Bryan Vargas, Musician :: 120 Seconds
Bryan Vargas hopes to shed some light on dark days by reminding us that anything in life worth having is worth the struggle.
Bryan Vargas hopes to shed some light on dark days by reminding us that anything in life worth having is worth the struggle.
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About Bryan Vargas:
Bryan Vargas & Ya Está invoke the spirits with the rumble of drums and the screams of distorted guitars. Rumba, Mambo and Son get electrified into a new school Latino groove. This band creates some serious party music, all while giving props to the Orishas.Playing a unique style of music they call simply "Afro Latino Soul", you can forget the pop stars, this is the REAL Latin music revolution.
¡Ya Está!, have appeared in front of capacity crowds at Central Park Summerstage, Prospect Park Bandshell, the Knitting Factory, SOB's and many more.
Ya Está's debut CD "Afro Latino Soul", produced by latin jazz great Arturo O'Farrill was released on June 1st 2004. You can hear Ya Está, and learn more at yaestamusica.com.
"...imagine Jimi Hendrix jamming with the Buena Vista Social Club If you believe that great music begins at a popular level, then you should listen to Bryan Vargas & Ya Está," - NY Newsday
"...infectious percussive assaults...that thump to a downtown funk undercurrent" - Village Voice
"Ya Está's music brought me back to my naked pagan roots..." - Un Chín Magazine
Links To Bryan Vargas: Buy a copy of Bryan Vargas & Ya Esta at The Love Shop yaestamusica.com launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/yaestalist
La Melodia, Musicians :: 120 Seconds
Amsterdam soulful hip hop duo, La Melodia, consider themselves world citizens who spread their positive message through their music and live shows.
About La Melodia:
Amsterdam soulful hip hop duo, La Melodia, consider themselves world citizens who spread their positive message through their music and live shows.
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La Melodia consists of female MC Melodee and producer I.N.T. La Melodia stands for warm, soulful but also raw hip hop music.
Their album "Vibing High" is out now in the Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) on CD!! "Vibing High" is available at all major record stores such as Fame, Free Record Shop etc. as well as in your local record store and on iTunes. Make sure you get your hands on this new album with fresh new art work by NEPR and 2 brand NEW La Melodia tracks!
Vibing High is an organic whole of raw beats, bossa nova and warm soul - with hip hop as a basis. ‘Music is all about vibe and feel’ is the main thought behind the debut, on which Melodee tells about her youth in The South, her love for music and more. The vibe is completed by the warm sounds of I.N.T.'s beats. Let us take you on a ride!
Links to La Melodia: lamelodia.com myspace.com/lamelodiamusic intworldwide.net
Check out La Melodia's show during CMJ's Global Hip Hop Throwdown.
D*Face, Artist :: 120 Seconds
D*Face meets a fan of his work who promises entry to the hottest clubs in New York City making this night out quite unpredictable and memorable.
D*Face meets a fan of his work who promises entry to the hottest clubs in New York City making this night out quite unpredictable and memorable.
About D*Face:
What now seems like a lifetime but is merely a decade ago I sat slumped at my desk, head on arm pushing a pencil round a piece of paper dreaming up ways to kill time and break the chains holding me to my desk, Monday to Friday each day became the same and I was eating my brain.
Then one day whilst dreaming up further ideas in the series of 'Ways to kill time' the pencil lines on the pad started to become characters, strange and dysfunctional they formed my dysfunctional world which had no rule. Slowly I figured the pencil could be replaced with a marker pen - the Pentel N50 to be exact - and the paper replaced with cheap vinyl which was 'acquired' from DIY stores, these characters once resigned to a life on paper filed in a folder under 'Not suitable for visual consumption' began to have a life of their own; adhered to lamp post and electrical boxes they plotted and linked my route home, one became 10 and slowly 10 became more than I can remember. Each evening and as much of the day as I could rob was spent drawing and cutting out stickers. Stickers became posters, posters became more ambitious... and somewhere in between I quit my job or maybe that was I got fired, either way the inevitable had happened. Like a river cuts it's own path, I'd cut mine.
This family of dysfunctional characters began evolve, they started to satirise and hold to ransom all that fell into their grasp – a welcome jolt of subversion in today’s media-saturated environment - the very same thing I'd grown up on. Bank notes were drawn and printed over and put into circulation for the unsuspecting to receive in their change, billboards taken over with public service announcements... I wanted to encourage people to not just to 'see', but to look at what surrounds them and their lives, reflecting our increasingly bizarre popular culture, re-thinking and reworking cultural figures and genres to comment on our ethos of conspicuous consumption. A Pandora’s box of bittersweet delights - sweet and sugary on the surface, but with an unfamiliar, uncomfortable, taste beneath.
This isn't the beginning, it's not the end it's happy never ending.
Links to D*Face: http://www.dface.co.uk