DJ Vadim Sound Catcher Tour Featuring Abstract Rude & Yarah Bravo
Oct 12, 2007 4:48 PM
What happens if you cross a Brazilian carnival spirit with a reggae soundsystem and Brooklyn New York with a tour schedule that dwarfs even British Airways flight plan? The Sound Catcher is born. DJ Vadim doesn't know how not to be a very busy bee. DJing, constantly touring, remixing people like Gangstarr, Fat Freddys Drop, Ojos de Brujo, and Alice Russell; and re-editing Prince, Al Green, and Ann Peebles, he is continually working harder than all seven dwarfs put together. DJ Vadim's latest outpouring is the result of him transplanting his "timber yard studio" to Brooklyn in 2006 to produce The Sound Catcher and Sound Catcher Extras.
Released this past spring on his new label BBE, The Sound Catcher was DJ Vadim's fifth album and first solo album since 2002's The Art of Listening. This first Sound Catcher album was followed by extensive touring throughout Europe, and now for fall, we have Sound Catcher Extras—a timely follow-up album that could be seen as the ultimate partner. If The Sound Catcher was dinner, then addSound Catcher Extras and you have a feast. The new album features more material from DJ Vadim's Brooklyn sessions, some new remixes, and live tracks. It also contains a DVD with the videos for "Manchester," "Milwaukee," "Got To Rock," and a short film of the Sound Catcher European tour launch party in London. Fortunately for us, this new album will also be followed by some very extensive touring in the United States.
The Sound Catcher and Sound Catcher Extras both defy expectations and refuse to be categorized neatly. DJ Vadim says the new albums can be described as "unpredictable with touches of disco and Tubby-esque dub moments, varied with brushes of blues, soul, and rap, urban grime bedlam with double-time bounce and ambitious combining so many influences and yet making it feel like they all fit." We think that says it all, really!
DJ Vadim describes his move to BBE: "I felt it was time to clean my closet out and have a fresh vision for a fresh label. I don't like getting tied down to one label as such... part of the reason I wanted to leave Ninja Tune. People were like, 'Yeah, that's Vadim, he's on Ninja Tune, he does that' and I just wanted to break away, really. It's important to keep things fresh." And "fresh" his new sound is.
Vadim's philosophy is so simple it's ingenious: he believes in sourcing the best raw talent and putting together genuinely fresh, innovative, yet damn-right funky shows that need to be seen to be believed! Heavily inspired by the Jamaican/English culture of sound systems like Good Times (Norman Jay), Rap Attack, Trojan, and Channel One, DJ Vadim captures a similar temperament in his new show where nothing less than crowd upheaval is expected. Just like his DJ sets where Marvin Gaye is blended back to back with Gangstarr and then Samba into Gregory Isaacs, the new show mixes a multitude of musical elements and moods together seamlessly.
DJ VADIM
SOUNDCATCHER TOUR
OCTOBER 2007
12 - JOHN HENRY'S EUGENE, OR
13 - FEZ BALLROOM PORTLAND, OR
14 - DOMINO ROOM BEND, OR
16 - THE WAYSIDE SHASTA, CA
17 - JAMBALAYA - ARCATA, CA
18 - MOES ALLEY - SANTA CRUZ, CA
19 - MIGHTY - SAN FRANCISCO, CA
20 - KAVA LOUNGE - SAN DIEGO, CA
21 - KNITTING FACTORY LOS ANGELES, CA
23 - CONTINENTAL ROOM - FULLERTON - ORANGE COUNTY, CA
24 - SOLAR CULTURE TUCSON, AZ
25 - BLUNT CLUB - PHOENIX/MESA, AZ
26 - THE GRAB BAR HOUSTON, TX
27 - EMO'S AUSTIN, TX
28 - GRANADA THEATRE DALLAS, TX
30 - SPANISH MOON - BATAN ROUGE, LA
31 - BETA BAR TALLAHASSEE, FL
NOVEMBER 2007
02 - APACHE CAFE ATLANTA, GA
03 - TBA CHARLOTTE, NC
04 - ALLEY CATS RICHMOND, VA
07 - ALEX P KEATON - LONDON - CANADA
08 - TBA - TORONTO - CANADA
09 - PEPPER JACKS - HAMILTON - CANADA
10 - SALA ROSA - MONTREAL CANADA
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