The Cinefamily (Venue Partner)
611 N Fairfax Avenue
323.655.2510
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Echo Party
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Saturday Jan 16, 2010 (8–11pm)
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$12
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To celebrate the release of his latest album, Echo Party, the MC/DJ known as Edan -- one of the masters of elevating the genre of hip-hop into sonic art -- will appear in-person for an epic DJ set, as well as to present the L.A. premiere of the film Echo Party, the half-hour found footage mashup companion piece to the album (directed by Cinefamily's own Mondo maharajah Tom Fitzgerald!) For the album, Edan was granted full access to the Traffic Entertainment Group's extensive back catalogue of old-school beats 'n breaks, and after layering them with his own instrumental work, Echo Party emerges as an astounding, obsessive pastiche of dance, rap and punk that utilizes everything from turntables to tape echo, glockenspiel to guitar, and Moog to kazoo. Tom's accompaning film is no less dizzy, mixing Bollywood, B-boys and Brakhage (among others) into an addictive full-on psychedelic brainslayer that begs for repeat viewings. As a final capper to this explosive evening, legendary hip-hop photographer Ricky Powell (aka "the fourth Beastie Boy", author of "Public Access", "Frozade Moments" and "Oh Snap!") will present a personally curated slideshow spanning his entire career!
