NUITS D’AFRIQUE SOUNDSYSTEM : Awadi + Dj Rupture

July 20, 2012 - 10:00 PM

Price: 15 $

Société des arts technologiques [SAT]

1201 boulevard Saint-Laurent, Montréal

514-844-2033‎

www.sat.qc.ca

You can also purchase your tickets at the main box office.

Description of the concert:

After last year’s phenomenal success, Nuits d’Afrique and Masala, a top show on CISM, a blog and a digital label, bring back the World 2.0 electro soirées. Live performances and DJ sets: the unlimited possibilities of new technologies intersect with Nuits d’Afrique authenticity.

Awadi
(Senegal)
The subject of United States of Africa, a documentary by Yanick Letourneau, co-founder of Positive Black Soul and a spokesmen for African youth, uses hip-hop mixed with traditional beats to promote a unified Africa. From Thomas Sankara to Martin Luther King, his pan-African project Présidents d’Afrique put to music, 50 years after independence, the key speeches by the great black consciousness leaders.

DJ Rupture
(USA)
VIBE magazine called his music “a stunning, globe-trotting, three-turntable mix… bumping, brash and without borders.” A star of the FM band in New York, where he broadcasts international exclusives, his electro draws inspiration from Latin America, Africa and the Maghreb. He even made it to the cover of the influential magazine The Wire.

Awadi (Senegal)

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Biography of the artist:

Co-founder of Positive Black Soul and a spokesmen for African youth, uses hip-hop mixed with traditional beats to promote a unified Africa.Didier Awadi is a pioneer and a star of African rap, a vital figure throughout West Africa, ever committed to justice and equality. He is a key spokesman for young people in the region.Born in Dakar in 1969 to a father from Benin and a mother from Cape ...

DJ Rupture (USA)

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Biography of the artist:

“A stunning, globe-trotting, three-turntable mix… bumping, brash and without borders.” For the Vibe magazine. A star of the FM band in New York, his electro draws inspiration from Latin America, Africa and the Maghreb.DJ/rupture, whose real name is Jace Clayton, comes from Brooklyn, New York. He began his career in the late 1990s in the group Toneburst and mixing at clubs in Boston. In 2001, ...

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