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Soulgasm - Legendary Sweepy + Dj Min One at Thirtyninehotel
Date: Friday, February 17th, 2012
Venue: Thirtyninehotel
Description: The House, Funk, Soul monthly party in Hawaii named "Best Vibe" in honolulu nitelife diaries gets even funkier in February with...
Soulgasm "We got the Funk" featuring special guests, the legendary dancer Sweepy plus a special set by returning Soulgasm resident DJ Min One, and if that's not enough Dancer and DJ Dennis Infante from San Francisco!
Sweepy's bio
a senior member of the RockSteady Crew and Machine Gone Funk, is a legendary dancer in the street dance and commercial scene. Known for his innovative and authentic style Sweepy aka Da Street Sweepa continues to push boundries in dance. Playing an integral part in the growth of hiphop and its players Sweepy has been featured in Grammy award winning videos such as Beastie Boys Intergalactic, Missy Elliots Work It and Nas I can. Other artist include EPMD, Daddy Yankee, Wycleff Jean, LFO, Crystal Method, Space Monkies and Black Eyed Peas. He also has featured rolls in feature films like The Pirates the Carribean 2 an Indiana Jones. Sweepys street upbringing managed to bring him to the stage with the Joffery Ballet for the production Kali Ma directed by Ann Marie D'Angelo as well as numerous tv commercials including Dr. Pepper with legendary hip hop group Run DMC and LL Cool J. Sweepy Continues to share his love for dance guiding the youth, teaching and spreading the word of soul, funk and the hip hop culture.
find Sweepy on youtube!
DJ Min One bio -
started DJing out professionally since 1995 around various clubs and public venues in the Honolulu, Hawaii area. He moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1997 where he than furthered his career as a DJ/Producer at KISS FM, HOT 97 and as a club DJ around the New York "Tri-State Area."
During his 13-year residence in New York he DJed for the Rock Steady Crew at the Rock Steady Anniversaries and B-boy dance events. He also helped develop the party promotion of "West Coast Hip-Hop" parties around New York along side his DJ crew the "Spin Dynasty." He has also spun along side world renown DJ's such as Mister Cee, Bobby Konders, Green Lantern, Kay Slay, Cipha Sounds, DJ Camillo, Bobby Trends, Coco Channel, Jazzy Joyce, Grand Master Flash, Chuck Chillout, Tony Touch, Evil Dee, DJ Q-bert and DJ Spooky just to name a few.
Producing became one of his talents when he started to release party break records for DJ consumption on his own independent label, DJ MIN ONE PRESENTS, since 2002. This launched him into the remix world where he made his name with one of his more well renown projects, the notorious reggae remix of Alicia Key's "You Don't Know My Name" which was featured on the 2004 VP Reggae Gold compilation, among many others.
Plus DJ and Dancer Dennis Infante from San Francisco -
Dennis has been dancing since the age of 10, and is currently a member of GroovMekanex, and MuthaFunkers. Known as a well rounded dancer in many styles, he remains active in the dance community by participating in many aspects of the scene whether it's on stage, in cyphers/battles, or judging/DJing at various events. He is also the co-founder of onecypher.com, street dance blog, Past events include winning Locking and All-Styles Battles at Homecoming, Mighty 4, Break Festival and Body Rock. He is the current R16 USA champion in Locking, and recently represented the USA in Korea at the R16 2011 World Finals. In his life as a dancer/dj, Dennis has shared stages/opened for artists like Vikter Duplaix, Rich Medina, Pete Rock, Premier, Black Eyed Peas, Rahzel of The Roots, Souls of Mischief, Evelyn Champagne King, Rose Royce, Shannon and Crazy Legs of Rock Steady Crew.
*early arrival highly suggested, guest DJs to drop their sets from the jump!
Hours: 9pm - 2am
Age: 21+
Price: $5
Band/DJ: Yuji, Matt Kee, Dennis Infante, Min One
Dresscode: come to get down
Drink Specials: $5 drink specials all nite!
Music: House, Soul, and a lot of FUNK!
Promoter: Housing Project 360
Website: http://www.housingproject360.com
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