La Semana
Santanera in Playa del Carmen.
Kicking off
on March 31st local club, La Santanera, will be hosting international
DJ’s and performers through out the week to celebrate Semana Santa ending the
week’s celebrations with a DJ extravaganza on Easter night. With amazing
resident DJ’s , Portuguese imports, The Greenskeepers from Chicago, and Sanchez Dub there will certainly be
something
for everyone to enjoy and groove to. Check out the performers and schedule below.
DJ and Performers line up
and information:
When: Saturday, March 31st
Who: Rui Vargas
Rui Vargas is a vital element of the House music scene in Portugal, Europe's
most well hidden clubbing zone. Portugal's
eternal relationship with Brazil,
leaves a strong latino influence on it's dance scene, especially in Lisbon. Rui started
playing in the mid '80s and in 1990 a residency at the legendary Fragil, formed
his musical taste. Soon he was considered as one of the most dynamic
ambassadors of international house in Portugal.
At the same time Rui broke
into the larger medium of radio, first at Tagus University
radio (RUT), later on at CMR and on commercial radio with his own show "A
margem de certa maneira". Until recently he played daily on Voxx FM, a
late afternoon show called "Casa, bateria e baixo". Rui also selected
and mixed some of the first compilation CDs produced in Portugal using music from labels
such as Strictly Rhythm, Azuli, Tribal America and Basement Boys. Until 1997,
Rui also co-managed a Record Store located in Bairro Alto, The Lollipop that
became very influential in the Bairro Alto scene. As a DJ, Rui developed his
profile onto the international stage, working alongside the world's top name
DJs, and working all over Portugal,
and going abroad to Britain,
Brazil and Italy. But he
ranges from organizing the first warehouse parties in Lisbon to playing at fashion shows. Rui has
returned to his roots and is now musical director and resident DJ of Lux in Lisbon.
When: Sunday, April 1st
Who: Santanera resident DJ Ray Gota Jr. will be spinning downstairs and another
long time Santanera DJ Netzahual will be spinning upstairs on the open terrace.
When: Monday, April 2nd
Who: Santanera Queen; DJ Nancy and Resident DJ Charly will be playing to the
masses with Nancy rocking the sexy sounds downstairs and DJ Charly keeping the
open terrace patrons grooving into the wee hours.
When: Tuesday, April 3rd
Who: Wakal (Jorge Govea)
Musician / Producer / Designer Born in Mexico
City on September 29th 1976 graduated from PublicUniversity
in Industrial Graphic Design. At 15, he began his musical career on the rock
scene. Beyond his interest for acoustic and analog instruments he began in 1998
to experiment on field recording and noise. Founder of estudios idEA(
inprovisados dE Azotea) in Mexico.
In 2000 he was one of the creators of Indie Electronic Music Collective
Chilandgo in Mexico.
With his album WAKAL-POP STREET SOUND he managed to reflect urban talent, chaos
and the richness of the big city of México.
In 2004 REMIXES PAISANO was recorded in Europe
by MK2 Music. In 2006, new album DESVIA SI ON AGAIN was made available in
France and México, on the same Indie label. His urban electronic music,
electro, house, trip-hop, mixed with street noises, people, texts, and video
projection will be presented live at Santanera this coming Tuesday.
When: Wednesday, April 4th
Who: Greenskeepers
Chicago’s Greenskeepers have been called
abstract, quirky, avant-garde, irresistible and bizarre. They’ve written songs
in the voice of the psycho transsexual from Silence of the Lambs (“Lotion”) and
made psychedelic-era internet videos starring Tattoo (“Da Plane, boss, da
plane!”) caught in a sexual world of tall women (“Pilipino Phil.”) They’ve
licensed 3 songs off of their last album “Pleetch” to the hit TV show “Greys
Anatomy”. Greenskeepers have also toured the globe as a four man band of
brothers and an ordinance of auditory assault! Not to be confined by any box,
the band barely balked at the overwhelming success of their underground hit
“Lotion,” from the debut LP Pleetch, and the accompanying mash-up video that
continues to delightfully infest computer screens across the globe. Instead,
the collective returned to the Chicago
studio to create fourteen heady, interstellar tracks featuring the band’s
signature guitar-driven sonic [sounds] and capricious vocals. Polo Club, the
compilation of the Greenskeepers latest work, marks an unforeseen level of
musical progression and a testament to the power of four. It is the culmination
of two years of touring the world --from Istanbul
to LA-- as a
cohesive unit. The end result is a double disc collection of songs that
perfectly captures the insane genius of the Greenskeepers.
When: Thursday, April 5th
Who: Santanera Resident
DJ’s Tato and Alvin present Costa Technicolor a mixture of light and sound.
These local DJ’s have a strong local following and will surely put on an
amazing show.
When: Friday, April 6th
Who: Resident DJ’s Netza
and Nancy will be spinning the night away. A night presented by Johnnie Walker.
When: Saturday, April 7th
Who: Sanchez Dub
After a
clandestine and profound excursion through the depths of the Afro-American
musical tradition, following his personal preferences and styles through funk,
hip hop and jazz to ultimately culminate in his technique, the Mexican bass
player Andres Sanchez naturally finds himself in the universe of dub, dancehall
and Jamaican reverberation with his solo project Sanchez Dub. Under this alias, the ex-bass player for the Mexican
group
Titan has produced a collection of themes that reflect his musical obsessions,
having their roots in the "Black Arck" by Lee Scratch Perry, the
works of Mad Professor and the minimalist hip hop of Rawkus (Mos Def, Company
Flow, RZA). These are but a few of his sources that have culminated in a
systematic exercise of jazz composition and his continuous work with local
scenes on carious projects and groups for almost a decade.
When:
Saturday, April 7th
Who:
Idjut Boys
Idjut Boys from their North London
studio, Dan Tyler and Conrad McDonnell (aka the Idjut Boys)
run three record labels and produce their infectious dub-heavy disco sampling
house for many more. They formed their first label, U-Star, in '94 on
the back of their successful club nights of the same name. Labels Discfunction
and Noid followed soon thereafter, as did a debut full-length for Scotland's
premier deep house imprint, Glasgow Underground (Life, The Shoeing
You Deserve) and a few singles for the excellent Nuphonic imprint.
Since then, the Idjuts have performed remixes for the likes of Dimitri
from Paris, (the late) Erot, and Muzique Tropique. Their
music is worlds away from the dumb productions that usually proliferate in
dance music, that’s for sure. They take disco, club, funk, and jazz and fuse
the lot into a heavy cocktail of nightclub magic; a kind of groove that levees
the dance floors reeling and their peers speechless.
When:
Sunday, April 8th; Easter
Who:
Best of the Best all-star resident night;
DJ’s
·
El Alvin Rebolledo
·
Ray Jr. Gota
·
Dr. Juice
·
Tato
·
Nancy
·
Netzahualcoitl
·
Juanito
·
Charly
·
Psaico
La Santanera is located on 12th Street between 5th and 10th Avenues
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