Entertainment Architects – Music PR Ireland

Secousse Sound System

DUBLIN TROPICAL and HAVANA CLUB

present

SECOUSSE SOUND SYSTEM AT THE TWISTED PEPPER

DJ ETIENNE TRON & MO LAUDI

DJ iZem

AUGUST 26th!

“Some say dance music was born in the ‘70s New York disco scene, others talk about those famous German robots… Over the last few years it became clear for us that this trance-inducing, percussive music could be traced straight back to the African continent – and that this culture was flourishing there more than anywhere else.

We were thirsty for exotic sounds, and started exploring as many local ghetto scenes as we could. The discoveries were endless: Native American Indian Pow Wow music, Brazilian funk, Syrian and lebanese Dabke, Funana from Cabo Verde, Congolese Soukous, Coupe Decale out of Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone’s Bubu music, Kuduro from Angola, UK’s grime, dubstep and funky house scene, DJs and producers from South Africa’s Durban and Pretoria, Columbian Afro-cumbia scene, Soca and Merengue from the Caribbean islands, Chicago’s Juke, Houston’s Screwed and Chopped music, Baltimore club beat, Tsonga Disco and Shangaan tribal sounds …

“We launched our club night SECOUSSE in 2008 with a simple challenge in mind: to bring people together and promote worldwide ghetto culture. It felt like nightlife was getting more and more segregated everywhere we went, with less and less connections between the Afro scene, the gay scene, the hipsters… Mainstream music culture was becoming an oppressive and stagnant machine, dance music was stuck and our interest in hip hop was quickly fading out.”

So says Etienne Tron, Secousse’s lynchpin and creator of Secousse Soundsystem. Tron, a Parisian born musician who reached international fame with his partner Johan Hugo under the name Radioclit. As a music producer, Tron has worked with the likes of The Very Best with Esau Mwamwaya, M.I.A., Santigold, Architecture In Helsinki, Brodinski, Amadou and Mariam, Metronomy, Diplo, Yeasayer and Bonde Do Role. He is currently producing the debut album of Marina Gasolina (ex Bonde Do Role) alongside running the Secousse Sound System.

“Our DJ sets became a picture of that insane neverending trip, jumping from one continent to another, one era to the next, bringing together superstars and unknown talents from the past, present and future in a glorious and chaotic way. We felt very much part of a new generation of kids jumping on that global culture bandwagon, iPods running on shuffle mode all day every day.”

Dublin Tropical and Havana Club are proud to bring Secousse Soundsystem to The Twisted Pepper on August 26th.  Always supportive of the global music scene in Ireland, Havana Club have come on board to further enhance the experience of the evening! All rums within the Havana Club range are aged, adding to the unmistakably irresistible taste – so what more reason do you need to get yourself there for a night of amazing sounds and bone shaking grooves? The fabulous DJ iZem will be opening the night, spinning tracks from his forthcoming EP “Quiver / Debaixo Da Agua”, due for release in September

Doors: 22:30 Adm: €15 €12 Members