DJ SHADOW AND CUT CHEMIST
ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF
RENEGADES OF RHYTHM UK TOUR 2015
VINYL-ONLY TOUR HONORING AFRIKA BAMBAATAA'S INFLUENCE ON HIP-HOP'S BEGINNINGS
"Hip-Hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa's records are the most important in the history of the genre; the patient zero whose breadth of genres influenced, knowingly or not, every subsequent DJ and hip-hop producer."
ROLLING STONE
DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist are bringing their vinyl-only Renegades of Rhythm tour to the UK in February 2015 after covering North America this Fall.
These two world-renowned artists and turntablists are spinning the well-loved and well-worn vinyl from the record collection of the founding father of hip-hop and "Master of Records," Afrika Bambaataa.
Shadow and Cut kicked off their North American tour this year with two sold-out shows at NYC's Irving Plaza where Bambaataa himself watched from the balcony as the duo pulled his vinyl collection apart and mixed a nostalgic set that chronicled and honoured the genre that influenced so many others.
Check out Rolling Stone's live review here. Read NPR's Rational Conversation with DJ Shadow here. Check out the record rundown with Wax Poetics here. And read the in-depth interview sit-down that OkayPlayer did with Shadow, Cut and Bambaataa here.
Excited to bring the show to the UK next year, they will play three exclusive dates at Manchester Albert Hall, London Forum and Bristol Motion in February 2015.
"Deep into their September 4th set at New York's Irving Plaza, as DJ Shadow bent over his spread of turntables, cueing the next sequence of beats, his partner in spin, Cut Chemist, gingerly lifted a piece of 12-inch vinyl from one of his decks and held it aloft, like a round, black equivalent of the Ten Commandments. He had, in fact, just played a religious object." -Rolling Stone
“Afrika Bamabaataa‘s record collection has long been regarded as one of the most comprehensive and expansive archives of hip-hop’s formative stages that exists in the world today. That bold and well-reasoned statement never rang more true than it did last week, when the duo of DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist took on the immense task of presenting some the most foundational and iconic cuts of that cratedigger’s master document into one fluid and masterful exposition on the ones and twos. Casual observers, funky fanatics, collectors, hoarders, b-boys and b-girls were all able to bear witness to a turntable orchestra, less an homage and more a reeducation in the art of the break.” -OkayPlayer
Visuals for the tour are supplied by acclaimed video director, multimedia producer and regular DJ Shadow collaborator Ben Stokes. The tour is produced by Jamal Chalabi and Backlash Management.
Tickets go on sale 9.00am Friday 7th November and will be available from www.gigsandtours.com / 0844 811 0051