$5
Audio / Video
Gallery
About This Event
Minimum Age:
21+Doors Open:
10:00 PMShow Time:
10:00 PMArtists
(Vinylcentric) -ONE NATION- (Planet ONE)
The return of the DJ. Two turntables and a microphone. Sound system
connecting live and direct to the people. Back to the roots: The
Golden Age of Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, Afrobeat, Dancehall, Roots Reggae,
Dance Classics, House, Salsa . Into the future: new artists, gems you
might have missed and original remixes. A DJ that communicates with
the crowd to give you what you need. Fun & Games. Dance, drink,
network & build. Each week new musical guests that move in and out to
contribute to the set seemlessly without interrupting the groove.
Improvisational love with those in attendance as part of the creation.
Under the groove, one nation.
Oja
Oja is a producer, DJ, educator and activist whose life work is to create, connect & be part of the global movement to build community through sound-based story telling and musical performance while dynamically passing the tradition on to the next generation.
University trained (at NYU and The Newschool) and self-taught in the music business and the art of electronic music production, he has been a part of the Earthdriver, a progressive live arts collective since 2002 (www.earthdriver.org) as the group’s dj/samplist, co-engineer, arranger and co-producer of two albums bearing the Earthdriver imprint (Sharrif Simmon’s “The Echo Effect” and “Earthdriver”).
Sun Sound/Sunchild Productions, Oja’s DJ & production company, has been responsible for providing kinetic song selection/blends, sound design & ambiance for everything from live theatre performances (“Tongan Paint,” at Terra Nova Festival, “Osage Avenue” at Cherry Lane Theater & “Committing The Black On Black Crime Called Blackface,” sponsored by La Mama), fundraisers (for the people of Palestine, Hispaniola, Chiapas, ect.), live musical performances (3BB, Toni Blackman, Nemiss, DAM, Metrosonics & Brwn Bflo) festivals and conferences (CR10, USSJF2007, Red Hook Waterfront Festival, Clear Creek Festival), sound for Television and films (Sesame Street's “Z is for Zipper,” PBS's In the Mix series' “Get the News?” “Dealing With Differences,” “Living With Change,” and “9-11: Looking Back....Moving Forward”) and co-producing two tracks from the soundtrack of Southeast Emmy winning Thorton Dial documentary “Mr.. Dial Has Something to Say” to radio programs (89.1FM’s “The Subterrain” & “The Hip Hop Shop,” PNC radio's “Show n Prove” & WBMB 87.9FM’s “Homecookin” & “Pangea Radio”) and sound installations accompanying visual art (“Housing is a Human Right” with oral historians & photographers Mike Premo and Rachel Falcone and painter Leonardo Benzant's exhibit “A Presence Under the Noise”).
As an educator and program producer, Oja coordinated, developed curriculum (audio production and DJ instruction), and taught youth at the City Parks Foundation’s first ever free after school technology initiative program, Hook Productions, in south Brooklyn from February 2004 to September of 2008. The program has since been replicated at several sites around New York City. He also has taught semester-long media arts classes such as “So You Want To Be a DJ?” at Urban Arts Initiative, “Electronic Music Production 1.0” class at P.S.27 and “Beat Making 101” at P.S.15.
Recently, Oja has been the coordinator/facilitator of The Red Hook Initiative’s “RHI Radio,” a youth produced radio program in Red Hook (www.rhicenter.org/rhiradio), helping get Red Hook’s youth-produced started with the eager teens from the Red Hook Initiative through out the school year and producing the First RHI Youth Radio Conference in the summer of 2009. Presently, he continues to work as both a part of Earthdriver & Sun Sound to document, produce, collaborate, create and perform alongside like-minded artists in order to help tell untold stories, construct environments and inspire thought, dialog, dance and action through sound.
University trained (at NYU and The Newschool) and self-taught in the music business and the art of electronic music production, he has been a part of the Earthdriver, a progressive live arts collective since 2002 (www.earthdriver.org) as the group’s dj/samplist, co-engineer, arranger and co-producer of two albums bearing the Earthdriver imprint (Sharrif Simmon’s “The Echo Effect” and “Earthdriver”).
Sun Sound/Sunchild Productions, Oja’s DJ & production company, has been responsible for providing kinetic song selection/blends, sound design & ambiance for everything from live theatre performances (“Tongan Paint,” at Terra Nova Festival, “Osage Avenue” at Cherry Lane Theater & “Committing The Black On Black Crime Called Blackface,” sponsored by La Mama), fundraisers (for the people of Palestine, Hispaniola, Chiapas, ect.), live musical performances (3BB, Toni Blackman, Nemiss, DAM, Metrosonics & Brwn Bflo) festivals and conferences (CR10, USSJF2007, Red Hook Waterfront Festival, Clear Creek Festival), sound for Television and films (Sesame Street's “Z is for Zipper,” PBS's In the Mix series' “Get the News?” “Dealing With Differences,” “Living With Change,” and “9-11: Looking Back....Moving Forward”) and co-producing two tracks from the soundtrack of Southeast Emmy winning Thorton Dial documentary “Mr.. Dial Has Something to Say” to radio programs (89.1FM’s “The Subterrain” & “The Hip Hop Shop,” PNC radio's “Show n Prove” & WBMB 87.9FM’s “Homecookin” & “Pangea Radio”) and sound installations accompanying visual art (“Housing is a Human Right” with oral historians & photographers Mike Premo and Rachel Falcone and painter Leonardo Benzant's exhibit “A Presence Under the Noise”).
As an educator and program producer, Oja coordinated, developed curriculum (audio production and DJ instruction), and taught youth at the City Parks Foundation’s first ever free after school technology initiative program, Hook Productions, in south Brooklyn from February 2004 to September of 2008. The program has since been replicated at several sites around New York City. He also has taught semester-long media arts classes such as “So You Want To Be a DJ?” at Urban Arts Initiative, “Electronic Music Production 1.0” class at P.S.27 and “Beat Making 101” at P.S.15.
Recently, Oja has been the coordinator/facilitator of The Red Hook Initiative’s “RHI Radio,” a youth produced radio program in Red Hook (www.rhicenter.org/rhiradio), helping get Red Hook’s youth-produced started with the eager teens from the Red Hook Initiative through out the school year and producing the First RHI Youth Radio Conference in the summer of 2009. Presently, he continues to work as both a part of Earthdriver & Sun Sound to document, produce, collaborate, create and perform alongside like-minded artists in order to help tell untold stories, construct environments and inspire thought, dialog, dance and action through sound.