Korean Artists To Launch US Debut At New York City’s Largest Music Festival
DJ Soulscape & VJ Kwon Live @ 2008 CMJ Music Marathon

(10.07.2008) : Seoul-based creative agency, DFSB Kollective, is proud to announce that two of its collaborators -- hip-hop turntablist, DJ Soulscape, and avant-garde visual jockey, VJ Kwon -- have been selected to represent Korea for the first time ever at the prestigious CMJ Music Marathon in New York City (October 21-25, 2008).

According to DFSB Kollective President, Bernie Cho, “We’re thrilled to have these innovative artists make their US debut at such an influential music event. They bring a distinct, definitive Korean flavor not yet seen on the international music scene.”

The largest and longest running music festival of its kind, the CMJ Music Marathon is considered America’s premiere platform for discovering the future superstars of electronica, hip-hop, and modern rock music. During its 28 year history, award-winning artists such as Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, Moby, Beastie Boys, Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, Run DMC, David Bowie, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, and Green Day have all performed at CMJ.

With over 100,000 attendees, the CMJ Music Marathon is New York City’s biggest music festival and will host hundreds of live performances, lectures, and networking functions. During the five day extravaganza, DJ Soulscape and VJ Kwon are scheduled to perform together as one of the headlining acts at the CMJ Global Hip-Hop Throwdown showcase at Club Drom (8PM - 3AM : October 23, 2008).

Co-produced by global music/media company, Nomadic Wax, and public relations/music promoter, The Bloom Effect, the CMJ Global Hip-Hop Throwdown is a live music showcase featuring some of the top breakout hip-hop artists from around the world.

“CMJ is a perfect place for a global hip-hop event like this” said The Bloom Effect CEO, Fiona Bloom. “An event that unites MCs from a variety of backgrounds, countries and nationalities is exactly the kind of event that we want to be promoting at a global music conference like CMJ.” 

“The CMJ Global Hip-Hop Throwdown has been building up for me since I’ve been very supportive of this genre and have made inroads bringing great talent to the U.S stages and now we bring it one step further to a bigger platform.  A tremendous opportunity.” said Nomadic Wax founder Ben Herson.

In addition to Korea’s DJ Soulscape and VJ Kwon tandem, this year’s event will be hosted by rapper Pharoahe Monch (USA) and will feature special performances from rising stars such as Blitz the Ambassador (Ghana), Mr. Reo (Haiti), King Reign (Canada), Empire Isis (Canada), Chachi (Cape Verde) and Too Many Fish (France). The showcase will end out with a party DJ lineup of World Music DJ’s from various radio programs and entities. The party will go till 3AM.

The CMJ Global Hip-Hop Throwdown showcase is sponsored by Scion, WNYE/KEXP,  Fusicology, World Hip-Hop Market, Remix Hotel, End of the Weak, The Flava (Worldspace), Popular Printing,  Limachips, The Hip-Hop Association and more TBA. The 2008 CMJ Music Marathon is sponsored by Microsoft XBOX360, Microsoft Zune, and Doritos.

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