{"id":7622,"date":"2013-07-30T16:43:20","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T20:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=7622"},"modified":"2015-01-07T13:29:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:29:34","slug":"urb-beach-boyz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=7622","title":{"rendered":"Urb &#038; Beach Boyz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday, at the very #rare time of 5pm and at a rather lovely spot, I&#8217;m psyched to be opening for two of my favorite (erstwhile) local talents: <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rizzladj\">Rizzla DJ<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/falsewitness\/\">False Witness<\/a>, the two from the #KUNQ crew who cooked up the time-warped, globally-warmed, zombie beach party of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dismagazine\/sets\/rizzla-false-witness-isla-toxico\">Isla Toxico<\/a><\/em> &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/images\/isla-toxico.png\" width=200><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/images\/isla-toxico.png\" width=200><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/images\/isla-toxico.png\" width=200><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F6209162\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While we won&#8217;t exactly be performing on a toxic island (though you might consider Boston such at times), we will be right on the water, at the Institute of Contemporary Art&#8217;s waterfront space &#8212; definitely one of the nicer sunsetting spots in the city. They&#8217;re calling the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/620371244654560\/\">Urban Beach<\/a>, which yeah, but I think that&#8217;s a theme we can all work with.<\/p>\n<p>From 5-6:30pm I&#8217;ll be doing my best to level the vibes. Playing before dark can be as liberating as it is constraining, so I&#8217;m looking forward to the chance to play things that diverge from club imperatives. Haven&#8217;t had a chance to play a sun-drenched set in a while. Or slow music, for that matter. <\/p>\n<p>Back to my cohorts, though: I couldn&#8217;t be happier to play opening act for these two. It&#8217;s been a pleasure to watch Rizzla&#8217;s distinctive productions and insurgent sets get the uptake they deserve. He &#038; the whole #KUNQ crew bring together such a great set of shared &#038; individual sensibilities, and the results manage to challenge as they seduce. Take, as another example, the very latest c\/o Rizzla &#038; Blk.Adonis &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F101549868\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Crossfading and fusing a special &#038; specific array of styles, their shifting constellation of soca, hardstyle, ballroom, dancehall, and reggaeton transmits a finely-tuned address to a particular (if cross-sectional &#038; always emergent) public &#8212; a musical beacon which worked wonders here in Boston back when Rizzla &#038; co. were all resident here &#038; giving this old town some <a href=\"http:\/\/thephoenix.com\/Boston\/music\/139044-queering-the-party-with-the-djs-of-nu-life\/?rel=inf\">NU LIFE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That a progressive \/ queer \/ genderqueer \/ feminist \/ anti-racist \/ inclusive movement would rally around brusque dancehall anthems and raved-up dembow speaks volumes. Eschewing the imperial work that appropriation does, the #KUNQ approach gestures toward the more complex possibilities that emerge when we embrace difference. &#8220;Get to know it,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factmag.com\/2013\/04\/08\/get-to-know-it-and-you-wont-want-to-rip-it-off-fade-to-minds-rizzla-on-confronting-appropriation-and-humanizing-the-exotic\/\">Rizzla says<\/a>, &#8220;and you won&#8217;t want to rip it off.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But he may have said it even better when he said &#8211; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wayneandwax\/8339990016\/\" title=\"DAMN SON PUT THAT BACK WHERE YOU FOUND IT by wayneandwax, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8072\/8339990016_ae2b7c41ec_z.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"DAMN SON PUT THAT BACK WHERE YOU FOUND IT\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for us toxic islanders of Greater Boston, NYC is not too far away, so we&#8217;re still graced with the #KUNQ crew&#8217;s presence on a relatively regular basis. Hearing some #KUNQ beats echo across the harbor this Friday sure sounds like a vibes to me. Maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/620371244654560\/\">you too<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday, at the very #rare time of 5pm and at a rather lovely spot, I&#8217;m psyched to be opening for two of my favorite (erstwhile) local talents: Rizzla DJ &#038; False Witness, the two from the #KUNQ crew who cooked up the time-warped, globally-warmed, zombie beach party of Isla Toxico &#8212; While we won&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[133,406,292,282,204],"class_list":["post-7622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boston","tag-dance","tag-gigs","tag-public","tag-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7622"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7642,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions\/7642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}