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Date: 03/04/2010
Diagram of Truth Brings Alternative Hip Hop to the House Cafe March 12th
by Administrator
The show is on Friday March 12th, 2010 at The House Cafe (263 E. Lincoln Hwy. DeKalb, IL 60115). It's $6 at the door, & the doors open at 7:00. This will be memorable night of eye-opening, conscious, fun, political, & honest hip hop.
DIAGRAM OF TRUTH
In DeKalb/Sycamore Illinois of 2004, Diagram Of Truth originated as a four-piece recording in their parent's basement/living room songs of socio-politcal, personal, and hip hop critiquing nature. Since those days, D.O.T. has come to be a duo that now resides in Berwyn and Cortland, Illinois. Raps of personal experience and self-empowerment infused with humor over the soundscapes of samples, programmed violins, breakbeats, scratched/chopped vocals, 808 kits, and ambient-to-heavy synth is what currently makes up the sound of Diagram Of Truth. Although any one genre isn't implied through their sound, D.O.T. is rooted within hip hop music.
www.diagramoftruth.com
www.myspace.com/diagramoftruth
GUANTE + BIG CATS!
Guante (of Guante + Big Cats!) has been selected as City Pages’ Artist of the Year, URB Magazine’s ‘Next 1000′, a CMJ Spotlight Artist for 2009, and Best Local Slam Poet for City Pages’ Best of 2009. Also Big Cats! has done production for the underground rapper, Sage Francis. Guante + Big Cats! latest album - An Unwelcome Guest - is being featured on Sage Francis' Strange Famous Records website.
http://www.guanteandbigcats.com/
http://www.myspace.com/elguante
http://www.myspace.com/bigcatsbeats
IDRIS GOODWIN
Idris Goodwin is a NEA award winning playwright, HBO Def Poet and hip hop artist committed to exploring cross disciplinary possibilities in solo performance. Idris has received grants and awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation and The Illinois Arts Council. Idris’ “break beat poetry” was featured on season six of Russell Simmons’ HBO Def Poetry and published in the Spoken Word Revolution Redux Anthology, in addition to numerous literary journals. Idris is currently artist in residence at Iowa City's KRUI Radio Program Artists in Action. Idris frequently teaches, performs and lectures at institutions on themes of arts, culture and empowerment. Current projects include the album Break Beat Poems on SGE records, the one act play Action Spectacular for Chicago's Hermit Arts Theater and the solo performance piece Bullet Bites Man.
http://idrisgoodwin.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/breakbeatpoems
SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE
Born Adam Gabriel Rangel, SEE MORE PERSPECTIVE is a native of St. Paul, MN and son of Chicago. Having recently returned to his native Twin Cities roots from several years in Chi-town; he brings a unique aesthetic influenced by both communities. As a Hip Hop performer and recording artist, he captures and engages crowds of all generations through his energy and signature crowd interaction. He has been dubbed as KRS ONE meets the Dalai Lama— hard but inspiring, thoughtful and bumpin’ in peace. As a lyricist poet, educator, self taught producer, actor, and visual artist his work carries revolutionary uplifting undertones known to motivate masses across the midwest and south. As a producer, his music conveys a rawness of heart and soul that is effortlessly spiritual. Infused with traditions of jazz, funk and indigenous music; his sound is at times grainy and full – yet smooth and crisp. He implements fearless samples from anything as far out as Tibet’s Gamalan music and as quirky as records that teach Spanish to toddlers through disco.
http://truruts.wordpress.com/artists/
http://www.myspace.com/seemoremusic
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Rockford Area Arts Council
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Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center
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Rockford Area Music Industry
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