Date: May 26, 2004
Subject: Futureworldsyncopation: Updates from Beleza-Music.org

Hi everyone, bunch of updates on dj99 and all things Beleza,
based in Philly, bringing you the world:

Summary for the free-time-impaired:
* Intimate conversation with Titonton up on Beleza-music.org
* 99 @ L'Etage, Phila, tonight
* 99 on WRSU 88.7fm, Rutgers University (www.wrsu.org) Thursday 6:15am
* 99 @ Big City, Raleigh/Durham, NC & WXDU 88.7fm Fri June 4
* 99 on WKDU Drexel University: Thanks, Jenn!
* Puerto Rico: Borinquen, que linda eres!!
* Detroit, anyone?
* Chart

Details:

An intimate conversation with the brilliant mind of a Titonton Duvante is now up on www.beleza-music.org/profiles. How's this for a teaser:

Welcome to the smoky, sultry, razor-sharp mind of one Titonton Duvante. Francophile, mathemetician, and world-travelling, mixer-destroying don of Residual Records, his musical history reaches back an easy 15 years into the early days of minimal techno, through mazes of drum and bass, and emerges out the other side of the wormhole smack in the middle of a cosmic intersection of techno, jazz, turntablism, and broken up sliced down fractured, splintered beats. Oh, and sex...there's a hella lotta sex.

Ok, so what the hell does techno have to do with drum and bass, what does minimalism have to do with sex, and what does French have to do with Math? And how does this all come together in a place like Columbus, Ohio, in a guy who is half Ireland and half Ivory Coast? Man, I spent weeks trying to figure it out. Walk with me while we scratch the surface...

And speaking of Irish Afros, Upcoming profile: A quite candid chat with Ayro. Soon come!

Tonight in Philly:
Talk! with guest 99 @ L'Etage, upstairs from Beau Monde, 6th and Bainbridge You know the deal..Good vibes, music, connecting...whatever's hot & right!

Featuring Edwin spinning QUALITY choice music
Special Guest this week: DJ 99 [Beleza-music.org] spinnig TOP SHELF dance music!

9pm - 2am
L'etage [6th & Bainbridge]
Drink Specials!
Very relaxed non-pretentious vibe.
COME BY EARLY!!!

Tomorrow morning bright and early on WRSU 88.7fm from Rutgers University: So I'm taking the train to New Brunswick and I had to fight the conductor (and lost)...you've been there: you have 30 seconds to buy a ticket between trains and the machine spits out your cash like sour milk and the train is leaving and you run and just make it like Indiana Frickin Jones and then you have to pay the extra $5 bucks b/c The System is obviously stacked against you and the conductor has heard every story and you're just not going to win.

So I'm getting off the train and this guy comes at me all confrontational saying, "I had a ticket. I would have sold it to you." Who is this guy? I stare blankly. "What?" "I said I had a ticket. I would have given you one." Still baffled. "Well, why didn't you?" "I didn't know you needed it." "What? Who are you? Why do you look familiar? What are you doing with 2 bags of records?" "I'm Maddtronix. I have a show on WRSU Rutgers. Who are you?" "I'm 99. I'm a dj too. I've played up here. Do you know so-and-so?" Of course we knew half the same people, I gave him a cd, and boom, my Irrational Exuberance mix is going to be played on WRSU, 88.7fm in the central Jersey area (www.wrsu.org) around 6:15am. So tune in if you're up at such an ungoddessly hour.

Fri June 4: 99 @ Big City, Raleigh Durham, NC
Next week I'm off to the dirty south to play with some great new friends.

My buddy Cooper, the man behind Urban Renewal Records and kick-ass dj who just released an amazing mix cd off all original US artists, does a fabulous 2-Step/garage/broken night and is having a crew of us hoodlums on turntables and instruments start the summer off right. Details below, and the following night, I think I am also pitching in on a party to celebrate a documentary on Capoeira made by my friend Porangui, a superb DJ and percussionist, currently living in Puerto Rico, playing in Osunlade's band, and running Yoruba Records while the boss is on the road. It's going to be a big, broken, Brazilian bashment in RDU! Joni, Porangui and I are still vibrating from 10 days we got to hang out together in Puerto Rico, talking, vibing and making music, so the energy is going to be fantastic. If you're in the area, peep it. I guarantee it's going to be a blast. I'm also hitting Cooper's radio show on WXDU 88.7fm, 8-10pm.

"After a wonderful time celebrating North Carolina at Big City: Collards & BBQ, we at Urban Renewal are proclaiming our love for summertime, and what's more summery than house and garage? How about brazilian-flavored broken beat and live musicians?

Urban Renewal Records presents:
BIG CITY: SUMMER LOVE
feat. DJs:
99 (http://www.beleza-music.org, Philadelphia PA)
Rob Rousseau (The Resonance Project, Raleigh NC)
Cooper (Urban Renewal Records, WXDU 88.7 FM)

and instrumentalists!
Joni Love (http://www.dulcesound.com, NJ)
The Applejuice Kid (http://www.theapplejuicekid.com)

See www.beleza-music.org/events for full details.

Much love to Jenn Louie for having me on her show on WKDU 91.7fm once again
last night. Always a blast!!! Thanks, Jenn!

I am still buzzing from 10 UNBELIEVABLE days in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I went down there with one acquaintence and a bag of records, and came home with an extended family and connections with some of the warmest, hippest people I've ever met, and the invigoration of a fantastic, vibrant city where everywhere you look is a postcard. I was so honored to play down there not once, but twice, at the legendary Candela Bar, and at Gamma Soul thrown by Amalgama records, where I opened for Titonton. This trip fired mad synapses and there is a long feature for the website and a new mix coming out of the inspiration it gave me. I want to say thank you so much to Santiago, Nino, Pedro, Porangui, Christina, Carolina, Heidi, Manolo, Chucky, Millo, Max, Christian, Pablo and everyone else who made me feel completely at home.

Expect the Philly <--> San Juan connection to strengthen over the coming months and years.

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