Past Tours:
Niche Productions at Sydney Festival Beck's Bar w/ Aloe Blacc & The Grand Scheme, Benji B, Waajeed and Afric Hi Tech
January 2011
Beck's Bar, Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
ALOE BLACC & THE GRAND SCHEME * BENJI B * WAAJEED
AFRICA HI-TECH * HUWSTON
Friday 28 January 2011 – Sydney Festival Beck’s Bar
Tickets: http://www.sydneyfestival.org – on sale Wednesday 10 November
Niche Productions is proud to present the crème of the world’s soul music and cutting-edge beats scene at Sydney Festival’s Becks Bar with contributions from the UK, USA (both East and West coasts) and Australia.
Aloe Blacc and his band The Grand Scheme are currently winning the world over with their performances of his current album ‘Good Things.’ Released on seminal label Stones Throw (home to label-mates Madlib and Dam-Funk) and recorded with NYC’s El Michels Affair, ‘Good Things’ is spearheaded by the breakthrough single ‘I Need A Dollar’; that catchy-as-all-hell title music to HBO/Showtime’s hit show ‘How To Make It In America’.
Focusing on the incredible feeling you get when you quit all of the negatives in life, ‘Good Things’ is an extremely diverse effort that also takes in a cover of Velvet Underground’s ‘Femme Fatale.’ After solo performances at the beginning of 2010, it’s time for this peerless singer to return to Australia and headline such an impressive bill with his full US band.
As a DJ and radio presenter, Benji B defies comparison. His regular program has recently moved from BBC sister station 1-Xtra to Radio 1, taking over fabled presenter Mary-Anne Hobbs’ vacant spot. Whether behind the mic or in the clubs, Benji B has that rare ability to hop across genres and join the dots between Soul, Afro, Hip Hop, Dubstep, Deep House, Broken Beat and any other beat in the future spectrum.
As executive producer of Slum Village’s ‘Fan-Tas-Tic Vol 1’ album, Waajeed, along with Detroit producer J Dilla (R.I.P.), introduced the world to a new chapter in the famed Motor City’s rich lineage of music history. Like Motown Records and Atkins/May/Saunderson’s Techno before it, Detroit Hip Hop is extremely soulful and features beats and verses that hang way in the pocket, giving it a very distinct feel.
Africa Hi-Tech is Mark Pritchard and Steve Spacek, two British ex-pats now residing in Australia who have blazed a trail across soulful electronic music’s horizon since the nineties. As a member of production duos like Global Communication and Harmonic 33, as well as a solo producer under monikers like Trouble Man and Harmonic 313, Mark Pritchard is world renowned for his impeccable sound quality and capability to make music that continual keeps listeners guessing.
ALOE BLACC & THE GRAND SCHEME * BENJI B * WAAJEED * AFRICA HI-TECH * HUWSTON
Friday 28 January 2011
Sydney Festival Beck’s Bar
Tickets: http://www.sydneyfestival.org on Wednesday 10 November
Aloe Blacc, Benji B & Waajeed – touring nationally in January/February.
Tour Dates
Friday 28 January
Beck’s Bar, Sydney Festival – Aloe Blacc, Benji B & Wajeed
Saturday 29 January
Rocket Bar, Adelaide – Aloe Blacc
The Turnaround, Auckland NZ – Benji B
The Bird, Perth – Wajeed
Friday 4 February
Prince Of Wales, Melbourne – Aloe Blacc, Benji B & Wajeed
Saturday 5 February
The Bakery, Perth – Aloe Blacc & Benji B
Rocket Bar, Adelaide – Wajeed
