This Thursday - TOWNSHIP FUNK @ YUMLA

this is something fresh, from the ones that brought you PIMPIN AINT EASY...

Another breeze of fresh air in Hong Kong's nightlife environment, from the same cats that brought you PIMPIN' AINT EASY.

This one is dedicated to Brazilian Baile Funk, Argentine Cumbia, Jamaican Dancehall Reggae and all types of ghetto music from around the world with a whole lotta BASS.

As a guest selecta, we'll have the lovely Annita Cumbia Selecta from Buenos Aires based ZZK Records, Argentina's numero uno underground label.

www.zzkrecords.com

ZZK Records is a homegrown artists' collective launched recently out of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The label evolved from ZZK Club, the weekly party in BA's Palermo barrio, where visiting artists and resident DeeJays attract consistent crowds of global street music fans. At ZZK, Cumbia gets thrown in a sonic blender with minimal electronica, dancehall, reggaeton, dub mashups and original beats.

ZZK Records artists and ZZK Club are enjoying international attention after a SXSW appearance and follow up tour of the U.S., Canada and Mexico that included a month of consecutive raucous parties.

To learn more about the fast-rising worldwide cumbia craze,

read these articles:

URB magazine:

http://www.urb.com/features/1143/SynthsofResistanceArgentinasDigitalCumbia.php The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2008/sep/15/scene.and.heard.cumbia And download / listen to these mixes / podcasts:

XLR8R:

http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2008/07/zizek-urban-beats-club The Fader:

http://www.thefader.com/articles/2008/12/12/freeload-tremor-zzk-mixtape-volume-five

In celebration of their U.S. tour and an article in URB #154,

the ZZK crew put together a lil video.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHIoxQrcs2U

"ZZK's a cornerstone of the fast-rising Cumbia scene, packing in crowds with music that can perhaps be best described as the ultimate mash-up of underground Latin club sounds" reggaeton and dancehall bleeding into ghettotech and hip-hop, with traditional and electronic dance beats swirling around the whole hot, boiling stew."

• SF Weekly

To learn more about Baile Funk, read these articles:

XLR8R:

http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2005/05/funk-phenomenon The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2004/mar/11/brazil.popandrock

And download / listen to these mixes / podcasts:

Download Diplo's FAVELA ON BLAST mixtape:

http://rapidshare.com/files/103148000/01Favelaon_Blast.mp3.zip Daniel Haaksman's XLR8R podcast:

http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2008/02/exclusive-mix-man-recordings

Video clip of a movie called "Favela on Blast", which is a documentary on the Baile Funk or Funk Carioca music of Brazil. The track being played is "Explosion" by DJ Woody (Brazil)

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQzcQcKDj94

"Forget samba. Funk is the biggest music in the favelas (shanty towns) of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Not the James Brown sort of funk, something else. Call it funk carioca, favela funk, or simply funk, like the locals do."

• XLR8R magazine

10PM till 2AM, Thursday February 26th

@ Yumla

Lower basement, 79 Wyndham st.

Central Hong Kong

Entrance: FREE!

Selecta Annita Cumbia

DJ's: Kid Fresh & Enso

www.pimpinainteasy.hk