TOM AND JERRY CUBALL CAT DJ SPAE REMIX WITH TURNTABLES!!! "DJ SPAE"A rising star in the bustling New York City nightlife and music scene, Queens native DJ Spae has built an impressive resume of performances and achievements in his young career. The DJ, producer and budding music supervisor has performed several times at some of the Big Apple’s trendiest spots, including Hammerstein Ballroom, Crash Mansion, BLVD, Show, and Sway. In addition to holding longstanding residencies at Spider Club, Avalon,China 1, Beauty Bar, and 6’s & 8’s, he has also provided music for several exhibitions at the Martinez Gallery and Soma NYC. Highly respected for his musical selection and ability to adapt to diverse audiences, DJ Spae has shared the stage with legendary hip-hop acts like Run-DMC, Ol’ Dirty Bastard and GZA of Wu-Tang Clan,House Of Pain,B Real of Cypress Hill; he has spun alongside world famous DJs and producers such as Psycho Les of the Beatnuts, Alamo of Brand Nubian, DJ Evil Dee of Da Beatminerz/Black Moon, Mighty Mi, Stretch Armstrong, PF Cuttin’, IXL, Kech, Elle, and Excess. In 2004, innovative scratch music documenter John Carluccio and famed music supervisor Barry Cole tapped Spae and DJ IXL to score the classic Kung Fu film “Chinese Super Ninjas†for the latest installment in their pioneering Hop-Fu series. They performed this critically-acclaimed combination of Kung Fu action and scratching and musical arrangement at the Sound Unseen Film Festival in Minnesota. Spae also scored the motocross DVD “Somewhere Between†for Megaworx Films (2005), and scored unreleased personal projects like the “Cue Ball Cat†episode of “Tom & Jerry,†and “Pink Panther’s†“Psychedelic Pink†episode. Most recently, DJ Spae could be seen performing with Danny Diablo on the 2006 Vans Warped Tour. A dedicated and prolific music mind with a unique ear and an old-school soul, Spae will no doubt continue to add to his already intriguing resume for years to come. BY MICHAEL CUSENZA.....................................................
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.........................................The Bomb-itty, the third and final show in the Repertory Theater of St. Louis's "Off-Ramp" series, began life as a collaborative student project at NYU and gradually worked its way into the big time, with a national tour and an opening in London's West End. For all that its authors are, um, not exactly the kind of people who would turn up in the posse of Snoop Dog, or whatever he calls himself these days, it does have a certain street cred, enhanced in this production by DJ Spae, who is a real presence on the New York hip hop scene. The four gifted comedians who make up the entire cast – something north of a dozen characters, counting walk-ons - are not as persuasive as rappers as they are as clowns, but that's lost in the giddy whirlwind of their movement. The evening's single act speeds by in a blur of dazzling characters: Jason Babinsky, nominally Dromio of Syracuse, being outrageous and hilarious as a ditzy blonde Luciana and equally deft as a campy cop; Omar Evans (the other Dromio) as a hooker and as a rasta-man herbalist; Jake Mosser (Antipholus of Syracuse) as the goldsmith; Jason Veasey (Antipholus of Ephesus) as the lissome Amelia.Woven into the exhausting farce, which gets down to door-slamming and unbelievable quick changes in its final minutes, are a few threads of more serious thought, not developed but flashed MTV-style, such as when the white Antipholus and the African-American Dromio (of Syracuse) compare their skin color and don't see a difference. It's about the notion that hip hop is a bridge that crosses cultural divides, maybe a way out of some of our most vexing difficulties as a country.Nick Corley, the director, and Luke Hegel-Cantarella, the scenic designer, did this show together at the Adirondack Theater Festival, and the experience matters; the effectiveness of Bomb-itty's mad pacing depends on the space as well as on the blocking, and both work flawlessly here. And one can't say enough about the costumes by Maiko Matsushima, which not only look great but function without a hitch in the brilliant quick-changes.Which is to say that the Rep's Bomb-itty of Errors is a show pretty much without them, a wonderfully funny evening of theater that Steve Woolf and the Rep can be proud of and William Shakespeare would be down with. It will run through December 9 at the Grandel Square Theater. Don't miss it..........................................................
..............................2 plays that opened Friday night address the same intriguing issue: Who owns culture? Who gets to say what culture is?The funny one, as it happens, turns out to take the more thoughtful approach. It's more enjoyable, too.The comedy, "The Bomb-itty of Errors," turns out to be by far the strongest offering this season at Off-Ramp, the Repertory of St. Louis's third subscription series. With powerhouse productions such as "Take Me Out" and "Urinetown: the Musical," Off-Ramp promised plenty of bite, but this season has settled for cute instead. Under Nick Corley's direction, however, the new show hones Off-Ramp to a keen edge, wildly comic and at root, very smart.Dreamed up by six New York University students, "Bomb-itty" is a rap-style adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors." In this telling, two sets of identical twins (four brothers, in this version) are separated almost at birth. When they all find themselves in gritty, urban Ephesus, confusion ensues.
AdvertisementAnd so does laughter. Corley, the writers and four deft actors who play many parts join forces to evoke Shakespeare at his zaniest. It's like seeing Harpo Marx and Nelly on stage together, wearing doublets.They pull out all the stops. There are brainy in-jokes, such as the allusions to Shakespeare plays that designer Luke Hegel-Cantarella crams into his witty set. There are vulgar jokes that involve astonishingly crude language and graffiti — but no more vulgar than Shakespeare's own jokes are. There are stereotypes mined for humor (a really dumb blonde, a Diamond-District jeweler, a sassy streetwalker). Mistaken identity, slapstick, fast talk (so fast you can't always understand it) and doubletakes abound.The tall twins (white Jake Moser and black Jason Veasey) are in charge; the short brothers (black Omar Evans and white Jason Babinsky) do their bidding. All of them are lively rappers with the help of New York's DJ Spae (Jordan Connors), and all four delight us with their in-a-flash transformations. (They get a big hand from designer Maiko Matsushima's hilarious costumes.) Babinsky's idiot ingenue and Evans' Rasta-man herbalist are comic creations worthy of shows of their own.Years of Shakespeare in the Park and its sister productions have taught audiences to ignore the race of actors, particularly in the classics. But "Bomb-itty" goes for integration at a much deeper level. It is a black, urban style, claiming a Shakespeare play for its own and for comedy.It's hard to say what kids who really like and know rap would make of "Bomb-itty." Maybe it would help them enjoy Shakespeare. Undoubtedly, however, "Bomb-itty" can help the traditional Shakespeare audience enjoy rap. That's the kind of terrific thing that happens when cultures rub up against each other in a safe place, such as the theater......................
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..............................The Rep Off-Ramp Series: "The Bomb-itty of Errors" * * * *You have never seen anything quite like "The Bomb-itty of Errors." It represents a very successful new form of contemporary American musical theater with an urban, hip-hop tempo and a very funny storyline based on Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors." Four young men, Jason Babinsky, Omar Evans, Jake Mosser and Jason Veasey play brothers separated at birth whose paths cross in adulthood.....or maybe, in this case, just in the "hood." New York based hip-hop music master D J Spae is on set to spin the music and the original hip hop mixes. The four principal performers play multiple roles and change costumes with amazing speed and inventiveness. Direction by Nick Corley and the absolutely fearless pace and performance skills of the cast make "The Bomb-itty of Errors" an explosive evening of entertainment, hilarious comedy and can't-sit-still musical energy. This show will have a big appeal for teens and 20-somethings and I encourage them to see it. (Anything that introduces musical theater to the "younger crowd" is a very worthy effort indeed.) So, for the young and the young at heart, give it up for "The Bomb-itty of Errors." Pack on the bling-bling and catch the flava. You'll be glad you did.........................................................
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.........Some people would rather see Shakespeare performed in traditional fashion, but I personally prefer an inspired re-imagining. After all, the bard himself was well known for his prowess at remaking the work of others.The Rep's Off Ramp series brings the "ad-rap-tation" of The Comedy of Errors, here called The Bomb-itty of Errors, to the stage of the Grandel Theatre. It's a raucous and beat-laden version that actually retains a great deal of the original play.For the uninitiated, Shakespeare's plot concerns pairs of identical twins separated at birth. One set lives in Ephesus, while the other grows up in Syracuse. Chance brings the pair together, but not before a series of cases of mistaken identity threatens the sanity of all involved. I've always thought that the film, Start the Revolution Without Me, was a pretty good take on the idea.Shakespeare's original work is one of his more rhyming plays, and this works to distinct advantage with the concept created by Jordan Allen-Dutton, Jason Catalano, Gregory Qaiyum and Erik Weiner, with music by Jeffrey Qaiyum. The text, with much tweaking, is set to a variety of hip-hop grooves that create a nice "old school" feel to the proceedings.Jake Mosser and Jason Veasey are twins, both named Antipholus (not very imaginative work there by Shakespeare, but useful nonetheless to the plot) and Jason Babinksy and Omar Evans are twins, both named Dromio. Additionally, each actor takes on the various male and female characters that populate the original work. All four possess the skills necessary to carry on their free flowing raps without losing the beat or the meaning of the words. DJ Spae, aka Jordan Connors, expertly provides the scratches and beats while perched just above the action.Mosser is appealing as Antipholus of Syracuse, and he has a blast playing the crazy jewish goldsmith Angelo, here renamed MC Hindenburg. He's partnered with Evans who does great work as Dromio, and also gives Desi, a courtesan in the original, a sassy streetwise attitude. Evans excels later as Pinch, here reworked as a dub-singing Jamaican.Veasey is solid as Antipholus of Ephesus and as his own wife, Adriana. His work in drag and as an ineptly rapping delivery boy is a hoot. Jason Babinsky, however, absolutely steals the show with his portrayal of Adriana's dimwitted sister, Luciana. It's a true comic gem of a performance that must be seen to be believed. Babinsky also impresses as a sexually confused policeman.Nick Corley's direction is loose but fun. The action and raps fly by fast and furious, so you've got to pay attention or you just might miss a great line or rhyme. Luke Hegel-Cantarella's urbanized scenic design is eye catching with copious amounts of in-joke graffiti filling the walls. Jeffrey Nellis' lighting also adds a colorful touch.This is a terrific show that's well worth seeing. If you're a person who can't stand any kind of rap, then you probably won't get it, regardless of your affection for Shakespeare. But, I loved it, and the vast majority of the audience was equally enthusiastic.
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..............................Big NEWS!! DANNY DIABLO: Will be out for the end of the year the reissue of Street CD vol. 1 for Countdown records! The cd contains a new artwork and 3 new songs from his last work!
The c.d. has special guest artist which are:
SKINHEAD ROB from the TRANSPLANTS
PUERTO RICAN MYKE from SKARHEAD
LORDZ OF BROOKLYN
EPIC & SHIFTY from CRAZY TOWN
DANNY BOY from HOUSE OF PAIN & LA COKA NOSTRA
FREDDY CRICIEN from MADBALL
LU DIBELLA from SUBZERO
SKAM DUST from SON OF SKAM
CEEKAY of THE CAPO REGIME & THE SHOTBLOCKERS
BIG LEFT Of LA COKA NOSTRA & THE SHOTBLOCKERS
And a special remix of the song "Street Legends"
with EVERLAST and ILL-BILL of LA COKA NOSTRA by D.J. SPAE of The
Shotblockers.
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.......While Barat was further getting his buzz on, though, I was on a plane to Minnesota for the weekend, where my Minneapolis-based sister took me out to the fifth annual Sound Unseen festival. The event, which I wish someone would replicate here, features "independent film about independent music," meaning films about everything from the Ramones and Elliott Smith to Jandek and other more obscure artists. From the little I was able to attend in one weekend, though, the highlight definitely was Hop Fu. They're the dream DJ team of Brooklyn's DJ IXL and DJ Spae, who scratch, remix, and generally perform an audio assault on the soundtrack to the classic 1982 kung-fu flick Superninjas. Every jab, high kick, and grunt emitted in the cinematic war of good vs. evil is reconfigured into an incredibly cool hiphop format that spoofs the film's high-camp value while adding a high entertainment value all their own. Let's hope Hop Fu will find their way to Seattle someday.....................................................
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Like Mentos dropped into a half-liter bottle of Coke, The Bomb-itty of Errors explodes Shakespeare’s shortest and earliest play, The Comedy of Errors, into a spume of colors, clichés, characters, and cadences. Updating Shakespeare’s goofiest comedy (itself an adaptation) this hip-hop self-titled “ad-RAP-tation†bursts with flavor and rhythm, making this show not just a fun introduction to the mayhem of Shakespeare, but a witty addition to Shakespeare-inspired musicals. It’s the funniest, funkiest, wittiest, wackiest show you could hope to see this summer.The Bomb-itty of Errors streaks by in 99 minutes, the four-actor cast (Jake Mosser, Benton Greene, Omar Evans, Jason Babinsky) whirling through the 20 characters of Shakespeare’s play. Costume designer Maiko Matsushima gives the servant Dromios bright green baggy shorts and plaid shirts, and the upper-class Antipholuses black jeans and white muscle shirts, stylishly slashed, which makes the cast as eye-popping as Luke Cantarella’s graffiti-fried set. There are three brightly colored sets of doors for the three Ephesus locales of Antipholus’ house down right, the “Pleasure Palace†(with a sweet use of pink) down left, and the abbey up center. Jeff Nellis’ lighting design makes the cast and set pop; this is as much a feast for the eyes as it is for the ears.Literally overseeing this production is DJ Spae (Jordan Connors), who creates the beats for the various songs standing above the upstage center entrance to the Ephesus Abbey, his purple-and-gold-trim Spanish ruff creating lots of bling. The five create a take on The Comedy of Errors that not only preserves its plot—two sets of identical twins, master and servant, who, unaware of their long lost brothers, create one misprision (the most basic comedic device where one thing is mistaken for another) after another as they rush through Ephesus—but captures the madcap rhythms of Shakespeare’s ur-text; COE is almost 90-percent poetry (of its nearly 1,800 lines, only 200 are in prose).Particularly fun are the quick changes finding the four creating one of the female characters: Antipholus of Ephesus’ wife Adriana (Benton Greene), her blonde-bimbo little sister Luciana (Jason Babinsky), the head courtesan of the Pleasure Palace (Omar Evans), or the Abbess (Jake Mosser). Adriana’s lament “It’s your own fault/That you can’t pitch a tent/It’s your own fault/You know what I meant/The jury is hung/It’s your own fault/But my husband is not†captures the essence of The Bomb-itty of Errors. All four in the cast create specific, physically exact, and hysterical characters sometimes literally with just a twirl, but Babinsky’s Luciana is spectacularly engaging, like watching a breathy cross of Holly Hunter and Jessica Simpson, and her word-association scene brings the house down. Nick Corley’s direction keeps the juggling of characters from falling into chaos, and his chase sequences are inspired. The Bomb-itty of Errors earns its standing ovation and inspires the audience to keep their hands in the air. It’s a show that shouldn’t be missed......................................................
.................................................DANNY DIABLO WILL BE IN N.Y.C. THIS WINTER ACTING IN HIS FIRST MOVIE. SHOUT OUT TO SETH ABRAMS AND CHARLES NORDEEN.HE WILL BE PLAYING A GANG MEMBER NAMED ISRAEL RODRIGUEZ IN THE NEW CHARLES NORDEEN MOVIE CALLED "THE CRACKDOWN".DANNY DIABLO "HARDCORE 4 LIFE " E.P. WILL BE OUT SOON CAUSE SUBURBAN NOIZE IS RE-RELEASING IT!!!GET READY FOR THE REISSUE OF "HARDCORE 4 LIFE" E.P. PLUS 5 OTHER SONGS AND BONUS VIDEO ON DVD!!!IT WILL BE COMING OUT ON SUBURBAN NOIZE RECORDS EARLY NEXT YEAR... AND WILL BE CALLED"HARDCORE 4 LIFE REVISITED"DANNY DIABLO MEGAMIX WILL BE OUT SOON ON ILL-ROC RECORDS...IT WILL BE MIXED BY THE GREATEST WHITE TRASH D.J. IN QUEENS!!! D.J. SPAE. PRODUCTION WORK BY DAMIAN BURNZ OF THE DIRTY MONEY SYNDICATE...
