This Friday, September 16th, Dubspot will welcome Mad Professor to their New York City home for a discussion of dub, dubstep, the links and history of the two genres and his own personal production and performance strategies. Like all of Dubspot’s workshops, worldwide access is available via live streaming on the Dubspot Blog.

Mad Professor, London-based founder of Ariwa Sounds, is bringing his years of experience in the reggae roots of dub, expanding across numerous musical genres and sharing his insights into live performance and mixing. There is arguably no DJ with more skill or authority in dub and its countless forms than Mad Professor, nor another musician who stands more true to the roots of these genres. Mad Professor will demonstrate live dub and speak about his forthcoming “Roots of Dubstep” project on his own label, Ariwa Sounds.

Mad Professor will be playing later that night as part of Dub Invasion Festival, with Twilight Circus Dub and Majestic Twinsound at The Knitting Factory.

At the end of the month, Connecticut-based independent hip hop label Fake Four Inc. will bring their spring tour to The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn. The line-up consists of Sole & The Skyrider Band, Dark Time Sunshine (the new project from Onry Ozzborn and Grayskul) and Fake Four Inc. founder Ceschi Ramos, all of whom are pushing the envelope and expanding the hip hop genre we know today.

CLICK HERE to download BELIEVEYOUME, the free LP from Dark Time Sunshine. They will also release a new EP through Fake Four Inc. next month.

We’re giving away a pair of tickets to the March 29 show, along with a rare Sole Battlefields vinyl. Enter the contest below or get advance tickets HERE. The contest will close on Thursday, March 25 at noon.
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After four years of hard work, Ari Gold (Hoyt Honey) of the Honey Brothers will finally debut his feature film, Adventures of Power, this Friday. This Wednesday (October 7), Variance Films will celebrate the US theatrical release with a party at the newly-opened Knitting Factory in Williamsburg. There is an optional $10 donation at the door to support the Bill Graham Memorial Foundation and their effort in providing music education to disadvantaged children.

Adventures of Power is about a character who never learned to play the drums because his father couldn’t afford a drum set. Power, the main character, embraces the next best thing: air drumming. This is Power’s story as he sets off on a musical journey across the country to join an underground air drumming crew in Newark.

Starring Ari Gold, DuContra, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Shoshannah Stern, Chiu Chi Ling, and Adrian Grenier, Adventures of Power has been met with critical acclaim and has won several awards, including “Official Selection” at the Sundance Film Festival and winning at the “Vail Film Festival, Indie Memphis Festival, and the San Antonio Film Festival,” among others.

This promises to be one hell of a party – we were even sworn to secrecy about some of the special guests and performances – so come support this independent film and the great cause that they have taken on.

October 7th at Knitting Factory in Brooklyn
8pm-3am, 18+

Click through for the trailer and click here for theater listings.

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