Talking At Me is where resident DJ Rita Maia invites DJs and live acts from across the globe to present the best of the current underground dance music scenes - the finest filtered breaks, bass beats, UK funky and an eclectic mix of new club music every month. In December the resident DJs take charge once again and let rip for a few hours with a cutting-edge party mix.
7pm-2am, free before 8pm, £6 before 11pm, £8 after
live: Rime (Finland)
decks: Rita Maia (Badmood) and guest DJ BobaFatt (Main Squeeze)
For January's T.A.M. session, we've invited Rime over from Helsinki to play live and Bobafatt as special guest DJH.
Rime is a collaboration between Finnish producer-composer and saxophone player Antti Hynninen and Finnish-Egyptian vocalist Sara Sayed. Antti and Sara have managed to combine electronic soul music, deep lyrics and rough beats in a unique and fresh way, with influences from jazz, hip hop and broken beat.
Their debut album 'Our Kingdom' was released early last year on the German label Infracom - and the reception has been nothing but positive! Rime has since expanded into an excellent live band. It consists of talented young musicians on bass (Tapio Backlund), drums (Jooel Laakkonen), keys (Antti Kujanpää) as well as Sara on vocals and the producer Antti fiddling with the samples.
And Bobafatt swings by to play a special guest DJ set. The promoter of Main Squeeze and Stone Gruve Social is also the Dance Music Buyer for Rough Trade Shops, so he sure knows his electronic funk and forward-thinking beats. He's also been the resident DJ for Nice Up! Soundcrash and warmed up for everyone from Jazzy Jeff and KRS One to Tinariwen and Chase & Status. Oh, and he's been DJing at parties for 20 years and was the BBC 1Xtra M1x It Up Champion in 2006, so turntablism is second nature.
Rita Maia hosts the Saturday night electronic music show 'Sine of the Times' on the award-winning Resonance FM. London 104.4 FM. www.sineofthetimes.net/
Rita Maia is also a teacher developing music projects in non mainstream education and one of the label managers of Badmood Recordings. www.myspace.com/djrita
Her unique style takes her to numerous events around the world , including many festivals such as Fusion Festival (Germany), Music Box (Portugal) &
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