Event Info:
Saturday December 20th, 2008
DJ Le Spam (of the Spam Allstars)
with Mingle and Brett Rock
Stella Blue
31 Patton Avenue
Asheville, NC
Doors at 8pm
$12 at door/$10 in advance
Promoted in partnership with
One World Entertainment
MCP Presents
Mindelixir
Artist Bio:
Andrew Yeomanson (DJ Le Spam) formed the Spam Allstars in 1993, using samples and live instruments in the studio, resulting in their first album, Pork Scratchings, in 1999. Shortly after this they started their own night club in Little Havana, Miami, which has attracted a diverse and ever-growing crowd of Latins, Anglos, hip hop kids, and artists of all ages and nationalities. As the Spam Allstars see it, their mission is to ‘blend improvisational electronic elements and turntables with Latin, funk, hip-hop and dub to create a sound that is unique – an electronic descarga.’ In Spanish a descarga means ‘electrical charge’, and was first used by musicians fifty years ago to describe the Latin/jazz ‘jam sessions’ that took place in studios and dance halls. Their music can also be described as 'electro-charanga' - charanga is a genre of Cuban music as well as a band format that normally features flute and string section.
The band has five CD and three vinyl releases on their own label – Spamusica Records. The most recent release "electrodomésticos" capture moments with musicians that the band had played with over the last few years. In August of 2008, World Music Network, publisher of the Rough Guide travel books released a compilation from the last three Spam Allstars album, which appears in The Rough Guide to Latin Funk, The Rough Guide to Latino Nuevo, and The Rough Guide to Salsa Clandestina. WMN then proposed doing an Introducing Spam Allstars release. Other releases by Spam Allstars include: Contra Los Roboticos Mutantes (2004); Fuacata Live!(2002); Pigs in Space (2000); Pork Scratchings (1999), and three vinyl releases - vinyl #1, vinyl #2, and vinyl #3. Fuacata Live! is available in Japan on Amsys Records, in the UK distributed by New Note, and France distributed by Moradisc. Electrodomesticos is available in Japan on Bomba Records.