Legendary Hip Hop artist Rakim is in Montreal tonight. He will be joined on stage by Fullcourse, Dirty Taz and Vancouver’s Conscience. Music by Simahlak. The Rakim Concert takes place Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at Le Belmont, 4483 St.Lautent. Doors open at 9pm. Presented by Red Bull. Part of the Boreale Legend Series. A JesseWalker.net co-presentation.

RED BULL in association with LE BELMONT / BOREALE / GOOD FRIDAY ENT / JESSEWALKER.NET / LOOKOUT / SJU present:

RAKIM (NYC)

TICKETS: www.wantickets.com/rakim

In 1986, Rakim started to work with New York-based producer-DJ Eric B. The duo—known as Eric B & Rakim—is widely regarded as among the most influential and groundbreaking of hip-hop groups, due in no small part to Rakim’s technical abilities. The duo’s first single, “Eric B. Is President” was a success and got the duo a contract with the fledgling Island Records sub-label 4th & B’way. The duo’s next single, the smash “I Know You Got Soul,” sparked early debate on the legality of unauthorized, uncredited sampling when James Brown sued to prevent the duo’s use of a fragment of his music. It also established Brown’s back catalog as a hip musical mining ground for a new generation of hip-hop programmers. Their first full album, Paid In Full, was released in 1987. causing a stir in the hip-hop music world due to its novel sound, approach, and subject matter. Rakim pioneered a practice previously unknown to hip-hop called internal rhyming. Already an important aspect of traditional poetry, where rhymes could be found throughout the bar of a lyric which added to the rhythmic complexity of the song: “I keep the mic at Fahrenheit, freeze MCs, make ‘em colder/The listeners system is kicking like solar/As I memorize, advertise like a poet/Keep it goin’, when I’m flowin’ smooth enough, you know it’s rough.” Instead of two rhyming syllables within two lines at the end of the lines, as we would find in the older hip-hop style displayed above, we have 18 rhyming syllables in just four lines. Rakim also introduced a lyrical technique known as cliffhanging and popularized the use of metaphors with multiple meanings. His songs were the first to really impart hip-hop music lyrics with a serious poetic device sensibility. Eric B & Rakim went on to produce three more successful albums, all now considered hip hop standards. Prior to Rakim, hip-hop music lyricism was usually rather simple from a structural standpoint and the ideas it expressed were easy and direct. Many hip-hop artists (both underground and mainstream) acknowledge a huge debt to Rakim’s innovative style. He is given credit for popularizing the heavy use of internal rhymes in hip-hop—rhymes that are not necessary to the overall rhyme scheme of the verse, but occur between the endpoints of lines and stanzas, serving to increase the alliteration, assonance, and emphasis of the rhyme. He is also credited for the jazzy, heavily stylistic, seemingly effortless delivery of his lyrical content.

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CONSCIENCE (VANCOUVER)
DIRTY TAZ
FULL COURSE
SIMAHLAK

AND MORE!!

PORTES/DOORS: 9:00 PM
SHOW: 10:00PM

18+ event (Full Bar will be available)

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This Sunday we celebrate the two-year anniversary of Chuurch. Old School and  Club Classics with your resident DJ Blaster and special guest from Edmonton, the 2012 Three Style DJ Champion Creeasian. Special opening set by F-Bomb.  Hosted by  JesseWalker.net. alongside M.O. and Alveno. Free Entrance all night long.  The Chuurch Two Year Anniversary takes place this Sunday May 20th, 2012 at Blue Dog Motel, 3958 St.Laurent, Corner Duluth in Montreal. The Chuurch Anniversary continues in Toronto on Friday May 25th at Crawford. Join us every Sunday at Blue Dog for  Chuurch. More information: http://chuurch.ca

CHUURCH

The Two Year Anniversary

Old School and Club Classics
BLASTER
Chuurch Resident DJ • CKUT • www.dj.blaster.com
CREEASIAN
Edmonton • 2012 Red Bull Three Style Champion
F-BOMB
Special Opening Set

Hosted by
JESSEWALKER.net
M.O. and ALVENO

Free Keg on the Dancefloor

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

BLUE DOG MOTEL
3958 St.Laurent :: Corner Duluth :: Montreal

More information: www.chuurch.ca

Photograph: Jean Philip Zi  • Model: Rosalie Lemay • Design: slightly illegal

Chuck Brown, the Godfather of Go-Go has died today in Baltimore. He was 75 and had been hospitalized for pneumonia earlier this month. You may have not heard of him, but for three decades Go-Go was tTHE music in Washington. He has also influenced much of the music that you listen to today. He will probably be remembered mostly via the songs that sampled his originals.

Nelly’s “Hot in Herre” tapped Brown’s 1979 hit “Bustin’ Loose,” for example. But perhaps his most influential contribution was that of the Soul Seekers’ “Ashley’s Roachclip,” which sported a break that reverberated through hip-hop, R&B, and eventually pop in the ’80s and early ’90s. You’ve heard it before (it sounds like clouds). Page through this list to see over 100 songs the break kissed. My favorite (and probably yours, too) is Eric B. and Rakim’s “Paid in Full.”

Chuck Brown, the gravelly voiced bandleader who capitalized on funk’s percussive pulse to create go-go, the genre of music that has soundtracked life in black Washington for more than three decades, died May 16 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was 75.

The death, from complications from sepsis, was confirmed by his manager, Tom Goldfogle.Mr. Brown had been hospitalized for pneumonia.

Known as the “Godfather of Go-Go,” the performer, singer, guitarist and songwriter developed his commanding brand of funk in the mid-1970s to compete with the dominance of disco.

Like a DJ blending records, Mr. Brown used nonstop percussion to stitch songs together and keep the crowd on the dance floor, resulting in marathon performances that went deep into the night. Mr. Brown said the style got its name because “the music just goes and goes.”

In addition to being go-go’s principal architect, Mr. Brown remained the genre’s most charismatic figure. On stage, his spirited call-and-response routines became a hallmark of the music, reinforcing a sense of community that allowed the scene to thrive. As go-go became a point of pride for black Washingtonians, Mr. Brown became one of the city’s most recognizable figures.

“No single type of music has been more identified with Washington than go-go, and no one has loomed so large within it as Chuck Brown,” former Washington Post pop music critic Richard Harrington wrote in 2001.

Mr. Brown’s creation, however, failed to have the same impact outside of the Beltway. The birth of go-go doubled as the high-water mark of Mr. Brown’s national career. With his group the Soul Searchers, his signature hit “Bustin’ Loose” not only minted the go-go sound, it spent four weeks atop the R&B singles chart in 1978.

“Bustin’ Loose” was “the one record I had so much confidence in,” Mr. Brown told The Post in 2001. “I messed with it for two years, wrote a hundred lines of lyrics and only ended up using two lines. .?.?. It was the only time in my career that I felt like it’s going to be a hit.”

It was Mr. Brown’s biggest single, but throughout the 1980s “We Need Some Money,” “Go-Go Swing” and “Run Joe” became local anthems, reinforced by radio support and the grueling performance schedule that put Mr. Brown on area stages six nights a week.

While rap music exploded across the country, go-go dominated young black Washington, with groups including Trouble Funk, Rare Essence and Experience Unlimited (also known as E.U.) following in Mr. Brown’s footsteps.

Mr. Brown performed less frequently in his final years but still took the stage regularly. He would often comment on his golden years in rhyme.

“I’m not retired because I’m not tired. I’m still getting hired, and I’m still inspired,” he said in 2006. “As long as I can walk up on that stage, I want to make people happy. I want to make people dance.”

Charles Louis Brown was born in Gaston, N.C., on Aug. 22, 1936. He never knew his father, Albert Louis Moody, a Marine. He took the surname of his mother, Lyla Louise Brown, a housekeeper who raised her several children in poverty.

“We’d go to somebody’s house and [my mother] would say, ‘Please feed my child. Don’t worry about me. Just feed my child,’ ” Mr. Brown recalled tearfully in a Post interview in 2011.

Mr. Brown was 8 when his family relocated to Washington, where he abandoned his schooling for a childhood filled with odd jobs. He sold newspapers at the bus station and shined shoes at the Navy Yard, where he recalled being tipped kindly by entertainers including Hank Williams and Les Paul.

As a teenager, Mr. Brown began to flirt with petty crime and stumbled into a disastrous situation in the mid-1950s when he shot a man in what he said was self-defense.

A Virginia jury convicted Mr. Brown of aggravated assault, which was bumped up to murder when the victim died in the hospital six months later. Mr. Brown served eight years at the Lorton Correctional Complex. There, he swapped five cartons of cigarettes for another inmate’s guitar.

Upon his release, Mr. Brown returned to Washington, where he worked as a truck driver, a bricklayer and a sparring partner at local boxing gyms. He also began to play guitar and sing at backyard barbecues across the area. His parole officer wouldn’t let him sing in nightclubs that served liquor.

In 1964, he joined Jerry Butler and the Earls of Rhythm and, in 1965, a group called Los Latinos. Both local acts played top-40 hits at area nightclubs; in 1966, Mr. Brown formed his own group, the Soul Searchers. He originally considered taking the stage name “Chuck Brown, the Soul Searcher.”

With the Soul Searchers, Mr. Brown scored minor hits in the early ’70s — “We the People” and “Blow Your Whistle” — but eventually decided to emulate James Brown by trying to create his own sound. Inspired by the percussive feel of Grover Washington Jr.’s “Mister Magic” and rhythms that Mr. Brown internalized as a child in church, he settled on go-go’s loping, popping cadence.

Mr. Brown sang gospel in childhood and was a guitarist fluent in jazz and blues who could toggle between gritty riffs and fluid solos. But he truly excelled behind the microphone, bringing a warm voice that he could punch up into a hot shout or tamp down into a sandpapery purr or a gentle croon as the drummer’s conga popped and rumbled along.

The influence of jazz and pop standards could be heard in much of Brown’s go-go material. Motifs from jazz staples “Moody’s Mood for Love” and “Harlem Nocturne” became a part of his “Go-Go Swing,” and Brown reshaped Louis Jordan’s calypso “Run Joe” into a go-go classic.

In turn, go-go would have its influence on jazz when trumpeter Miles Davis plucked longtime Soul Searchers drummer Ricky Wellman for one of his last touring bands. Many spotted go-go rhythms on Davis’s 1989 album “Amandla.”

And while hip-hop raced past go-go in the ’80s, Mr. Brown eventually influenced that genre as well. He was sampled by various hip-hop artists, most notably in Nelly’s 2002 hit “Hot in Herre.”

But his impact was felt most acutely in the Washington area, where his sound spawned a generation of bands who would pull go-go into focus in the ’80s. Mr. Brown was always the genre’s champion, but he was quick to acknowledge the importance of other band leaders, Andre “Whiteboy” Johnson of Rare Essence, “Big Tony” Fisher of Trouble Funk and the lateAnthony “Lil Benny” Harley, among them.

“These guys were the pioneers of go-go, and they each have their own distinct sound and identity,” Mr. Brown told The Post in 2001. “Everybody has something to offer.”

In 1992, Mr. Brown helped launch the career of the late singer Eva Cassidy, recording and releasing an album of duets, titled “The Other Side,” that confirmed his talent as an interpreter of standards.

Formal recognition came late in Mr. Brown’s life. He was nominated for his first Grammy Award in 2011, when he was 74, for best rhythm-and-blues performance by a duo or group with vocals for “Love,” a collaboration with singer Jill Scott and bassist Marcus Miller.

In 2005, the National Endowment for the Arts presented Mr. Brown with a Lifetime Heritage Fellowship Award. And in 2009, the District named a segment of Seventh Street NW “Chuck Brown Way”; it was a strip near the Howard Theatre where he used to shine shoes as a child.

He appeared in advertisements for the D.C. Lottery and The Post and became the city’s unofficial mascot, known for his extroverted warmth and willingness to flash his gold-toothed smile for any fan hoping to join him for a snapshot. An appearance on U Street NW outside Ben’s Chili Bowl could stop traffic.

“I really appreciate that I can’t go nowhere without people hollering at me,” Mr. Brown said in 2010. “I love being close to people.”

Mr. Brown also leaves behind a still-standing genre that, as he once told MTV, embodied the highest of human emotions.

“It’s about love, the communication between performer and audience,” Mr. Brown said of go-go. “When you’re on stage, the people put that love to you and you give it back. There’s no other music like it.”

Gawker / Post

One of Montreal’s most celebrated club night –  Chuurch – goes on a pilgrimage as we bring the sin to Toronto. Part of the two-year anniversary celebrations of the legendary night. Old School and Club Classics with DJ Blaster and special surprise guests. Hosted by JesseWalker.net Chuurch comes to Toronto on Friday, May 25th, 2012 at Crawford, 718 College St. $5 before 11pm. More information: http://chuurch.ca

CHUURCH

The Two Year Anniversary in Toronto

Old School and Club Classics
BLASTER
and special guests

Hosted by
JESSEWALKER.net

Friday, May 25th, 2012

CRAWFORD
718 College St. :: Toronto

More information: www.chuurch.ca

It is the Formal Return to the Club Scene with the fourth edition of  Stush on Victoria Weekend. Music byThe Supreme Team; Kwite Sane, Blaster, MC Rain. Hosted by JesseWalker.net. Stush takes place on Saturday, May 19th, 2012 at Nuvo, 1401 Mackay in Montreal. This is a semi formal event. A special edition of Exclamation! every Saturday brought to you by The Electric Company, Duraney & Arnold, and Obie 1nder. Click http://stush.info for the official website.

STUSH

The Formal Return to the Club Scene

Music by the Supreme Team’s
KWITE SANE
DJ BLASTER
MC RAIN

Hosted by JesseWalker.net

Victoria Weekend.
Saturday, May 19th, 2012

NUVO BAR & LOUNGE
1401 Mackay :: Corner Ste-Catherine :: Montreal
Metro Guy-Concordia :: nuvomontreal.com

Part of Exclamation! every Saturday, presented by
The Electric Company, Duraney & Arnold, Obie1nder

Donna Summer — the Queen of Disco — died this morning after a battle with cancer … TMZ has learned.
We’re told Summer was in Florida at the time of her death. She was 63 years old.
Sources close to Summer tell us … the singer was trying to keep the extent of her illness under wraps. We spoke to someone who was with Summer a couple of weeks ago … who says she didn’t seem too bad.
In fact, we’re told she was focused on trying to finish up an album she had been working on.
Summer was a 5-time Grammy winner who shot to superstardom in the ’70s with iconic hits like “Last Dance,” “Hot Stuff” and “Bad Girls.”
She continued her dominance in the ’80s with “She Works Hard for the Money” and “This Time I Know It’s for Real.”
Summer and her producer Giorgio Moroder defined the dance music era of the ’70s and influenced acts like Duran Duran and David Bowie to enter the genre.
Summer married Brooklyn Dreams singer Bruce Sudano back in 1980. They had two daughters together.

MUCH MORE AFTER THE JUMP

Summer’s career flourished in the late ’70s and early ’80s when she helped define the very concept of dance diva. “MacArthur Park,” “Hot Stuff,” “Bad Girls” and her duet with Barbra Streisand, “No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)” all went to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, but other singles of hers gained reputations that couldn’t be measured by chart performance. Her breakthrough, 1975′s “Love to Love You Baby,” was 17 minutes of midtempo disco euphoria over which Summer purred and repeatedly climaxed (Time magazine counted 22 orgasms).
“I Feel Love,” the first major hit to sport an entirely synthesized backing track, simply revolutionized music. Electronic disco followed then house then techno, all in major debt of Summer’s collaboration with Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. You can still hear its influence in the arpeggiated strains of the pop trance that’s all over radio today. Though Summer didn’t get a production credit on “I Feel Love,” she took a risk on a wild idea and changed music history, much like Aaliyah, years later, would do when she was among the earliest to give a go at Timbaland’s game-changing, skittering take on R&B. Sometimes being a trailblazer comes down to picking the best vehicle.

Summer’s career faded soon after disco did in the mainstream, though she had a few hits sprinkled throughout the ’80s, chiefly “She Works Hard for the Money” and her collaboration with British dance factory foremen Stock Aitken Waterman, “This Time I Know It’s for Real.” Released in 1989, that would be the last time she appeared in the U.S. pop Top 10.

Her career was overshadowed by alleged anti-gay remarks that she’d go on to deny having made (she reportedly settled out of court with New York magazine after suing them for printing the rumor). It did a little to alienate her fanbase, but not enough to revoke her crown as the queen of disco divas. Similarly, her music often overshadowed her powerhouse voice, the picture of clarity, control and force. As a listener, to isolate her vocals in the context of her music can be startling — they sound like an explosion set off by an effortless pull of a trigger.

Regarding her gift, Summer recalled, “One day I was at church and I was singing, and I had been practicing, Mahalia Jackson was my idol. I stood up to sing and all of a sudden, this voice came out that I didn’t know. It just came out of me.” And now, just like that, it’s gone.

Source

For the first time DJ Blaster will be playing at Bass Drive Wednesdays. Voted the number one club night in this year’s Montreal Mirror, Bass Drive is a night of Dubstep and Big Bass. Blaster joins resident DJ Vilify and guest Dave Dialect. Opening set by Thomas White. This Wednesday, May 16th 2012 at Le Belmont; 4483 St.Laurent, corner Mount Royal in Montreal. Free before 11pm. $5 after.

Bass Drive Wednesdays

Wednesday May 16th, 2012

Music by
DAVE DIALECT
BLASTER
& THOMAS WHITE
with resident
VILIFY

Le Belmont
4483 St.Laurent, Montreal

Free before 11pm / $5 after
Beer special all night
Big Bass
Big ?

BLASTER (Exclamation!, Chuuurch)
Part DJ, part MC; Blaster is known for rocking the dance floor and getting the whole club to shake.
Blaster holds down several residencies in Montreal. He is at the city’s #1 Urban night, ‘Exclamation!’ Saturday at Nuvo. On Sunday he plays old school at ‘Chuurch’ at Blue Dog. On Friday he is in the Hip Hop room in the Sky Complex.
He has DJed for international stars such as Rihanna, Young Money, KRS One, Dead Prez, Beatnuts, and Massari just to name a few.

http://www.djblaster.com

DIALECT
“I find it hard to do 2 things at once that’s why I always put cocaine inside my blunts”
The man behind one of the hottest tunes from last year returns to kill the Bass Drive dancefloor!
One of Montreal’s hottest producers, Dialect is back!

http://soundcloud.com/dave-dialect

OPENING SET BY THOMAS WHITE
If you haven’t seen Thomas White in action, stop sleeping!

with resident:
VILIFY
(Bass Drive Wednesdays / Le Belmont / Destinedtolive.com / Kanabeach)
Mixes: www.destinedtolive.com/dj/vilify
Tunes: www.soundcloud.com/vilify
Blog: www.wickedbad.net/vilify
Twitter: twitter.com/DJ_VILIFY
Instagram: _vilify

This Sunday we celebrate the two-year anniversary of Chuurch. Old School and  Club Classics with your resident DJ Blaster and special guest from Edmonton, the 2012 Three Style DJ Champion Creeasian. Special opening set by F-Bomb.  Hosted by  JesseWalker.net. alongside M.O. and Alveno. Free Entrance all night long.  The Chuurch Two Year Anniversary takes place this Sunday May 20th, 2012 at Blue Dog Motel, 3958 St.Laurent, Corner Duluth in Montreal. The Chuurch Anniversary continues in Toronto on Friday May 25th at Crawford. Join us every Sunday at Blue Dog for  Chuurch. More information: http://chuurch.ca

CHUURCH

The Two Year Anniversary

Old School and Club Classics
BLASTER
Chuurch Resident DJ • CKUT • www.dj.blaster.com
CREEASIAN
Edmonton • 2012 Red Bull Three Style Champion
F-BOMB
Special Opening Set

Hosted by
JESSEWALKER.net
M.O. and ALVENO

Free Keg on the Dancefloor

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

BLUE DOG MOTEL
3958 St.Laurent :: Corner Duluth :: Montreal

More information: www.chuurch.ca

Photograph: Jean Philip Zi  • Model: Rosalie Lemay • Design: slightly illegal

It is the Formal Return to the Club Scene with the fourth edition of  Stush on Victoria Weekend. Music byThe Supreme Team; Kwite Sane, Blaster, MC Rain. Hosted by JesseWalker.net. Stush takes place on Saturday, May 19th, 2012 at Nuvo, 1401 Mackay in Montreal. This is a semi formal event. A special edition of Exclamation! every Saturday brought to you by The Electric Company, Duraney & Arnold, and Obie 1nder. Click http://stush.info for the official website.

STUSH

The Formal Return to the Club Scene

Music by the Supreme Team’s
KWITE SANE
DJ BLASTER
MC RAIN

Hosted by JesseWalker.net

Victoria Weekend.
Saturday, May 19th, 2012

NUVO BAR & LOUNGE
1401 Mackay :: Corner Ste-Catherine :: Montreal
Metro Guy-Concordia :: nuvomontreal.com

Part of Exclamation! every Saturday, presented by
The Electric Company, Duraney & Arnold, Obie1nder

This weekend is Victoria Day… No school ever again on Monday… No work on Monday… But your weekend starts… Right… Now…

Tonight, for the first time ever Blaster will be playing at Bass Drive Wednesdays. Voted the number one club night in this year’s Montreal Mirror, Bass Drive is a night of Dubstep and Big Bass. At Le Belmont, 4483 St.Laurent.

Then on Thursday it is legendary Hip Hop artist Rakim live. Eric B & Rakim was the defining duo of Hip Hop and now is your chance to catch the act live. You do not want to miss this. Also at Le Belmont.

On Saturday it is the big party for the holiday. It is the Formal Return to the Club Scene with the fourth edition of  Stush at Nuvo. Music byThe Supreme Team; Kwite Sane, Blaster, MC Rain.

On Sunday we celebrate the two-year anniversary of Chuurch at Blue Dog. Old School and  Club Classics with your resident DJ Blaster and special guest from Edmonton, DJ  Creeasian. Free.

On Monday we recuperate.