downtownsounds
12-09-2005, 01:13 AM
52FUNK presents
THEO PARRISH (Detroit)
5 Hour Set
@ The Underground,
Kennedys, 30-32 Westland Row
Saturday 17th December
Doors @ 9, Door Tax €15
Advance tickets available from Selectah Records, Temple Bar
www.downtownsounds.org
It is our pleasure to present Detroit's Theo Parrish as the special Christmas guest @ 52FUNK in Kennedy's on Saturday 17 December. He'll be playing an exclusive 5 hour set for us, sharing a weekender billl with the legendary Nicky Siano, who will be ripping up Ri-Ra the night before. Weekender tickets are available at 20 euro each.
"Love of the music should be the driving force of any producer, performer or DJ. Everything else stems from that core, that love. With that love, sampling can become a method of tasteful assembly, collage, as opposed to a creative crutch, plagiarism. Using this same understanding openly & respectfully, can turn DJing into spiritual participation. It can turn a few hours of selection into essential history, necessary listening through movement." This personal philosophy gives shape and direction to the distinctive sounds that are created by Theo Parrish.
Theo Parrish was born in Washington D.C. in 1972 and raised in Chicago, IL where his passion for music developed. Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, George Gershwin, Bob Marley, as well as his uncle, jazz musician Dexter Sims, all had strong influences on Theo's early musical life. Chicago's radio influences and dance artists such as Ron Hardy, Larry Heard, Lil Louis, Farley Jackmaster Funk, Gene Hunt, Mike Dunn, Frankie Knuckles, Walter Get Down Brown and Andre Hatchett, helped to spawn Mr. Parrish's early career. He began spinning and producing tracks in 1986, at the age of thirteen.
After graduating from the Academy for the Arts, he received a scholarship to the Kansas City Art Institute where his interest in music was taken to a new level through his study of sculpture. In 1994, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from KCAI with a concentration in Sound Sculpture, a form of orchestration using live instruments, looped recordings, the human voice, and numerous other sound generation devices. While in Kansas City, Theo continued to impact and be impacted by dance music, helping to bring a dormant underground music scene to life.
In 1994, Theo Parrish moved to Michigan where he became heavily involved in Detroit's underground music scene. Since his arrival, he has helped spawn a resurgence of dance classic selections among local DJ talents. An original resident of 'Better Days', Theo's sound has been called everything from spiritual to infectious. Unfortunately, the commercialization of 'Better Days' authored its disappearance. Following several dates with independent promoters, he gave an exceptional evening of soulful selections at the infamous Detroit Electronic Music Festival. Later, Theo started his own night, "Sessions" at The Rhythm Cafe. Finding the night to offer more stress than musical bliss, Theo has returned to the comforts of the studio. You can find his sounds being charted by DJs in Germany, London. Japan. Italy, France, Australia, Canada, Africa and numerous cities throughout North America. Producing music and delivering his unique and dynamic sets in venues throughout the Detroit and surrounding areas, as well as abroad he has gained the attention and respect of DJs, producers, listeners and dancers worldwide.
His unique approach to ‘sound sculpture’ can be heard in his trippy, elemental, drawn out productions, such as his impossibly dreamy re-work of Jill Scott’s ‘Slowly Surely’ or the serene ‘Children Of Drum'. Theo has also gained underground notoriety with his ‘Ugly Edits’, a series of hypnotic reworks of old disco, funk and boogie gems, as well as collaborating with kindred spirit Kenny Dixon Jr ( aka Moodymann) on the ‘Three Chairs’ project. As a DJ he isguaranteed to bring you on a musical journey you won't forget in a hurry - expect classic disco and funk to sit beside speaker shredding house and techno, 80's pop and leftfield dancefloor classics to rub up against psychedelic soul bombs..... in short, a musical history lesson that most definitely will not have you falling asleep at the back of the class!!
http://www.downtownsounds.org/images/x_mas_weekender/Theo%20_300.jpg
THEO PARRISH (Detroit)
5 Hour Set
@ The Underground,
Kennedys, 30-32 Westland Row
Saturday 17th December
Doors @ 9, Door Tax €15
Advance tickets available from Selectah Records, Temple Bar
www.downtownsounds.org
It is our pleasure to present Detroit's Theo Parrish as the special Christmas guest @ 52FUNK in Kennedy's on Saturday 17 December. He'll be playing an exclusive 5 hour set for us, sharing a weekender billl with the legendary Nicky Siano, who will be ripping up Ri-Ra the night before. Weekender tickets are available at 20 euro each.
"Love of the music should be the driving force of any producer, performer or DJ. Everything else stems from that core, that love. With that love, sampling can become a method of tasteful assembly, collage, as opposed to a creative crutch, plagiarism. Using this same understanding openly & respectfully, can turn DJing into spiritual participation. It can turn a few hours of selection into essential history, necessary listening through movement." This personal philosophy gives shape and direction to the distinctive sounds that are created by Theo Parrish.
Theo Parrish was born in Washington D.C. in 1972 and raised in Chicago, IL where his passion for music developed. Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, Jimi Hendrix, Nina Simone, George Gershwin, Bob Marley, as well as his uncle, jazz musician Dexter Sims, all had strong influences on Theo's early musical life. Chicago's radio influences and dance artists such as Ron Hardy, Larry Heard, Lil Louis, Farley Jackmaster Funk, Gene Hunt, Mike Dunn, Frankie Knuckles, Walter Get Down Brown and Andre Hatchett, helped to spawn Mr. Parrish's early career. He began spinning and producing tracks in 1986, at the age of thirteen.
After graduating from the Academy for the Arts, he received a scholarship to the Kansas City Art Institute where his interest in music was taken to a new level through his study of sculpture. In 1994, he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from KCAI with a concentration in Sound Sculpture, a form of orchestration using live instruments, looped recordings, the human voice, and numerous other sound generation devices. While in Kansas City, Theo continued to impact and be impacted by dance music, helping to bring a dormant underground music scene to life.
In 1994, Theo Parrish moved to Michigan where he became heavily involved in Detroit's underground music scene. Since his arrival, he has helped spawn a resurgence of dance classic selections among local DJ talents. An original resident of 'Better Days', Theo's sound has been called everything from spiritual to infectious. Unfortunately, the commercialization of 'Better Days' authored its disappearance. Following several dates with independent promoters, he gave an exceptional evening of soulful selections at the infamous Detroit Electronic Music Festival. Later, Theo started his own night, "Sessions" at The Rhythm Cafe. Finding the night to offer more stress than musical bliss, Theo has returned to the comforts of the studio. You can find his sounds being charted by DJs in Germany, London. Japan. Italy, France, Australia, Canada, Africa and numerous cities throughout North America. Producing music and delivering his unique and dynamic sets in venues throughout the Detroit and surrounding areas, as well as abroad he has gained the attention and respect of DJs, producers, listeners and dancers worldwide.
His unique approach to ‘sound sculpture’ can be heard in his trippy, elemental, drawn out productions, such as his impossibly dreamy re-work of Jill Scott’s ‘Slowly Surely’ or the serene ‘Children Of Drum'. Theo has also gained underground notoriety with his ‘Ugly Edits’, a series of hypnotic reworks of old disco, funk and boogie gems, as well as collaborating with kindred spirit Kenny Dixon Jr ( aka Moodymann) on the ‘Three Chairs’ project. As a DJ he isguaranteed to bring you on a musical journey you won't forget in a hurry - expect classic disco and funk to sit beside speaker shredding house and techno, 80's pop and leftfield dancefloor classics to rub up against psychedelic soul bombs..... in short, a musical history lesson that most definitely will not have you falling asleep at the back of the class!!
http://www.downtownsounds.org/images/x_mas_weekender/Theo%20_300.jpg