DJ RAP (uk) ~ReadingBreakParty ~!! Vivid -Feb 18-only $10us!

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VIVID Fridays presents
Reading Break 2005!
FRIDAY FEBRUARY 18 @ SONAR


Featuring....

DJ RAP
Proper Talent : United Kingdom
The Undisputed Queen of the Turntables
http://www.djRap.com

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DJ RAP has been the undisputed queen of the turntables and the number one female dj in the world, simultaneously a label owner, producer, and recording artist. She has been a prime mover, the prime female mover in fact, on the hardcore, jungle and drum'n'bass scenes. She has more than a decade's worth of seminal dance classics to her credit, with several mix compilation CDs, a Sony artist album and upwards of 20 releases on her own drum'n'bass imprint, PROPER TALENT.

And now she is going to leave her mark on the house music scene. In 2004 DJ Rap founded a brand-new label, IMPROPER TALENT, to provide an outlet for her growing interest in house music. Despite an exhaustive touring, publicity and DJ schedule, Rap still finds time to return to her studio to work on her forthcoming artist album to be released in 2005. Four years ago her first album, Learning Curve, was released on Sony in the UK and on Columbia Records in the USA and ended up selling hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide.


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Urban Lounge:
WFB Crew--> OJ & SHAKES
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(Breaks,Oldschool,Funk)


VIVID SESSIONS
FRIDAYS @ SONAR Nightclub
66 Water St: Doors 10:00pm : www.sonar.bc.ca

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VIVID SESSIONS
Every Friday @ Sonar
Main Room: House-Techno-Progressive
Urban Lounge: Hiphop-Breaks
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from todays's Georgia Straight
A Dance-Music Producer Finds Her Voice
By martin turenne

Publish Date: 17-Feb-2005

DJ Rap
As the daughter of a wealthy hotelier, Charissa Salveno spent her childhood bouncing all over the world, variously residing in Indonesia, Malta, and most remarkably, Bhutan, where her father managed a hotel. Salveno (aka DJ Rap) still spends a lot of time on the road, touring the well-worn circuit of global dance-music hubs. Although the perks available to touring DJs nowadays don't compare to those she enjoyed as a child--or even to those offered during rave's heyday--Rap isn't complaining; she's got her fingers in too many pots to bother with such trifling matters.

Reached at her home in Los Angeles, the British expat is preoccupied, impatiently awaiting a call from her agent and generally acting like a woman with a lot more on her mind than a routine phone interview. When the discussion turns to her forthcoming solo album, though, Rap zooms in on the task at hand, speaking for several uninterrupted minutes about her love of singing, her difficulties in finding suitable collaborators, and her hopes for redefining pop music in the post-rave era. For someone best known as a drum 'n' bass DJ, the transition to traditional songwriting might seem jarring, but Rap sees it as a natural reflection of her restless self.

"I'm never just going in any one direction," she explains. "I like splitting myself up and going in three directions at once. So my plan is to keep putting out albums where I'm singing and expressing a different side of myself, and in between those, I'll still be putting out the more underground house and drum 'n' bass records that my fans expect to hear."

The producer's been rolling out singles since 1990, when she appeared on the hardcore scene with "Ambience: The Adored", a tune notable for its ghostly atmospheres and loosely syncopated rhythms. In '93, her "Spiritual Aura" became a staple of jungle's artcore movement, a strain that introduced a much-needed measure of sensuality to the scene at large.

As the decade progressed, Rap collaborated and played alongside the biggest names in drum 'n' bass, but by the end of the '90s, the form's unrelenting raucousness was starting to alienate her. Soon, she migrated to house and breaks and started working alongside genre giants like BT and Adam Freeland. With several house productions in the pipeline and work well under way on her aforementioned singing record, you get the feeling that the producer has abandoned d 'n' b for good, but she begs to differ.

"I never went completely off it, but at a certain point I just felt that all my creativity needed to go in other directions," says Rap, who will play a house-oriented set at Sonar on Friday (February 18). "I was on a roll in the '90s with drum 'n' bass; I had a lot of hits, but then all my ideas started going into other projects. You know what it's like? It's like having a husband. Sometimes you feel the need to cheat a little, so I cheated with house music and I flirted with breaks. But no matter what, I'll always have love for drum 'n' bass."