Wednesday March 21st, 2007
Moonwalk + Neon present DJs:
Popstatic (Chicago)
Pocketknife (Brooklyn, Flagrant Fowl)
JUST ADDED!! ED UFO! (San Francisco, Thyne Eyes)
w/ residents: Rezound + Workweek and David Bruno
Happy Ending
302 Broome Street
10 p til...
1/2 price drinks til midnight
We are back with another edition of Happy Ending Wednesdays. My boys Rezound + Workweek and I are happy to present a very killer lineup this week!
Popstatic is coming in from Chicago just to do some damage to your ears...
You may remember 1/2 of Popstatic (Jarrett Spiegel) from his work with Chicago beat-electricians Walter Meego. Popstatic is his new project with his production partner Salva.
I'm going to let their Popstatic Press Mafia take it from here:
Popstatic is a production and djing duo composed of Chicago-based dj/producer Jarrett Spiegel (aka Popstatic) and San Francisco-based producer/dj Paul Salva (aka Salva). The two birthed the project out of a mutual love for disco records and all of the classic disco sound's varying offshoots. Through a nearly 15-year-old friendship, these two have grown together musically over time, despite their ever-increasing distance.
Growing up together in the Chicago area, the two shared a love for golden-era hip hop records at a very young age and remained similarly inspired over years of musical maturation and changes. Around 2000, Paul moved to Miami and began his head-first dive into the scene's bass and party cultures. Meanwhile, Jarrett was grooming his djing and programming skills as a college student in Kansas (with a brief, particularly inspiring, year-long stay in London). When the two returned to their respective homes (Paul in Wisconsin and Jarrett in Chicago), they both became involved in serious music projects. Paul's production was becoming a huge staple in Milwaukee's surprisingly strong hip hop scene while Jarrett's work with Chicago electronic pop band Walter Meego raised a name for him as a dj in Chicago.
Now, the two have begun the Popstatic project to finally combine their kaleidoscopic musical visions and ideas into one cohesive whole. With a production aesthetic that's designed to combine Jarrett's love for sampling dusty disco records with Paul's future-bent, bass-y hip hop production; the two should be making a lot of noise in 2007. Currently, or at least until they live in the same city again, Jarrett is handling the Popstatic live presence while the productions develop via net-based file sharing. In the meantime, they've got a pair of bootlegged mash-ups that they've completed and have plans to complete a few releases worth of material by the beginning of summer.
Myspace: Popstatic - Pass That
Salva has released music on Altered Vibes (a UK hip hop label that put out some of RJD2's early material) that he did with J. Todd and Epcot as Vanishing System. Other work between Salva and J. Todd is currently being pursued by Domino under J. Todd's Leo Minor alias, which is sort of a twisted pop act not unlike Gorillaz or Outkast. Domino recently put out a small run of white labels of their single "Don't Bring Me Down" - a banging hip hop re-interpretation of the ELO track. He's got a full-length in the works with Kansas City's MC Approach (who's past music has come out on Coup D'etat) and is also currently working on tracks with Rhymesayers MC and acclaimed battle rapper Mac Lethal. His tracks have been played on Solid Steel and Gilles Peterson Worldwide.
Its been a long time coming for these two but the Popstatic legacy, though in its infancy, feels ages old.
Pocketknife & Cousin Cole run the Flagrant Fowl label and DJ all over town (Cuz DJ'd for us back in November).
They just put out a new EP that looks be the hotness, keep checkin' Turntable Lab for its release:
Brooklyn-based DJ/producer Pocketknife just dropped his new EP with Cousin Cole on their Flagrant Fowl imprint. This sophomore release, "Tougher Than Featherz," features Pocketknife remixes of Arthur Russell's voice/cello composition "She's the Star", Suicide's "Ghost Rider" and a bangin' blend of R. Kelly's "Ignition" with Tone Loc's "Wild Thing." Pocketknife's DJing and production output typifies the eclectic philosphy of Flagrant Fowl Records.
