Middle-eastern Electronica, spinning beats for basic human rights, peace and justice.
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DATE 1: Friday, Oct 16th, 2009 // CHICAGO
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Checkpoint 303 Live Electronic Set in CHICAGO @ the Viaduct Theater
Line-up: CP-303 + Special Guest DJ MARK GERGIS
(Sublime Frequencies + Porest)
Doors 10:30pm

Venue information: www.viaducttheatre.com
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Event Description:
Arabic Sound Hackers: Did you say Palestine?
brYes, we did. Forget about world music, forget about oriental exotic lounge mixes. Expect a night of raw no-nonsense tunes from the Middle-East and beyond. The menu: experimental field recordings, middle-eastern breakbeats, recycled sound, audio collages and exquisite audio piracy by an underground international sound hacking brigade. Checkpoint 303 (Palestine/Tunisia/France) and special guest DJ Mark Gergis (Sublime Frequencies / Porest) invite you to tune in to hacked airwaves and chopped sound bites: A ride that will take you from Palestinian underground grooves to Syrian Glamour Dabke, rare sounds from the depths of south-east Asia and everything in between. From Ramallah to Aleppo, Tunis to Beirut, Bagdad to Cairo…A sonic journey of abstract beats and activism for peace, justice, freedom and the right of all populations to self-determination.
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Find out more about Checkpoint 303:
www.myspace.com/checkpoint303
www.checkpoint303.com

Find out more about Mark Gergis and the label sublime frequencies:
www.sublimefrequencies.com
www.porestsound.net

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DATE 2: Tuesday, Oct 20th, 2009 // CHICAGO
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Live Electronic Set in CHICAGO @ The Dark Room
2210 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622-4827, USA.
Line-up: CheckPoint 303 + more
8pm $10 // Venue information: www.darkroombar.com
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MORE INFORMATION

Checkpoint 303 is an activist sonic project launched by sound-catcher SC Yosh (Palestine) and sound-cutter SC MoCha (Tunisia). Checkpoint 303 creates experimental electronic music that aims at raising international awareness about the ongoing injustice and suffering of the civilian populations throughout the Middle East. Checkpoint 303 combines field recordings performed in Palestine with electronic beats, FX and subtle oriental tunes. Checkpoint 303 has evolved into an international collective of artists, musicians, DJs and VJs including performances by Cheikh Julio, Miss K Sushi, Mehdi Douss, VH Diddy, Melski, etc. Checkpoint 303’s previous live shows include electronic performances as supporting act for UK trip-hop band Massive Attack in a series of benefit shows in the UK and in France in 2007 and 2008. CP-303 has also performed numerous shows in Sweden, Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands, Palestine, Tunisia, USA (Los Angeles), Australia (Sydney & Melbourne), Japan (Tokyo) etc.

Link: www.checkpoint303.com
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Mark Gergis (Neung Phak, Porest, Sublime Frequencies) is a musician and filmmaker from Oakland, California, who, since 2003, has regularly contributed audio and film works to the Sublime Frequencies ethnographic repertoire. Mark will host a unique International Dance Party set, complete with unique international video accompaniment. Featured will be unheard dance/go-go/rock hits from the Mid East, South East Asia and beyond. Thai Beat Molam, Sumatran Surf, Syrian Dabke, Islamic Groove, Moroccan Psych Folk, Javanese Dangdut, Cambodian Freak Beat, Lebanese Yeh-Yeh, Egyptian Lounge and Malaysian A-Go-Go. You cannot hear a DJ set like this anywhere else on earth!

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SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, and other forms of human and natural expression not documented sufficiently through all channels of academic research, the modern recording industry, media, or corporate foundations. SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is focused on an aesthetic of extra-geography and soulful experience inspired by music and culture, world travel, research, and the pioneering ethno-recording labels of the past. Sublime Frequencies is co-operated by Alan Bishop, founding member of outsider music group SUN CITY GIRLS.

Link: www.sublimefrequencies.com