Event
Hit The Floor! Breakestra Live! with Cut Chemist and Ohmega Watts
Friday, December 16 2005
Fresco, Massive Selector and On the Corner presents:
Hit the Floor
starring:
Breakestra Live!
Cut Chemist
Ohmega Watts
Us Bay Areans all love the true LA live hiphop scene with it's organic sound and flavor. So FRESCO, MASSIVE SELECTOR and ON THE CORNER are bringing a heavy dose of that good shtuff up to the BAY with HIT THE FLOOR!, THE BREAKESTRA ALBUM RELEASE PARTY. HIT THE FLOOR! is THE BREAKESTRA's latest album on Ubiquity and we'll be celebrating it's release at the DNA LOUNGE on December 16 featuring an unbelievable live performance by the 10 piece band everyone knows as THE BREAKESTRA. Joining the celebration will be rare performances by hiphop heavyweights CUT CHEMIST and OHMEGA WATTS to lay it down for this all-star showcase... FRESH COAST style!
ABOUT BREAKESTRA
Break. As in " breakbeat ." That ten second slice of percussive magic in the middle of a funk song that, when looped together by progressive South Bronx DJs in the 1970s, became the basis of the hip-hop movement. Arkestra . Out-there jazzer Sun Ra's funkafied concept of the stuffy classical orchestra. Flip the script and you wind up with a unique definition of the 10 piece, Los Angeles based ensemble known as The Breakestra . The Breakestra was born as the result of a vision by bassist/guitarist/upright cellist/producer Miles Tackett. In 1996, Tackett more actively embraced his role as cultural preservationist. As part of the original crew that produced LA's weekly coffeehouse series The Breaks, Tackett spun records by The Meters, Kool & The Gang and The JB's . But he was a musician before he was a DJ. Why not assemble a band to rock the breaks he loved? A band that could interpolate and interpret that glorious funk for the hip-hop generation?
Led by Tackett, the band that became The Breakestra came together: Josh "Wallet" Cohen on drums, Geoff "Double G" Gallegos on sax and flute, Todd Simon and Paul Vargas on trumpet, Dan Osterman on trombone, Carlos Guaico on keys, Davy Chegwidden on percussion, Dan Ubick on guitar, Soulsister Demya and Mixmaster Wolf on vocals and Tackett himself on bass, upright cello and vocals. The world got a taste of The Breakestra flavor when the band dropped their debut " Getcho Soul Togetha " on Stones Throw Records in the summer of 1999. Deep funk DJs like England's Keb Darge and Ian Wright and NYC's heavy-duty soulster Kenny Dope quickly picked up on the accessible slab of JB tinged excitement - on which the multitalented Tackett plays drums, bass and guitar! And The Breakestra has earned the respect of the funk artists whose music inspires them. They've played with The Arkestra . At a recent show in Nashville, Tennessee they played alongside legends Galt MacDermot , Bernard "Pretty" Purdie and Wilbur "Bad" Bascomb . MacDermot , composer of the musical HAIR, gushes "These guys do have it
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LocationDNA Lounge
375 Eleventh Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
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