DJ Rekha’s Basement Bhangra Lucky 13

Live Video Projections including live filter effects and pre-edited content – Paul Clay Prsented at the Filmore New York at Irving Plaza. Bringing South Asian beats and culture to western dance floors across America since the 80s and 90s, DJ Rekha continues to make waves on the music scene and remains true to her mission of representing the South Asian culture and showcasing Bhangra beats to the world. The DJ, who has been featured on reputable networks such as CNN, created a major buzz in 1997 with her conception of the Basement Bhangra party series! This party series merges traditional Bhangra music with latest hip-hop beats. This Thursday the DJ will celebrate 13 years of this famous event with a line-up of popular artists. Ten years after the conception of Basement Bhangra, DJ Rekha released an…

Dikembe Mutombo Foundation Benefit

Live Video Projections including live filter effects and pre-edited content - Paul Clay 2009 Pre Obama Inauguration benefit for the not-for-profit Dikembe Mutombo Foundation, at Eyebar, 1716 Eye Street NE, Washington DC.A well-known humanitarian, Mr. Mutombo started the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation to improve living conditions in his native Democratic Republic of Congo. In 1997, Mutombo with the Mutombo Foundation began plans to open a $29 million, 300-bed hospital on the outskirts of his hometown, the Congolese capital of Kinshasa. The project has been on the whole very well received at all social and economic levels in Kinshasa. On August 14, 2006, Dikembe donated $15 million to the completion of the hospital for its ceremonial opening on September 2, 2006. The hospital was by then named Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital, named for his late mother, who died…

Hot Wax 1 Label Launch and Album Release Party

Live Video Projections including live filter effects - Paul Clay Kween Kash and GV's Album Release Party. Kween Kash and General Vee (GV) Celebrate the release of their debut albums PURE FIRE & SALUTE on indie label Hot Wax 1 Records. April 9th 2008, NYC's famous club SOB's marked the spot.

Tenement Museum Annual Benefit

Museum Commissioned Centerpiece Design Task: Create a series of contemporary art centerpieces on the theme of local food in Chinatown for the Tenement Museum. Concept: "Grand Street Dried Food Terrarium"Four different series, each an addition of five, for a total of twenty centerpieces. Plexiglas containers are filled with a variety of dried foods, typical of what is available on Grand Street in Chinatown, New York City.

Wyclef Jean’s Carnival II Memoirs of an Immigrant Album Release party

Live Video Projections Including Live Filter Effects and Pre-Created Content Wyclef kicked off the night with a party to tout the Dec. 4 release of Carnival II: Memoirs of an Immigrant, his seventh studio album, recalling his 1997 triple-platinum debut solo album, Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival Featuring Refugee All-Stars. It was a celebration. The album features yet another diverse cast of collaborators, this time including Paul Simon, Minister Louis Farrakhan on violin, and System of a Down's Serj Tankian. Clad in white, 'Clef treated the crowd to the album's first single, "Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill)," which features Akon and Lil Wayne and to lots more. Haitian born, Wyclef Jean, is a world renowned artist, songwriter, producer, Good Will Ambassador and activist through his Yelé Haiti foundation. The Grammy® Award winner returned to Columbia Records to celebrate…

Basement Bhangra 10 Year Anniversary

Live Video Projections Including Live Filter Effects and Pre-Created Content At the Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC. With The Dhol Foundation, Bikram Singh, Panjabi MC, DJ Rekha and more Most club events in the city are shorter-lived than mayflies. But the dance party known as Basement Bhangra seems to have the shelf life of Twinkies. It just goes on and on. Basement Bhangra - which normally fills S.O.B.'s on Wednesdays with its patented fusion of South-Asian, hip hop and dance music - will celebrate its 10th anniversary tonight. It will do so in a space four times its normal capacity: Hammerstein Ballroom (34th St. between Seventh and Eighth). The basic bhangra style has roots in percussive folk music from the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. But it didn't find a modern voice until the 1980s, when British…

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