Friday Nov 30th - Planet of the Snares w/ AK1200 + DARA @ LSC

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presents...

Friday November 30th




Upstairs: Room One: Drum and Bass


AK1200
Moving Shadow / Planet of the Drums / Orlando, FL
Bluehost.com / MySpace.com - dave ak1200 - 36 - Male - ORLANDO, Florida - www.myspace.com/daveak1200
POTD
Weapons of Tommorow CD Release Tour!
As one of the pioneers of the drum ‘n’ bass sound in the US, AK1200 paved the way for this genre and is now paving the way for its future leaders with “Weapons of Tomorrow”
At the onset of the 90s, the club music movement was blowing up in Orlando, FL, where Dave Minner (aka AK1200), hails from. AK1200 immersed himself in that sound and opened one of the first strictly dance record stores called The Hottie Shoppe in 1990. The store’s opening was kismet, as it was responsible for introducing AK to a then little-known form of music: hardcore breakbeat or jungle techno, which is now known as drum ‘n’ bass. His devotion to this sound and its evolution is what made local legend, DJ Icey, crown him with the AK1200 moniker, saying he goes so fast it’s like an AK-47 on the 1200s.
After the jungle explosion came in ‘93 and ‘94, AK was quickly accepted by his English contemporaries and began writing reviews for the UK's Mixmag and was the first American DnB DJ to play in the UK on both pirate radio and in clubs. Around that time, he teamed up with fellow junglist DJ Jeffee to publish Junglized, a US national magazine which was the conduit for his being able to host the first all DnB event in the Southeast in September of ’95 and made him the first person to bring the #1 DnB DJ in the world Andy C to America.
In 2000 he teamed up with friends Dieselboy and Dara to create a super crew of the biggest names in American DnB called ‘Planet of the Drums’. The intention behind this formation was to bring their sound to the forefront of the dance industry. Before ‘Planet of the Drums’, there was no main stage for this music in the US, but the tour has served its purpose well; it is currently the longest running tour in electronic music ever!
Not being one to reel back effort after such success, AK1200 continues to impart DnB knowledge upon the masses, most recently with his forthcoming mix “Weapons of Tomorrow” which highlights tracks from virtually unknown producers from across the globe that AK deems worthy of carrying the torch into the future. In an effort to stay true to his aim of featuring undiscovered talent and contributing to the future of the scene, he posted a message on a DnB message board asking for track submissions and the response was massive- he received hundreds upon hundreds of tracks. After going through each track, AK selected 20 that he believed was representative of the genre’s progression. He affirms that each track “has the production quality that rivals most anyone else out there and if I were to get this tune off Dom or Dylan or Andy C, I would be playing them to death, so why discount these producers? Because they haven’t made it yet? That’s when I realized that this is exactly what the DnB world needs to create a bit of momentum again: all fresh blood.”



DARA
Breakbeat Science / Planet of the Drums / Philadelphia, PA
Breakbeat Science / MySpace.com - Dara - 38 - Male - NYC, New York - www.myspace.com/daralickt
DJ Dara / POTD
A member of the infamous Planet of the Drums crew alongside fellow drum ‘n bass pioneers AK1200, Dieselboy, & J Messinian, this Irish transplant has been a dominant figure in the U.S. drum ‘n bass scene since his arrival here in 1994. His discography includes 2 critically acclaimed full length artist albums, 8 DJ mix CDs, as well as numerous singles and remixes for artists such as Freq Nasty, Afrika Bambaata and Keoki. Dara co-founded the nation’s first & largest drum ‘n bass record store, Breakbeat Science, in NYC which doubles as his own imprint, Breakbeat Science Recordings. He has been featured in countless magazine articles and interviews both in the US and worldwide. He previously hosted one of the internet’s most popular drum ‘n bass broadcasts, Velocity, where he regularly interviewed leading drum ‘n bass artists such as Jonny L, Kemistry & Storm, Trace, Ed Rush, Optical, Hype, Andy C, Zinc, and many others. Dara’s long standing relationships with the world’s drum ‘n bass elite gives him access to an astounding amount of new and unreleased material. His brilliant recording endeavors along with his incessant touring markey by consistently awe-inspiring DJ sets have made him one of the most recognized and well respected DJs in the country.


MC DRE
VOTED BBC 1XTRA's #1 BREAKTHROUGH DnB MC WORLDWIDE 2007
Blackout / TEKDBZ / MySpace.com - ANDRE PARNELL BBC 1xtra Best Breakthrough MC 2007 - mc DRE - WEST COAST, US - Drum & Bass / Hip Hop - www.myspace.com/andreparnell / Los Angeles, CA



DEMO vs QUADRANT
Human Imprint / Barcode
MySpace.com - mista DEMO - SEATTLE, Washington - Drum & Bass - www.myspace.com/myspacecomdemo / MySpace.com - Texel of Quadrant - 27 - Male - Issaquah, US - www.myspace.com/texel



THE DOWLZ
Kaos Theory / www.Kaostheorydnb.com / MySpace.com - The Dowlz - 25 - Male - SEATTLE, US - www.myspace.com/dowlz


Downstairs: Room Two: Hip-Hop / Party Jams / Old School


FOURCOLORZACK
YO SON! / SING SING / 2080's / War Room
www.myspace.com/fourcolorzack / zSHARE - weekday_warrior_pt_2.mp3



DV ONE
YO SON! / SING SING / 2080's / War Room
MySpace.com - DV One - SEATTLE, Washington - www.myspace.com/dvone


9pm - 2am
21+ w/ ID

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The Last Supper Club
124 S Washington St.
Pioneer Square, Seattle

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Pics from the last time these guys were in town...

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This Friday!!!

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man. looks like your drum n bass scene is much bigger then currently in vancouver