You better not be too exhausted after your raunchy Chinese Valentine's romp as this weekend gets off to a banging start with the arrival of some old school rap legends in Taipei. Tonight at Luxy the rap group Naughty By Nature will be spitting rhymes and dropping beats. The famous trio from New Jersey comprises MC Treach, MC Vinnie, and DJ Kay Gee.
The New Jersey rap group was spotted by Queen Latifah, and was signed up with Tommy Boy, after which they dropped the hit single OPP ("Other People's Property"). This immediately made them rap superstars and unlike a lot of other groups they were able to stay street and achieve pop status, continuing to release hits like Hip Hop Hooray and Hey! Ho!. Problems arose in the group and DJ Kay Gee decided to leave and concentrate on his production career. Fortunately, even with this loss, Naughty By Nature still had the skills to create hot tracks.
The Vinyl Word has got some good news and bad news this week on the rap front. First, old school legends Public Enemy won't be turning up this week so don't believe the hype. They were supposed to turn up this Wednesday at MoS, but the gig has been postponed. Now the good news: On Aug. 26, someone who isn't old school will be rocking MoS, namely N.O.R.E..
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Tonight MoS will be featuring DJ Backside -- so-called because she has a nice ass. She is also known for her ability to keep the club hyped and being the first lady on DJ Rolo1-3's (founder of the legendary Pirate DJ) new crew, Core DJ Family. DJ Backside also runs the radio show The Hot Spot on 106 KMEL in the US. Guest starring tonight will be US DMC Champion DJ Imperial.
Saturday night at Luxy will be Hybrid, a night of progressive beats and house by DJ Reason and DJ Kaoru. DJ Reason has released such vinyl works as The Toolz Press and DJ Kaoru won the first IRON DJ series.
This Saturday will also feature the return of G-Club to MoS. G-Club is made up of Gerald Elms, Dan Tait, and Shovell. Gerald Elms is the producer/DJ of the group, and known for being involved with Roger Sanchez and DJ Disciple, plus helping remix the likes of Mary J. Blige and Sophie Ellis-Bextor. Dan Tait is the technically skilled DJ in G-Club and Shovell, a percussionist, has worked with the likes of M-People, Chemical Brothers, and Primal Scream. Unfortunately he's an Arsenal fan.
For all you people out there who were disappointed by the typhoon ruining Aquaboogie 3 last week, there's supposed to be a party at Daxi Beach this weekend. But don't bank on it because it looks like another case of rain stopping play.
In late October of 1873 the government of Japan decided against sending a military expedition to Korea to force that nation to open trade relations. Across the government supporters of the expedition resigned immediately. The spectacle of revolt by disaffected samurai began to loom over Japanese politics. In January of 1874 disaffected samurai attacked a senior minister in Tokyo. A month later, a group of pro-Korea expedition and anti-foreign elements from Saga prefecture in Kyushu revolted, driven in part by high food prices stemming from poor harvests. Their leader, according to Edward Drea’s classic Japan’s Imperial Army, was a samurai
Located down a sideroad in old Wanhua District (萬華區), Waley Art (水谷藝術) has an established reputation for curating some of the more provocative indie art exhibitions in Taipei. And this month is no exception. Beyond the innocuous facade of a shophouse, the full three stories of the gallery space (including the basement) have been taken over by photographs, installation videos and abstract images courtesy of two creatives who hail from the opposite ends of the earth, Taiwan’s Hsu Yi-ting (許懿婷) and Germany’s Benjamin Janzen. “In 2019, I had an art residency in Europe,” Hsu says. “I met Benjamin in the lobby
April 22 to April 28 The true identity of the mastermind behind the Demon Gang (魔鬼黨) was undoubtedly on the minds of countless schoolchildren in late 1958. In the days leading up to the big reveal, more than 10,000 guesses were sent to Ta Hwa Publishing Co (大華文化社) for a chance to win prizes. The smash success of the comic series Great Battle Against the Demon Gang (大戰魔鬼黨) came as a surprise to author Yeh Hung-chia (葉宏甲), who had long given up on his dream after being jailed for 10 months in 1947 over political cartoons. Protagonist
A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the largest animals ever on Earth. Researchers said on Wednesday the bone, called a surangular, was from a type of ocean-going reptile called an ichthyosaur. Based on its dimensions compared to the same bone in closely related ichthyosaurs, the researchers estimated that the Triassic Period creature, which they named Ichthyotitan severnensis, was between 22-26 meters long. That would make it perhaps the largest-known marine reptile and would