明晚10月20日 - 8首歌曲现场演唱！XL Middleton[洛杉矶]带来最纯正Modern Funk @ DADA北京

XL Middleton是来自California的艺术家，音乐制作人，DJ。他的声音属于该地区长期以来被公认的Funk风格。多年来一直在努力创作旋律优美、和弦沉重的曲调。这些歌曲为他在Uproxx、Okay Player和HipHopDX等主要网站上赢得了赞誉。他还获得了《华盛顿邮报》《洛杉矶时报》和《洛杉矶周刊》的印刷报道，同时专辑Tap Water进入了2015年最佳榜单。在日本、加拿大和整个欧洲进行过国际巡演，为以合成器为基础的Modern Funk音乐复兴做出贡献，他也是洛杉矶Modern Funk Fest音乐节的组织者之一。

XL已经发布了大量的作品，其中的声音在很大程度上体现了一种混合了未来主义的派对感，他试图弥合现代爱好者之间的距离，融合Funk/80年代的Boogie和90年代的G-Funk。从他最初作为一个Hiphop艺术家发展到一个成熟的Modern Funk音乐制作人，同时经营着自己的厂牌MoFunk唱片公司，致力于发展Modern Funk音乐。

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XL Middleton is a California-based artist/producer/DJ who's sound falls into the funk-laden style the region has long been recognized for. Hailing from the city of Pasadena in the northeast corner of Los Angeles, he has been hard at work for years crafting melodic, chord-heavy tunes. These songs have earned him accolades on major websites such as Uproxx, Okay Player and HipHopDX, where a collaboration with Eminem signee Crooked I made the rounds. 

He also garnered national print coverage in the Washington Post and major local print coverage in the LA Times & LA Weekly, where his album Tap Water made it to a Best of 2015 list. He has toured internationally in Japan, Canada, and throughout Europe, notably contributing to a revival of synth-based ‘modern funk’ music. He is also one of the organizers of the LA-based Modern Funk Fest, which provides a live platform for the scene as a whole.

每天几张的唱片挖掘只是像日常吃饭一样正常，只追寻真正到位的音乐,不停延伸寻找不同风格的律动。Funk、Soul、Jazz、AOR、Asian groove、Brazillian groove、以及groove、Library、Rock、Lovers rock等等。

活动的重心只放在DJ所选择的音乐中。在他的现场可以听到众多令人惊喜的旋律以及少有的唱片。

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Digging several records a day is a daily necessity, just looking for the groove that is really in place, and constantly extending to find different styles of rhythm. Funk, Soul, Jazz, AOR, Asian groove, Brazillian groove, groove, and Library, Rock, Lovers Rock.

DJ Ozone来自美国旧金山，专注于发掘各种80年代的原版黑胶唱片—经典的80年代 synth-pop, Italo disco，post-punk，old school hip hop 和 electro。

他的派对充满着原始，复古，狂野和无忧无虑的氛围。在这个数字化、电子化的时代，Ozone不喜耍宝炫技也不使用复杂的mix，致力于忠实地展现歌曲原汁原味的美妙。

不严肃，不做作，不故弄玄虚，充满人情味—他返璞归真的音乐哲学无疑让听众耳目一新。加州本土音乐电台DJ出身的Ozone 从2003年起便开始混迹并活跃于中国地下音乐圈—他是上海著名音乐厂牌Antidote（解毒剂）的创始人之一，曾与上百位来自世界各地的DJ、乐队和音乐人们在亚洲各地巡演。

2005—2007年，他效力于上海传奇夜店唐会和 4—Live。而后于2009年和2012年在北京上海先后创办了Dada酒吧，它们在各自城市都多次被评为“最佳酒吧”—而2020年又将 Dada创办到了昆明。DJ Ozone还于2019年在中国20个城市以及蒙古国和哈萨克斯坦进行了个人巡演活动。

DJ Ozone迄今为止最骄傲的时刻，是在小学五年级的时候赢得了纸飞机比赛。他精心制作的纸飞机飞得比六年级的纸飞机还远。

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DJ Ozone (San Francisco) plays all original, vinyl records, from the 1980s. It's fun, silly, carefree party music -- 80s synth-pop, Italo disco, boogie funk, post-punk, old school hip-hop and electro, funk and soul, and lots of cheese cheese cheese. Ozone’s approach is to let the songs play -- not making elaborate mixes or using too many effects. In a time of trendy computer DJs with automatic edits and beat-matching software, it's refreshing to hear a human touch -- just great songs, nothing serious, played raw and fresh as ever.

Starting as a radio DJ in California, Ozone has been involved with the China music scene since 2003, co-founding The Antidote nights in Shanghai, then touring around China and Asia with hundreds of DJs, bands, and recording artists from China and from around the world. He managed the bookings at Shanghai's legendary Tang Hui and 4-Live clubs (2005-2007) before opening clubs Dada Shanghai in 2009 and Dada Beijing in 2012 -- both have been awarded "best club"  in their cities many times -- and Dada Kunming in 2020. In 2019, DJ Ozone did a tour playing 20 cities around China, plus Mongolia and Kazakhstan.

DJ Ozone's proudest moment so far, was winning a paper airplane contest in the 5th grade, elementary school. His well-crafted paper airplane flew farther than even the 6th grades planes.