12/21- FORT KNOX 5, MAT THE ALIEN, SEE-I, SLANT, BJOO, REX RIDDEM @ Rock & Roll Hotel

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

2tuff · December 12

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2tuff · December 14

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).

2tuff · December 16

The Rock & Roll Hotel and H Street Corridor featured in today's New York Times travel section:

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H (as in Humming) Street

By CLAY RISEN

12/16/2007

ITâ€™S been almost 40 years since riots ripped through Washington in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.â€™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 streetâ€™s 300 storefronts were empty; now only about 45 sit unoccupied. The areaâ€™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. Englertâ€™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 Mooreâ€™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 Roseâ€™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 streetâ€™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 â€” and jam-packed. For those who want to see the area before it really takes off, get to H Street now.

2tuff · December 17

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

2tuff · December 18

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

2tuff · December 19

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/

2tuff · December 21

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

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