Beats Antique with Shpongle (Simon Posford DJ Set), Emancipator, & Lafa Taylor
18+
Doors at 8pm
$33 advance / $35 day of show
Tickets available at the Revolution Live box office without service fees. Tickets also available on Ticketmaster: http://bit.ly/1uwknTB

For the first time ever, world renowned dancetronica trio Beats Antique have called upon a select group of likeminded artists to create the Creature Carnival. This tour will be their most ambitious live event yet and a spectacle for the ages. Enlisting fellow sonic visionaries Simon Posford (Shpongle), Emancipator, and singer/emcee Lafa Taylor – the Creature Carnival promises to bring breathtaking performances, improvisational serendipity, audience participation, and tons more surprises to come. The tour embarks this Fall 2014 in select North American cities.

Constantly pushing the boundaries of live performance, Beats Antique have created the Creature Carnival after returning home from their most recent A Thousand Faces Tour – a projection mapped visual tour spanning the course of their double concept album A Thousand Faces inspired by the musings of the late Joseph Campbell. While the A Thousand Faces Tour involved breathtaking new technology combined with a fully choreographed live performance, the Creature Carnival strives to be a collaborative event with spectators and performers alike. “We want to take our fans on a journey,” notes David Satori of Beats Antique. “Now with the Creature Carnival, we plan to get the audience in a more dynamic, psychedelic, and participatory role than ever before, while hand picking our most innovative musical peers to come along for the ride.”

The night begins with a set from Lafa Taylor – who then morphs into the Carnival’s enigmatic ring leader for the evening of musical departures and split second surprises with each night containing its own twists and turns. “Every night will be completely unique,” says Zoe Jakes, “The Creature Carnival will be a collective performance, a gathering of like-minded people and a true spectacle for the senses.”

An Intro to Beats Antique

Growing like wildfire under the canopy of live electronica and experimental world fusion music, the acclaimed musical trio Beats Antique consists of David Satori – production, live instrumentation, Tommy Cappel – production, percussion, and Zoe Jakes – dance, choreography. Forming in (year), the group now headlines various music festivals across the country including Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Electric Forest. With a stage performance containing more sensory indulgences than the most lavish genie’s lair, Beats Antique will indulge their fans to a raw, animalistic musical event that blurs the lines between the provocative, the spiritual, and the artistic while still maintaining allegiance to the muses of class and beauty. Their ability to blur the line between artist and audience even before the curtain rises creates a total escape both through live performance and the album experience that leaves critics and fans reeling alike.

An Intro to Shpongle

Simon Posford (aka Hallucinogen) has long had a reputation as the, ‘Hallucinogenius’ a imitable pioneer in sound experimentation, from his seminal first album, ‘Twisted’ which reached No.28 in the French charts selling over 50,000 copies worldwide, up to his recent Millennium hit, ‘Mi-Loony-Um’ with its up-to-the minute modem melodies. His international fan base has flowered from country-wide to world-wide in the last ten years, since his humble beginnings at Youth’s Butterfly Studios in Brixton, this year alone he has played over 16 sell out gigs around the world, each with a capacity of over 1500 people, in Australia, Israel, New York, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Moscow, Geneva, Montreal, Tokyo to name just a few. In Tokyo he has received a lot of TV and press coverage for their ambient project, ‘Shpongle’ which has intrigued the Japanese audience with its international blend of traditional world music and modern musical mastery

An Intro to Emancipator

Known for its etheric melodies, immaculately smooth samples, and addictive drum beats, Emancipator’s music has captivated a diverse audience across the globe. One might struggle to place a finger on what makes the music so addictive, but would undoubtedly return to the underlying feeling of balance and connection. Now accompanied regularly by the harmonious swells of live violin played by Ilya Goldberg, Emancipator’s live performances have developed into an all-encompassing musical experience. With the release of his newest album, Dusk to Dawn, the music promises listeners a nostalgic return to the soulful integration of organic hip hop and symphonic layers that first captivated his audience. Trusting his roots yet simultaneously evolving, Emancipator’s fresh new cultivation is nothing short of a renaissance.

An Intro to Lafa Taylor

A world traveler based in Oakland, CA Lafa Taylor is an achieved singer/emcee/producer. His music carries a message of inspiration and activation, while staying gritty, bassy, and most importantly danceable. Lafa’s live show is energetic, dynamic and unique. He has a great talent for connecting with his audience and working with the energy of the crowd. His collage of infectiously harmonic, bass heavy, multi tempo music quickly heats up the dance floor. His vocal style ranges from sweet melodic choruses to tongue twisting rhymes. He is also known for his intricate beat boxing, and often incorporates live looping.