SATURDAY DECEMBER 20
VOLTAGE MUSIC PRESENTS

THE AFROTEK FESTIVAL

Celebrating the Bay Area's best live soulful electronic music
BROKEN BEAT/TECHNO/FUTUREFUNK/ELECTRO/DRUM&BASS



Performing live:

Blaktroniks (Rubaiyat, Oakland)
New album: Mechanized Soul (Rubaiyat)


Jaswho? (Soulmine, TMG, Oakland)
New album Karen Hope Project (TMG)


Replife (Futuristica, Oakland)
New album: The Unclosed Mind (Futuristica)


Douglas Pagan (Afrocubist, Voltage Music, San Francisco)
Recent single: "Kara Walker Variation 32" (Voltage)


Plus:
Leathal DJs (El Otro Mundo, Sunnyvale)


--JUST ADDED: HOSTED BY AUDIO ANGEL !

Saturday Dec. 20 at The Dark Room (at Club Six)
60 Sixth Street, San Francisco Doors: 9:30 p.m.-2:00 a.m. / 21+ID / $5 before 11 p.m.


The First Annual Afrotek Festival will showcase the Bay's diverse live electronic music scene and features four dynamic acts that have created cutting edge techno, house, jazz, broken beat and other eclectic styles for years. The event gives these artists their proper due and proves that the Bay is indeed a hotbed for electronic music talent.

Headliner duo Blaktroniks' new album Mechanized Soul was released this year by German label Rubaiyat and partners EPS1 and X-Ray's have been performing live in the Bay for almost a decade. Also featured is house, downtempo and broken beat producer Jaswho?, Temple Music Group's director and veteran live musician with bands Karen Hope Project, 40 Thieves, Family Funk and Stranger.

Cleveland-native and Oakland-based vocalist-emcee Replife will showcase tracks from his new album The Unclosed Mind, which features production and collaborations with UK electronic heavies Dego (4Hero), Bugz in the Attic's Kaidi Tatham, Mark de Clive-Lowe and Atjazz. Finally, Douglas Pagan is a multiinstrumentalist, spoken word artist and singer whose wowed audiences by performing simultaneously on bass, keyboards, synths and other machines.

DJing between acts are Sunnyvale's Leathal DJs (Paul and Christopher Leath) of El Otro Mundo sound collective, underground veterans who've spun throughout the Bay as well as the UK and Europe.

Conceived by Voltage Music label's DJ Tomas a.k.a Dub ID (XLR8R, KUSF), the festival represents his passion for the Bay's live soulful electronic music scene, some of which he's released on his label.

The Afrotek Festival reclaims the Bay Area's place as a hotbed for dance music talent and proves that not only can the Bay do it — but we do it live!