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RED BULL PRESENTS THE BIG BANG:FT CHROMEO, CALVIN HARRIS, JAMIE LIDELL, DIRTY SOUTH AND TROUBLE ANDREW
The Big Bang series coincides with this year's edition of the Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona. Since 1998, Red Bull Music Academy has seen over 500 lecturers and 600 emerging music makers walk through its doors, studios and stages, with past annual editions landing in culturally rich cities such as Berlin, New York, London, Sao Paulo, Cape Town, Rome, Melbourne, and of course last year's edition in Toronto. This year, as the leaves are turning red, yellow and mellow, Red Bull will deliver an explosive harvest of supercharged sounds. The Big Bang: a concert series touching down in Toronto on the 9th of Oct at MUZIK featuring the 12 cylinder, all-sinister sounds of Chromeo, disco re-inventor Calvin Harris, more-to-the-floor soul pilot Jamie Lidell, late night beat-cookin' Dirty South and raw-lectro superhero Trouble Andrew.
www.redbull.ca/bigbang
www.redbullmusicacademy.com
Chromeo
Chromeo is Pee Thug and Dave 1: best friends since their adolescence, virtuoso musicians, walking hip hop encyclopedias, and the only successful Arab/Jew partnership since the dawn of human culture. After spending the three years since the release of their debut album, She's In Control, jet setting, globetrotting, and embarking on an overall sensual conquest of planet Earth, Chromeo headed back to their Montreal lab to put together album number deux.
The result, Fancy Footwork, is quite simply the most smoothed-out, hook-heavy, unabashed lovers' funk since Chromeo's last album, actually. Recently the winner of the "Dance Album of the year" at the 2008 Juno Awards, Chromeo has shared stages with Bloc Party, Justice, and Flosstradamus, and has had their infectious tunes featured in various ad campaigns as well as the "Need for Speed" video game.
www.myspace.com/chromeo
Calvin Harris
Calvin Harris invented disco. No, Calvin Harris reinvented disco. He was Marks & Spencers' champion shelf-stacker two years running. He made his debut album fuelled by chicken breast fillets. He knows the whereabouts of Alex Kapranos' secret studio-hideaway-laboratory-home cuz it's quite near his own place in Dumfries. Calvin Harris's debut album, with the subtle title "I Created Disco", cost nil to record, but delivers ultimate value. He fashions future-disko using an ancient Amiga computer and is, right now, (literally) knocking together a stonking live set using MDF and 204 samples.
www.myspace.com/calvinharristv
Jamie Lidell
No easy feat to follow up 2005's Multiply, which garnered many fans and an astounding collection of superlatives still ringing across the world. That album, Jamie's second solo, caught most of us off-guard. While the influences that infused Multiply are still present and correct on third album Jim, it's a bolder, more promiscuously diverse album, with Jamie restlessly shifting across gospel, disco and even folk, and that chunk of 'hillbilly funk' thrown in for good measure. Live in 2008, Jamie's been fine-tuning a band that can reflect the vibrancy and richness of the album, whilst allowing the songs to breathe differently each night. Its clear that the live Jim experience will be something very special indeed.
www.myspace.com/jamielidell
Dirty South
In a few years' time, Dirty South aka Dragan Roganovic has made an instant name for himself in the dance music industry, impressing the who's who of international DJs, producers, media and music lovers with his ability to dish up ready-made dancefloor bombs. As his trademark blend of beats inspires more and more house lovers from across the globe to sit up and take notice, the future is certainly looking bright down south.
http://www.myspace.com/dirtysouth909
Trouble Andrew
Trevor "Trouble" Andrew aka TRZA is a Canadian born professional snow boarder and inventor of "Crunk rock" (a genre of music created by mixing the musical influences of his youth). Recently Trevor and his band, the "Trouble Gang", have been on the road playing shows around the world and laying down the new LP in hotel rooms. They have shared the stage with the likes of The GZA, Justice, Rick Ross, Stiffed, Santogold, De La Soul, Mickey Avalon, Spank Rock, Steve Aoki, Wyclef Jean, Dave Navarro, Lady Sovereign, and many more.
http://www.myspace.com/troubleandrew
It's strongly recommended to purchase your $25 advnace tickets available through Ticketmaster, Play De Record, Rotate This, Soundscapes, and ticketmaster
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