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tonight!! Set Times: 9:00 - 10:30 - SLANT & BJOO 10:30 - 11:30 - FORT KNOX FIVE 11:30 - 12:30 - MAT THE ALIEN 12:30 - 2:00 - SEE-I 2:00 - 3:00 - REX RIDDEM

http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/i-heart-dc/a-to-z-of-dc-love-see-i/ Brightest Young Things own Svetlana interviewed Rootz & Zeebo of SEE-I to compile a list of "A to Z of DC Love" basically Rootz & Zeebo's favorite spots and people of DC from A to Z check it out..... http://www.brightestyoungthings.com/i-heart-dc/a-to-z-of-dc-love-see-i/

SEE-I http://www.myspace.com/seei http://www.last.fm/music/See-I http://www.reverbnation.com/seei SEE-I have had a great 2007!! This past summer See-I played at both the Virgin Festival and Artscape Festival, as well as venues such as the 9:30 Club, 8x10 Club, Mosaic Lounge and many more. Tom B has been working with the band in the studio and the finishing touches are being put on the album, which will come out in 2008. Coming out next month on Bastard Jazz Recordings is "The King", with a dope remix by The Magic Fly. Half of the band played some great shows as part of Thievery Corporation and vocalists Rootz & Zee have become resident MC's out in Las Vegas as well. The See-I Wednesday night residency at the Eighteenth Street Lounge continues to be strong, now in its second year - and See-I has also begun a new monthly residency at Mosaic Lounge in Baltimore. SEE-I has refined its sound and built up its live show with its highly talented band members who hail from other acts such as Thievery Corporation, Thunderball, Fort Knox Five, All Mighty Senators, Sin Miedo, International Velvet, Soul Brazil and more. There will be an exclusive live CD on sale at the Happy FKX-Mas party, as well as T-Shirts and other merchandise. **Playing bass guitar on this special night will be Ashish "Hash" Vyas of Thievery Corporation & Dust Galaxy - don't miss out! See-I Band Members: Rootz Steele - Vocals Zeebo Steele - Vocals Rob Myers - Guitar Hash Vyas - Bass Javier Miranda - Congas Salem Steele - Keyboards Frank Mitchell - Saxophone Names Thompson - Drums

FORT KNOX FIVE - Fort Knox, DC http://www.fortknoxrecordings.com/ http://www.myspace.com/fortknoxfive http://www.myspace.com/djjonh http://www.last.fm/music/fort+knox+five Fort Knox Five is unstoppable!! Since launching the group and label in 2003, fort knox five have continued to grow and build up, reaching new heights every year. 2007 in particular has been large for them, with the release of their remix project Reminted in April, doing two official Bob Marley remixes for Island Records and becoming Music Director of the Eye Candy Sound Lounge at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. JonH and Steve Raskins continue to tour worldwide with a full dj'ing schedule, and Rob Myers has been busy playing with Thievery Corporation, See-I and International Velvet. After releasing The New Gold Standard compilation in 2006 and Reminted remix project in 2007, you can expect to see "Radio Free DC" released in 2008; Fort Knox Five's debut full length album. Whether remixing Tito Puente, Bob Marley, Louis Armstrong and Afrika Bambataa or rocking dancefloors coast to coast and worldwide, Fort Knox Five brings the funk to the people each and every time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9eWvWg4nOo&rel=1

The Rock & Roll Hotel and H Street Corridor featured in today's New York Times travel section: H (as in Humming) Street By CLAY RISEN 12/16/2007 IT’S been almost 40 years since riots ripped through Washington in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, and few areas were hit harder than the H Street Northeast corridor. Running from just north of Union Station toward the Anacostia River, H Street never fully recovered, even as other riot-scarred neighborhoods began picking up in the 1990s. Over the last few years, though, H Street, also known as the Atlas District, has seen a marked revival. Four years ago, half of the street’s 300 storefronts were empty; now only about 45 sit unoccupied. The area’s anchor is a collection of bars and music clubs opened last year by a local entrepreneur named Joe Englert, who also helped drive the night-life explosion in the Adams-Morgan neighborhood. One of Mr. Englert’s venues, a popular stop-off for indie bands called the Rock and Roll Hotel (1353 H Street; 202-388-7625; www.rockandrollhoteldc.com), has become a neighborhood hub, with a wide range of acts and a spacious upstairs bar and lounge, outfitted with worn-in sofas and winged guitars hanging from the ceiling. A few doors down is the Atlas Performing Arts Center (1333 H Street; 202-399-7993; www.atlasarts.org), a renovated Art Deco movie house with two 250-seat theaters and two smaller spaces and performances from plays to cabaret to to jazz to light opera. The 1200 block is home to the Palace of Wonders (1210 H Street; 202-398- 7469; www.palaceofwonders.com), a bar that doubles as a vaudeville theater, and the Cajun-inflected Red and the Black (1212 H Street; 202-399-3201; www.redandblackbar.com), another Englert enterprise, which offers Abita beer ($5) and a spicy chicken jambalaya ($8) downstairs and rock shows upstairs. At the H Street Martini Lounge (1236 H Street; 202-397-3333; www.hstreetlounge.com), bar-hoppers can enjoy jazz acts while sampling from a 60-drink martini menu. Perhaps just to see how many bars one block can handle, the 1200 block is also home to the Pug (1234 H Street; 202-388-8554), an inviting neighborhood bar, and Dr. Granville Moore’s Brickyard (1238 H Street; 202-399-2546), a cozy two-floor pub featuring Belgian beers, a range of mussel dishes and enormous bowls of twice-fried frites (mussels start at $14; large frites are $7). Clubgoers looking to check out go-go, the D.C. homegrown dance music style, should stop by Rose’s Dream Bar and Lounge (1370 H Street; 202-398-5700; www.rosesdream.com), where the go-go veteran Little Benny takes the stage every Friday night. The one drawback to H Street is its lack of Metro access. Fortunately, local proprietors offer a free shuttle service (301-751-1802) Friday and Saturday to and from Union Station, where patrons can catch the Red Line. H Street gets less hectic during the day, with little commercial activity beyond a Payless shoe store and an auto parts store. But that is slowly changing, too. A few art galleries have opened recently, including Dissident Display (416 H Street; 202-332-3346; www.dissidentdisplay.com), as well as Sidamo (417 H Street; 202-548-0081; www.sidamocoffeeandtea.com), an airy coffeehouse with a roaster on the premises. In Washington, wherever night life flourishes, high-end condo development is never far behind. The street’s first luxury condo building debuted recently, and local developers are quickly buying up land along the entire strip. If H Street is anything like 14th and U, the now-trendy neighborhood that was the center of the 1968 riots, in five years it will be completely made over — and jam-packed. For those who want to see the area before it really takes off, get to H Street now. Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company

REX RIDDEM Fort Knox Recordings/Riddem Records - DC http://www.riddemrecords.com/ http://www.myspace.com/rexriddem If you haven't seen Rex Riddem for awhile, there's a good reason for it: he is now one of the resident DJ's at the Eye Candy Sound Lounge located at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. In fact, that's a picture of Rex up there doing it up Vegas style! When he's not in Vegas he is playing congas and percussion with Thunderball and Fort Knox Five and also working on the new Fort Knox Five full length album "Radio Free DC" Check the pic below of Troy, a.k.a. Rex Riddem, a.k.a. T.Rex playing congas with Thunderball in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico - that's Mustafa Akbar on the mic Rex Riddem's music career started, during the early 90's, in the Washington, DC underground scene. There he combined efforts with several friends to start the Snowball Collective. With Snowball Rex hosted and spun some of the most eclectic parties to hit the DC electronic underground. He also threw several Philadelphia after-hours parties, at that time, with Randall Jones of Tigerhook Corp. (THC). Along with dj'ing, Riddem produces and preforms as a percussionist. Rex's style, highly tribal and ethnicly influenced, traverses through many styles and and tempos. Provided that its got a diasporic twist to it, Rex can rock anything from laid back samba-breakbeats, through latin infused funk, to hot-steppin drum n bass. As a DJ, Riddem has moved dancefloors across the U.S. and Latin America. As a percussionist he has done the same while adding Russia to the list. Rex records as well as performs live with Thunderball (ESL records) Fort Knox Five Recordings (FK5), Holmes Ives (OVA records), Randall Jones and Hito (THC), and Buster (Snowball , Buzzlife). He has also recorded percussion for Afrika Bambaataa (Zulu Nation).

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SLANT & BJOO 2Tuff Soundsystem, DC http://www.2tuff.com http://www.myspace.com/djslant http://www.myspace.com/bjoo BJOO has been very busy lately working on beats and learning the ropes at Omega up in Rockville. Earlier this fall she got to dj at the "Festival of Women's Film & Media Arts" hosted by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She was also interviewed and featured recently by GlamHub, check the article here: http://glamhub.com/2007/11/dj_bjoo/ SLANT recently dropped a super old school (1991-1993) set at Five for the special old school party - but at the Happy FKX-Mas party Slant & Bjoo will form as a d&b tag-team for the headz. if you didn't download their mixes yet, do so now: "Forward On" is Slant's conscious reggae dancehall mix from last year and "Champion Selection" is the winning d&b set inspired by bjoo in the 2005 Buzzlife Battle of the DJ's which she won: "right click & save as" to download these mixes: http://www.2tuff.com/mixes/slant-forward_on.zip http://www.2tuff.com/mixes/bjoo-champion_selection.zip

SEE-I are also celebrating the release of their new single "THE KING" on Bastard Jazz Recordings - available next month on 10" vinyl:

MAT THE ALIEN - CIRCA/Whistler - Vancouver, British Columbia http://www.myspace.com/matthealien Dope Clips from 2003-2004: Live @ the Ewok Village - Shambhala Festival 2007: Turntablism demo @ Remix Shop in Seoul, Korea - Nov 2006:

MAT THE ALIEN - CIRCA/Whistler - Vancouver, British Columbia http://www.myspace.com/matthealien Dope Clips from 2003-2004: <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UekgFL2S4Go&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UekgFL2S4Go&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Live @ the Ewok Village - Shambhala Festival 2007: <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LheOTKv4ZY&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LheOTKv4ZY&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Turntablism demo @ Remix Shop in Seoul, Korea - Nov 2006: <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jjWuEgJkss&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jjWuEgJkss&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

had to add this dope flier, designed by our very own Rob Myers:

Fort Knox Recordings & 2Tuff Productions in association with C1RCA Present: HAPPY FK-XMAS 2 "The Sequel" Friday December 21st, 2007 Featuring an All Star Line-up: SEE-I **Live & direct with DC's Roots Reggae Rockers!! http://www.myspace.com/seei http://www.last.fm/music/See-I http://www.reverbnation.com/seei MAT THE ALIEN - C1rca, Vancouver **Debut DC Appearance http://www.myspace.com/matthealien FORT KNOX FIVE - Fort Knox, DC http://www.fortknoxrecordings.com/ http://www.myspace.com/fortknoxfive http://www.myspace.com/djjonh SLANT & BJOO - 2Tuff, DC http://www.2tuff.com http://www.myspace.com/djslant http://www.myspace.com/bjoo REX RIDDEM - Fort Knox, DC http://www.rexriddem.com http://www.myspace.com/rexriddem Free Giveaways courtesy of Fort Knox Recordings, C1rca, and the See-I Massive. Tickets: $10 On Sale Now @ http://www.rockandrollhoteldc.com/ 9pm to 3am All Ages Show Rock & Roll Hotel 1353 H Street NE, Washington, DC 20002 http://www.rockandrollhoteldc.com

And here's a few more mixes from 1/4 of Version Sound... Dub Foundation III * All Dub Foundations mixed by PMX Sound. Tracklist: 1. Cedric Im Brooks/Light Of Saba - Words of Wisdom (3:34) 2. Cedric Im Brooks/Light Of Saba - Song for My Father (5:04) 3. Cedric Im Brooks/Light Of Saba - Sabayindah (3:22) 4. Cedric Im Brooks/Light Of Saba - Sound (2:03) 5. Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Licky-Licky (3:05) 6. Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Voodoo Man (3:39) 7. Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Wise Dub (2:55) 8. Lee “Scratch†Perry/I-Roy - Upsetting Dub (3:56) 9. Lee “Scratch†Perry/I-Roy - Lee Perry Special Dub (3:54) 10. Lee “Scratch†Perry/I-Roy - Rough Already (3:14) 11. Skin Flesh & Bones; Lloyd Campbell - Scotch Dub (3:26) 12. King Tubby/Prince Jammy/The Aggrovators - A Living Version (3:10) 13. Burning Spear - Natural [Version] (5:15) 14. Burning Spear - Jomo [Version] (3:09) 15. Philip Fullwood - Word [Version] (4:19) 16. Burning Spear - Walking [Version] (3:13) 17. Burning Spear - In Those Days (3:25) http://www.eightyeightdc.com/download/dub_foundation_III_a.mp3 Dub Foundation V Tracklist: 1. Prince Jammy - Round 2 (3:36) 2. Prince Jammy - Round 4 (4:07) 3. Prince Jammy - Round 8 (3:21) 4. Prince Jammy - Round 10 (2:47) 5. Scientist - Round 3 (4:00) 6. Scientist - Round 9 (4:33) 7. Scientist - Upper Cut (4:10) 8. Scientist - Knockout (3:24) 9. Scientist - Saved By The Bell (2:51) 10. Rico Rodrigues & Ghetto Rockers - This Day Dub (5:42) 11. Rico Rodrigues & Ghetto Rockers - Africa Dub (5:32) 12. Rico Rodrigues & Ghetto Rockers - Dial Africa Dub (3:43) 13. Sly & The Revolutionaries/Jah Thomas - Collie (2:49) 14. Sly & The Revolutionaries/Jah Thomas - Rizla (3:14) 15. Sly & Robbie - Demolition City (5:38) http://www.eightyeightdc.com/download/dub_foundation_V_a.mp3 Dub Foundation VIIa - The Final Chapta Tracklist: 1. Glen Brown/King Tubby - World Dub: Away With The Bad (3:31) 2. Glen Brown/King Tubby - Dub Universal (3:39) 3. Glen Brown/King Tubby - Wicked Can’t Run This Dub (3:20) 4. Glen Brown/King Tubby - Assack Lawn No. 1 Dub (Version 2) (3:32) 5. Glen Brown/King Tubby - Father For The Living Dubwise (2:43) 6. Glen Brown/King Tubby - Save Out Dub (3:28) 7. Aggrovators meets Revolutionaries - The Conqueror (3:48) 8. Aggrovators meets Revolutionaries - Bionic Man (3:54) 9. Aggrovators meets Revolutionaries - Seven Million Dollar Man (3:47) 10. Aggrovators meets Revolutionaries - Special Brew (3:14) 11. Jack Ruby/The Black Disciples - Running Dub (3:15) 12. Jack Ruby/The Black Disciples - Track 20 Dub (2:16) 13. Jack Ruby/The Black Disciples - Nubia (3:37) 14. Jack Ruby/The Black Disciples - Jah Jah Dub (4:38) 15. Michael Rose - Gold Mine (3:45) 16. Michael Rose - Straight To Landlord’s Head (3:44) 17. Michael Rose - Ghetto Life (3:48) http://www.eightyeightdc.com/download/dub_foundation_VII_a__final_chapta.mp3 Dub Foundation VIIb - The Final Chapta tracklist: 18. Gussie P - Dub Of Killamanjaro (4:28) 19. Gussie P - Dub Ah Bite! (4:37) 20. Gussie P - Dub That Gun (4:42) 21. Gussie P - Journey To Dub (4:10) 22. Gussie P - Dub Of Love (4:02) 23. Gussie P - Cool Dub Vibes (4:10) 24. Gussie P - Land Of Dub (4:46) 25. Mikey Murka - Control the Dancehall [Version] (2:58) 26. Mikey Murka - Ride the Rhythm [Version] (3:01) 27. Selah Collins - Pick a Sound (3:26) 28. Selah Collins - Pick a Sound [Version] (3:13) 29. Mikey Murka - We Try [Version] (2:48) 30. Cocoa Tea/Xterminator All Stars - Long Time Dub (3:52) 31. Luciano/Xterminator All Stars - Weaponist Dub (4:08) 32. Luciano/Xterminator All Stars - Final Call Dub (3:57) 33. Louie Kulcha/Xterminator All Stars - How Long Dub (3:54) 34. Luciano/Xterminator All Stars - Sweep Over My Soul Dub (3:53) 35. Cocoa Tea/Xterminator All Stars - Repatriation Dub (4:17) 36. Fred Locks/Xterminator All Stars - Never Give Up Dub (4:02) 37. Joe Gibbs/Errol Thompson - Behind Iron Bars (4:05) 38. Ja-Man All Stars - Half Ounce (3:01) http://www.eightyeightdc.com/download/dub_foundation_VII_b__final_chapta.mp3

"THE KING" - coming out soon on Bastard Jazz Recordings - http://www.bastardjazz.com/ w/ original & dub versions and the very hot Magic Fly remix.