Lazy Lions channel the influence of '80s power pop/new wave wonders into something tough-but-tuneful for today. They have been known to cover Squeeze and Split Enz at their shows, and they abjure attitude in favor of honest intensity and earworm hooks. Cool cred seems like a long shot for this lot once you start adding up the stats. Frontman Jim Allen has been compared to such chronic cult figures as Graham Parker and Mark Eitzel; guitarist Robert Sorkin started his musical career as a professional French horn player (he hits the horn a couple of times here too); bassist Anne-Marie Stehn bears a deep, abiding passion for Abba and Wings, and drummer Sean McMorris is no beat-happy brute but a crafty composer who studied at Berklee College of Music and cowrote several cuts on this album.

Though When Dreaming Lets You Down... is the New York quartet's debut album, it didn't exactly arise from a tabula rasa. The band members have all been around the block enough to have plenty of past lives in their collective resume. Besides Sorkin's stint with the Monterrey Symphony, Allen recorded and toured as a solo singer/songwriter, Stehn served time with major-label bound distaff rockers Antigone Rising, and McMorris manned the kit for legendary Television axeman Richard Lloyd as well as cutting his own material. But when they come together as Lazy Lions on When Dreaming Lets You Down... this foursome foments a singular spirit that encompasses all their influences and adds something new to the mix. "I Don't Think It's Going to Stop" moves like early Elvis Costello on a '60s British Invasion kick. "Let the Bad Times Roll" evokes a sort of sonic grudge match between The Police and The Smithereens. "Tiny Little Cracks" seems to wonder what would happen if Morrissey had fronted Crowded House. And the atmospheric "Creep Across the Night" suggests a collision course between The Church and a hung-over Chris Isaak. But playing Spot the Influence doesn't negate the impact of Lazy Lions' own aural identity. When dreaming lets you down… overflows with sabertooth-sharp lyrical incisions and more hooks than a bait-and-tackle shop.

Every song on the band's first full-length release stands tall on its own, but together they gather even more momentum, snowballing for an intensified impact bolstered by its own internal logic. It's all part of an endangered process that musicians of another era used to refer to as making an album, not just a bunch of random tracks wandering incoherently around your iPhone. When Dreaming Lets You Down... is a complete experience in and of itself that commands your concentration from beginning to end but rewards that attention with sonic surprises at every turn.

After 2 years of work and intense collaborations, the new project of our digital label will start: MICROLABEL LTD. The new digital label will use at the best the great resources created and collected by MicroLabel during the years of its net label activity. The label was created in 2007 to spread out experimental electronic culture. MicroLabel gave visibility to small productions and independent producers that agreed to the Creative Commons license. With the help of all the staff this net label has reached the regarding amount of 60.000 download par year and over 100.000 visits in 2008. It is also linked to the major websites for audio social-networking in Europe and was appreciated by the press. MicroLabel has several collaborations with singular artists around the world and other labels that search for quality: Stirsound, Intoxik, Mixotik, Metroline, Loopzilla, Deepindub.
  From june 2009 MicroLabel will also start to distribute musical products charging a fee. It will take strength from the great visibility of the web site. We have in mind a digital label project (MicroLabel LTD) that will not use several distributors: we will not use the common mass distributors like Beatport (that gives none or less visibility inside their infinite catalogue) but create a shop directly on our web page using the myx2u technology.
  Myx2u will be our primary distributor. They already work with labels like Max-Ernst, Karaoke Kalk and Level Records among others. They give you the chance to put your shop inside your website so we can use the over 100.000 fans that come to visit us. Myx2u shares 70% of the profits with the label, contrary than Beatport that makes the opposite. Myx2u handles also all the paperwork for the mechanical rights, so if you are with a collecting rights company such as ascap, gema siae etc. you will get your money directly on your account without having to wait that we do all the hard work (and you know how lazy labels can be). We will also try to be directly on I-Tunes, so we will not loose all the Mac addicts market, even if this will mean to loose some incomes. At the end we will look up for other distribution sites but we will not want to loose tracking of your music and the related incomes. We think that digital releases have a great potential to create incomes for artists and labels and we will try to do our best to achieve our goal. MicroLabel seeks for proposals. It must be a place of participation for electronic music fans and producers. We want to make an efficient on line label that can offer albums and eps with quality. We already collaborate with artist well or less known, some of them we discovered, all of them being part of the great electronic world. We always search for new inputs, to share our space with producers of new sounds that want to distribute music the best way possible. And if all goes as planned we will try to go also on physical supports. Naturally the work of a label is to promote the music. In this field we already have a lot of newspapers supporting us and a mailing list with over 3000 contacts. We are sure that the chain reaction will help us.

Hard, chill, polarities; 
Electronic Hybrid Wildfire
Acid. psy, techno, House, trance, DnB. breaks imdb. sub genre crunch
ALLSTYLES styall
produce something new; break the boundaries but first learn them; all of them. 

Layers on Layers - , free we can all grow this thing and keep things real.
Only then will you know what you need or want to work at to overcome or achieve.

Persevere, conquer all limits you face. 
Personal challenges, growth and artistic expression of THE struggle is at core Stylistically, everytime a chaos track is being assembled, confused sprawl, whipping fx, stereo-field all check.

Give more REAL fucks about real things -- 
and less about fake success and perceptions. 

Contrasts and dynamics - Human life and the composite of carbonBased temperence... 
Art is real the people are often the cost, the trick is the human goes into the work, suffer and create.
Stay true, integrity is your legacy. It alone will shine through and gain exponential value to humanity
Chaos engine

|||| DJing for two decades. MadAdaM's Musical styles range from soulful lounge to hard hitting dance. 

MadAdaM has shared the stage with such notable national acts as: Prince Paul, Brand Nubian, Kool Herc, Little Brother, Canable Ox, C-Rayz Walz, J-Live, 2 Live Crew, Pete Rock, Z-trip, Aceyalone, Eyedea, Kaos, Akrobatic, DJ Abilities, The Cool Kids, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Vast Air and many more… 

**Notable Tours & Shows: 
The Best Damn Rap Tour Featuring: J-Live C-Rayz Walz, Vast Aire 30 national dates in 32 days
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Opening DJ for Kool Herc The Truth and the Culture Tour 1
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Opening DJ for Large Professor Truth and the culture Tour 2 

**Local Chicago Venue shows and residencies: 

Metro- Chicago, IL 
House of Blues- Chicago, IL 
Swig – Chicago, IL
Relax- Chicago, IL
Zentra- Chicago
Old Town Social- Chicago, IL
Uncle Fatty’s- Chicago, IL
Exodus2- Chicago, IL 
Jet Lounge- Chicago, IL
Buddha Lounge- Chicago, IL
Clover Club- Chicago, IL
Vision Night Club (dome room)- Chicago, IL
Vertigo- Chicago, IL
Trevia- Chicago, IL
Square one- Chicago, IL
Hide Out- Chicago, IL
Abby Pub- Chicago, IL
Joe's on Weed ST- Chicago,IL.
Hot House- Chicago, IL 
Subterranean- Chicago, IL
Underground Lounge- Chicago, IL 
Empty Bottle- Chicago, IL 
Morseland- Chicago, IL
Texas Ballroom- Chicago, IL
Chicago Historical Society- Chicago, IL 
Grant Park- Chicago, IL
Cubby Bear- Chicago, IL 
Bottom Lounge- Chicago, IL 
National Poetry Festival Chicago, IL
HBO Def Poetry screening- Chicago,IL 
Rhythm- Chicago, IL 
Trace- Chicago, Il
Streetside Café- Chicago, IL
Crocodile- Chicago, IL 
People Lounge– Chicago, IL
Lava Lounge- Chicago, IL
Red Kiva- Chicago
The Exchange– Chicago, IL
Salud– Chicago, IL
LoKal- Chicago, IL


**National:

The Rootdown - El Cid / Los Angeles, CA 
North Six / Brooklyn, NY
Cat's Cradle / Carrboro, NC
Wooden Place / Atlanta, GA
The Social / Orlando, FL
Common Grounds / Gainesville, FL
Engine Room / Houston, TX
Emo's / Austin, TX
The Room / Dallas, TX
Sunshine Theatre / Albuquerque, NM
The Brickhouse / Phoenix, AZ
Cane's/Belly Up / San Diego, CA
Knitting Factory / Los Angeles, CA
Independent / San Francisco, CA
Wow Hall / Eugene, OR
Chop Suey / Seattle,WA
Berbatti's Pan / Portland, OR
Lo-Hi / Salt Lake City, UT
Fox Theatre / Boulder, CO
Ascot Room / Minneapolis, MN
Abbey Pub / Chicago, IL
Blind Pig / Ann Arbor, MI
Grog Shop / Cleveland, OH
Mississippi Nights- St. Louis, MS 
Atomic Cowboy – St. Louis, MS
Fitzgeralds- Berwyn, IL
Bamboo Bob's- Milwaukee, WI


**International:

Mango Sunset – Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
EZ Times - Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Oshiis - Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Stanford’s - Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Café Ivon - Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
GLOW - Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Tex-Mex - Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Rocking J's - Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Lazy Mon - Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
Le Chameleon - Playa Chiquita, Costa Rica
Arricife - Punta Uva, Costa Rica 
AIre - Santa Teresa, Costa Rica 
Lubnon - San Jose, Costa Rica 
Mondo Taitu - Bocas Del Toro, Panama
Casa Animal - Bocas Del Toro, Panama 
Plankton - Jaco, Costa Rica
Orchard Room - Jaco, Costa RIca
Monkey Bar - Jaco, Costa RIca
Oz Bar - Jaco, Costa RIca
EAT! - Jaco, Costa RIca


**Radio: 
Technophilia - WLUW (Chicago) 


**Film: 
I Am Hip Hop: The Chicago Hip Hop Documentary 

**Corporate: 
DJ for Current TV mid west promotional tour 


**Press:
Chicago Tribune
Chicago Sun Times
Red Streak
Chicago Reader
New City
UR Chicago
Red Eye
Fly Paper


**Links:

www.djmadadam.com
www.soundcloud.com/madadam
www.facebook.com/adamleaders
www.facebook.com/djmadadam

Hi there, Due to the popularity of this page and the mixes all reaching there download limits so quickly we have moved the Cultural Vibes mix page to culturalvibes.co.uk. Its almost identical to this page and offers the same service but with no limits. There are lots of mixes up already and over 100 hrs to go so check it out now !

South West of England Club Promotion/Dj Collective CULTURAL VIBES came into being on Saturday 3rd October 1992 at the Quay Club in Plymouth Devon. Back then most of the S-West was Hardcore raving mad, with the speed of the music increasing in BPM almost by the week. The emerging Rave scene had found a true spiritual home down in the S-West of England and Plymouth seemed to “have it” particularly well with 2 huge world-class venues, The Academy & The Warehouse. However by mid 1992 the heady days of earlier Rave Promoters like Extreme, Wasp Factory & Alpha had been replaced by a much harder, faster and darker sound as S-West crews like Essence and later Revelation took the emerging Jungle/Hardcore sound to the masses with huge success. During the spring & summer of 92 Nottingham's renegade Free Party Collective DiY had made a big impression on local boy Dave Green. The full DiY crew played at a string of events in and around Exeter and Bath that summer culminating in the free party scenes finest hour, Castlemorton. The music the DiY  DJ’s played was still underground & trippy, but was slower, groovier and much more House Music orientated. Very similar to a born again moment Dave Green realised this was the future for him, and set about trying to get involved. After first dabbling in designing & producing Rave clothing he took the very first money from the clothing venture and headed off to the big Universe Rave on September 11th 1992. There the DiY team had their own separate tent for 12 hours and that night a very nervous & wasted Dave Green asked his favourite DJ, Simon DK if DiY would come to Plymouth and play for him. The answer was in the affirmative and 4 weeks later Cultural Vibes was born and a promising clothing venture was dead and buried.
 On the opening night @ the Quay Club 285 curious people crammed into a tiny forgotten little club on Plymouth's historic Old Quay and proceeded to tear the roof off. Timing was certainly one of the reasons for Cultural Vibes immediate success; it just seemed to be the right time for change. It also helped that the all-new British House explosion was just underway with labels like Guerrilla, Boys Own, Limbo and Cowboy all starting to release some top notch home grown records, gaining lots of valuable press. Add to this an incredibly healthy US House scene with labels such as Strictly Rhythm and Murk, and Italian labels like UMM and Creative plus a large measure of original House and Acid classics and the Vibes musical cocktail was complete. From the outset Cultural Vibes went off in a massive way. During the 8 crazy weeks @ the Quay club numbers went as high as 358 which was actually quite dangerous in a club licensed for 200. After all the great music it’s the intense heat that most people seem to remember. The free frozen fruit also sticks out along with the pretty young girls that shared it out at midnight. But it’s the photographs taken at the Quay Club that really show what an influential club it was.  Pictures from the nights show the dance-floor packed full of soon to be Dj's, Club Promoters, Musicians, Music Writers, Club Wear retailers, Record Shop owners, Video Game designers, Photographers, Film Directors, and future SW Scene leaders all wide eyed with broad their sweaty smiles. It really was a seminal time for everyone that went there. For sure something special and unique had happened in Plymouth, but no one could have predicted then, just how far it would all go!  (The original Quay Club Photo’s can be found @ “The Cultural Vibes Appreciation Society” page on Facebook)
During the Quay Club run Cultural Vibes was entertained by Dj Haze ( Joe Waterfield, played every week) and Dj’s Phil Jubb, Geoff Van Dyke, Ian Smith & Will & Johnnie from the Lazy House sound system, Mr Dee, Pad e & Barry from Happy Shopper, Scottie and Dan Rayner with the last tune @ the Quay played by Dave Green. Another full time resident for the run was Andrew Chinn who would remain the door picker/greeter/friendly face/man to know, forever. Eight weeks of absolute mayhem would sadly have to stop, as the numbers were way to big for the venue. Watching the ceiling drip sweat and condensation continuously onto the lighting system was scary as was the queue for the toilets.  Also a fractious relationship had developed with the Quay Club management over Cultural Vibes split of the door and this also helped spell the end of the Quay Club run. Once the decision was made there was only one place Dave Green wanted to take Cultural Vibes, and that was to his favorite club in the world, The Warehouse on Plymouth’s infamous Union St. 
Quite possibly one of the best club venues on Earth the Warehouse was a huge converted 1930's Art Deco cinema. (Once the largest cinema in the south of the UK) Pretty much a white elephant for years due to its immense size, it had been reborn as Rave venue in 1989 and for those that went there regularly it was truly hallowed ground. However due to a rising amount of drug related violence (then called taxing) the venue had seen better days as the masses that traveled from all over the S-West to Plymouth for the big raves had suddenly dwindled. By Dec 92 The Warehouse was completely up for grabs on Saturday's and thanks to some canny behind the scenes maneuvering with the help of Happy Shoppers Fleur and Plymouth dance legend Lee Reynolds Dave Green found himself about to run the club of his wildest dreams. One major hurdle remained though, how to put 300+ people in a venue that could hold 2500 and make it feel both comfortable and still look good. A great meeting of minds created the solution as Dave Green and Dan Thompson from Kaos Design trialed a few failures but came up with a total winner in the end. By stitching together a hoard of white army camouflage nets and utilising the 3ton-ceiling winch and later the underused Dj Egg/Booth they created the perfect indoors party venue. Finally just like their beloved free party scene, (which the Thatcher government had only just outlawed) Cultural Vibes had a giant legal tent of their own.  All they needed now was DiY.
The DiY crew really did put the icing on the Cultural Vibes cake as Jack, Pezz, Simon DK, Digs & Woosh, Emma and Pip made regular monthly missions to Plymouth throughout 93 to help create the Cultural Vibes ethos and sound. Unlimited help and support also came from Mark & Jess Darby who ran the highly influential Mighty Force Record Shop/Label in Exeter.  As well as supplying all the Resident Dj’s with their vinyl, Mark & Jess helped immensely with the early bookings, enabling Dave to find his feet as a fledgling promoter.  Phil Jubb was one of the staff at Mighty Force and the shop would go on to introduce Dave to a host of future Vibes Dj’s. One of these was Exeter resident, Mighty Force regular and future dance music superstar Tom Middleton.  As well as playing Tom designed a string of catchy Cultural Vibes flyers throughout 1993 and his quirky, humorous take on the flyer genre seemed to catch the zeitgeist. As the weekly numbers steadily grew, so the giant camouflage net was raised to yet another level, opening up more of the vast Warehouse venue up to the public. This continued regularly right up until the first Luv-Dup night when 750 people finally saw the whole venue opened up and Cultural Vibes shift into yet another gear. 
Resident Dj’s for 1993 @ The Warehouse were Dj Haze, Phil Jubb, Duncan Parks, and later Verdi (Dave Green) and Mr Dee. 
Guest Dj's that played throughout 1993 were: Jack, Pezz, Simon DK, Digs and Woosh, Pip, Emma, Shane and Jamie, Clinton, Choci, Ian lazy Smith, Will & Johnnie Lazy House, Mike Shawe, Mike C, Jon Dasilva, Nero, Andy Finnie, Danny Ayres, Mark & Adrian Luv-Dup, Froggy(RIP), Jay Baker, Tigger, Dj Rush, Richie Rundle, Tom Middleton, Mr Mullatto, Sonny, Steve Proctor, Phil Asher, Noel Watson, AJ, Charlie Hall, Hazel B, Geoff Van-Dyke, Gary Marson, Matt Perry, Bongo Pete Isaac, Roy The Roach, Judge Jules, Gordon Kaye, John Kelly, Lee Fisher, Pascals Bongo Massive(RIP), Girls on Top, Kelvin Andrews,  Justin Garrett, Andy Roberts, Patrick Smoove, Al McKenzie, Phil Gifford, Mc/Dj Ribbz, John Mcready, Chris and James, Ashley Beedle, and Iain McKenzie.
The Chillout Room - During the 2nd half of the year The Fruit Bowl played host to the newly formed Freestyle Collective (Bloodshot, Kooki, Pes) Bongo Pete Isaac, and Children Of Kaos Dj’s (Andy Compton, Ritchie Piggot, Dj Flex (Chris Hart) and Paul Honey)
to be continued ................




Slow Disco Saturdays is a monthly DJ session at halcyon the shop, hosted by our own queen of the retarded beat scene, Bianca Von Baum. Each session will feature a guest DJ laying down 3 hours of tempo challenged choons, from dawdling cosmic Disco to lazy low-slung Funk and lead-footed Balaeric burners. So if you are feeling sluggish after a Friday night of quick paced rubbish, come pitch it down with Ms. Baum on a Slow Disco Saturday afternoon....More info on upcoming events, podcasts and DJs, go here: http://www.facebook.com/slow.disco

I go by the name of DJ45. I was born in Jamaica, Queens, lived in Southside Hollins. Grew up listening to Kiss and WBLS battling it out every weekend (miss the Juice Crew Allstars). Moved to North Carolina  because my father was in the military. Made it back move to Queens every summer to work in the barber shop with my uncle Tyrone (aka BEAR). Actually worked with Freddro Star when he had dreads and was forming the group now known as ONYX. Just loved Hip Hop my hole life. DJ Red Alert, Mister Magic, Marley Marl,  Lazy K, Ron G, DJ Buckwild all have have impacted me as a youngster. I got into DJing back in 1988 while in high school dropped off in 1996 but now I'm back in 2012. Technology has changed but the love for the music is still the same. My style of DJing first and foremost is remixing old school Hip Hop beats with newer music. I like to make blends because I grew up with my Ron G tapes and I loved hearing music with a different beat or rhythm. I play more of the House, Club  and Dance scene music. I like to here club banggas from a mainstream , R&B, or Hip hop record. I am not a radio DJ, I do mostly private parties, night clubs, and events so I'm mobile. I like to mashup some crazy stuff sometimes so you never know what I'm going to do next.

I also mix music video into some of my sets. I think mixing video helps the crowd enjoy the party even more. I grew up listening to music my entire life and have a true respect for those that create it. I have two young kids so they keep me pretty youthful. They also keep me up on the newest pop culture music. This allows me to play kid parties with the most up to day music in the industry. 

If I'm not talking, I'm singing.
If I'm not singing, I'm listening to music.
If I'm not listening to music, music is playing in my head.

You can call me Yuexiao :)

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