The Worldwide Festival (WF) is based on one simple idea, to create a different festival, offering a unique artistic selection in stunning environments happening in different cities around the world. Inspired by the musical diversity of Gilles Peterson’s “Worldwide” radio show being broadcasted in 20 countries, the Worldwide Festival brings together an array of music enthusiasts from around the world. For our local edition, we’ll see two WF sessions of cutting-edge grooves by the best of today’s most inspiring artistes. With a new collaboration between mega musical marvens, Zouk & Worldwide Festival, celebrate as the Zouk complex transforms into a 1 stop festival venue, unifying all the different spaces to represent WF’s innovative and underground spirit, music and vibe. More info on the lineup below.

Date: 27 Aug 2010 – 28 Aug 2010
Venue: Zouk Complex

Zouk is located at 17 Jiak Kim Street

DAM-FUNK (USA)

From spinning records at one of his Funkmosphere DJ nights in Los Angeles to making endlessly spaced-out and bouncy music for Indie stalwart Stones Throw Records, Damon Riddick is the one-man show behind Da?m-Funk, a gifted messenger who delivers the funk and spunk.

Da?m-Funk’s specialty lies in 80’s-style analogue fizziness once spearheaded by the likes of Slave, Roger Troutman and Prince, grooves so thick and juicy with beatifically mid-tempo synths that will make for a riotous trip on the dance floor. Da?m has sat in as a session keyboardist for Hip-Hop acts such as Westside Connection and has added his unique brand of flavour to the Electro-Funk canon with his Stones Throw debut, Toeachizown.

Reeling off obscure 80’s B-sides with ease while dropping references to Ariel Pink and George Clinton in the same breath, Da?m-Funk is very serious about his very fun music – and so should you, at the musical diversity that is Worldwide Festival.

dOP ‘Live’ (FRANCE)

Brace yourself for dOP, a live music trio from Paris, made up of Clement Aichelbaum (beat programming), Damien Vandesande (keyboards and horns) and Jonathan Illel (lyrics and vocals), three childhood friends who offer a plethora of musical styles through their Hip-Hop, Jazz, House and Reggae Cuts.

Through their exposure to Malian folk composers, dOP kickstarted their foray into composing electronic music in their own style, releasing records through Mali K7 and remixing on labels like MilnorModern, Circus Company and Eklo. With some advice from dear mate Nicolas Sfintescu of Noze, the trio delved into making organic dance music in a classical way of composing with real instruments and voice, playing and collecting organic instruments such as flutes, horns, percussions, glockenspiel, saxophone and many more.

With collabs with friends such as Guy Gerber, DJ Koze and Sety and their self-released EPs and remixes for Get Physical, Rebirth and many more, do not miss them on stage as they re-energise House music with horns, bells, bass, roses, vodka and a whole lot of vocals.

DORIAN CONCEPT ‘Live’ (AUSTRIA)

Fusing together the fashionable ends of the Hyperkrunk scene with sublime jazz synth bleeps and micro-editing capabilities, Dorian Concept (Oliver Thomas Johnson) is a music beast. Juggling between being a student, a keyboardist and a producer, Concept blasts the dance floors off with his on-the-fly improvs and quirky-key workouts scattered with drums, piercing synth-laced hooks and jaw-dropping bass.

Getting played by Benji B on 1xtra and getting approached by Treble-O Records to release an EP are no mean feats for a 24-year-old. Get down and check what the fuss is all about as Concept plays the Micro Korg live and comes up with spontaneous compositions that will blow your heads off.

GILLES PETERSON (UK)

Music lover, record collector, DJ, broadcaster… Perhaps most famous for his much loved genre-exploding radio shows and his mighty Worldwide Festival, Gilles Peterson’s insatiable appetite for new music, undoubtedly lies at the heart of his success.
Brought up amongst the South London suburban Soul scene in the 80’s, Peterson would avidly listen to Level 42, Earth Wind & Fire, Central Line and the heavier and deeper pirate stations such as Radio Invicta. This inspired him to start up his own station and the rest, as they say, is history.

Gilles Peterson is awesome. And how awesome is he? Well, he is called the pioneer of the Acid Jazz movement by critics and punters alike, brought along a cerebral edge to the markedly hedonistic impulse of the dance scene today through his compilations and garnered audiences from above and beyond with his massively successful BBC Radio 1 show. And there he remains for more than 20 years now, ripping things up, dishing it out and breaking the Jazz beat like no other can or ever will. Be there to find out what this hype is all about.

IKONIKA (UK)

A definite breath of fresh air to the ears, Ikonika aka Sara Abdel-Hamid paved her musical career as a drummer in hardcore bands at the mere age of 11. A huge fan of Hip-Hop producer, Jay Dilla, and hardcore metal band, The Dillinger Escape Plan, she originally started producing Hip-Hop, but had a Dubstep epiphany after hearing Skream’s “Midnight Request Line”. Ikonika then sent her early music to Hyperdub label boss, Kode 9, who loved what he heard and subsequently released her debut 12”, “Please/Simulacrum”, in 2008.

Warp Records followed on by asking her to remix the global underground hit by DJ Mujava, “Township Funk”, for them. Described as “a rare female face in the male- dominated world of Dubstep” and “[melding] the genre’s juddering bass with Aphex Twin-style melodic mischief-making” by The Observer, get down to check out her wonderland of bleeps and bloops.

JAZZTRONIK ‘Live’ (JAPAN)

Topping DJ charts worldwide and releasing more than 10 original albums were simply not enough for Jazztronik aka Ryota Nozaki; he went on to being the first Japanese artiste to be featured as the mixing DJ in the “Defected In The House” compilation and mixing CDs such as “Lovetronica” (2009) and “The Rawest Fusion – Jazztronik VS Mad Mats” (2009).

Nozaki started “Jazztronik” as a free-form music project, which blew out of proportion with his major debut album, “Horizon”, in 2003. His track, “Samurai”, became one of the biggest hits over the world, outfoxing DJs such as Danny Krivit and Louie Vega and upping his ante across the globe with his Jazz and House tunes. He has been booked to festivals like Southport Weekender, Kaunas Fes (Lithuania), Jazzkaar Fes (Estonia), April Jazz Fes (Finland) and has also toured cities like New York, Paris, London, Rome, Seoul, Shanghai and countries such as Slovakia, Croatia, Ireland etc as a DJ and a Live entity in concerts, further proving why he is one of Japan’s leading DJs.

LEFTO (BELGIUM)

An eclectic puppet master in his own right, Lefto grew up on his father’s jazz collection and got bitten by the DJ bug when his dad got him his first set of decks on a bank loan. In search of a way to support his passionate quest into music, he was offered a chance at the Music Mania record store in Brussels, which paved his way to become the DJ and composer of “De Hop” on Studio Brussel, the only Hip-Hop radio show being broadcasted nationally.

The show evidently opened new doors for him. Since then, he has been co-running the infamous B9000 label that has released music by Count Bass D, Kazi & Ohno and DJ Revolution, been affiliated to Brownswood Recordings, !K7, Jazzy Sport and Appletree Records and has started producing EPs and compilations with Jerboa and the world famous Blue Note label.

From London to Tokyo and somewhere in-between, be sure to catch Lefto shaking the dancefloor up with his rollercoaster ride of Broken Beats, Reggae, Deep House, Bossa Nova, Funk and Soul Beats.

ZED BIAS aka MADDSLINKY (UK)

Zed Bias has been brewing his own take of Soul and Broken Beats deep within the UK music scene since the mid 90’s. After hooking up with XL Recordings in 2000 and releasing the notable single, “Neighbourhood”, featuring Nicky Prince and MC Rumpus, Zed Bias has since went full steam ahead and completed over 65 remixes for artists such as The Streets, The Beard and Kosheen, amongst others, started a production collaboration with Injekta called Phuturistix and produced their hit EPs, Matrix and Deep Down, which heralded a new direction in Garage.

Zed even managed to find time to whip up another production name under the Maddslinky moniker, which was subsequently signed to west London beats label, Sirkus, after he remixed “Hook and a Line” for 2Banks of Four, all the while running a host of labels including Sidestepper and 10-inch dub label, Subbz and getting nominated for ‘Best Garage Act’ at the MOBO awards.

Causing such a musical stir as a pioneering producer, globe-trotting DJ, label chief, remixer and Jedi master of everything soulful, be sure to catch Zed Bias’ works that hint of James Brown, Herbie Hancock, 4hero, Bugz in the Attic and Seiji.

ADMISSION

1 Day Ticket: -
Admission on 27 Aug for non-members for all outlets (incl 2 drinks): $30
Admission on 28 Aug for non-members for all outlets (incl 2 drinks): $30

2 Day Ticket: -
Admission on 27 & 28 Aug for non-members for all outlets (incl 4 drinks): $50