The Diva in RES

Can’t be here for this wonderful event as I’m caught up in SXSW preperation hell but I do recommend this super highly!

Firstly it’s RES

Hosted by Amanda Diva .

Tomorrow- Friday, March 12th with special guests:  Pardon The Stranger, Mishal Moore and Oh My Goodness.

Presented by This Is Real Music- love their site- chock full of goodies and musical morsel treats.

On the decks:  DJ Metaphysic

North 4th Bar-  $15.00 w/ RSVP and $20.00 without!

Efficacy Premiere at Bowery Poetry Club

So the Efficacy Viral Video Series is starting to take off. Have some very exciting episodes in the works including some recognizable big names and some stalwarts in the underground!

Launched in early January this year and I expect by Summer to have a web partner to take it next level, sponsors/endorsements and 100 episodes of content- that’s my goal!

Very excited to bring the next episode as it will premiere tonight at Bowery Poetry Club.

It’s the anticipated Spills Vs Felecia Cruz. We’ll get to see footage of their work with the kids and Fighting For Futures live from Cambodia and other special treats/messages.

So get out tonight for a great show with performances by Eyeris, Kon, Eric Sosa and others. And…Felecia Cruz will be skyped in to intro the premiere– how cool is that!   Can’t wait for the audience reaction and feedback!

Episode #14-  Spills VS Felecia Cruz -  Tonight- 10PM- Bowery Poetry Club

Hosted by: Warren Britt, Jesse Abraham & Premonition.

Shouts to Angela McKenzie -Initiative Radio

Israel Represent!

We are very much at work here preparing for the tour ahead, so this is going to be a relatively short Juice this week. I promise to keep you up to date by liveblogging the tour as well as introduce you to some amazing new Israeli music acts upon our return to the Holy Land.

For now, let me just share how excited we all are to be going! Onili, along with DJ Shochat will be touring Miami, Austin, New York, and my homespot, Philly! All the gigs are going to be equally amazing, but of course since I’m from Philly…I’m most excited about this.

The gig in Philly is at my favorite spot, Silk City, with an amazing lineup! Performing along with Onili and Shochat are Plastic Little’s DJ Siyoung and Pfunkt.

SXSW has a HUGE Israeli representation this year! Along with Onili and Shochat, we will also be represented by Boom Pam, Soulico, DJ Mesh and Fiona Bloom favorite: Terry Poison!

check out the video from MixRevolution TV of Soulico at SXSW 2007

Another amazing Israeli act to see while in Austin is Boom Pam. Feel like bellydancing a bit? Check them out below:

and of course, we are all looking forward to TERRY POISON!!!!

If you are in Austin for the festival, PLEASE COME GIVE US YOUR SUPPORT!

We’ve made even more additions to the Onili/Shochat tour. Below is the present schedule, which we are still confirming details and adding more events so stay tuned:

March 12 11:30 PM Coco De Ville, Miami
March 17 12PM SXSW Purevolume Party, Austin
March 17 11 PM SXSW Club 115, Austin
March 18 SXSW Feat Soulico (venue TBA), Austin
March 18 SXSW Oleh Records Party (venue TBA), Austin
March 20 SXSW Feat Soulico, Beauty Bar, Austin, Texas
March 23 9PM Silk City, Philadelphia
March 24 4PM Best Buy, Union square, NYC
March 25 MIDNIGHT, Nublu, NYC
March 26 Webster Hall’s Studio NYC

For the tour dates of the other Israeli acts represented in the festival, please check their websites! (linked above)

Tonight, if you are in Tel Aviv you have two amazing options: Jackson’s Bar with Ori Shochat and DJ Loyal on the decks, as well as The Secret Project (Onili sideproject) performance at Rothschild 12. See you next week in Miami!!!!!

World Premiere: The MIZ METRO Show: UNLIMITED Episode #1 feat. Pharoahe Monch

Greetings everyone! MIZ METRO MONDAYZ on THE BLOOM BLOG is back! I have expanded my Miz Metro Mondayz blog into “The Miz Metro Show: UNLIMITED” !! www.mizmetro.com will be launching later tonight!

In the meantime this is a BLOOM BLOG EXCLUSIVE!! THE WORLD PREMIERE:

THE MIZ METRO SHOW: UNLIMITED Episode 1
featuring:-Pharoahe Monch-1HundredB’s “One Night Stand” Historic Graf show-Crosby’s “What’s it all about” Free style video
-100B Live Performance of Body Rock & more!

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Laura O’Reilly & Matthew Charof
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About The Miz Metro Show:

Miz Metro is a modern music media artist, one that embodies the power today’s artist can have in the creation and distribution of their image- as an art form in itself. With VJ experience conducting exclusive on camera interviews with Fab 5 Freddy, GZA of WuTang, Pharaoh Monch, Spankrock, Lady Sovereign and others, Metro decided to create “The Miz Metro Show: UNLIMITED” with videographer/editor Matthew Charof. Through the show she is expanding her presence & fan base by creating exclusive mobile content covering artists that don’t fit in a box. Miz Metro is creating a platform for original thinking artists to be heard, she is the voice of the underground and a conductor of magic on stage, in the studio, in front of and behind the camera. Being an innovative leader with an unwavering work ethic, has planted her firmly on the front lines of the digital media music revolution. Miz Metro Media is the future, and there is no turning back.

I’ll be headed to SXSW on March 17th, if your in Austin be sure to mark this in your calender! It’s an amazing bill w/The Beatards & Onili from Tel Aviv!!!

But before I head off to Austin I’ll be rocking out w/Crosby & Kosha Dillz at South Paw this Wednesday!

Tune in Next week for Episode 2 of “THE MIZ METRO SHOW: UNLIMITED”

FEATURING JOYA BRAVO, ART BATTLES, THE GREEN SHOW & MORE!

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Lizard Man is Fire

Travel and Arts journalist, Eve Hyman, writes about emerging South American artists from her hub in old Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Lagartijeando

At the crossroads of reggaeton and electronica, Lagartijeando’s cumbia makes a push for Latin desert folk and video game distraction alike.  On his version of “Kalima” the Lizard Kid rips apart Montreal producer heavyweight Ghislain Poirier’s track, reconstructing it with a desert playground sensibility – adding futuristic flash and unconventional sonic boom.

The Kalima remix is a cumbia effort, but Lagartijeando spends a lot of time with folklore too, local folk rhythms from Argentina and other countries of the Andes, where a wide range of drum patterns make a colorful palate for the beat maker.  Neo Bailongo is the producer’s first record as Lagartijeando, out on ZZK Records.

Raised on rhythms of the Argentinian backwoods, Matias Zundel dips his dance tracks in country folk gold where chacareras, huaynos, and vidalas two-step with jungle and electronica.

“Lagartijeando” is the act of being a lizard; slithering tongue, leathery skin, and dragon-like form in a compact package.  Tracks from Neo Bailongo feel like a conversation between contrasting characters, like extraterrestrial ethnicities converging at the club. There isaccordion laced with sonic bleeps and pops, dub beats with organ melody.  There are break downs where the starry desert sky battles the urban skyline.

Shaman chant and charango guitar loops are the backbone of Lagartijeando’s signature style.  Native voices are the backbeat to percussion and bass tracks with organ melodies combining cumbia and psychedelic noise.  Songs give deference to ritual and maintain respect for tradition while pushing the old into a cosmic space future.

Matias takes his cue from the shaman, human vehicle of centuries of wisdom. He song writes about the curative effects of plants, the connection between air and earth, the rhythm of land and sea.  Chants are harmonies that call down the spirits through trance and story.  When he borrows indigenous chant for a sample, he does so with obvious respect for its source.

The producer was raised on an audio diet mixed up with folklorico, cumbia tropical, drum and bass, and rock.  He hails from Dolores, a small town 3 hours from Buenos Aires where indigenous history and cowboy violence has been documented in folklore and gaucho song.  Sound effects blend with accordion and dub samples in a dance fantasy heightened by hallucinogenic plants. Afro-Peruvian call to drum evokes the Amazon, blips and bleeps turn that visual into video game landscape.

Lagartijeando desert landscape

Lagartijeando mines natural South American sounds at their place of origin and concocts his own blend of local sonic spice.  In Dolores where he grew up, a local gaucho would storytell with his guitar for hours by the campfire, then pass out from the effort.  Matias’ childhood was seeped in the rituals of the gauchos, nomadic figures, born of two cultures, accepted by neither.  Artistic curiosity sent him traveling, as he puts it, to find the center of the world.  First he went to Buenos Aires where he discovered electronic music with friends and nights out in the explosive club scene.  But he decided the center could be better found in dramatic natural settings.  (He hasn’t been to New York City!) He left Argentina and went on to Mexico, Peru, Guatemala and Bolivia.  In a mountain oasis he found what the shamans call “the other side of the mirror” and he recorded it, on his mobile studio.

Carnabailito, sayas, and roots cumbia were there in the mirror.  Fantasy and fable to be recorded and shared.  Step onto the Lagartijeando dance floor – desert covered in a storm of stars.  Stay up on future exploits from the Argentine artist who treks both Bolivian jungle and Oaxacan desert bringing new focus to far off inspiration from the gods of sci-fi pan-Latin dance.