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MARY ANNE HOBBS (Radio1 - London) w/ GONJASUFI, LORN & TAKE
Wednesday April 13th at The Baltic Room
Decibel, The 11:11 Agency and Mary Anne Hobbs proudly present, THE ROAD WARRIOR TOUR!!!
featuring...
MARY ANNE HOBBS : DJ - London
Radio1 / 11:11 Agency / Planet Mu
GONJASUFI : Live - San Diego
Warp Records
LORN : Live - Milwaukee
Brainfeeder / Ninja Tune
TAKE : Live - Los Angeles
Alpha Pup / Ghostly International
$12 advance / $15 at the door
Doors at 9pm / 21+
The Baltic Room
1207 Pine St, Seattle
:::: MARY ANNE HOBBS BIO ::::
Mary Anne left school at the age of 16 and went to work in an egg packing factory for the princely sum of £39 per week.
She quickly ran away to London with a hard rock band and lived on a bus with them in a car park in Hayes, Middlesex for 12 months, working as their lighting engineer, record sleeve artist, wardrobe designer. and mechanic.
Her great ambition was to become a music journalist. She figured the next logical step would be to produce her own fanzine Krush.
She sent a couple of issues along with a demented CV detailing her adventures to the Editor of Sounds music paper and landed a job with them at the age of 19.
At 21, having been profoundly influenced by snapshots of Metallica & Motley Crue, Mary Anne sold all her worldly goods and bought a one-way ticket to Hollywood, where she lived in a garden shed.
She spent a year as Sounds US correspondent in the dark underbelly of LA writing about the fledgling thrash metal scene.. Jane's Addiction.. Guns N' Roses et al
At Sounds Mary Anne met fellow teenager James Brown (legendary writer and publisher, not the Godfather of soul) who became a lifelong friend.
James moved to NME as Features Editor and when Mary Anne returned to London from LA, he promptly poached her to work with him at NME. Mary Anne spent three years on the newsdesk and also worked as a major feature writer there, writing cover stories on everything from Nirvana to Lollapalooza.
She went on with James Brown to form part of the original team he put together to launch Loaded magazine. She worked there as Music Editor, and also writing major undercover stories about private detectives, cocaine dealers to the stars and most notoriously a Soho sex club.
Mary Anne got her break in radio at BBC GLR on Sunday mornings alongside Mark Lamarr.
She presented groundbreaking shows on XFM for 5 years during their trail broadcasts, which helped to win their licence.
She was poached by Radio 1 in 1997 after a particularly confrontational interview with Radio 1s then Head Of Production (Trevor Dann) was bootlegged around the BBC and found the desk of the Controller of the day, Matthew Bannister.
Mary Anne's time at Radio 1 has been hectic she has hosted shows from all the major award ceremonies: Brits, Q, NME, Kerrang, Mercury Music Prize and made documentaries about artists as diverse as David Bowie, Slipknot and The Sex Pistols.
She championed comedy god Ricky Gervais in his pre-Office days hosted a movie review show with Mark Kermode called Cling Film founded and fronted the award-winning Radio 1 Rock Show for five years from 1999-2005.
TV there's quite a lot, M.A. hosted a season of live coverage of the World Superbike Championship for British Eurosport.. she made a series about global biker culture in India, Russia, Japan, the US and Europe for BBC Choice called Mary Anne's Bikes fronted 27 hours of live coverage at Glastonbury Festival for the BBC and has guested on everything from BBC2's Never Mind The Buzzcocks to John Peel's Record Box for Channel4.
Mary Anne can ride any motorcycle you care to park in front of her.
::: GONJASUFI BIO ::::
Gonjasufi (born Sumach Ecks, aka Sumach Valentine, ca. 1978) is a rapper, singer, disc jockey and yoga teacher from San Diego, California and currently living in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ecks was born to a Mexican mother and an American-Ethiopian father. He has been releasing music since the early 1990s among the San Diego Hip Hop scene, notably with the Masters of the Universe crew. Ecks gained notice from Warp Records in 2008 after an appearance on Californian musician Flying Lotus' album Los Angeles, where he sings on the track "Testament". His Warp debut album, A Sufi and a Killer was released on March 8, 2010. Ecks' voice was described by Pitchfork Media as "a scraggly, scary, smoked-out croak that creeps like the spiritual offspring of George Clinton and Leadbelly". He attributes his singing voice to his day job teaching yoga, where he must "project from [his] stomach more".
:::: LORN BIO ::::
Unafraid and unhinged, Lorn's music is exquisitely dark and ominous, simmering with anger that churns forcefully against a furtive longing. Yet Lorn passes far beyond this evocative brutality and plunges head first into the absurd; he draws not only a portrait of shadowy struggle but also arouses a dynamic universe of sentiments using deconstructed sounds and skills built from the ground up.
Lorn's debut full-length album Nothing Else, released on Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder label, has stirred the minds of listeners and rattled the keyboards of critics around the world, accumulating praise from musical authorities such as Pitchfork and the BBC, as well as bloggers and the online underground alike.
The Milwaukee-based producer hails from the future of music as do his Brainfeeder contemporaries, however this young artist also forges a connection between the current exploding beat scene and its roots in the experimental scratch community born many years ago. Sharing his music online with other explorers of new software technology, Lorn cultivated a global following with his original scratch beats and traveled to play in the UK, Europe and Canada before ever releasing an album.
At age 23, this art school dropout has already been making beats for almost a decade, and with the release of Nothing Else has moved his mastery of emotion to a new level. Influenced by the sounds of metal, drum and bass, ambient, classical, early hip hop, funk and the inherent pain of human existence, the music that pushes itself out of Lorn's head is uncompromising to the point of defiance, sharply reflecting his commitment to his craft that has inspired so many others.
Lorn, left behind no more, is an impassioned performer who commands the crowd, with a stage presence that parallels the extreme emotional output of his music. Expect no less than greatness from this artist; certitude and concern is a potent combination for the creation of beauty, and from the unconquerable will of one shall no doubt emerge profound musical experiences for many.
:::: TAKE BIO ::::
As the electronic music world lifts an interested eyebrow towards the West Coast's burgeoning "Beat Scene," Take aka Sweatson Klank has risen to the top as one of the new generation's finest producers. In a musical landscape that is quickly becoming overcrowded, Take fuses his own brand of future-flung electronics with elements of avant-garde jazz, subharmonic melodies and a mean hip hop bounce.
A multi-instrumentalist and frequency fanatic with ten years of releases and live performance experience, Take's formula is ever-evolving and his productions clearly sprinkled with his unique sonic vocabulary. Constantly growing, Take uses engaging melodies, non-linear development and a multi-strata slump to communicate a fresh feeling of movement in every track. Embracing his geographic legacy in the thriving LA experimental beat community but still very much his own player, Take makes music that charts its own course through a gurgling fuzz of rich layers and textures. His sound has always been about pushing forward, breaking ground and laying a new path for producers to walk.
Take's musical catalog includes releases for labels like All City, Eat Concrete, Circulations, Buttermilk, Poobah, Inner Current, Swedish Brandy and Astro Lab, as well as remixes and compilation tracks for the likes of Warp, Plug Research, Power Shovel Audio, Dublab, Circulations, and many others.
Take has been championed on various influential radio programs by the likes of Mary Anne Hobbs, Benji B, Giles Peterson, Carlos Nino, and Garth Trinidad. He has performed at the some of the most highly regarded club nights and festivals around the world such as Low End Theory, Sonar Music Festival and The Loud Minority amongst others. Take has also shared the stage with the likes of Flying Lotus, Ras G, Glitch Mob, SamIYam, Nosaj Thing, Kode 9, Busdriver, Mos Def, Prefuse 73, Mike Slott, Hudson Mohawke and more.
2010 sees the highly anticipated release of Take's full-length album, Only Mountain, on the highly acclaimed label Alpha Pup Records on April 20. High in psychedelic pulp and littered with gritty layers of electronic emotion, the new endeavor has been described as "a roiling pot of old school IDM, '90s R&B percussive elements, dubstep bass-derived doom, and ethereal melodies" by Chris Martins of the LA Weekly. In addition, Take will drop a 10" EP on All City Records, an EP for Japanese label Circulations and another record for Netherlands-based label Eat Concrete during 2010 -- quite the busy year indeed.
Describing his music as "rooted in hip hop but on a spaceship headed for a new and better placeÉsomewhere out there," Take may not know exactly where his beats will end up- but he is taking us along for the ride.
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LocationBaltic Room
1207 Pine St
Seattle, WA 98101
United States
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| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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