Agua, ¡¡¡que me quemo!!!

This Friday, a new edition of FUEGO, our semi-regular night at Dahlak Eritrean restaurant!

1771 U St. NW
8pm-2am

Burnin' up

Some of the fallout from last Friday's FUEGO party. Salsa, techno, champeta, Balkan brass, kuduro, moombahton, ragga, highlife, cumbia... and ERASURE! Thanks everyone for your energy! And to DJ Felipillo from Granada!

Globaltropical presents FUEGO

Bringing the heat at our monthly semi-regular! A DJ Mr. Boogaloo birthday special!

Friday December 10, 9pm - 2 am, Dahlak 1771 U St. NW

¡Dale moombahton!

Following up from a killer moombahton night at U St Music Hall, here's an even more lethal comp of wicked moombahton tracks from around the globe. [via Maddecent]

Dubstep heavyweights

Props to the peeps from 3D productions for 1.) their new dubstep monthly at Ultrabar, and 2.) for kicking off with a set by UK dubstep extraordinaire N-Type!

Jungle, drum&bass, 2Step, UK garage, dubstep, the man does it all and makes it sound so sweet and heavy!

Rally round

Some Burning Man Festival vibes coming to DC for the Stewart / Colbert rally:

[via washingtonpeacecenter.org]:

Sixty Samurai Seeking Sanity Invite You to Ride Golden Dragon to Colbert/Stewart Rallies


Date: Saturday, October 30, 2010 - 9:00am
Location: DC (Columbia Heights Metro)

(Another March Against the Insanity of American Nukes on Hair Trigger Alert!)

Details: Feeder march to Colbert/Stewaret Rallies begins at Columbia Heights Metro Station (14th and Irving NW) - rally at 9 am, march at 10 am.

Before the main Colbert and Stewart rallies start, join the Washington Peace center, don your favorite costume and march through DC with The Abraxas, a 50 ft golden dragon, 10,000 watt sound system and rode by sixty samurai wielding nuclear weapons. It'll be a roving party for insanity until we reach national mall where the Samurai will disarm their nukes and get some sanity!

According to Abraxas Leader known only mysteriously as “Bobcat Samurai,” the group has made their plans known and partnered with Adam Eidinger and the Capitol Hemp crew to sponsor this community event.

Visit: http://Abraxasdragon.com to see more pics get more info on the artists who built dragon beast.

Rumors are that electronic music icon MIA and/or Michael Franti will be performing on the dragon as it slowly drives towards the National Mall. You won't want to miss this Woodstock moment!

After the rally, when sanity has been achieved, there will be a disarming ceremony for the samurai and we'll march back up towards Petworth where it will park at 13th and Upsher Street, NW and be dismantled.

If you'd like to be a samurai, be a peacekeeper or help assemble the dragon, please join us Thursday and Friday anytime at 13th and Upsher. Contact Adam for details Ph: 202-744-2671 or to volunteer ***

Support the Washington Peace Center today!


[via and Abraxasdragon.com]

Event Day: Saturday, October 30th, 2010
Location: 1240 Upshur St. Northwest, Washington DC 20013

We have all been invited to bring our beloved dragon Abraxas to the nation's capitol for the Jon Stewart/Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity on Oct. 30th, 2010. It is being hailed as Something Really Big. Oprah is buying people plane tickets...Arianna Huffington offered to bus every New Yorker for free. We have offered to ride our ship through the streets of D.C, collecting the hoard and ushering them down to the Rally. We are the only large float at the largest costume party in history!

Needless to say, we will generate a lot of "Wow". We will be witnessed by thousands live, and millions on TV. We also may have the artists M.I.A and Michael Franti performing. Hopefully we'll have you too!

This is an invite to all of you dragon lovers to participate to your highest ability. We hope you'd like to fly out and join us in D.C.! You can do it! Won't your parents be proud to see you shaking your booties on your very own flagship? Sure they will...maybe they can come too!?

Consider this as our opportunity to share the creativity and freedom in which our tribe gets to play, with those who have never heard a breakbeat, a dub whomp or seen a pair of Ayya boots. “For just the price of a cup of coffee each day”, these underprivileged American can know the feeling of a blast from the propane cannon or learn what "glitch" sounds like. We aren't rallying for or against anyone. We're going there to share the possibilities, express our unity, and have some fun.

Please donate to show your support.

— BOBCAT

And for those with any excess energy tonight, DJ Rekha and DJ Dredd will be throwing down some hot bhangra beats at Black Cat!

After the fire...

Este sábado: ¡Fuego en el 23!

Rusko in DC!

Joyce a todo-poderosa

Fall season at the Austrian Cultural Center in DC starts off with a real bang this Wednesday with a set by Austro-Brazilian DJane/MC Joyce Muniz. Expect percussion-laden and bass heavy tropical vibes mixed with jackin' house, Techno and baile funk beats.

Wednesday September 29 | 7:30 | Embassy of Austria | 3524 International Court NW | Washington DC 20008
Admission free. Cash Bar available! RSVP required: 202 895 6776 or www.acfdc.org/events-registration

Here is a mixtape she put together ahead of her trip to the US [via XLR8R]

01 Shanti Roots & Gümix "Beijota (Joyce Muniz Edit Intro)"
02 Shab Ruffcut "I Don't Know (Disco Killah Remix)" (It Tizz)
03 Beataucue "Chachacha (Daniel Haaksman Remix)"
04 Dakunt "Ta Surdou (Lorcan Mak Remix)"
05 Girl Unit "IRL (French Fries Remix)" (Night Slugs)
06 Gregor Salto & DJ Gregory "Vem Rebola feat. Dama Pancha & DJ Manika" (Defected)
07 Sekta feat. Spoek Mathambo "Jabajaws (Raziek Remix)" (Top Billin)
08 Douster feat. spoek mathambo "Punani" (ESP)
09 Seiji "Elevator Rinse" (Seiji)
10 Joyce Muniz & Shanti Roots "Maluca" (Top Billin)
11 PHCB "Baby (Daniel Haaksman Remix)"
12 Bassjackers "Sujo (Bart B More Balkan Edit)"
13 French Fries "Saurus Rhythm"
14 Veron & Praia del Sol "Sleazy" (Sneaker)
15 Malente & Dex "Habibi (Shir Khan Remix)" (Exploited)
16 Supa Flu "Dischn"
17 Joyce Muniz & Shanti Roots "Pinga"

Download through [sndspace]

Fiestiando

Unas fotos del sábado pasado en el Dahlak...¡Chévere!

We might be doing something like this on a semi-regular basis at Dahlak, so stay tuned!

¡Que viva la fiesta!

Tropical bass bizness with an Afrocolombian slant this Saturday at Dahlak!

¡Bajos tropicales con toques afrocolombianos este sábado en el Dahlak!

Viene el Toy

Toy Selectah from Monterrey is coming to DC and we are sure he will be bringing some tasty cumbia, raverton and guacharachero sounds. July 17 at U Street Music Hall.

Carnival come back again

Ruling cooler

A pretty much unmissable performance at Zanzibar next month

Bomb a drop

Quality beat purveyors Turntablelab are taking over DC tonight with a great lineup:


































When this globaltropical favorite drops, you'll know why you went...


...Vybz Kartel "Yuh Love" on Dre Skull's Smoke Machine riddim.

Damas Gratis en DC

[via Pogofilms]
Los reyes de la cumbia villera, Damas Gratis, estarán en el Black Cat DC el día sábado 22 de mayo. Entradas a $20 aquí.

Damas Gratis, the kings of cumbia villera (shantytown cumbia), will be at DC's Black Cat on Saturday May 22. Tickets are $20 here.


Yo tengo una piedra or how Pablito gets told by his doctor that the rock in his kidney came in by his nose.

Rupture comes to town

What a lineup!

Afrocolombia

As it's both February (Black History month) and 2010 (the bicentennial of Colombian independence), the Colombian Embassy in DC has put together a nice series to celebrate Afro-Colombian culture and the whole thing starts off this Sunday with:

Grupo Creole hails from the heart of Colombia’s Caribbean Ocean, the islands of San Andres and Providencia. Grupo Creole interprets the traditional music of the islands. Founded by maestro Orston Christopher in 1986, with the mission to preserve the Creole language and the musical diversity of the islands, the group interprets all of the characteristic rhythms of their heritage: Calipso, Mentó, Shottish, Quadrille, Reggae, Polka among others. With the use of three acoustic guitars, a mandolin, the maracas, a horse jaw, and a ‘tina’, the group invites the audience to an authentic Caribbean fiesta.

On Feb. 24, there is a lecture on "The Afro Colombian contribution to the Colombian Process of Independence" with Colombian historian Dr. Alonso Valencia, director of the History Program at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. 12:30 - 2 PM, The Elliott School of International Affairs, Room 505, 1957 E St. NW...

And on Feb. 27, a screening of the film Da Nation: Naturaleza Viva and a Q&A with director Maria Posse. 5 PM at Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. RSVP for this at culturalinfo[at]colombiaemb.org.



[via Embassy of Colombia website]

It goes down tonight