THE BEATS

Music and Urban Culture in Vietnam
  • scissors
    July 29th, 2010JaseMusic

    Here’s a New Dub, Reg­gae Mix­tape from our long time friend and part­ner in crime based in Syd­ney Aus­tralia, For­eign­Dub crew

    For­eign­dub was Jase The Beats Saigon’s old crew and is cur­rently run­ning the Bass scene in Syd­ney as well as host­ing FBi radio show every sunday…

    For­eign­dub Air­wayvs Promo Mix­tape Flt0001 by for­eign­dub

    intro feat. mad pro­fes­sor & lit­tle o
    africa hi-tech-too late
    dub ter­mi­na­tor & high free­quency – give it up feat. mello g
    porina & real­ity chant – live life
    jah cure feat. siz­zla kalonji – king in this jun­gle
    real­ity chant feat jah mason- ain’t no turn­ing back
    yt – real music
    wayne won­der – police and bad­boyyep yep lovely
    kil­prich – cer­ti­fied mur­derer
    ken albert – gun­shot
    sis­ter nancy – only woman dj with degree
    bar­ring­ton levy – to love some­one
    horace andy – do you love my music?
    alton ellis – ras­ta­man feel­ing
    blun­detto feat. hindi zahra – white birds
    den­nis bovell – row­ing (12″ ver­sion)
    gre­gory isaacs – slave mas­ter
    gre­gory isaacs- she is not my kind
    mun­gos hi-fi feat. soom t- ing rid­dim – did you really know?
    con­roy smith – dan­ger­ous
    dub ter­mi­na­tor & high freequency- man like me feat. senita
    real­ity chant feat. luciano – work hard
    rod azlan – selek­tah
    cotti feat. 2nice – war­rior charge
    stereo­typ – blaze n cook
    real­ity chant feat. hi kee – good­ness gracious

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  • scissors
    July 27th, 2010JaseEvents, Music

    Time
    August 7 at 9:30pm – August 8 at 1:00am

    Loca­tion Vasco’s Bar

    74/7D Hai Ba Trung, D.1
    Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Cre­ated By

    More Info
    THE MOVEMENT
    07th August at Vasco’s

    2 ROOMS of SOUND
    A PARTY REPRESENTING THE UNDERGROUND SOUND OF SAIGON, WITH LIVE REGGAE
    …FUNK AND INDIE ROCK BANDS, EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC PRODUCERS AND DJS
    PLAYING BASS ORIENTED MUSIC.
    WITH 2 ROOMS OF DIFFERENT STYLES OF MUSIC

    Main Room: Live Bands

    6789 (4 Piece Live Band):
    6789 is Saigon’s up and com­ing Reg­gae, Ska and Funk band which is rare
    gen­res by Viet­namese stan­dard. Hav­ing ser­cured their res­i­dency at YOKO
    Bar every wednes­day, 6789 is steadily gain­ing their local fol­low­ers.
    They are con­sid­ered to be the first mod­ern Viet­namese Funk, Reg­gae
    band.

    AKAT (3 Piece Live Band)
    AKAT’s musi­cally influ­enced by The Vel­vet Under­ground, The Pix­ies, The
    Ramones, CBS etc… Formed in 2008, AKAT describe their sound as
    “Punk, Grunge and Psy­che­delic Rock”. The trio also organ­ise a live
    per­for­mance night called “Wasted Youth of The Nation”.

    Blue Room: BASS REPUBLIC

    BASS REPUBLIC is Vietnam’s first monthly ELECTRO | DUBSTEP | DRUM AND
    BASS event. Our aim is to bring the sub sonic sound of Bass heavy
    music into Vietnam’s dance scene.

    This month we are col­lab­o­rat­ing with the French sound crew Jet­lag, as
    well as intro­duc­ing a young local NOISE | EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC pro­ducer
    WRITHER.

    JASE (The Beats Saigon)
    MIC MAC (Jet­lag)
    FUGU (Jet­lag)
    DJ KNAPPE (The Beats Saigon)
    WRITHER (LIVE EXPERIMENTAL SET)

    FOR MORE INFO CONTACT US AT
    TheBeats.Saigon@gmail.com
    www.thebeats-saigon.com
    www.facebook.com/thebeats.saigon

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    THE MOVEMENT

    2 dance­floor với âm nhạc khác nhau.
    The Move­ment là một party với những điệu nhạc Under­ground của Saigon.
    Với Dance­floor Chính có sự tham gia của những band nhạc Reg­gae, Funk
    và band nhạc Rock. Dance­floor Blue Room có sự tham gia từ các DJs Pháp
    và Việt Nam với thể loại nhạc ELECTRO, DUBSTEP và DRUM & BASS.

    Main Room: (Nhạc Sống)

    Ban Nhạc “6789″:
    6789 là ban nhạc Reg­gae và Funk đầu tiên tại Saigon, đây là những thể
    lọai nhạc còn hiếm có tại nước ta. 6789 thường xuất hiện tại quán cà
    phê YOKO vào những đêm thứ Tư và họ đã bắt đầu có nhiều fan hâm mộ.

    Ban Nhac “AKAT”:
    AKAT’s được ảnh hưởng bởi các ban nhạc Punk như The Vel­vet
    Under­ground, The Pix­ies, The Ramones, CBS…
    Nhóc thành lập vào năm 2008, và có âm thanh như “Punk, Grunge và
    Psy­che­delic Rock”.

    Blue Room: (BASS REPUBLIC)
    BSS REPUBLIC là một party hàng tháng đầu tiên tại Việt Nam chỉ có DJs
    chỉnh các dòng nhạc với Bass cưc kỳ mạnh mẽ như ELECTRO, DUBSTEP và
    DRUM & BASS.

    Tháng này Bass Repub­lic sẽ có sự gốp mặt của:

    JASE (The Beats Saigon)
    MIC MAC (Jet­lag | France)
    FUGU (Jet­lag | France)
    DJ KNAPPE
    WRITHER (Nhạc Experimental)

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  • scissors
    July 15th, 2010JaseEvents, Music

    Start Time:
    Fri­day, July 23, 2010 at 10:00pm
    End Time:
    Sat­ur­day, July 24, 2010 at 4:00am
    Loca­tion:
    Boston Sport Bar
    Street:
    175/6 Pham Ngu Lao, D1
    City/Town:
    Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

    Descrip­tion

    AFTER HOURS RAGGA MUFFINS is back…..

    This time we are tak­ing the vibe back to the ghetto area (Pham Ngu Lao)
    at Boston Sport Bar (same street as Le Pub) where Cheap Beer and Food are served 24hr…3am piz­zas there proved to be quite delights.

    Saigon Rock­ers DJs will be vib­ing you up with selec­tion of DUB.REGGAE.SKA.DANCEHALL.

    with a lit­tle trib­ute set to the “Sweet­est Voice in Reg­gae” Sugar Minott who passed away on 10th July 2010.

    from 10pm – Late
    See you there with your good VIBES

    Absolutely FREE entry.

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  • scissors
    September 1st, 2009JaseEvents, Music

    Last sat­ur­day, Saigon wit­nessed a step for­ward to the Bass (even though its only a baby step, but its bet­ter than no step).

    With 3 events hap­pened around town that has Reg­gae influ­enced vibes,

    True Roots @ Vasco’s” with Jerk Selec­tah, also’s The Beats‘ own party, “Saigon Shuf­fle 2” at Cage with me (DJ Jase) and Von Knappe on the tunes duty. Knappe dropped some ragge elec­tro tunes to warm the crowd up, then i played a dub­step, dance­hall set, it was a fun night. How­ever the star of the night for me is the after party called “After Hours Ragga Muffins” at the infa­mous late night venue, Long Phi Bar, which is hosted by The Beats and 9 Drag­ons. For the first time in a long time i can feel the under­ground vibe at a party, i can really see bass music to sprout from this late night. Will defi­nately be more of After Hours Ragga Muffins par­ties to come.

    Von Knappe

    Von Knappe

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    Check out more photo of the night in the PHOTOS section

    until then here are some more tunes for you Ragga Muffins.

    Jah­dan Blakkamoore – The Gen­eral (original_mix)

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    Dis­rupt & Solo Ban­ton – Talk to me

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    Rebel MC Congo Natty (feat. Spikey T aka Mabrac) – Creation Rebel (The Beats also brought Spikey Tee for a set in Viet­nam this year as well, he dropped some bomb D’n'B tunes, Big up to Spikey)

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  • scissors
    August 18th, 2009JaseEvents, Music

    Saigon’s infa­mous Reg­gae Sun­day is back on sun­day 23rd Aug @ JJ Bar Grill, 28 Pham Ngoc Thach,D1.

    Last one was off the hook, we started the party at 12pm til 8pm with blaz­ing reg­gae and dance hall. Most memo­r­ial move­ment was when the rain finally arrived, peo­ple didnt really care, its fun to see the crowd was danc­ing care­free for once in saigon.

    This time we have a mas­sive guest DJ, Short­kut from the world famous Beat Junkies crew. Expect­ing the man to drop some hot reggae/dancehall dub­plate.

    Check out “Events” page for more info….see you there!

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