 17th June 2005 @ The Rhythm Factory
16-18 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1EW
Tube: Aldgate East / Whitechapel
Buses: 25, 205, 254, N25, N106, N205 & N254
9pm-4am > £5 before 11pm/NUS > £8 otherwise
heatwave@scandalbag.com > infoline 07890 371 097
www.rhythmfactory.co.uk > 020 7375 3774
BIOGS
Heatwave vs Mas Fuego!
Heatwave have been keeping dancehall events in London and beyond since 2001 and Heatwave vs Mas Fuego! has been going from strength to strength since its launch in January 2005, with fresh selections and exclusive live PAs. So far Yungun, Riko, The Bug, Warrior Queen, Suncycle, No Lay, Criola, J Star, Latin Clan and Sidestepper's Rubi Dan have passed through to do their dancehall/latino thing.
Guest DJs
Check www.mashit.com and www.breakingranks.blogspot.com
The Heatwave DJs
Holding it down for over three years with their crunked-up dancefloor blend of dancehall/bashment, R'n'B, reggae, soca and reggaeton which has earned them numerous guest slots alongside the likes of Buju Banton, Suncycle, Robbo Ranx, Tubby T, DJ Vadim, The Bug, Yungun, Warrior Queen, Coldcut and Ross Allen.
Heatwave's residencies at 333, Momo's and Herbal and recent appearances at big nights including Champion Sound (Cargo), Fidgit (Plan B), Bristol Carnival, Wwwhut!? (93 Feet East) and the Non-Stop label launch party have earned them praise from the likes of Time Out: "the most exciting new luminaries of London's
burgeoning dancehall scene".
Also responsible for a glut of remixes on the bootleg 7" imprint Punchline, notably a refix of Trick Me by Kelis featuring Beenie Man & T.O.K. and a Super Cat vs The Pharcyde cut on the evergreen Stalag riddim. These have been rinsed on radio and in dances alike by Gilles Peterson, David Rodigan, 100% Dynamite/Soul Jazz, Daddy G (Massive Attack), DJ /Rupture, Blood & Fire, The Bug and more.
A couple of Heatwave mixes available to download here www.xiquet.net. More soon. The Heatwave DJs also write the monthly dancehall round-up and charts for Undercover Magazine and www.musicalbear.com
The Mas Fuego! DJs
Lubi Jovanovic has been pushing Latin music for over 20 years, DJing all over the UK and Europe and writing the Latin Lowdown for StraightNoChaser magazine. Not to mention releasing a string of hit compilation CDs for Nascente Records, shifting upwards of 100,000 units and counting of titles such as Urban Latino, Beginner's Guide to Cuba and the upcoming Mas Fuego! - 100% Reggaeton. More info at http://members.lycos.co.uk/djneil/files/lubi_el_slavoloco.htm
DJ MDK is Twice as Nice's official European tour DJ, with a summer-long residency at Twice as Nice in Ibiza. He plays a tightly-mixed set of dancefloor R'n'B, Jamaican bashment, French Caribbean dancehall, reggaeton and zouk.
UPCOMING GUESTS
Daddy Yankee, Klashnekoff (Terra Firma), NoRequests, El Moreno
(Bar Rumba), DJ Deoh (Rumba FM), Macka Diamond, Sidestepper Soundsystem,
Mr Thing (Scratch Perverts), Daddy G (Massive Attack), Spoonface
(Faada), Sway da Safo, Yungun, Rubi Dan and much more
PRESS REVIEWS:
"The only dancehall/bashment meets reggaeton/Latin hip
hop session in the UK"
(RWD Magazine, March 2005)
"Heatwave: the most exciting new luminaries of London's
dancehall scene"
(Time Out, 10th November 2004)
"Fancy a good night out? Heatwave get the dancefloor rocking
with the very best in Jamaican and Puerto Rican music"
(New Nation, February/March 2005)
"Basslines throb and temperatures soar at this tropical
dancehall bash"
(The Knowledge in The Times, 12th February 2005)
"The pulsating fusion of hip hop, dancehall and Latin
music known as reggaeton has bitten hard and now it's arrived
in East London with the monthly Heatwave vs Mas Fuego!"
(Metro, 20th January 2005)
"Pick of the week"
(The Guide <http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/clubs/story/0,14688,1434490,00.html>
in The Guardian, 12th March 2005)
"Purveyors of the finest dancehall and reggaeton vibes...a
unique blend of Jamaican and Latin sounds" - Pick of the
week
(The London Line, 14 April 2005)
"A top night - definitely not one to miss"
(Know The Ledge, July 2004)
"Injecting a much needed slice of sunshine into London's
clubland"
(View London, July 2004)
"Get your fix of Latin hip hop, dancehall and reggaeton"
(Fly, April 2005)
"You've tuned in to Chris Goldfinger's dancehall show,
sampled the weekly Rodigan's Reggae and weaved through dense Carnival
crowds at Lord Gelly's or Saxon soundsystems, but have you been
to Heatwave?"
(Time Out, 19th January 2005)
"Superb monthly soundclash...one of the most frenzied
dancehall events currently shaking asses in London. A proper Carnival
party with real style, if you like dancing you have to check it
out"
(London Town, April 2005)
"Batty-bumping with Latin dancehall sensation reggaeton
treating winter-sallow capital-dwellers to the sounds of Puerto
Rico, New York and Bogotá"
(Good For Nothing, March 2005)
"If I were in London I'd hit this party. Roll Deep's Riko
doing a dancehall PA at a bashment/reggaeton dance! Heatwave indeed.
They're looking to bring Macka Diamond out soon too. Lovely."
(DJ /Rupture, April 2005)
Gabriel Myddelton
DJ : Xiquet / Heatwave
Promoter : Heatwave vs Mas Fuego!
Labels : Scandal Bag / Punchline
Press : Undercover Magazine / www.musicalbear.com <http://www.musicalbear.com/>
Website : www.scandalbag.com <http://www.scandalbag.com/>
+44 (0) 7890 371 097
gabriel@scandalbag.com
180 Lordship Road
London N16 5ES