- country:Brazil
- region:Bahia
- label:not signed
- type:DJ/Remixer
- gender:female
- artist posted by:Dj Grace Kelly
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Rediscover the mix - DJ Grace Kelly and a story of World Wide Dance Music
Everything interesting about culture stem from the mix. And it's worth reminding oneself of this, in days when hip hop is commonly interpreted as anabolic wannabe gangsters scowling about their latest pimping and "world music" can be pretty much anything between a football ode and a Germanized version of "Guantanamera".
But this will always be: when different experiences, sounds, feelings and views collide, new expressions arise. This can be seen in cooking, love making, music and other absolutely essential areas of life. You cannot grasp flamenco without the movement of Roma and Sinti, or the enigma of pop music without the influences of blues, and other rhythms carried from the south with immigrants.
DJ Grace Kelly reached Berlin in 1996 along one our modern times silk routes, leading from Bahia in Brazil to the verge of Western Europe. If one aims to describe the explosiveness of her urbanized music, this travel is an essential point. DJ Grace Kelly, christened this way in a small Brazilian village by her parents, embodies what happens to culture when it travels and expands.
What DJ Grace Kelly presents her audiences is nothing less Pandora's Box. She'll shake the lid open and people will obediently start to dance, just like the myth makes snakes with glowing eyes sway lustily enough to stone the sight of the gods. In the hottest venues Berlin has to offer DJ Grace Kelly presents Afrobrazilian music and Latinamerican sounds, Baile Funk all of it filtered through Drum'n'Bass and Electro. Like any cross cultural DJ, she's embraces being influenced: And so a trained ear will notice the Oriental Breakbeats and Eastern European rhythms snuggling their way through her mixes.
Short list of references
Venues
Berlin: Tempodrom, Heimatklaenge, Pop d'Europe, Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
LIQUIDROM, Mudd Club, Far Out, the Gruene Salon, Kulturbrauerei, Traenenpalast, Hebbel am Ufer, Trompete, Volksbuehne, Lido, BKA, MATRIX, Pfefferberg and many more
Festivals
Music Projects / Collaborations
Mundo Mix (www.myspace.com/mundomixberlin)
Selektor Brazilbeats (www.multikulti.de)
Rainhas do Norte (www.rainhas.de)
International
London, UK
Mikonos (Greece)
Kuta, Bali
Trancoso, Brazil
Udine, Italy
Rabat, Marocco
Slubice, Polen
Luxemburg, Luxemburg
Basel, Swiss
Feldkirch, Austria
Warsawa, Poland