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happy to report that the brand new club for music arts & culture is now open in AMsterdam called Sugar Factory www.sugarfactory.nl
for all the Giant Step community in Holland come join us this Saturday for Turntables on the Hudson in their A'dam debut with locals Kraak & Smaak - a fun night for sure all the info follows

TURNTABLES ON THE HUDSON NYC in Amsterdam Debut
Saturday April 9th at Nachttheater Sugar Factory – brand new club in Amsterdam

K-SWISS presents KONNECTED
Direct from New York
TURNTABLES ON THE HUDSON
Nachttheater Sugar Factory
Lijnbaansgracht 238, Amsterdam
9pm-5am, featuring:
DJ’s NICKODEMUS and MARIANO
+ NAPPY G - MC, vocals, Timbales and percussion
ZEB - guitar and effects, Mariano on congas
+ special guest DJ’s KRAAK & SMAAK
and live t-shirt & sneaker art by THE SEWINGROOM

Live and Direct from the heart of the New York underground and the legendary Hudson River ‘Frying Pan’ Boat Parties, DJ’s Nickodemus and Mariano create the funkiest and freshest dancefloor grooves with live musicians Nappy G (vocals and percussion) & Zeb (guitar and effects) and Mariano himself (congas) in the mix - from Organic House to Afrobeat to Ragga to Afro-Cuban to Brazilian to jazzy Broken Beatz and Hip Hop !
This is a live dance party for people who love full-on percussive rhythms, respect other cultures, and love to dance anywhere anytime !

‘Turntables On The Hudson give .. pure, unbridled joy.’ - Time Out

Over the past 5 years, the party has featured special guests Rainer Truby, Fauna Flash, Brazilian Girls, Antibalas, Quantic, Boozoo Bajou, Funky Lowlives, Rich Medina, Local 12, Los Amigos Invisibles, Cedric Brooks and many worldwide Percussion ensembles from Africa to Brazil to the bucket drummers of the streets.

KRAAK & SMAAK
Kraak & Smaak (Oscar De Jong, Mark Kneppers and Wim Plug) are the future Funk Sound of the Netherlands. Their ultra cool and slightly old school production style has been winning them a diverse range of fans around the world. Fans such as Pete Tong to Andy Smith and Groove Armada to Rob Da Bank, have supported them through ‘Money in the Bag’ to ‘Keep On Searching’, to ‘Set Fire to the Disco. They leap forward once again with their new EP, ‘Say Yeah’, which has already earned them entries in the DMC Buzz Chart, the UK Cool Cuts Chart and Ministry of Sound’s Vital Vinyl Chart (at #1 no less…).

Whatever these boys do it’s got to be funky.
“Well I guess it is all about the funk for us. Everything revolves around finding a funky bass lick or an old school sample and building a track up from there� says Mark - widely known in the Netherlands as DJ Knuppelhout and together with Oscar de Jong, as Noogman. Mark is also part of one of Hollands biggest pop acts – Wipneus & Pim.

DJ Wim Plug (alter ego Dr. Fröbel) is also a member of the multimedia turntable orchestra ‘Polyvinyl Big Band’, which performed at various music, film and art festivals, including the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

Studio maestro Oscar studied music at the Rotterdam conservatoire and is the live instrument whizz, especially the Fender Rhodes. He is also the primary knob twiddler of Kraak en Smaak, while taking inspiration from Wim & Mark who are constantly hunting down samples and hooks.

Kraak & Smaak have recently completed remixes for Mark Rae, Fort Knox Five and Max Sedgley and their track ‘One of these Days’ is featured on the new Ursula 1000 mix cd. Their much anticipated Debut album on Jalapeno Records will be out Spring 2005.

www.turntablesonthehudson.com
www.kswisskonnected.com
www.sugarfactory.nl