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We’re honoured to welcome legendary fusionists Transglobal Underground to Ramsgate for a full live show on Saturday 5th April!Transglobal Underground are largely credited with being the first project to mix electronic beats with music from around the world. The project grew out of a mutual love for dance, avant-garde, Arabic, and world music and draws on a variety of listening tastes and cultural backgrounds. The lineup has changed regularly over the years and now consists of a shifting membership of around 20 artists, with live shows being anything from 3 to 16 people…
“Transglobal Underground did more than most to give dance music a good name and to proselytize for world music. Pioneers then, pioneers still, TGU remain a creative force to be reckoned with” – BBC
Transglobal Underground had to happen. They refused to accept that dance music had to be four to the floor house. They refused to accept that something called ‘World Music’ ever existed. They’ve slowed down hip-hop and sped up dub. They’ve sang in whatever language they felt like singing in. They were DJs but they play live. Their influence is all over the place, those who were influenced most not knowing who they are, those who were influenced least convinced they’re superstars.
To even try to explain what Transglobal Underground still is, we have to go back to the early nineties , when drum and bass were two separate things and trip hop was something you did on a paving stone. It’s a long time ago, many brain cells have been lost since and, in any case, it’s often been uncertain as to who Transglobal Underground were from one day to the next. Names were changed at will, members came and went and often came back again, so forgive us if you were there at the time and it all looked different.
“Shook up English music in the 1990s by mixing house, hip-hop and dub with influences from Africa, Asia and the Arab world” – The Guardian
“Once again London’s original global fusionists have come up with a dizzyingly diverse bunch of tunes… it’s all swaggeringly confident and, against-the-odds, cohesive” – The Independent
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
13 Turner Street, CT11 8NJ Ramsgate, United Kingdom, 13 Turner Street, Ramsgate, CT11 8NJ, United Kingdom,Ramsgate
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