THE BOOM BAP Nashville: Featuring DJ SCRATCH

SATURDAY May 24th @ THE FIVE SPOT Nashville, TN – Long before he was Jay Z’s tour DJ for all of 2008 and 2009, or a Global Brand Ambassador for Adidas for 2010, Neil Armstrong was a humble, fan of music. Acknowledged as the founding father of the DJ Collective the “5th Platoon”, Neil was born and breed in NYC, cutting his teeth in the early 90’s during the era of backpack Hip-Hop and the art of Turntablism. His time spent in the trenches battling and mastering the art of spinning allowed him to rock shows alongside artists across the Hip-Hop spectrum – from De La Soul, The Roots, Company Flow and Biz Markie, to Kanye West, LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes and Wyclef Jean.

SATURDAY September 28th @ THE FIVE SPOT –This month two of Philadelphia’s most notorious crate raiders and party rockers, Froz 1 and Personify join us for what has become their annual pilgrimage to the Music City. Their party Little Big Things has been met with critical acclaim and this event is sure to set the bar even higher Both DJs have over a decade in the game and a unique ability to hit dance floors right in the sweet spot. Once again it is on! Prepare to sweat!

THURSDAY December 26th @ BLACKBIRD ORDINARY, Miami, FL – Craze is a second to none club DJ — he has toured the globe over, from Jamaica to Australia to Japan to Iceland to France to the country he was born, Nicaragua. All DJing aside, Craze is also a world-renowned producer, releasing wildly successful drum’n’bass records with labels such as Cartel Recordings, Breakbeat Kaos, and C.I.A and other hip hop inspired productions with the likes of DMC Records, Ninja Tune Records, OM Records and K7 Records.

SATURDAY December 28th @ THE FIVE SPOT, Nashville, TN – Wick-it the Instigator is a multi-genre DJ and producer known as a breath of fresh air in an otherwise over-crowded EDM scene. His SoundCloud page is one of the top 200 most active pages on the entire site, garnering over 30,000 followers and 6,000,000 plays. Impressive numbers like these, which recently landed him at #5 on Billboard’s Next Big Sound chart, aren’t just a testament to his top-notch production skills, but also his keen ability to build and harness a highly interactive online fan base (1,000+ Facebook Fans added every week with 5,000+ people typically “talking about” him).

FRIDAY June 27th @ THE BASEMENT Atlanta, GA – Quite simply, Cosmo Baker is New York’s best and most exciting party-rocking DJ. He is a master of hip-hop, a king of disco & funk, a don of electronic dance music, and his unique style and skill is able to bring it all together to rock crowds of thousands around the globe. A Philadelphia native, from a city with one of the richest DJ histories, Cosmo cut his chops alongside contemporaries such as ?uestlove and Rich Medina, and when he relocated to Brooklyn in the early ’00s he helped found the internationally known DJ / remix collective The Rub. During the past 10 years Cosmo has played the four corners of the globe and has released countless mix tapes, remixes, and records.

THURSDAY July 24th @ BLACKBIRD ORDINARY Miami, FL – Detroit Hip-Hop’s Ambassador to the World, Michael “House Shoes” Buchanan has been an integral part of the long burgeoning Motown resurgence. Just ask anyone coming out of Detroit to confirm this. House Shoes, a resident DJ at the hip-hop staple St. Andrews Hall, Detroit MI, from 1994-2004 has had personal influence over a full generation of well respected emcees, producers, and then-future DJs. Four-time winner of the “Best Hip Hop DJ” in Detroit, he has used his platform to expose some of the best and brightest talent his city has had to offer.