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!

EXPRESS EPISODE #1

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100B’s One Night Stand at Gallery 151

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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.

LEAVING: a feleciacruz video diary RELEASE + FIGHTING FOR FUTURES SHOW with EFFICACY DEBUT

LEAVING: a feleciacruz video diary  12.1.2009 – 1.4.2010 tracks my moves for the month leading to my life changing departure to Cambodia, I am SO lucky to be around AMAZING people and thrilled to show them all off here. I made this with the intentions of showing a bit more of my vunerable side opposed to just knowing me as the public face I put forward..

Efficacy is set to drop this Thursday March 11, 2010 at Back to the Future for Fighting for Futures at Bowery Poetry Club. Efficacy will be a follow up to Leaving, it will show what I’ve been up to the last two months here in Cambodia, besides sweating to death and eating great food.

I’ll leave you with some of my favorite pictures from this weeks photo class @ Krang Themy Village school.

feleciacruz.com has a NEW look!!

FIGHTING FOR FUTURES

IN BLOOM…

so this blog series is inspired by my own online experiences and usage, but also that of other sistas that I see working it and utilizing it to their benefit. Fiona Bloom begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting is one of those people. I watch this woman’s movements and the way she has embraced technology and social networking and uses it to promote The Bloom Effect, and I knew I had to get her perspective on what it means to be “Just A Girl..in this digital world”.

Fiona Bloom has over 15+ years in the entertainment/music industry and in 2007 launched The Bloom Effect, a unique one stop that specializes in branding for artists, labels, and lifestyle companies. specializing in launch parties, international music events, live shows, album publicity, digital marketing, A&R consulting, and promotion, The Bloom Effect has produced over 1000 shows, consulted on 200+ album projects and has been a part of over 300 artists’ careers.

with clients like The Lyricist Lounge, Tommy Boy, Spectre Music, MIDEM, StonesThrow Recordings, Mixtape Riot, Game, Simon and Schuster, Nelson George, Wayna, Roxy Cottontail and so many more. The Bloom Effect has always prided itself in having its fingers on the pulse and always being ahead of the curve and so I figured Fiona Bloom is definitely one of those who’s perspective interested me.

me: to start off, how much time would you say you spend online?
Fiona Bloom: I am online 24/7. If it’s not being on the computer, I’m with my blackberry at all times and it’s wi-fi connected even when I sleep. I mean – I do other things during the day like write press releases, make calls, maintain databases but tweetdeck pops up, I am doing emails in between and searching for music or video on the web so it’s constant!

me: what is your abso fave application for your own personal use? and for your artists?
Fiona Bloom: I just downloaded Shazam thanks to Keith Shocklee (Bombsquad) who hipped me to it a while back. Nothing like being somewhere- hearing a song you love and putting your phone up to the speaker and it recognizes it- song recognition- amazing innovation. Fave apps for my artists- damn I’d say any Iphone apps that help improve their art or make their marketing efforts easier.

me: and what site would you say would be a necessity for artists? (i.e. myspace, reverbnation..)
Fiona Bloom: As far as a necessity for artists— Reverbnation http://www.reverbnation.com is super important. Bandcamp http://www.bandcamp.com is great for putting your music up instantly and the fans can then share with their friends.
I still think Myspace is a good place to have your profile and music up if you don’t have your own site but at end of day- you should own your own blogsite and artists should be in the habit of live blogging, archiving their day to day experiences, touring and studio time.
YouTube – http://www.youtube.com every artist should have their own channel and shoot viral episodes/digital media at least 3-5 times a week if not everyday.

me: what do you see as the evolution of social networking?
Fiona Bloom: Social Networking is moving very fast- it’s all becoming Real Time Media and NOW. So we have to be quick on our toes as the next platform, social apps and technology is around the corner so if we sneeze or blink we’ll get lost. I believe that Mobile Social is just starting to evolve and pretty soon we won’t need our desktops or laptops and everything we’ll need is in our phone. All the apps, music, video, delivery, subscription, retail, anything imaginable will be in one place and mobile on the go which is where we’re headed.

me: do you think it is possible to spend too much time networking online?
Fiona Bloom: I absolutely feel like you can get overloaded, addicted to an app or network and be on it too much where it’s counterproductive or very wasteful. I have to catch myself sometimes because I am on Facebook or Twitter a little too much where I could be searching for new tools, research information, secure more press which is always a great thing and or go outside smell the roses- catch some fresh air-breathe- talk to people in Real Life not Real Time!

me: how do feel The Bloom Effect has benefited from the use of the interweb, ?
Fiona Bloom: I feel that The Bloom Effect has benefited from the Interweb as it’s been much easier doing business overseas- I’ve looked after several acts from Israel, UK, France, S.Africa, Holland and through the web it’s made things simpler in terms of not having to ship physical cd’s- sending secure links, communication via skype/email is free and efficient and I’ve actually been able to develop a growing reputation in those Countries without having to be back and forth. I find most my artists from the internet whether on Myspace, Twitter, Ilike, Soundcloud, etc; Also online promotion and marketing has really helped the façade and perception- people from all over the world think The Bloom Effect is this big agency when in reality it’s just a one woman operation with dreams to expand- I want offices in Tel Aviv and Shanghai – that’s my 2 year plan!

so there you have it folks! the word from a fan and avid user of technology, an industry maven making sure these tools are being used to the fullest ability. always with her eyes open for the newest and latest, make sure you keep your eye on her!

also, if you’re in NY, def come through tomorrow after noon and support Women in Hip Hop:

so, til next week, hope you all have a blessed one!