Groovadelica is back with an international bang. On Friday 29th July, we present the debut NZ performances of two amazing UK DJ/Producers, along with The Groovadelic Orchestra featuring Trya Hammond, Lewis McCallum & Jess Mathews plus local DJ support from DJ Dubhead, Jason Eli & A-Train, all at a brand new, two level Auckland venue. Expect the best in Future Soul, Broken Beat, Latin, Funk, Jazz and Reggae.
Topping the DJ List for the night, IG Culture. Music maker, pioneer of Acid Jazz, creator of Broken Beat. Credits include Slum Village, Theo Parrish, Roots Manuva and many more. IG was at the helm of international award winning London club night The CoOp, which he hosted with 4Hero, Bugz In The Attic and Phil Asher.
Second up, another of the west London music scene’s avant garde, Darren Shredder, who has released music on trendsetting labels like LTJ Bukem’s Good Looking and People Records.
For the fans of live future soul and funk, the seven piece The Groovadelic Orchestra featuring Tyra Hammond, Lewis McCallum, Tommy Stowers & JEM will be heating up the downstairs area. (Band on at 11pm)
And if that’s not enough for you, upstairs you can soak up the Jamaican Shebeen vibes with reggae DJ Dubhead and DJ A-Train.
Also on the night catch your host Jason Eli spinning the Groovadelica signature sounds.
And to top it all off, We’ll give you a free Havana Club Cuban ginger cocktail if you buy an advanced ticket from iticket express, or if you’re one of the first 100 people who pay entry on the night.
All this at a spanking brand new Auckland venue - Atticus (previously Morrison), 63 Fort Street, downtown, with impeccably clean toilets, a smoking area and great staff. How can you refuse all this for $10?
For advanced tickets click here
Address: Atticus (previously Morrison/Pohutukawa Bar) 63 Fort Street (off Queen Street), Auckland CBD Date: Friday 29th July Doors open at 10pm and close very late Band on at 11pm
Thanks to Serato, Havana Club, Red Bull and The British Council
Groovadelica featuring IG Cuture - 29July11 @ Atticus, Auckland, NZ from Zeus Productions on Vimeo.
New IG Culture album, featuring ID4 Windz, John Robinson and Bilal Salaam. This is Ltd to 1000 copies and comes in a heavy gatefold sleeve. TIP!!
With ‘Soulful Shanghai’ IG draws a lineage directly from the civil values of jazz musicians like Harry Whitaker’s Black Renaissance and Roy Ayers’ We Live In Brooklyn, to present day music styles via the rhythms of hip hop, electro, house, and other drum machine oriented genres.
“I’m an OG,” says IG. “It feels right to me to link the music from musicians like Harry Whitaker, Gil Scott Heron, and the Mizells. They should be household names, but the younger generation don’t necessarily know who these people are.”
Musically, ‘Soulful Shanghai’ mixes it all up while still making sense. Selected vocalists ID 4 Windz and John Robinson, both of east coast hip hop duo Scienz Of Life, Georgia Anne Muldrow conspirator Eagle Nebula, and New Jersey residents Bilal Salaam and K Banger lock IG’s skewed beats together. The hip hop swagger is punctuated by plenty of live jazz tracks, with dedications to the Mizell brothers and Harry Whitaker keeping the swing spiritual. Perhaps the centre-piece of the album is the live rework of ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’, with a 2012 lyrical update by Niles ‘Asheber’ Hailstones, reminding us that images of riots stay the same, and they keep happening round the world, round the clock, from decade to decade.
“The same issues are still relevant today,” IG says. “That’s why we did an update of ‘Revolution’. Same shit, different year. The sense of community and social values from that music is something I respect. At this stage in the game, if I’ve not got something to say then I shouldn’t be doing music, cause it’s not about the money.”
IG isn’t anachronistic though, and he’s quite happy to use the Internet to link up with like-minded artists across the Atlantic. New possibilities and opportunities are always to be embraced, and as the world gets smaller, it seems the same issues affect us all, as the sample of a newsreader on the track ‘Core Exit’ demonstrates.
IG Culture has been releasing music and albums since the early 90’s - that’s over two decades of craft under his belt. He’s no stranger to anyone familiar with groups like New Sector Movements and Quango, a multitude of hip hop and broken beat projects and labels like Mainsqueeze. IG’s blend is about more than the craft though. It’s about why music is important to society, and why we’re moved by it.
Soulful Shanghai is a continuation of jazz and the civil rights of Black Jazz and Strata East. It’s a continuation of the spiritual funk of the Mizell brothers and the spoken word of Gil Scott Heron. It’s a descendant of hip hop and the resistance of the Zulu Nation, a distant cousin of techno and Juan Atkins’ deep space explorations. “Soulful shanghai is a place you navigate, hopefully you find It somehow,” IG concludes. Keep on searching.
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