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CHANGE THE BEAT Resurection Footage from the ECHO PARTY Release Show with EDAN RICKY POWELL and DJ CENTIPEDE
Jan 19th at SOM

Echo Party feat. Edan & Ricky Powell @ SOM, San Francisco 1/19/10 (excerpts) from Shockman on Vimeo.

EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT
CB Records presents
CHANGE THE BEAT

Thug Jazz and Riot Funk, Psyche Madness and Funk Rock layered with the hardest and dirtiest instrumental and dub beats from around the world

Residents:
LOW LIMIT (Lazer Sword)
DIBIA$E (Green Llama)
DJ CENTIPEDE (Mophono/CB Records)
SALVA (Frite Nite/Fried Human)
DIALS (Sound Pieces)

Special Guests TBA!

9pm $3 Red Stripes $5 Jameson Shots
SOM 2925 16th St. San Francisco 94103
www.cbrecords.com for more

Quite possibly the best scratching ever caught on video……
DJ Q Bert Live in Seattle

Thanks to Ron Nachmann

Last Night: Echo Party featuring Edan and Ricky Powell

L-R Ricky Powell, DJ Centipede, Edan

Echo Party featuring Edan and Ricky Powell

Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010

SOM

Better Than: Sitting home stoned, drawing cartoons and blasting beats while you watch Lost with the sound down.

Too few music fans see hip-hop as a cultural phenomenon of DIY media and craft. But since it hatched in the South Bronx in the late-’70s, hip-hop’s cut-and-paste approach to music, video, and photography has been key to Western pop culture.

Both Boston MC/DJ/producer Edan and veteran NYC street photographer Ricky Powell proudly continue that collage tradition, which made them a great pairing for the resurrection of local DJ Centipede’s vaunted underground beat lounge Change the Beat.

DJ Edan on mic, and turntables

This proved to be a night of millions of images and beats, all dating from before the mid-’90s. After Centipede’s short set of exotic beats, Powell opened up with a tour-de-force narrated slide show of random shots from the past 27 years of his work. These included simple, evocative snaps of rap stars like Run DMC and Schooly D, celebrities like Andy Warhol and Sandra Bernhardt, and the occasional street-bum or girlfriend. As a legendary East Village man-about-town and the Beastie Boys’ first official photographer during their party-fuelled mid-’80s ascent, Powell played a brilliant Uncle Old School to the mostly under-30 crowd in SOM’s elegant yet inviting surroundings.

Casual fashion done right at Change the Beat: Echo Party

Edan’s Echo Party mixtape was the centerpiece of the night, and it’s definitely an art project. He didn’t just layer a bunch of his own psychedelic instrumentation and effects over his mix of old-school beats and breaks from the vaults of New York’s Traffic Entertainment Group label–he also hand-art-stamped the covers of the 1,000-piece vinyl edition.

If that weren’t enough, last night saw the West Coast premiere of a quick-cut abstract video collage interpretation of Echo Party created by Tom Fitzgerald, the head archivist at L.A.’s Cinefamily film organization and Cut Chemist’s video man. In perfect rhythm with Edan’s intense rhythmic mess, Fitzgerald has mixed and manipulated 29 mondo minutes worth of obscure ’70s and ’80s footage of nightlife, breakdancing, kung fu, technology and tons more from Bollywood, Brooklyn and beyond. It was an overwhelming feast of underground recycled media.

The blissful masses at Change the Beat: Echo Party

Edan closed the night with a 2-hour DJ set of arcane yet weirdly recognizable late-’60s and early freak-rock tunes, most of which happen to have beat-only breakdowns that he could juggle in fine hip-hop DJ tradition. For the non-pathological beat fiends, he did deign to rock the backwards beats of Jimi Hendrix’s “Are You Experienced.”

Critic’s Notebook

Personal Bias: Today’s hip-hop and celeb culture needs to work really hard to measure up to the sophistication of their pre-1995 golden eras.

Random Detail: Ricky Powell could be the only photog on earth to have shot artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, received both a platonic kiss from Sandra Bernhardt and a playful headlock from Mike Tyson, and smoked a blunt with Eazy E. Though not all at once.

By the way: Although both the vinyl and CD versions of Echo Party are sold out, a DVD of the video version is forthcoming–stay tuned to Edan for more.

Roland Bruckner

Bellow Garmon’s vocalist Roland Bruckner, Caught busking in San Francisco January by SF Chronicle photographer Trey Bundy

CHANGE THE BEAT NOW AT SOM BAR!!!

with EDAN and RICKY POWELL and DJ CENTIPEDE

TUESDAY JAN. 19th 2010
CB Records presents ECHO PARTY
and the re-opening of the legendary weekly party
CHANGE THE BEAT

EDAN the deejay
Showcasing his newest record ECHO PARTY
This is a rare Bay Area dee-jay set by the Humble Magnificent
Producer/Emcee/Turntablist

RICKY POWELL world famous slide show
Join the legendary photographer on a journey through his photo
archives, as he reflects on 25 years spent documenting the hip hop
scene and hanging out with stars like the Beastie Boys, Run Dmc and
Method Man.

DJ CENTIPEDE of MOPHONO
Thug Jazz and Riot Funk, Psyche Madness and Funk Rock, Layered with
the Hardest and Dirtiest Instrumental and Dub Beats from around the
world….

Arrive early for the 9:30 screening of the ECHO PARTY movie by Tom
Fitzgerald

SOM 2925 16th St. San Francisco 94103
Doors 9:00pm   21+
$8 before 10:00pm $10after
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DIBIA$E!!!

One of the core Change the Beat Guests of the last 4 Years Gets a special from Red Bull Big Tune Special….Check the interview and microwave beat…. good job D!

Change the Beat has been blessed with the most amazing electronic music performances on earth.  Thank you Dibiase, Flying Lotus, Slum Village, Phat Kat, K-OS, Gaslamp Killer, Samiyam, Mono/Poly, Free The Robots, Low Limit, Exile, Andy Votel, Salva, Nasty Nasty, Sean Julian, King Most, Morse Code, Scatter Shot Theory, Teeko, U9Lift, DJ Platurn, DJ Design, Asonic Garcia, Mophono, Controller 7, 4one Funk, Epcot, E Da Boss, Mr White, Over Turned Big Rig, DJ Quest, Chinese Man Records, Kirby Dominant, Bass Science, Oze, DJ 4am, Eddie K, Adam Theis, Meaty Ogre, Bogle, Chris Sinister, Toph One, DJ Om, Dials, Mr Robinson, Dnae Beats, Seneca, Illum Sphere and Jonny Dub, Dublin, Jeremiah, Epcot, DJ B. Cause, Joe Quixx, Satva, B. Love, DJ Enki, Idiom Creak, Gavin, Mochipet, Peace, Mr. Dark Keys, Buddy Leroy, Egadz, Dreas, Boken Figures, Shane King, Topper, DJ Sure Shot, the Shotgun Wedding Strings, Radioactive, Romanowski, Pony P, Kid Kamilian, Mike Boo, MC Subverse, Space Heater, Z-Man, B-Bravo, Kid Gusto, Rush, Guillermo

and the Residents.. ASPECT McCARTHY, CITIZEN TEN, DJ CENTIPEDE and THE GASLAMP KILLER

Loose Joints and CB Records presents Friday November 6th 2009
Loose Joints 2 Year anniversary
featuring NATURAL SELF UK (Tru-Thoughts, Breakin Bread)
DJ CENTIPEDE
TOM THUMP
DAMON BELL

Make Out Room 3225 22nd St. Between Mission and Valencia
San Francisco CA 94110

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—————————LOOSE JOINTS HALLOWEEN!!!————————-

TOM THUMP
DJ CENTIPEDE
DAMON BELL
Costume Contest with prizes by Fabric8
Riot Funk, Timba, Funk Rock, B-Boy Breaks and Boogie
10:00pm - 2:00am
at Makeout Room
3225 22nd St. SF 94110