Come celebrate your freedom with us!
The Big Boom artists will be taking over TVD all this week. We’ll be featuring all of them, and of course we’re going to share in the fun by giving away some tix and some wax. First up, Fort Knox Five… with an exclusive download (at the bottom) of “Average White Five (DC’s Finest Remint),” Fort Knox Five vs. Average White Band vs. Jurassic 5. Booyah!
The Big Boom
Presented by Fort Knox Recordings, Capitol Hemp, and TVD
Sunday, July 3rd
9pm – 3am
U Street Music Hall
$10.00
Tickets available through Ticketfly
Ages 18+
Featuring:
DJ Nu-Mark
Fort Knox Five
Asheru & Mustafa Akbar
See-I
Rex Riddem of Nappy Riddem
Fort Knox Five | Superfly Mix
Fort Knox Five, a Washington, DC collective, is approaching a decade of hard work—and ten bucks says your neighbors are sitting inside, clueless. Washington, we need to catch up.
They’re talented and tenacious, and they know what they’re doing. Grounded with roots in the vinyl world, the group has been steadily branding dance music by adapting a number of techniques to an eclectic and worldly music library.
Core duo Jon Horvath and Steve Raskin allowed me to interrupt an afternoon studio session to help bring the Nation’s Capital up-to-speed. Horvath (the guy with the ‘fro) casually detailed the relentless efforts made during the first third of the collective’s career. After countless attempts to sell records to distributors, Groove Distribution in Chicago snagged 500 copies without any arm-twisting. A week later, Groove called back to buy 500 more.
Thousands of record sales and several tours performing abroad later, Horvath notes, “We need to catch up in the U.S.” The high demand for performances abroad leaves little time for them to play in the United States, let alone their own backyard.
Well, guess what.
Fort Knox Five | Average White Five (DC’s Finest Remint)
July 3rd. U St. Music Hall. It’s on. And it’s only ten bucks. Bring your neighbor.
I’d hate to spoil the show for you, but as Raskin put it, “We want our crowd to get the audio and the visual, like a package… an experience.”
They’d prefer not to claim any particular genre, but they say if you’re down for something reminiscent of, “the late rave scene—but with organic flavor, funk influence, and strings”—you’re in for a real treat.
Fort Knox Five’s other two members, Rob Myers and Sid Barcelona, will be accompanying the electronic duo at the July 3rd show. The group has dropped one album and two compilations so far; they plan to get serious this fall and get some new material underway.
In the meantime, Fort Knox Recordings is offering an exclusive free download of “Average White Five (DC’s Finest Remint),” Fort Knox Five vs. Average White Band vs. Jurassic 5, to TVD Readers. Give it a listen above, and download it below. You will find this no where else!
