Friday February 10th:Soulphonetics presents:\\ Christian’s Quinceañero Banger. vol.2 ///It’s a celebration bitches, come out as we celebrate the lighter shaded half of Soulphonetics’, Christian Vera’s 30th birthday with some of Chicago best djs, an international carioca bass queen and an up & coming hip hop crew.————————————————live performance by:♥ ZUZUKA PODEROSA ♥(Brooklyn / NYC / Brazil)
Zuzuka Poderosa drops Brazilian bred, BK-based swagger like no other. A stylistic blend of Funk Carioca Bass and NYC rumble add a breath of fresh air to today’s international music scene. www.facebook.com/zuzukapoderosa————————————————SOUND CULTURE (Chicago / El Salvador)
Born and raised in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood DJ Sound Culture has always had a great affinity for world cultures and deep music. His passion for both has to a large extent laid the path in front of him for most of his life. In the dj booth DJ Sound Culture is somewhat of an ethno-musicologist or rhythmic cultural chemist of sorts, exploring the world’s sounds and finding the threads that tie us all together globally. From Bhangra to Balkan Beat, African Soukous to Latin House, he knows how to navigate your auditory senses. His live mixes are both dynamic and cohesive, whether you’re a world music enthusiast or dance floor regular, he keeps things interesting and moving smoothly.Accolades include: Twice featured DJ at World Music Festival Chicago – the longest running world music festival in the country, featured world music DJ at Folk and Roots Festival Chicago 2011, featured DJ at Nomadic World Music Festival 2010, Voted favorite dj by CHIRemezcla representing Chicago’s cutting edge latin music scene for the national En Tu Cuidad campaign.http://soundculturechicago.com/http://soundcloud.com/sound-culture————————————————“VoodooKiller” DJ NewLife(CHICAGO)
Born and bred in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, DJ NewLife was surrounded by music since birth. As the son of a musician/vocalist and an artist, he has always been described as someone who never fell into the modes of traditional thought. This carries over into his diverse brand of music and the styles of beats that just seem to choose themselves while he’s on the decks. As the creator of the Foreign Exchange party (FEx) in Chicago, he has helped to bring global music and presence to the forefront of Chicago night life for the past two years.http://djnewlife.podomatic.com/http://djnewlife.tumblr.com/http://soundcloud.com/voodoo-killer————————————————hosted by: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.comwww.facebook.com/soulphoneticswww.twitter.com/soulphonetics————————————————featuring performance by:PRESTON & JOEY PURPS (CHICAGO)

http://soundcloud.com/thewavegodhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRIK6Y9QQV8&feature=share————————————————BEAUTY BAR1444 W Chicago Ave. 21+ | 9pm-2am $5 cover.www.thebeautybar.com$5 glasses of champagne & $3 old styleAs per usual get a $10 Martini & you get a free Manicure!Hosted Jack Daniels Honey 9pm - 10pm w/ RSVP here;http://do312.com/event/2012/02/10/quincea%C3%B1ero-banger-vol-2more info at www.soulphonetics.com————————————————Big THANKS to our promotional sponsors:ESTRELLA NEGRA RESTAURANT www.estrellanegra.com


GOZAMOS www.GOZAMOS.com
CHICAGO URBANITEwww.chicagourbanite.wordpress.com
THE COMPLEX MEDIAwww.thecomplexmedia.com/blog
WORLD FUSION CHICAGOwww.worldfusionchicago.com

HOT TEMPER HOT SAUCEhttp://hottemper.tumblr.com/
ENCHUFATEhttp://enchufate.com/

Friday February 10th:
Soulphonetics presents:

\\ Christian’s Quinceañero Banger. vol.2 ///

It’s a celebration bitches, come out as we celebrate the lighter shaded half of Soulphonetics’, Christian Vera’s 30th birthday with some of Chicago best djs, an international carioca bass queen and an up & coming hip hop crew.


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————————


live performance by:
♥ ZUZUKA PODEROSA ♥
(Brooklyn / NYC / Brazil)



Zuzuka Poderosa drops Brazilian bred, BK-based swagger like no other. A stylistic blend of Funk Carioca Bass and NYC rumble add a breath of fresh air to today’s international music scene. 

www.facebook.com/
zuzukapoderosa


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————————


SOUND CULTURE 
(Chicago / El Salvador)



Born and raised in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood DJ Sound Culture has always had a great affinity for world cultures and deep music. His passion for both has to a large extent laid the path in front of him for most of his life. In the dj booth DJ Sound Culture is somewhat of an ethno-musicologist or rhythmic cultural chemist of sorts, exploring the world’s sounds and finding the threads that tie us all together globally. From Bhangra to Balkan Beat, African Soukous to Latin House, he knows how to navigate your auditory senses. His live mixes are both dynamic and cohesive, whether you’re a world music enthusiast or dance floor regular, he keeps things interesting and moving smoothly.

Accolades include: Twice featured DJ at World Music Festival Chicago – the longest running world music festival in the country, featured world music DJ at Folk and Roots Festival Chicago 2011, featured DJ at Nomadic World Music Festival 2010, Voted favorite dj by CHIRemezcla representing Chicago’s cutting edge latin music scene for the national En Tu Cuidad campaign.

http://soundculturechicago.com/
http://soundcloud.com/
sound-culture


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“VoodooKiller” DJ NewLife
(CHICAGO)



Born and bred in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, DJ NewLife was surrounded by music since birth. As the son of a musician/vocalist and an artist, he has always been described as someone who never fell into the modes of traditional thought. This carries over into his diverse brand of music and the styles of beats that just seem to choose themselves while he’s on the decks. As the creator of the Foreign Exchange party (FEx) in Chicago, he has helped to bring global music and presence to the forefront of Chicago night life for the past two years.

http://djnewlife.podomatic.com/
http://djnewlife.tumblr.com/
http://soundcloud.com/
voodoo-killer


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hosted by:
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


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featuring performance by:
PRESTON & JOEY PURPS 
(CHICAGO)


http://soundcloud.com/
thewavegod
http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=nRIK6Y9QQV8&feature=share



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————————


BEAUTY BAR
1444 W Chicago Ave. 
21+ | 9pm-2am 
$5 cover.
www.thebeautybar.com
$5 glasses of champagne & $3 old style
As per usual get a $10 Martini & you get a free Manicure!



Hosted Jack Daniels Honey 9pm - 10pm w/ RSVP here;
http://do312.com/event/2012/02/10/quincea%C3%B1ero-banger-vol-2



more info at www.soulphonetics.com

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————————


Big THANKS to our promotional sponsors:

ESTRELLA NEGRA RESTAURANT 
www.estrellanegra.com




GOZAMOS 
www.GOZAMOS.com



CHICAGO URBANITE
www.chicagourbanite.wordpr
ess.com



THE COMPLEX MEDIA
www.thecomplexmedia.com/
blog



WORLD FUSION CHICAGO
www.worldfusionchicago.com



HOT TEMPER HOT SAUCE
http://hottemper.tumblr.com/



ENCHUFATE
http://enchufate.com/


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 erosawww.soundcloud.com/zuzuka- poderosawww.myspace.com/zuzukapode rosawww.twitter.com/ZuzukaPode rosahttp://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=67xkdn3lpt8http://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=2Yva1wv08Vc&feature=r elated——————————————————☠☠ CHICO SONIDO ☠☠(Mexico / S.F. (Mas exitos / Sistema Local)
Originally from a Mexican small town in El Valle Del Yaqui, RaulEspinosa, aka Chico Sonido, discovered cut-and-paste music in 1995while living in London, when “Chemical Brothers were big and there wasall this music coming out from labels like Mo’Wax and Ninja Tune” hesays. The following year, he moved to Monterrey, and started DJing butit wasn’t until around 2002 that he began to do beat production andremixing and then, along with another Monterrey DJ known as ToySelectah, and a bunch of other friends, he founded the DJ collectiveSistema Local.www.chicosonido.comhttp://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=rGo72PmMDRE&feature=r elatedhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKGqDkw-M_w&feature=related——————————————————
☚☚ TURBO SONIDERO FUTURISTICO ☛☛(San Jose Cal./Mexico ( contradiscos)What do you know about tumbia? That’s what Roman Zepeda playfullycalls his take on cumbia, which he heard plenty of while growing up inboth East San Jose and Puebla, Mexico. After the video for DJ Shadow’s“Midnight in a Perfect World” inspired him to shed his teen punkaspirations and buy turntables, he began making beats and messing withdowntempo, hip-hop, IDM, and even baile funk before repeated trips toBersa Discos’ monthly Tormenta Tropical parties prompted him to gethis cumbia on. Last year’s debut EP, Turbo+Cumbia=Tumbia, is not to bemissed, especially its flip of DJ Shadow’s “Organ Donor.”www.myspace.com/turbosoniderofuturisticohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkJpIFK0e1ghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJyAJ-1yJAk&feature=related——————————————————♕♕ STARFOXXX ♕♕(Chicago / Outer Space)www.soundcloud.com/starfoxxxchicagowww.twitter.com/starfoxxxchi————————-————————- 
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.comwww.facebook.com/pages/PLANETA-AZUL/113041485383684
————————-————————-visuals by:✯ Vj Thai ✯(Mexico / Thailand / Spain / El Salvador / Media selectah / Sistema Local )
Vj Thai’s concerns have prompted an experience in undefined areaswhere disciplines merge video, music, art, MultiMedia, party anddance. Its various expressions are given in VJ sets, live visualperformances, live cinema, interventions, conseptual parties andexhibitions.www.blog.mediaselectah.com————————-————————-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 ——————————-
@ 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 #Moombahtonwww.soulphonetics.comwww.RATIOnation.comwww.myspace.com/soulphoneticsmusicwww.facebook.com/soulphoneticswww.twitter.com/soulphoneticswww.fmelchicago.orgwww.myspace.com/fmelchicagowww.twitter.com/FMELCHICAGO

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

—————————
—————————

☠☠ 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/wat
ch?v=GKGqDkw-M_w&feature=related

—————————
—————————

☚☚ 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/turbosonid
erofuturistico
http://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=DkJpIFK0e1g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJyAJ-1yJAk&feature=related

—————————
—————————

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

————————-
————————-

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/PLA
NETA-AZUL/113041485383684



————————-
————————-

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

————————-
————————-

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 

——————————-



@ 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/soulphonet
icsmusic
www.facebook.com/soulphone
tics
www.twitter.com/soulphonetics
www.fmelchicago.org
www.myspace.com/fmelchicago
www.twitter.com/FMELCHICAGO