What can I say, other than I am so grateful and appreciative of all the artists, producers, (especially my co-organizer/host
Diogenes and our official beat making sponsors from the magnanimous
Filthy Fingers United mega crew), family and friends new and old, and whoever else has made
CHURCH!
what it is. Although I am a bit behind in my updates, I wanted to share
with those who didn't make it a hasty summary of what went down in
November and December, and also provide a glimpse into what you can look
forward to in 2014. But before that, special shouts out to
Seattle Community Media Lab
for taking their time to support the sound for this and many other
important grassroots efforts of creative resistance and direct action
all over our region. I'd like to mention that the
Lab is in dire
straits, and is in need of support from the community it gives so much
to in order to keep their services free and available to all. Please consider a making
sustainer-ship monthly donation,
however big or small you can afford, to help this important all
volunteer crew keep their rent paid and their doors open to all. Every
little bit helps when we're running on the fuel of community
self-determination.
November CHURCH!: The Black Magic Noize TAKEOVER!
In
keeping it really real, our November installation of our monthly
extravaganza was our most popping CHURCH! to date, thanks to our
comrades from the
Black Magic Noize brigade. It had to be at least 200 people deep inside and out on our corner of Capitol Hill.
Black Magic Noize
is an amazing collective of emcees, producers, graf writers,
organizers, engineers, and whatever other hats that one could wear. They
bring an incredible energy to each and every space they bless, and are
tremendously genuine, humble, and talented people, so we were more than
happy to hand them the reigns for our November Sunday evening at
Black Coffee. In addition, we were lucky to have the talented photographer
Charles Conatzer take some flicks for us, and he captured the moments beautifully.
Enjoy the gallery here.
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| Mosh Pit Action, Black Magic Noize |
We opened up this night with BMN's own
Nocturnal, emcee and producer, who laced us some beats to freestyle and vibe to, and
followed this up with a set from the vibrant and talented emcee, singer, and spiritual motivator
Lovely Bringer of the Sun. After that, we were fortunate to get a solo set from
Wizdumb, another producer/emcee visionary behind the monthly live producers event
Pad Pushers, at Vermillion (don't miss the
upcoming one of these January 19th!). Wiz's album
Basementality was recently named
one of the top works in 206 Hip Hop in 2013 by The Stranger weekly, so don't skip out on listening to that joint. Then started the madness. BMN's
Araless,
Madshroom MC, and
DJ Corn Dogg took the the mic and damn near started a riot in the spot. If you don't believe me, here's the
photographic evidence again. Told you. Big shouts to all of you again for making that happen. It was unbelievable.
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