If there's a local sound system more representative of the "Outernational" sound than Surya Dub, we've yet to hear it. We all knew that sub-bass's depth-delving frequencies could move your rump in interesting ways, but before Surya got surly and stepped up to the plate with their mix of ragga, bhangra, dubstep, electro-hop, and D'n'B, who knew that low-end madness could become the aural equivalent of Esperanto, linking global cultures and uniting people under a steady, thumping groove?
Surya Dub's second anniversary happens from about 10 p.m. until 3 a.m. Saturday at Club Six, and as usual, it's sure to put a hum in your dinger. The downstairs "Sub-Hz Den" features guests 2562 (from the Netherlands!) and the Gaslight Killer (from L.A.!), along with SD residents Maneesh the Twister, Kid Kameleon, MC Daddy Frank, and the Contact VJs; upstairs, "Inna Yard," you'll find guests Lud Dub along with residents Jimmy Love and DJ Amar playing nonstop bhangra, electric vardos, and cosmic vibes. Tix are $15 at the door, but if you click here, you can score presales for just $10.
Is it just our imagination, or has Wu-Tang producer the RZA become even more prolific since leaving the slums of Shaolin for La-La land? Having freed himself from the burdens of making gritty yet epic tracks for the likes of 60 Second Assassin and U-God, Bobby Digital's creative rebirth -- call it a RZA-ssance -- has taken him into the worlds of scoring and composing gritty yet epic tracks for the likes of Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino, and he's also repped for the Hip Hop Chess Federation and onscreen in American Gangster. His current gig as beatsmith for the anime-with-soul TV series Afro-Samurai is cooler than a polar bear with stunna shades, yet he still finds time to get out on the road and show new-jack MCs how he mastered the 36th chamber.
Having just dropped the awesome Afro-Samurai: Resurrection soundtrack, RZA headlines a bill any true hip-hop head worth his or her hoodie would be blinder than Zatoichi to miss. Sunday at Mezzanine, he appears with Pariah, DJ Radius, and Who Cares, with local support from the Bayliens and the similarly-kung fu-influenced Delinquent Monastery Here's some Digi-snacks for disciples; for show tix, click on this.
