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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 


VTech and Mochilla present:
Friday November 6th, 2009



Live Performances by:
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble

DJ Sets from:
Madlib
Coleman
B+

The Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles Ca 90026

$15 presale :: $20 at the door
Presale tickets available at the Mochilla HQ's [4124 Verdugo Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90065] from 1pm-7pm + online at: www.ticketweb.com
21 + wiser | 9pm-2am

*for more information please visit: http://music.vtechphones.com



Dig Deeper...

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble are a family, literally. They are the heirs to the great musical tradition of Chicago. Their father Phil Cohran trained them from aged three to play hard, fast and together. They boast a fan base as wide and eclectic as Barack Obama, David Byrne, Q-Tip, Jay-Z, Erykah Badu, Jools Holland and thousands more. Now with the news that they along with Mos Def and drummer extraordinaire Tony Allen will form the new Gorillaz outfit, you realize that this is no ordinary collective.

The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (HBE), a band comprised of eight brothers, all sons of Sun Ra trumpeter and songwriter Phil Cohran, have been playing since they were three years of age and have inherited a lineage deeper than most bands will ever attain. Raised on the south side of Chicago, their musical heritage is rooted in their genes. They have brothers and sisters that are professional musicians, their mothers are singers and their father, Phil Cohran, a legendary visionary and teacher has music experiences from the 1940s in St. Louis to his seminal role with Sun Ra in Chicago in the 1950s.

As Sun Ra moved to the east coast in 1960, Cohran stayed behind in Chicago to be with his family. As his children grew, Cohran worked as a musical activist and educator, which led to the establishment of the Sun Ark in a warehouse behind their family home. At night while the children slept, they would hear their father rehearsing with his band the 'Circle of Sound.' At six in the morning, they were awoken to practice music for several hours before going to school. From an early age they were a central part of their father’s Youth Ensemble. At night they listened to NWA and Public Enemy, and Ice Cube and Eazy-E were their heroes.

By the end of the nineties, with everyone out of school, they concentrated on their music full time. With a mix of their jazz roots and their hip-hop sensibility, they made a living for themselves on the streets of Chicago. While performing on a subway platform, they stumbled upon their name when a man who watched them for hours, missing train after train, proclaimed that he has been "hypnotized" by their music. With their composer skills aiding them to create a sound wholly their own, the group moved to New York City where they played with Mos Def and Erykah Badu.

From a chance encounter in November of 2005, and support from numerous artists, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble has released an album brimming with musical magic. Recorded on the back of the Africa Express trip to Lagos last October, during a three-day stop-over in London, with the drummer's stool shared by Malcolm Catto from the The Heliocentrics, Sola Akingbola from Jamiroquai, and the one and only Tony Allen, and other musical luminaries Flea and Paul Simenon, this album is all that is cracked up to be and more.

In May 2009, Blur and Gorillaz's frontman Damon Alburn's Honest Jon label dropped the Hypnotic's first official full length studio album to accolades the music world over. With the sound, form, and structure in their musicianship and songwriting, the HBE have the ability to put on live shows that would put veteran bands to shame.



*for more information please visit: http://music.vtechphones.com

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Thursday, June 25, 2009 

Current mood:  inspired
VTECH AND MOCHILLA PRESENT THE AMERICAN PREMIERE OF:

Tradition in Transition

A Postcard From Cali

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Saturday, July 4th, 2009
DOWNTOWN INDEPENDENT THEATER
251 S MAIN ST LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

SCREENING AT 9:00 PM

Q & A with Quantic and Mochilla After Screening
$5 Tickets Available at The Independent Box Office


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[follow link to view trailer: http://vimeo.com/4204763]

Join us for the American Premiere of the forthcoming Mochilla/Sonido del Valle production, Tradition in Transition A Postcard From Cali. Shot in Cali and Buenaventura in Colombia. Based around the music of Quantic and his Combo Barbaro from their forthcoming Tradition in Transition album on Tru Thoughts Records featuring the talents of Will Quantic, Alfredito Linares, Nidia Gongora, Freddy Colorado, Arthur Verocai, Joao Comanche Gomes and Malcolm Catto.



MUSIC.VTECHPHONES.COM - MOCHILLA.COM - QUANTIC.COM - EDGARVARELAFINEARTS.COM

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3RD ANNUAL PEACE PROJECT AFTERPARTY

PEACE BEATS & QUANTIC!

An afterparty to launch the new album by Quantic and his Combo Barbaro
and the American Premiere of the new film by Mochilla.

Peace Portraits by Azul 213*
http://public.fotki.com/azul213/peace-in-iraq-photo

Photo Exhibition by: B+ and Eric Coleman

LIVE Performance by Buyepongo!

DJs QUANTIC /  COLEMAN / B+ / JEREMY SOLE

11pm | $5 at door | Cash Only
Entry is Free with ticket stub from Independent.
@EVFA 542 S. Alameda St LA, CA 90013

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Currently listening:
Tradition in Transition
By Quantic and His Combo Barbaro
Release date: 2009-07-14
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 

Category: Music





Presents:
T I M E L E S S
THE COMPOSER/ARRANGER SERIES:II OF IV

“Timeless” is an homage to the arranger/composers that have influenced hip-hop
in the most literal and profound ways. Hear what happens when these two worlds come together.


"A Suite for Ma Dukes"
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson & Carlos Niño w/ a 40 piece orchestra
+Special Guests TBA

Opening DJ sets by
HOUSE SHOES (www.myspace.com/djhouseshoes)
J.ROCC (www.myspace.com/funkypresident

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
7-11pm / All Ages / $32.50
*Presale Tickets Available @ TICKETMASTER.COM and The Luckman Box Office +1 323 343 6600
(Please keep in mind that this is an assigned seating event - in order to sit together
you MUST purchase your tickets together - to view seating chart please click HERE)


Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex
Cal State University Los Angeles
5151 State University Drive. Los Angeles. 90032




*for more info please visit:
www. vtechphones. com/timeless


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A SUITE FOR MA DUKES
by Carlos Niño and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

James Yancey (1974-2006), better known as J Dilla was born in Detroit. His work as a producer had a defining role in Hip-Hop. He produced hits for A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Common and Erykah Badu to name a few. At 32, he passed away in Los Angeles in the care of his mother, Ma Dukes of lupus related illness. Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson pay tribute to Dilla by interpreting his music with a 40-piece orchestra, Their EP, "Suite for Ma Dukes" will be released and performed live for the first time.

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*Presale Tickets Available @ TICKETMASTER.COM and The Luckman Box Office +1 323 343 6600


Suite for Ma Dukes - EP NOW ON iTUNES!


Miguel Atwood-Ferguson & Carlos Nino - Suite for Ma Dukes - EP


Fall in Love- "A Suite for Ma Dukes" EP


Upcoming Timeless Shows:

• Sunday, March 15, 2009 - Arthur Verocai with a 30-piece orchestra
Opening DJ sets by MADLIB and DJ Nuts (Brazil)
• Sunday, April 5, 2009 - David Axelrod with a 26-piece orchestra
DJ set by J.Rocc; special guests to be announced!

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*for more info please visit:
www. vtechphones. com/timeless

Currently listening:
Donuts
By J Dilla
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Monday, February 02, 2009 

Category: Music





Presents:
T I M E L E S S
THE COMPOSER/ARRANGER SERIES:I OF IV

“Timeless” is an homage to the arranger/composers that have influenced hip-hop in the most literal and profound ways. Hear what happens when these two worlds come together.

Live Performance by
MULATU ASTATKE (myspace. com/mulatuastatke)
with a 15 piece orchestra, including
Bennie Maupin, Trevor Ware, Azar Lawrence, Karriem Riggins and many more...


Opening DJ sets by
CUT CHEMIST (myspace. com/cutchemist)
QUANTIC (myspace. com/quanticmusic)
EGON (www. stonesthrow. com/egon)


Sunday, February 1, 2009
7-11pm / All Ages / $22.50

Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex
Cal State University Los Angeles
5151 State University Drive. Los Angeles. 90032
www.luckmanarts.org



Dig Deeper...


Mulatu Astatke is one of the most influential and important musicians from Ethiopia. During the 1960’s, he studied music abroad in London, Boston (Berklee School of Music) and New York. He then returned home to Ethiopia with a love of jazz and Latin music. Mulatu then remade the music he had learnt abroad through a distinctly Ethiopian frame - he called his music “Ethio-jazz”.

Mulatu is first and foremost a composer and arranger but also a multi-instrumentalist, playing the vibraphone, keyboards and organs. He is credited as having introduced congas and bongos into popular Ethiopian music. Ethiopian music didn’t have congas, they had to travel from West Africa to Cuba and then New York into the hands of a young Mulatu to make the journey back to East Africa. However, as Ethiopian songs traditionally focused on vocals his greatest contribution to the music of his country was introducing a new focus on instrumentation. His music veres from the sublime Tezetas to the most foot stomping funk. Since the early nineties Mulatu Astatke has been the center of renewed attention in the West. The award winning and invaluable Ethiopiques series by Francis Falsetto has shed a new light into a vital and amazing music scene that existed in Addis Abbaba before the disastrous Left-Wing dictatorship of the seventies and eighties. The composer/arranger of that era was Mulatu. He is a central figure in African Music in the way that Fela Kuti is. The influence of Mulatu’s music, his tone and sensibility can be heard in much of todays music. Cut Chemist, Quantic, Madlib, Kanaan all have felt the influence of Ethiopia on there music.

More recently his music became a central character in director Jim Jarmush’s 2005 independent smash Broken
Flowers with actor Bill Murray.
myspace. com/mulatuastatke



Cut Chemist has been recording and performing for over twenty years. His roots lie deep in hip hop as a founding member of the rap group Jurassic 5. Cut was also a member of the latin jazz/ funk outfit, Ozomatli. Cut has developed a taste for music and rhythms from all over the world while keeping his tradition for the hip hop approach. Cut’s released his first solo LP with Warner Bros Records - the critically acclaimed The Audiences Listening in 2006.

2007 was a pivotal year for Cut - he landed an opening slot for Shakira’s Oral Fixation tour. When he returned home he joined long time friend and collaborator DJ Shadow to headline the Hollywood Bowl for “The Hard Sell,” an eight turntable show using an eclectic mix of music all on 7 inch vinyl. While in rehearsal for this show, L.A.’s prestigious Walt Disney Music Hall asked Cut to be a part of “Pravda,” a concept night of DJs combining Russian classical music from the Stalin era with contemporary beats. There is no place that Cut Chemist is afraid to go, musically. “I’ll never lose sight of my roots as a hip hop DJ. It keeps me constantly inventing. I believe all music can be considered hip hop when its presented in a way that’s fresh to peoples ears.
myspace. com/cutchemist



Quantic (Columbia) -Since William Holland AKA Quantic's first album release in 2001, much ground has been covered. Over the last 8 or so years 12 full length records have given him worldwide recognition. When he is not producing music that continues to push genre boundaries he travels as a  DJ or with his band spreading his unique blend of Jazz, Latin & Caribbean rooted music. His track 'Mi Swing es Tropical' with Nickodemus further brought him to a global audience when it featured in Apple's tropical Ipod Advert throughout 2007. Shortly after which Holland moved to Colombia, setting up his South American studio 'Sonido del Valle' to work alongside a whole host of new musicians in Cali. 2009 will see the first release from his new band 'Combo Bárbaro' on Tru Thoughts Records. The record comprises of work with Peruvian Pianist 'Alfredo Linares' & Brazilian Arranger 'Arthur Verocai'.
myspace. com/quanticmusic



Egon - Eothen Alapatt, aka Egon, is Stones Throw’s general manager. At Stones Throw, he has produced anthologies such as The Funky 16 Corners and The Stark Reality’s Now. He has coordinated and/or A&Red for projects as varied as Madlib and DOOM’s Madvillain, Chrome Children, Tortoise’s Bumps and a bunch of others. He founded his own label, Now-Again in 2002 to focus on reissues of regional American funk and soul. Funk bands such as the L.A. Carnival, Ebony Rhythm Band, Kashmere Stage Band and Amnesty have seen their music released on Now-Again. Now-Again also represents catalogs that range from the superb Brasilian psychedelia to the funk and soul that Now-Again is known for. Besides all this he is still an in-demand dj world wide and writes a column for NPR online.
www. stonesthrow. com/egon

for more info visit: www. vtechphones. com/timeless

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Currently listening:
Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974
By Mulatu Astatke
Release date: 1998-10-06
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 


Madlib and Mamão are Jackson Conti




Jackson Conti on iTunes










(photos by b+)




For more info please visit: Jackson Conti's MySpace
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