The BOOM BAP Nashville: Featuring Rob Swift (X-ECUTIONERS/NYC)
The Boom Bap brought Rob Swift to The Five Spot in Nashville on March 24, 2012. Another night of classic hip-hop from Case Bloom’s long-running party series.
***This month we are featuring special guest DJ ROB SWIFT!***
Having got his start as a DJ at age 12 from watching his father DJ meringue parties and older brother showing him the ropes, Robert Aguilar AKA Rob Swift pursued his love for music and joined the groundbreaking turntablist crew the X-Men aka X-ecutioners (Roc Raida, Total Eclipse, and Mista Sinista) in 1991. Within a year of joining the X, he won the coveted DMC East Coast title, becoming world renowned as a master beat juggler (a style of turntable manipulation which involves manually rearranging actual drum beats from vinyl in real time). In 2001, Rob Swift was featured in the DJ documentary SCRATCH (Palm Pictures). He has appeared on ESPN, The Late Show with David Letterman, and even Sesame Street.
In 2008, Rob was the first Hip Hop DJ invited to perform at the Savannah, Georgia Jazz Festival. He has collaborated with artists from many genres including Blue Man Group, Herbie Hancock, Bob James, Linkin Park, Good Charlotte, Dan The Automator, Fat Joe, Cypress Hill and many others. Whether working solo, in a group setting as part of Ill Insanity (featuring former X-Men Total Eclipse and Precision) or collaborating with other like-minded artists, Rob Swift is always in perpetual motion, pushing the boundaries of what he does and connecting with audiences by all means necessary.
THE BOOM BAP is Saturday March 24th at The Five Spot… 21+ $10 Cover Featuring DJ’s RATE (@DJRate) BOWLS (@MusicCityLiving) CASE BLOOM (@CaseBloom) Special Guest ROB SWIFT (E-XECUTIONERS/NYC) (@DJROBSWIFT) FOUR TURNTABLES FOURTH SATURDAYS GIVE AWAYS FROM GRIFFEN TECH MORE MADNESS THAN CAN WE CAN LEGALLY DISCLOSE. http://
The Boom Bap is Case Bloom’s classic hip-hop party series — see the series page. Planning your own night? Book Case as your Nashville event DJ.
This was another live set. I’m making Boom Bap a regular in my calendar. Every hip hop head in Nashville needs to be at the 5Spot every 4th Saturdays