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Sunday, Jul 26, 2009 3:14PM / 56 pictures

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PIMPIN' AINT EASY JUNE 20

Friday, Jul 18, 2008 6:07PM / Event
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Thanks everyone for coming out to CLIQ June 20... we all had a great time. Big up to DJ Rafik for coming all the way from Germany to headline the show, only to hop in a taxi straight after the show to the airport... to go directly to play a show Saturday night in London... WICKED!!!

Enjoy the party pics, courtesy of STAYRUDEE.

next party july 25!!!

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HK Press Pics by Stayrudee

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 4:10PM / Standard Album
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stayrudee.blogspot.com !!!
Solos Records Crew - San Francisco / Hong Kong / NYC / Buenos Aires / Chengdu

Sunday, May 11, 2008 4:04PM / Standard Album
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Solos Records was founded in 2003 by Bay Area producers Roche and DJ Enso. The artists on our label include Yao, Bookworms, CB Radio, Jovian, and Louis AKA Livingston Gains. We are an international community of musicians, visual artists and cultural critics rooted in the hip-hop and musique concrète schools of avante-garde expression. Solos was borne out of our desire to support the creative explosion of art happening around us, and provide a vehicle for it to reach a wider audience. We release curiously forward-thinking music on CD, wax, podcasts and through hand-to-hand combat in spontaneous mediums. Many of the old "rules" no longer apply to this game; we hereby call your attention to new artists constantly reaching to the next level.

We are fundamentally alone as artists; our works are as divorced from each other as we are. And much like any musical solo that cuts through the chorus to let itself be heard, inspected, and challenged, we expect the same artistic courage from ourselves. This is our pledge: Together we will support artistic courage in all its forms. Collaboration drives us to greatness as individuals, our gaze is manifold — hence we manifest SOLO(S).

www.solosrecords.com
Random Party Pics

Sunday, May 11, 2008 3:10PM / Event
3 pictures / 990 views / 1 comment

Just some recent event pics... having fun

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DJ Enso

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a.k.a. A-PLUSH a.k.a. kitten paws R-A-double-raw...

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, DJ Enso (born Cassady Winston) has always had a passion for building things from scratch. As a teenager, he threw drum and bass warehouse parties in Oakland, CA that began to draw crowds in the low hundreds before he decided to turn his attention to DJing and music production. This brought him in contact with local hiphop producer Roche in the summer of 2003, and together they founded the Solos Records music label. He explains the initial motivation: "Solos was borne out of our desire to support the creative explosion of art happening around us, and provide a vehicle for it to reach a wider audience. The label is a symptom of a scene. We were surrounded by people making hot shit—visual art and music—and we wanted to give them an outlet."

Over the past five years, Solos has released curiously forward-thinking music on eight full vinyl and CD projects, 25 audio/visual podcasts and through hand-to-hand combat in spontaneous media iat numerous club nights and warehouse parties in the San Francisco Bay Area. As the label’s reach has extended and artists have spread across the globe, Solos has grown into an international community of musicians, visual artists and cultural critics rooted in hiphop and experimental electronic styles. DJ Enso’s most straight-forward party track to date, High Spirits, featuring vocals from Louis, has received print and online acclaim from XLR8R, and 3HIVE, among others, leading to a healthy online response of over 38,000 downloads since its release on 2005’s Solos in Stereo compilation (CD, SOLOS-002).

DJ Enso has an ongoing series of remixes, including an uptempo electro version of Bookworm’s Since I Met You included on The Hidden Staircase Maxi-EP (12”, SOLOS-004) and a 36-minute remix/soundscape podcast released in September 2006. DJ Enso’s sample-based MPC production is fully based in hiphop, but has often veered toward the abstract soundtrack sounds of Múm and Boards of Canada interludes. This element of his sound has been described as “like a motown song peacefully dropping acid on its deathbed… underwater. "

DJ Enso relocated to Hong Kong in January 2007, expanding Solos’ reach into Asia and bringing him in contact with a new world of musical influences. His recent Mandarin language collaborations include a live vocal mashup with 60-year-old Hong Kong subway singer, and an eerie reworking of a classic Chinese poem, "Like the rain falls". Most recently, DJ Enso has produced the audio score to Akit Fong’s 2007 independent film Close to Perfect, and contributed two songs to the latest Solos In Stereo Two compilation (CD, SOLOS-009), to be released Summer 2008.

"i'm the type of person that's the type of dog that bites back"

"this shit is like a motown song peacefully dropping acid on its deathbed. underwater."
- brian william rogers
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