EXCURSIONS @ SUBTERRANEAN
(20th installment)

Excursions welcomes one of the hottest dance music parties from New York City.. WEPA-NYC!! Promoter Joann Jimenez & Dj Antonio Ocasio come to town and unite with the Excursion crew!
Come join us as we experience the global soul sound together NY-Chi!

”..a journey through the diverse sounds of House music and its many offshoots. Tech or Latin, Afro, Broken-Beats, Jazz-Funk or Nu-Soul.”

Excursions is for all the music lovers and dancers. Come through listen to the sounds and dance to the vibe. Let the guard down, make it sweat, let it uplift, and let the soul dive deep in the groove of this Excursions…


Special Guest Dj: ANTONIO OCASIO (Tribal Winds Rec., WEPA-NYC )


resident sound selectors:
CORDELL JOHNSON | JAMES “JV” VINCENT

hosted by:
JOANN JIMENEZ (WEPA-NYC)
www.wepanyc.com

CHRISTIAN VERA (soulphonetics)
www.soulphonetics.com

CRYSTLE DINO & BOOGIE McCLARIN

Video projection by MARIA DIMANSHTEIN

$2.50 domestic beer
$3.50 import beer
$4 Reyka volka cocktails

Mixed CDs & some other goodies will be available to early patrons..

~~~ Every 4th & 5th Wednesday of the Month ~~~

Special event:
FREE!!! BEFORE 10:30p $5 afterwards,
Free your Mind, Free your Body, Free your Soul

See you on the dance floor!

Saturday Nov 26th 

SOULPHONETICS present:

♦♦♦DANCE SYNDROME

(last Saturday of every month)

Come and experience a night where your mind, body and soul will be throbbing and wanting more as we take you through the latin influenced experience of total coolness.

#Latin Jazz #Samba #Bossa #Break Beats #Baile Funk #Salsa Dura #Batucada #Afro Beat #Disco #Deep House #Cumbia #Dub #Reggae #Reggaeton #Tropical Bass #Carioca Funk #Moombahton #Hip Hop #NuCumbia 

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w/special guest dj

♪ ♫ ♬  CHICAGO SKYWAY

(Eargasmic |MOS DEEP | Chicago)

Patience is not the most common feature among up and coming producers these days, but for Sean Hernandez it was the only way. A Chicago native who joined its house scene in the late 80′s, first as a teenage party-goer and then as part of a DJ duo with his older brother, Hernandez learned the art of working a crowd for years before starting in on production. Once he did, he lavished attention upon his hardware, mastering the basics and absorbing every intricacy. It was only in 2007 that he began seriously submitting his music to labels both in Chicago and abroad, finding homes for his refined yet spazzy house tunes on M>O>S Recordings, Eargasmic Recordings, and Uzuri. Now that determined approach is paying off as people are aligning Hernandez, as Chicago Skyway, with part of Chicago’s house music vanguard. - (littlewhiteearbuds.com)

http://twitter.com/chicagoskyway1

https://www.facebook.com/ChicagoSkyway

http://soundcloud.com/chicago-skyway

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resident dj & host:

△▽ ⊿ SOULPHONETICS

(CHICAGO | MEXICO | BELIZE)

Soulphonetics is a producer/dj collective formed by Christian Vera & Caswell James that work diligently to push the soulful sounds of House, Hip-Hop, Jazz and all forms of Afro-Latin & Electronic rythms into the fabric of social consciousness. 

They strongly believe that music is an essential element of daily life as is the nourishment of the mind, body and soul.

www.soulphonetics.com

www.facebook.com/soulphonetics

www.twitter.com/soulphonetics

www.myspace.com/soulphoneticsmusic

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@ TAXIM

1558 North Milwaukee Ave

NO COVER!

9pm-3am | 21+

http://www.taximchicago.com/

www.soulphonetics.com

www.myspace.com/soulphoneticsmusic

www.facebook.com/soulphonetics

www.twitter.com/soulphonetics

Soulphonetics presents:
Friday November 4th
DISTANT PLANETS at DARKROOM
“a musical journey with the elements of live and electronica”

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featuring:

*THE OPPOSITION PARTY (live)
The Opposition Party is a ten-piece Chicago musical collective, centered around performance of polyrhythmic music, particularly the cross-pollination of African music, Jamaican reggae and dub, and American funk and jazz. Heavy grooves and high-energy rhythms come alive in a catalog that features music from artists like Ethiopiques, Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, Thomas Mapfumo, Jackie Mittoo, and originals that stir up all these influences and bake them into something new.
www.oppositionpartymusic.com
www.twitter.com/oppositionparty


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w/djs:

*SOULPHONETICS
Soulphonetics is a producer/dj collective formed by Christian Vera & Caswell James that work diligently to push the soulful sounds of House, Hip-Hop, Jazz and all forms of Afro-Latin & Electronic rythms into the fabric of social consciousness.
They strongly believe that music is an essential element of daily life as is the nourishment of the mind, body and soul.
www.soulphonetics.com
www.facebook.com/soulphonetics
www.twitter.com/soulphonetics

&

*SEAN HALEY
The Chicago born and bred, Sean Haley is a dj, producer, remixer and co-founder of the Windimoto Record Label. From Jazz, Blues, Soul, House & Afro-Latin rhythms.
http://windimoto.com/
www.twitter.com/djseanhaley
www.twitter.com/windimoto

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at :

darkroom
2210 W Chicago Ave
9pm-2am | 21+
No Cover til 11pm / $5 after

www.darkroombar.com
twitter.com/DarkroomChicago

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=245255092190719

http://oppositionpartymusic.com/2011/distant-planets-dark-room/

Saturday AUGUST 27th:
SOULPHONETICS | RATIOnation.com | FMEL 2011 present:

△▽ ⊿ A SPECIAL PRESENTATION of DANCE SYNDROME △▽ ⊿

△▽ ⊿ THE CLOSING PARTY for FMEL 2011 △▽ ⊿

w/SPECIAL GUESTS:
Zuzuka Power Tour 2011:

♥ \\ ZUZUKA PODEROSA /// ♥
(Brooklyn / NYC / Brazil)

 Zuzuka Poderosa is the new queen warrior of her own special brand of baile funk. Funk carioca, originating in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and which borrowed heavily from the Miami booty bass movement, is just the starting place of her sound. Born in Vitoria, Brazil, Zuzuka grew up in Rio, with her formative years spent in the West Indies. She later moved to Brooklyn, NYC to study jazz vocal improvisation and work at her poetry. For the past few years, she’s been building up the underground bailefunk, moombahton and tropical bass scene in New York as a DJ, host and bartender. Currently working on her debut EP, she collaborates with producers from all over the world who mix the past with the future in sur americal-cosmic new ways. She raps and sings in Portuguese, Spanish and English, musing provocatively and sarcastically over boomy electric kick drums and Latin percussion. She makes Carioca Bass music. ‘Interracial musical babies’ all her own. Her sound is fierce and fun, conjuring images of hot summer dance parties on gritty Brooklyn rooftops or up in the hills overlooking the sea. Recently in PRI’s The World, MTV Iggy’s ‘Bands We Like’, and NPR Alt.Latino’s ‘Spotlight’. Zuzuka’s last project with Sonora of Texas’ Peligrosa camp, ‘Sonora Remixes: Zuzuka Poderosa,’ was critically acclaimed around certain underground tropical bass movements.

www.facebook.com/zuzukapod erosa
www.soundcloud.com/zuzuka- poderosa
www.myspace.com/zuzukapode rosa
www.twitter.com/ZuzukaPode rosa

http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=67xkdn3lpt8
http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=2Yva1wv08Vc&feature=r elated

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☠☠ CHICO SONIDO ☠☠
(Mexico / S.F. (Mas exitos / Sistema Local)

Originally from a Mexican small town in El Valle Del Yaqui, Raul
Espinosa, aka Chico Sonido, discovered cut-and-paste music in 1995
while living in London, when “Chemical Brothers were big and there was
all this music coming out from labels like Mo’Wax and Ninja Tune” he
says. The following year, he moved to Monterrey, and started DJing but
it wasn’t until around 2002 that he began to do beat production and
remixing and then, along with another Monterrey DJ known as Toy
Selectah, and a bunch of other friends, he founded the DJ collective
Sistema Local.

www.chicosonido.com
http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=rGo72PmMDRE&feature=r elated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKGqDkw-M_w&feature=related

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☚☚ TURBO SONIDERO FUTURISTICO ☛☛
(San Jose Cal./Mexico ( contradiscos)

What do you know about tumbia? That’s what Roman Zepeda playfully
calls his take on cumbia, which he heard plenty of while growing up in
both East San Jose and Puebla, Mexico. After the video for DJ Shadow’s
“Midnight in a Perfect World” inspired him to shed his teen punk
aspirations and buy turntables, he began making beats and messing with
downtempo, hip-hop, IDM, and even baile funk before repeated trips to
Bersa Discos’ monthly Tormenta Tropical parties prompted him to get
his cumbia on. Last year’s debut EP, Turbo+Cumbia=Tumbia, is not to be
missed, especially its flip of DJ Shadow’s “Organ Donor.”

www.myspace.com/turbosoniderofuturistico
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJpIFK0e1g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJyAJ-1yJAk&feature=related

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♕♕ STARFOXXX ♕♕
(Chicago / Outer Space)
www.soundcloud.com/starfoxxxchicago
www.twitter.com/starfoxxxchi

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special dance performance:

★★★ AXE AZUL ★★★
(Passistas Dance)

Axe Azul is Planeta Azul’s latest project under the direction of Yaasha Abraham (Dance Director - Passistas) and Tania Daley (Core Company Member - Passistas). Axe Azul is the complement to Passistas’ Carnaval style, showing the other side of Brazil’s popular dance culture primarily through the performance of axe choreography and other genres such as funk carioca. With the vibrant energy that we bring to every performance, our audiences will know that in Brazil, Carnaval is not the only reason to celebrate life!

www.PlanetaAzulChicago.com
www.facebook.com/pages/PLANETA-AZUL/113041485383684

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visuals by:
✯ Vj Thai ✯
(Mexico / Thailand / Spain / El Salvador / Media selectah / Sistema Local )

Vj Thai’s concerns have prompted an experience in undefined areas
where disciplines merge video, music, art, MultiMedia, party and
dance. Its various expressions are given in VJ sets, live visual
performances, live cinema, interventions, conseptual parties and
exhibitions.
www.blog.mediaselectah.com

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host & resident djs:

♫ ♫ SOULPHONETICS ♫ ♫
(Chicago / Mexico / Belize)

Soulphonetics is a producer/dj collective formed by Christian Vera & Caswell James that work diligently to push the soulful sounds of House, Hip-Hop, Jazz and all forms of Afro-Latin & Electronic rythms into the fabric of social consciousness. 
They strongly believe that music is an essential element of daily life as is the nourishment of the mind, body and soul.


#Latin Jazz #Samba #Bossa #Break Beats #Baile Funk #Salsa Dura #Batucada #Afro Beat #Disco #Deep House #Cumbia #Dub #Reggae #Reggaeton #Tropical Bass #Carioca Funk #Moombahton 

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@ TAXIM

1558 North Milwaukee Ave

$5 with promo text

$7 without promo text 

9pm - 3am | 21+

http://www.taximchicago.com

Come and experience a night where your mind, body and soul will be throbbing and wanting more as we take you through the latin influenced experience of total coolness.

#Latin Jazz #Samba #Bossa #Break Beats #Baile Funk #Salsa Dura #Batucada #Afro Beat #Disco #Deep House #Cumbia #Dub #Reggae #Reggaeton #Tropical Bass #Carioca Funk #Moombahton

www.soulphonetics.com
www.RATIOnation.com
www.myspace.com/soulphoneticsmusic
www.facebook.com/soulphonetics
www.twitter.com/soulphonetics
www.fmelchicago.org
www.myspace.com/fmelchicago
www.twitter.com/FMELCHICAGO

Soulphonetics presents:

Saturday JULY 30th:
DANCE SYNDROME 
(last Saturday of each month, latin influenced party)

Come and experience a night where your mind, body and soul will be throbbing and wanting more as we take you through the latin influenced experience of total coolness.

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w/guest djs:
KENNEDY ASHINZE (the mashup)

SELECT INVERSE

http://soundcloud.com/sele​ctinverse/opening-set-at-e​mpty-bottle-03

live performance by:
THE COLOR BROWN (ruben borrero)
http://soundcloud.com/thec​olorbrown/mejor-que-tu-fea​t-sousa

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Host & Resident djs:
SOULPHONETICS: (caswell james & christian vera)

#Latin Jazz #Samba #Bossa #Break Beats #Baile Funk #Salsa Dura #Batucada #Afro Beat #Disco #Deep House #Cumbia #Dub #Reggae #Reggaeton #Tropical Bass #Carioca Funk #Moombahton 

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@ BUTTERFLY SOCIAL CLUB
722 w. Grand ave.
No Cover | 9pm - 3am | 21+

www.soulphonetics.com
www.myspace.com/soulphonet​icsmusic
www.facebook.com/soulphone​tics
www.twitter.com/soulphonet​ics
www.twitter.com/selectinve​rse
www.twitter.com/butterflyB​SC

SUNDAY JULY 10th 

COSMIC SOUL SUNDAYS

Come unfurl your concrete knowledge on politics, share your thoughts on politics, emotions, love and beyond! Cosmic Soul Sunday will take you to higher ground with a mix of sweet sounds, and the open mic is guaranteed to enlighten the collective consciousness.



*OPEN MIC & POETRY SESSION: 7p-10p
sign up early or email us at soulphonetics_music@yahoo. com to register.


**Deep House Music : 10p-2a


A Deep House music night where all the elements and influences come and generate a positive vibe. From NuJazz, latin, afro, breaks and anything that will make you and your soul rise above your spiritual clouds…

Sound selctors:

SOULPHONETICS & guest

Hosted by: 
*RUBEN BORRERO (the color brown

Photos by:
*Fernando Xavier Chavarria

No Cover | 7p-2a | 21+

TUES JUNE 21st 

MAKE MUSIC CHICAGO FESTIVAL

Grand Finale featuring djs SOULPHONETICS 

Outside of St. James Cathedral: Rush St. & Huron St. 

at 8:15pm sharp! 

SOULPHONETICS will be the only djs representing at this wonderful all day event in CHICAGO.
We will represent the house community to the fullest, afro-latin, jazz & soul.

Soulphonetics will be closing out the St James Plaza location as part of the GRAND FINALE!!

please come out to support and to have a good time. Lots of amazing talents to be showcased all day.


full schedule and full details on the official site:
http://www.makemusicchicago.com/

Make Music Chicago is a live, one-day music festival on the first day of summer that celebrates the ability of everyone to make music.

People of all ages, music of all genres, and amateurs, part-time professionals, and marquee artists will gather throughout the day in Chicago’s public spaces to engage in spontaneous music making. The festival is completely free for musicians and audience alike.

Make Music Chicago is inspired by France’s “Fête de la Musique,” a national musical holiday marking its 30th anniversary this year. Since 1982, “Fête de la Musique” has become an international phenomenon, taking place on June 21 in more than 460 cities in 110 countries, including Germany, Italy, Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Australia, Vietnam, Congo, Cameroon, Fiji, Colombia, Chile, Nepal, and Japan. 

ok since it isnt then come out tonight…

COSMIC SOUL 

at:

The Butterfly Social Club.

well have the Bulls game also.

did I mention an open mic?

ooh and pretty dope music from us? (deep afro latin disco house music…)

NO COVER!

We open at 6pm…bring some food well provide (sell) the drinks.

vaya con dios,

SOULPHONETICS

ooops…read below some of the details are different ;) (well still have the bulls game)

Come unfurl your concrete knowledge on politics, share your thoughts on politics, emotions, love and beyond! Cosmic Soul Sunday will take you to higher ground with a mix of sweet sounds, and the open mic is guaranteed to enlighten the collective consciousness.

*OPEN MIC & POETRY SESSION: 7p-10p
**Deep House Music : 10p-2a


A Deep House music night where all the elements and influences come and generate a positive vibe. From NuJazz, latin, afro, breaks and anything that will make you and your soul rise above your spiritual clouds…

Hosted by: 
*RUBEN BORRERO (the color brown)

w/resident djs:
*CHRISTIAN VERA (soulphonetics) 
*CASWELL JAMES (soulphonetics) 

BUTTERFLY SOCIAL CLUB
722 w. Grand ave.
No Cover | 7p-2a | 21+

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