TRI-CONTINENTAL 25.OCTOBER

LOCATION WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON DAY OF THE PARTY IN THE FOLLOWING SOCIAL MEDIA GROUPS:

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TRI-CONTINENTAL is devoted to the most advanced rhythm science from Africa, Asia, and South America.

During all of human history, various cultures have always traded goods, recipes, rhythms, ideas, and different peoples have always intermingled and intermarried. For millennia Africans, Arabs, Persians, Indians, Chinese, and Europeans did business and partied in metropolitan centers like Zanzibar, one of many such hotspots across the most vibrant exchange routes in the Indian Ocean. Until the 1600s, when the Portugese and later French and English, etc., choked off free trade by controlling all the major pots, and spread an ideology of cultural purity and ethnic essentialism, separating people into boxes — a process which has only intensified in our neo-liberal times.

Today in Berlin TRI-CONTINENTAL seeks to bring together people from migrant backgrounds and anyone interested in truly 21st Century dance music (rather than the same 50 years old Disco rhythm pattern), to enjoy real underground sounds from far away places, share ecstatic moments on the dance floor, build direct connections outside of the patronage and confines of state funded official institutions of liberal multi-culturalism.


The music we love is often made by poor people. While we do not agree with the occasional lyrical expression of violence, sexism, homophobia, etc., it does not stop us from playing the rich and meaningfully multi-layered music of the working class and under class, who are the inheritors of social dance cultures, the original collective sacred.

TRI-CONTINENTAL will take place at a sweet underground club in a popular nightlife neighbourhood, with around 250 capacity on the main floor, and 30 in the chill out area.

Because it’s an underground location, everyone must be very, very quiet while approaching and entering — we can not have any noise outside the door.

LOCATION WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON DAY OF THE PARTY IN THE FOLLOWING SOCIAL MEDIA GROUPS:

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If you have no social media at all, please send email to ngomasounds@gmail.com with subject: TRI-CON INFO

See you on the dance floor 🙂

Sound System Culture – on the radical roots of rave

Sorry for the short notice.

Tomorrow Friday my talk at 18:00 will be on the Insurrectionary Politics of Dancing, and dj set from 21:30 – 23:30 of Afro-centric Breaks and Jungle.

 

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“Understanding the sound system as a social space, we want participants of different genres and scenes (from roots, dub and contemporary bass music to techno/tekno) to gather and exchange.

In a colorful program of exhibitions, live-performances, workshops, talks, discussion and diverse music Berliners and international artists are entering into a dialogue and are actively shaping the event.

Exhibitions:
– Roots of sound system music & culture – including audio examples and open dialogue by David Riley (Supported by Mr. Glue)
– UK sound systems in the 90ies – photos and input by Ed Twist

Workshop:
– “Listen! Material and Loops – A hearing experience” by E.L.L.I.

Discussion Panel (FLTI):
– “Sound Systems, Rave Collectives and Gender” by Meetup Berlin & PRIZM:Berlin

Talks:
– The revolutionary essence of social dance by He Zhao
– Sound system culture, hardcore techno and the Berlin Fuckparade by Bianca Ludewig
– Sound System Cultures of the Black Atlantic: Angolan Kuduro by Stefanie Alisch (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
– Rave & psychoanalysis by Feli Concat
– Musique Concrète Jungle – spatial delivery research by Lukas Jakob Löcker

Performance:
A/V synth performance by SAOU TV & Kevin Koen

Music:
Benjammin
– Chantal
– Dj.Pult (do not dance)
dj zhao
– Feli Concat
Gretchen Bazooka
Hägen Daz
Jahminta Zulu
Jah Forcefield (Bademah & Zentash Gigawatt Dubz)
– Jukebox Utopia
Mila Chiral – live
– One Woman Army in Dub
Pmp Mzk alongside Tcp (Harlekinsound / Certain:Dubs)
– Smi
– Spiriel
– Aporia Barrage
Token

Supported by:
– VJ Flimmerkiste
– A-Sound System
– Triple P Sound System