Kid Kameleon & Ripley LIVE @ Freakbeat! Panamas Bar

Mark your calendars SEPTEMBER 13 - SATURDAY for the bassiest dubbiest booty shakin FREAKBEAT @ Panamas Bar Back Patio ever! FUTURE/NOW brings you 2 world class djs from San Francisco, Kid Kameleon [Mashit, XLR8R, Surya Dub] and Ripley [Surya Dub, Havoc Sound]. These 2 know how to get a party going and bring out every genre of bass music known to man to get your ass a jigglin. Impossible to define, the music they play is all about the bass, the body and the beat. We know you will enjoy this one, come out and join us on the dance floor for another FREE night of Freakbeat!!!

Kid Kameleon has been mixing, mashing, and maximizing bass genres for over 10 years, ever since he got his start with DJ Spooky and the Soundlab collective in New York in the late 90s. A champion of outsider music styles and eclectic mixing techniques rooted in a core of hip-hop, jungle, and dub, these days the Kid’s sets take in ever-widening genres from breakcore to b-more, dubstep to dancehall, club, pop and even rock. He’s proudly performed in over two dozen countries, from Canada to Estonia, and has shared the stage with Kool Herc, U-Roy, Asian Dub Foundation, Alec Empire, Squarepusher, Dizzee Rascal, The Bug and Warrior Queen, Vex’d, Plastician, Flying Lotus, Kid 606, Maga Bo, Ghislain Poirier, Daddy Freddy, Drop The Lime, Mathhead aka Passions, Flosstradamus, DJ C, WayneandWax, and Ripley, just to name a few. As a staff writer for XLR8R magazine, both his interviews and monthly column "Basic Needs" take readers to the furthest extremes electronic dance music, as do the numerous mixes he’s made for Shockout, Mashit, and dozens of other sites. He’s also a founder of San Francisco’s eclectic club night Surya Dub at Club Six, which won SF Weekly’s Best Club Night award in 2007 and the SF Bay Guardian’s “Best Ambassadors of Dread Bass” in 2008. As a blogger and scholar, his work ranges from measuring the social interactions of online networks to the implications of file-sharing on music business models, and he has worked with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to assess the laws and policies that affect the connection between creative communities and technology. Ultimately, his eclectic sets have bar tenders dancing on their own bars, and they put smiles on faces of all types of club goers. Check out Kidkameleon.com for his blog and and more mixes, but make sure to come with an open mind and an appetite for bass!

http://www.myspace.com/kidkameleon

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Ripley

Now disturbing Oakland, California, by way of Brooklyn, London, and Cambridge, MA, since 1996 Ripley has careened through 14 countries with no sign of stopping, causing total dance mayhem at events from Berlin to Boston to Bristol to Brussels, Riga to Rotterdam to Rennes, Halle to Helsinki, Cambridge to Kansas City, Scezczin to San Francisco, Tallinn to Toronto, Linz to London, Paris to Prague. Ripley's wreckstep raggaphonics slice through genres of street bass, jungle, dancehall, breakcore, dubstep, baltimore club music, UK garage, hiphop, d'n'b, gliitched-out breaks, juke, bhangra and dub, sprouting new life on the dancefloor. On sunny afternoons, Ripley spins rocksteady. Ripley has caused total dance mayhem in spaces like a re-purposed public lavatory underground in East London, a former commercial fishing ship off the cost of Rostock, an (initially) laid-back lounge in Oakland California, a half-squatted office space in downtown Riga, the basement of an Indian restaurant in Bristol, the Boston Children's Museum, alongside a riverbed in Mexico, as well as warehouses and clubs across America and Europe, in most places you'd think and some you wouldn't. Along with her usual dancefloor alchemy, Ripley wields music in the activist arena - organizing and performing at benefits for groups like the Coney Island Avenue Project (for Pakistani Muslims in NYC suffering the aftermath of the Patriot Act), the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Revolutionary Afghan Women's Association, Street Medics (volunteer medical support for activists), and the 826 foundation. She's played alongside art-music luminaries like Kaffe Matthews, noted thereminist Pamelia Kurstin, as well as beat maniacs like Asian Dub Foundation, The Bug, Drop The Lime, Vex'd, Dub Gabriel, Dizzee Rascal, Plastician, Dr. Israel and Flying Lotus. In the world of letters, Ripley examines global and subcultural property systems through the lens of law, especially investigating how people come to think they can own music as if it was a thing and not a practice. She is a columnist for Wiretap online youth magazine. But really, Ripley wants everyone to dance. http://www.myspace.com/ripley

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