Lemme Smang It

Yeah.. soooo... THIS IS HAPPENING TOMORROW. Let's celebrate Obama's victory by smanging on each other. BUY TIX NOW

The Very Best x Seye x Darwin @ The Crocodile 8/22

The Very Best will be playing tonight, Wednesday August 22nd at the Crocodile in support of their new record 'MTMTMK'. Doors at 8pm and its All Ages w/ bar. Ill be playing thru out the night and put a mix together of some of the tracks ill be dropping. Download that below and than go stream their new record.

The Very Best Promo Mix (Mediafire)



The Very Best, the duo of singer Esau Mwamwaya and producer Johan Hugo, are about to release their latest joy-explosion on the world. It’s called MTMTMK, and it features collaborations from a host of other African-born artists. We’ve already heard the songs “Yoshua Alikuti,” “Kondaine,” and “We Ok,” and now the entire LP is streaming at NPR.

K. Flay

This Sunday the fabulous Katie Kate will be playing with K Flay at The Crocodile. GET TICKETS HERE and bring your ass to the club to see these two bring energetic rap song sing dance awesomeness.

Dancing On The Valentine

This annual benefit for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is happening tonight. Come see great Duran Duran covers by some great musicians supporting a good cause.

Shaprece x Reva Poster

These two sultry ladies are doing a co headlining show at The Crocodile next week. Get all sexy, glamorous, and dolled up to see these fine ladies in action.

Love Is A Business

The Physics are coming back August 6th with a new album. And so far from what I've heard it sounds great. "Red Eye" is my shit!! Thig is one of my favorites in the town and all three are just some of the nicest people you will ever meet. Check them at The Crocodile for their album release show. More info on that HERE.

Fresh Poster

Come July, you better go.

Fresh Espresso - Live New Years Eve Video

(photo by Lavid)

So us Michigan kids had a lil party at The Crocodile on New Years Eve. It was a total blast and sold out the day before. We knew it was gonna be an awesome packed house filled with drunken F.E. fans ready to start off 2011 with dancing and debauchery. We rented tux's and played some new songs.

This video is of a new song called "Green Windows" and looks to be shot by a fan from the crowd, but the image is relatively good and the audio sounds pretty nice, so check it out.

Fresh Espresso NEW YEARS EVE!

We are bringing home the new year in loads of style.

ZZK SUMMER TOUR 2010

In less than 2 weeks the ZZK Records crew will be once again taking a slice of emerging Buenos Aires culture to the North America. This time, they’ve been invited by the city of Denver to represent Buenos Aires music in the Biennial of the Americas.

They are asking for fans and friends to help take ZZK bigger and broader through ZZK TV. Click here to be a part.

Like many modern movements, the internet has played a large part of ZZK’s success. When before could the rest of the world see and hear what was going on at the bottom of the world as quickly and clearly as now? Through myspace, youtube, vimeo, facebook, podcasts, mixtapes, blogs, twitters and other forms of instant worldwide communication the ZZK bunch have managed to get their sound and vision out at rocket speed.

TOUR DATES!

July 20 – New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
July 22 – Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Bowl
July 23 – Martha’s Vineyard, MA – Martha’s V
July 24 – Montreal, PQ – Divan Orange
July 25 – Toronto, ON – Wrongbar
July 26 – Detroit, MI – The Lager House
July 27 – Chicago, IL – Beauty Bar
July 28 – St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN – Turf Club
July 31 – Denver, CO – Biennial of the Americas
August 1 – Salt Lake City – Urban Lounge
August 3 – Seattle, WA – Crocodile
August 4 – Portland, OR – Rotture
August 5 – San Francisco, CA – Rickshaw Stop
August 6 – Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex

ZZK Kickstarter - Help a Label Out from ZZK Records on Vimeo.

Now, they are calling on the internet once again, this time upping the ante and taking along a film crew to document their latest tour in hopes of putting the footage up on their newest idea, ZZK TV.

To make this happen ZZK is raising funds for the project. They have enlisted Kickstarter, a great Brooklyn based website for funding creative projects to donating as easy as buying on Amazon.com And, they are giving away rewards. Click here to be a part.

If you haven’t heard much about the record label, start here. ZZK has played an important contemporary role in the revitalization of South American culture for new global audiences, we invite you to listen to Chancha Via Circuito’s newest album which bridges music across generations, borders and time.

Chancha Via Circuito - Rio Arriba 2010 by zzkrecords

MEET THE ARTISTS


Tremor

Tremor is hands down one of the most exciting bands in all South America. There is a reason there is only one live band on the ZZK label, and seeing Tremor perform you will quickly understand why. Tremor is Leonardo Martinelli, a multi-instrumentalist and composer with ten years of experience scoring film and theater in Argentina. Together with Camilo Carabajal and Gerardo Farez, Tremor deftly combines IDM with the sound of Northern Argentina where guitars, drums and other instruments breathe to the beat of computer bleeps. Tremor performs live with native Argentine instruments like the charango guitar, the bombo legüero drum, keyboards and synthesizers. It might be easy to pass off Tremor’s sound as “cumbia digital,” but after one listen to his style and influence of native instruments and folklore – you will quickly realize he’s forging his own sub-genre – “digital folklorico.”


Chancha Via Circuito

Chancha Via Circuito is ZZK’s secret gem. As talented as producers come, Chancha Via Circuito is carving out his niche as a genre bending musical talent on the highest levels. When Diplo rolled through to play Zizek 3 years ago, it was Chancha’s CD that struck him first. Chancha Via Circuito explores the minimal side of digital cumbia with inspiration from afro-dance, murgas (marching bands), minimal dub, IDM, and down tempo. Computer bleeps share sonic space with folkloric chant. Candombe drums are accompanied by the sample of a machete splicing the air and a vocal line of indigenous bebop is layered over hints of dub.


El Remolón

If there were ever to be a superstar DJ in the digital-cumbia scene, it is El Remolón. El Remolón brings a global dance sensibility to digital cumbia, dubstep and electro-reggaeton cuts. With hypnotic beats influenced by everything from Colombian cumbia, cumbia villera (cumbia from the slums of Buenos Aires), and reggaeton to dubstep, dub, IDM, and minimal techno, El Remolón cuts his own vision of electronica for global dance floors. His sound is laid-back but heavy-hitting with a European dance floor sensibility. Listen to El Remolón's new EP Pangeatico Here


El G

EL G is the DJ name of Grant C. Dull, label manager of ZZK Records, co-founder of Zizek Club and a 6-year adopted citizen & cultural ambassador of Buenos Aires. DJ sets of El G are powerful showcases of ZZK music: past, present and future. B-Sides, mashups, bootlegs, official and unofficial releases plus the newest music from the ZZK label is tested on audiences during his fiery, eclectic and intensely fun DJ sets. El G has commandeered ZZK Records as a global movement, both behind the scenes and on the turntables at festivals like Coachella, Roskilde & Summer Stage in Central Park, NYC. El G also runs WhatsUpBuenosAires.com & FeatBA.com

Support a movement, be a part of a record label and get some new music and merch while you’re at it!

For the sake of good music, show these boys some love!

BANGERRRRRR

This July 3rd! Let's get it.

Star Spangled Banger Poster

Mad Rad Promo Videos

Okay, tonight is the night. MAD RAD plays the Crocodile. Which video ended up being your favorite?










BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW BEFORE ITS TOO LATE.

Crocodile 1 Year Poster

Mad Rad's next show. Be there or be lame. The Crocodile is a very important venue in this beautiful city we live. It's history before the reopen are unparalleled and for the past year they have embraced the community that I am in, and it's all family.

GO! MACHINE

There is a different sound that is coming out of this city and Go! Machine is going to embrace it. Hip hop is an ever evolving sound and we feel that Seattle has a lot of new artists pushing the limits of this genre. The idea of having fun is prominent, the days of the backpacker are over, and the concert goer wants to be entertained. Go! Machine is like a Voltron robot that when all these bands come together, the power combined is unstoppable. It's time to stop being outdated with our music, and fly into the future. Hug it, love it, scream it, shout it. Go! Machine.

Fresh Espresso @ The Crocodile

Last week, it was Mad Rad tearing the club up, this week catch Fresh Espresso with The Saturday Knights. It is indeed going to be some crazy dance party going on on stage. There's some Adidas nonsense going on this night as well, with some guy Zni? Either way, Fresh and TSK going to rock this fucking place again. You missed last week, don't do it twice.