Sweaty sounds from the transglobal underground. This year we’re going one step further by joined forces with the X Avant Festival for a transcultural party at Remix Lounge featuring New York’s DJ Ushka in her Canadian debut alongside the infamous Poirier from Montreal. Expect digital ecstasy and a few surprises. (FB Event)

feat.
DJ Ushka (NYC)
Poirier (Montreal)
+ Special surprise guests
Custom Visuals by Bá Land

DJ Ushka (NYC) http://www.djushka.com/
Ushka is a Sri Lankan-born, Thailand-raised, Brooklyn-living migrant. She is an activist, cultural organizer, and deejay re-defining the boundaries of global bass music and culture.
Having grown up in several parts of the world, her musical influences are as transnational as she is. She deejays from the perspective of a dancer, blending a wide range of music from soca to cumbia, hip hop to South Asian rhythms, kuduro and other African styles to samba. She does so with the philosophy that global genre-blending connects cross-cultural struggles and tells important stories between communities but most importantly, she translates this onto dancefloors.
Poirier (Montreal) http://poiriersound.com/
Poirier is Montreal’s pre-eminent Tropical Bass producer. Pinpointing the bits and pieces of dancehall beats, soca energy and electronic intensity is futile in the face of Poirier’s dance-driven creativity and air horn-worthy excitement. He has been nominated for a couple of Junos in his time. This is a man who just understands what works in the dance. He’s released several acclaimed albums on Ninja Tune, remixed the likes of Busy Signal, Salif Keita and Pole and has toured the world several times over. In 2013 Poirier embarked on a new mission: the “chamber techno” music of Boundary. This alias was responsible for one of the remixes in the Music Gallery’s Hugh Le Caine project last year.

Remix Lounge, 1305 Dundas W,
Doors 10 p.m.
Co-presented with X Avant IX: Transculturalism (The Music Gallery)
Tickets: $15 regular / $10 Music Gallery members, student or arts worker (at the door)
$12 advance at Soundscapes or online via https://www.musicgallery.org/dj-ushka/