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
“In Europe, rhythm was seen as something “primitive”, “animalistic”, and characteristic of the music of “savages” and the lower classes. These attitudes still persist today: serious music is for silent contemplation, and dance music is largely seen as “entertainment for drunk idiots’. But the opposite is true: European classical music was developed precisely as pure entertainment for the rich, and dance music is descendent of the true musical and cultural heritage of our species.”
Saturday 6th of August from 9-12pm I will be rocking this fine 
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