DJ Zhao brings the best contemporary and classic dance music together from all five continents, with focus on Africa. With in depth selections spanning wildly different times and places, DJ Zhao’s remix and mashup work directly connects "East" and "West", acoustic and electronic, traditional and hyper-modern. Amateur ethno-musicologist and professional booty shaker, Zhao is an International Ambas...sador of BASS not only talking about, but demonstrating through raw sound experience, the underlying unity of all earth cultures.
Performing solo and as part of Ngoma Sound-system with Cuban Trumpeter El Congo (Tony Allen, Jimmy Tennor) and various amazing Percussionists, DJ Zhao brings unique perspectives and vision to every event, and has performed or shared bills with artists such as Shangaan Electro, Konono No. 1 (Congo), Rhythm and Sound (DE), Cooly G (UK), Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou (Benin), Shackleton (UK), Pan Sonic (Finland), etc.
Born and Raised in Beijing, China, and active as DJ and sound curator in the US since 2000, Zhao has organized critically acclaimed long running events focusing on Improvisation and Sound Art as well as Techno. After relocating to Berlin, Germany, and starting the Ngoma collective, Zhao has been performing regularly at clubs and festivals including:
FESTIVALS:
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Fusion Festival (DE)
EXIT Festival (Serbia)
Incubate Festival (NL)
Solar Weekend Festival (NL)
Ethnoport Festival (PL)
[UN]Defined Festival (Merano, Italy)
AT.Tension Festival (Berlin, DE)
CLUBS:
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Berghain (Berlin, DE)
Horst (Berlin, DE)
Cassiopeia (Berlin, DE)
Jackie Terrasse (Berlin, DE)
YAAM (Berlin, DE)
Klub K (Heidelberg, DE)
UT Connewitz (Leipzig, DE)
Palác Akropolis (Prague, CZ)
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booking: ngomasound [at] gmail [dot] com
Friday 04 May Dj Zhao will will be delivering music of the drums all night long as part of Treffpunkt Afrika at Strom in beautiful Linz. True Rhythm Culture doesn’t actually give a shit about being hip because it invented hip, is the very definition of hip, has been and will always be hip, even after all the world’s hip have become died and gone to square heaven. The following night Fokn Bois and Dala Dala Sound are playing.
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