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[email protected] [email protected] 0177 - 70 76 490 (Christine Lang) DUBSTEP, BASSLINE, BOUNCE, BAILE FUNK, KUDURO, KWAITO, COUPÉ DECALÉ, BREAKBEAT, CUMBIA DIGITAL, DANCEHALL, UK FUNKY... WORLDMUSIC 2.0... may 21th, 2011 ¡RADICAL RIDDIMS! - Global Ghetto Tech June 10 – 18, 2011 Schau Fenster Gallery & Ritter Butzke, Berlin Kreuzberg Over a period of nine days, the event ¡RADICAL RIDDIMS! - Global Ghetto Tech will be devoted to heavy bass music styles like Baile Funk, Miami Bass, New Orleans Bounce, Baltimore Club, Chicago Juke, and Coupé Décalé, as well as Kuduro from Angola, South African Kwaito, British Dubstep and 2step, and Bassline from Sheffield. All these musical strands represent a form of ‘positive’ cultural globalization and are among the most promising and pioneering innovations in pop and dance music as well as global club culture. As part of the sound system and dancehall cultures of the favelas, townships and banlieus, these ultra- referential and hybrid music styles are largely produced on cheap digital equipment. Distributed quickly over the internet to an eager global audience, these musical genres then make their way into hyper-hybrid music styles. In co-operation with Schau Fenster gallery and Ritter Butzke club, we have invited protagonists from a range of urban musical hotspots to the German capital for a get-together with the corresponding Berlin scene. The musical line-up will be accompanied by an exhibition of international video works, documentary films and lectures, in which we will spotlight on the various local musical scenes and ‘hyper hybrid’ club music, as well as discuss the connections and disparities between key concepts like regionality and globality, citation and original creation, copyright and authorship, digitality, internet and web cultures, as well as the phenomenon of image transfer in popular culture.