Vitalic Noise Presents “VITAL” with Gemini Club, Cherub, Dee Goodz, Jensen Sportag, Sam & Tre, Classic Williams & More || Thursday, July 28th || MAI Nashville
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Did you just read that title? Do you realize, just how HUGE this lineup is?
On July 28th, Vitalic Noise – in partnership with Break On A Cloud – will be bringing you our biggest lineup to date. Featuring not only Chicago’s current nu-disco kings of Gemini Club, but an entire palette of music tastes ranging from Cherub‘s live electronic/house musicianship, to Dee Goodz and Classic Williams fresh take’s on today’s rap/hip hop scene, a dub ladened hip hop duo in Sam & Tre, the soulful sounds of today’s most buzz worthy disco/funk prince in Jensen Sportag, and of course a whole lineup of talented local DJ’s in Losici, Jenn Harbin, and your own Vitalic Noise.
Ten Acts. Three Stages. One Giant Party.
Get ready for what people are talking about as Nashville’s best thrown party. The best night of your life is waiting for you. Are you ready?
MAI Nashville
Doors open at 9PM
21+ – $5
18+ – $8
Gemini Club is Dan Brunelle, Tom Gavin and Gordon Bramli, a three-piece indie-electronic dance band from Chicago, Illinois. Their unique live shows have been tearing up the scene for the last two years. Far from the conventional live performance, Gemini Club have a specially designed rig that allows for on-the-fly remixing of their own songs meaning each Gemini Club show is different from the last. This has resulted in them being asked to the support the likes of:
Chromeo
A-Trak
Two Door Cinema Club
Who-Made-Who
DJ Falcon
Chateau Marmont
Their first single, “Ghost” came out hot in the blogosphere, which has resulted in remixes from Hey Champ, Midnight Conspiracy, Barretso, Golden Bug and Only Children. The track has also been picked up for air play from BBC Radio 1’s tastemaker show “In New DJs We Trust.”
Gemini Club – Ghost (Original Mix) by Gemini Club
From the mid-west to the Orient, Gemini Club’s own remix chops are in demand online and across the globe. Their remix for Australian band The Vanish went straight into the top ten of Hype Machine’s charts. The band’s spin on “Cold Dust Girl” entered the same top ten charts on five different occasions within a month – and their remix for Shinichi Osawa has been a mainstay on the iTunes dance charts in Japan. Most recently, the gents of GC’s remix of Chilly Gonzales premiered on the RCRD LBL blog as the most downloaded track of the week, and has seen them featured on many television stations across the world on channels such as MTV, and more.
Chilly Gonzales – You Can Dance (Gemini Club Remix) by Gemini Club
As a talent on the rise, they have been hard at work on an EP to be released, that is to be sure to keep people’s feet moving on dance floors everywhere well through the rest of the year.
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By now, if you’ve been a regular reader, you should know all about Cherub and their involvement with “VITAL”.
A hidden gem in Nashville.
In just a matter of month’s, they’ve broke from being VITAL’s “house” band, to being the next up and coming greatness that’s been spawned from the waters that is Nashville.
Man of the Hour by CHERUBlamusica
But hold tight. Do you remember that riot of a party they threw at last month’s edition of VITAL?
Well, we’re going to try that again.
Yes, you are still going to hear their staple singles “My Body“, and “XOXO“, but you’re also going to hear something special.
We’re calling it:
Cherub [Remix:ed]
Come hear your favorite Daft Punk, Foo Fighters, Boyz Noise, Nine Inch Nails and Swedish House Mafia tracks remixed live on the spot along with Jordan Kelley’s patented vocal additions.
Brace yourself. This is bound to get crazy.
Cherub – “XOXO” by Vitalic Noise
Check them out this spring with shows alongside Ghostland Observatory, Miami Horror, Skrillex, Bag Raiders, Alex B, tour stops at Electric Forest, Camp Bisco, and more!
In 2010, Dee Goodz made his official mixtape debut, Floetic Justice, with the Rocksmith Tokyo Clothing Line; 2011 followed with the release of the new mixtape Floetic Justice: Volume 2 (sponsored by ImKing Clothing & 2Dopeboyz.com), and a new fame as a being a great performer. Dee has performed alongside hip hop hevyweights such as Questlove, Curren$y, Big Sean, Mickey Factz, Yelawolf and Lyrics Born, as well as select dates on several miscellaneous tours. In 2011, Dee Goodz performed several shows at the South By Southwest festival and headlined shows in Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, and Atlanta. Dee has worked with artists such as Mac Miller, Kidz in the Hall, Casey Veggies, Skewby, Young Scolla and YP. Production comes from OdizzyBeatz on tracks “Bananas” and “The Pilot”, also beats from MT, and Tecknowledgy are heard in all recent projects.
Dee Goodz has been featured on various top internet sites such as 2dopeboyz.com, HiphopDx.com, TheSmokingsection.com, Allhiphop.com, DDotomen.com, Ashleyoutrageous.com, RubyHornet.com and Vibe Magazine‘s – GoodMusicAllDay.com. Dee was also, featured as artist of the month for Vanderbilt University, ACCLAIM Magazine, CONCRETE Magazine, Crunk Magazine, The Nashville Scene, Eighty81.com and MTVUK.
His new mixtape Floetic Justice Volume 2 (March 2011) has recieved over 50,000 plays, 25,000 downloads and was a sponsored mixtape on 2Dopeboyz.com.
Dee Goodz has been sponsored by clothing lines such as Rocksmith, and ImKing. Dee also has an ongoing web-based series entitled Life of The F.L.Y., and guest blogs for several internet sites.
We’ll admit, we may be a little bit biased with this one. But, Jensen Sportag are currently one of the bands to watch for 2012.
Don’t believe me? Ask famed publications in XLR8R, or The Guardian who consistently feature the works of Nashville’s Jensen Sportag. Or heck, lend an ear into the latest mix that Washed Out released, and what will you hear? Jensen Sportag.
Jensen Sportag – The Wet Mix by CASCINE
Jensen Sportag create the type of R&B-brushed electro that feels plucked from your uncle’s Detroit living room in ’89 and presented in the same tortoiseshell case it originally came in – smooth music, contemporary as it is timeless. As The Guardian claims, “It would be easier to list the music of the last five years that’s as good as this: Washed Out‘s Belong and Drake‘s The Resistance, basically.”
After being introduced during a 2008 recording session in Nashville, Sam & Tre decided to collaborate and see what happened. After two straight years of relentless recording, experimentation and bonding, their unique brand of Electro Glitch Hip Hop was born. With roots in Hip Hop, Dub, Rock and various genre influences, their unique group represents their respective upbringings in London, Atlanta and Trenton, Tennessee, while still keeping an international sensibility.
In late 2010, the release of their underground anthem, “We Do”, hit the streets and spread like a bubonic plague. They soon were garnered with praise for their groundbreaking sound, cultivated by the accomplished mad-scientist producer Sam Shacklock, and lyrical originality of rapper Tre Easley. This was soon followed by the release of their critically acclaimed self-titled debut, which soon reached thousands of downloads and modest international attention.
Already in the process of recording their follow-up album, Sam & Tre are looking to once again push the limits of their unique creative sound.
“In attempting to put personal ghosts from his past to rest Classic Williams has created an album which is sonically endearing while it also challenges personal comfort levels. Musically the production by Klassix Jones helps to further establish Williams as one of the most promising young voices in Nashville.”
- CultureBully.com
Currently attending Middle Tennessee State University, Charles Williams AKA Classic Williams is not your average college student nor is he your average MC, both of these facts are evident on his latest release “The Soul of Nigger Charlie.” Though the album’s name is sure to raise some eyebrows, the title is not about the “N” word. It is a journey through the sometimes complex, often emotional, somewhat crazy, yet always interesting life of Classic Williams.
With sharp production from Klassix Jones (Louisianna Cash “Walk wit a Dip”) Williams continues to reinvigorate the lost art of story telling through song. At only 21 years of age, Williams’s words define life with the knowledge and wit of a man twice his age. Be sure that this is not another sob story regarding the daily trials of misguided youth trying to find their way in today’s world… No, It is much more than that. It is a struggle for identity as the only black child in an all white school, It is the struggle of an artist and a young man trying to break through the “old” guard. More than anything, it is the struggle of one man trying to lay claim to the past, present and future definition of his life… it may not mirror every listener’s, but it is sure to stir real emotion and thoughts that resonate throughout their own lives.
The Soul of Nigger Charlie is an epic adventure worthy of movie screens around the world, but instead of cameras, Williams relies on memories and dreams to record his vision, directing pen to paper, ultimately bringing a vivid story to your mind, while providing a soundtrack for your life.
“Classic William’s new tape, The Soul of Nigger Charlie: A) bins points for riffing on one of the more random moments in
Fred Williamson’s film career, and B) is really, really good.” – NashvilleScene.com
When New Zealand native, LOSICI (aka Josiah Lester), made the move from the pristine shores and the land of reverse flowing toilets to the barren lands of Tennessee, the last thing he thought that we would be experiencing was his involvement in both the hardcore scene (as a member of WORKER) and in the electronic scene as one of Nashville’s last remaining members of the CD-J world under the moniker LOSICI.
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