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Photos: Andrew Kelly (top), German Romero Martinez (bottom)
sakamoiz (a.k.a. Moses Iten) is obsessed with rare global groove, always up for DJing parties&radio shows, and also a member of the sound systems Uber Lingua (Melbourne) and Electronic Tribal (Switzerland).
In July 2007 sakamoiz travelled Mexico as a DJ, to help establish the first Melbourne/Tijuana Convergence. In Dec/Jan 2007/8 sakamoiz toured Europe DJing&collecting music in Berne, Zurich, London, Marseille & Paris.
sakamoiz has DJed alongside the likes of local acts Combat Wombat, Monkey Marc, Miso, Curse Ov Dialect, bP, MashyP, Mista Savona, Morganics, Wire MC, Mr Fish, Croque Monsieur, Spoonbill, The Red Eyes, San Lazaro, Ollo, Diafrix etc etc, and international artists like Nortec Collective (Mexico), Faro (Mexico), DJ Alejandro Davila (Mexico), Deadbeat (Canada), Filastine (USA), DJ Olive (USA), DJ BNX (France), Sinpare (Kenya), Akshai Sarin (India), Coco Varma (UK), Stereo Total (Germany), Upper Hutt Posse (Aotearoa/New Zealand), Russ Jones (UK), DJ Silence (Switzerland) & State Of Bengal (UK).
Most recently DJ sakamoiz has performed at Spanish Film Festival 2008 (Sydney & Melbourne), Melbourne Latin American Film Festival 2008, State Of Bengal Switzerland Tour (Berne & Zurich), Bellingen Global Carnival 2007, Melbourne En Tijuana 2007 (Mexico), and regularly in Melbourne venues including The Laundry, St Jeromes, Mink, Horse Bazaar, Open Studio, Northcote Social Club, The Toff in Town, etc etc
upcoming SAKAMOIZ dj gigs:
:: MINK CHILLOUT Friday 13 June
Selecting chilled global beats from 9pm to midnight, so come for a chat and if ya up for dancin' I bring heaps of music so uptempo is no probs. Ummm, what else. Ah yeah, the swanky, comfy bar is famous for its huge range of vodkas.
@ Mink, Corner Ackland&Fitzroy St, St Kilda
:: UBER LINGUA AT THE LAUNDRY Thursday 19 June
In support of the international headline act from Tunisia/France/Palestine - Checkpoint 303 - I'm preparing a set of electronica&rare grooves with a Middle Eastern-North African flavour to move the dancefloor! Expect to hear quality raw folk and the latest collected in the gritty 'Maghreb' markets of Marseille during my travels last year.
@ The Laundry, Johnston St, Fitzroy
MoCha and Yosh close to Jerusalem and Jericho. Pic by MonaLisa 06/2007
Mehdi Douss and SC MoCha on stage in Malmö, Sweden. May 07
:: CHECKPOINT 303 on PBS FM GLOBAL URBAN show Friday 20 June
Lord Lingham is touring Europe, meanwhile France-based Tunisian producer MoCha of Checkpoint303 is in town for the weekend, joining me live studio guest for this exclusive show focusing on electronic music from the Middle East and North Africa. Tune in from 10pm to midnight!
Checkpoint 303 is a non-profit avant-garde activist sonic project launched in 2004 by sound-catcher SC Yosh (Palestine) and sound-cutter SC MoCha (Tunisia). Checkpoint 303 creates experimental electronic music that aims at raising international awareness about the ongoing injustice and suffering of the civilian populations throughout the Middle East. Checkpoint 303 combines field recordings performed in Palestine with electronic beats, FX and subtle oriental tunes.
The band's recent live shows included electronic performances as supporting act for UK trip-hop band Massive Attack in a series of benefit shows in the UK in February 2007 (Birmingham and London's Brixton Academy) as well as numerous live concerts in France, Sweden, Belgium, Tunisia, Canada, The Netherlands, Palestine, Tunisia, Los Angeles, etc.
Through its compositions, collected sounds and noise, Checkpoint 303 spreads a message of peace and a call for the respect of human rights. Contrasting with the mainstream media's exclusive depiction of violence and suffering in the middle-east, CP-303's sound collages also report on the heroic hope that subsists in the region as well as the seemingly banal but ever so meaningful little things that embody a daily search for normality in a state of emergency.
@ tune in 10pm PBS 106.7fm (Melbourne) or web-stream on www.pbsfm.org.au
:: ICICLES & RAINDROPS CARNIVAL Friday 20 June
Two day festival featuring dozens of Melbourne's hottest underground acts to melt that ice. Go to www.myspace.com/renaissance_festival for complete rundown.
saca la mois is selecting on Stage 1 from 8pm-9pm...although this time may change so check closer to the date...
@ 251 High Street, Northcote
:: PICTURES FOR PEACE Thursday 26 June
Playing contemporary (mostly) Mexican sounds, I'm supporting the pacifist Mayan community I visited last year, in the mountains of Chiapas. Come to this exhibition to get an insight of place!
‘Pictures for Peace’ is a moving photographic exhibition that offers a unique and personal glimpse into the ongoing struggle for peace and justice of the women who survived a massacre. In 1997 forty five indigenous peoples, the majority women and children, were murdered as they prayed for peace to a conflict taking place in Southern Mexico.
“We continue resisting. We continue caring for our sons and daughters, our elders, our families. We continue to conserve our language, our culture. We continue promoting the peace. We continue to ask for justice and a dignified life for all. We continue to care for Mother Earth.†- Women’s leadership group of the Las Abejas, December 2007.
The exhibition has been put together by Justin Coburn, founder of not-for-profit organisation Peace and Diversity Australia who over the past 10 years has worked and lived with these amazing and inspirational people and helped in the development and support of the women’s leadership group.
Entry is by donation, but there's food and drinks provided.
@ NAB Exhibition Centre, Ground Floor 800 Bourke St, Docklands, Melbourne
