DJ YODA

Keep on the BAM!! Time for an Audio/Visual Spectacular with the one and only DJ YODA.

It takes serious turntable skills and diverse influences as varied as Funk, B-more, Kuduro, Reggae, Drum ‘n’ Bass and even Big Band Swing and Country & Western to make unashamed party music.

DJ Yoda can be found cutting Indiana Jones with woofer-worrying Dubstep or the Muppets with MIA. His shows are peppered with Film, TV and YouTube samples & visuals that lift his sets to new stratospheric heights. Check out his new album featuring :: Roots Manuva, A Boy called George, M.O.P. and Scroobius Pip.

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Evening Program

21:00
Selectah X (UK - BAM, Studio 2)

23:00
DJ YODA - Audio/Visual Spectacular

00.30 - 03.00
Afterparty (100kr for new arrivals!)

Joel Kolltveit (NO - Metafusion, Grandma's Funkyard)

DJ Baz - (NO - Wobble Your Glitch, Turkish Delight, On/Off)

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DJ Yoda - Biography
From 1995 to 1998, he studied English and American literature at the University of Warwick. During this period, he began performing at Mojo, a popular Warwick hip hop and soul night at the student's union until he graduated. After he left university, he began releasing underground demo mix-tapes to small music shops. Yoda released his debut album of original material, entitled The Amazing Adventures of DJ Yoda, on 2 October 2006 on Antidote Records. The album features guest vocalists, including Biz Markie, Sway, Ugly Duckling and MC Paul Barman. In addition to releasing his own material, he has also performed scratches on Dangermouse and Jemini's Ghetto Pop Life.

He has won a DMC DJ of the Year award in the Scratch DJ category (2001) and was one of six nominees for best UK hip-hop DJ in the UK Hip-Hop Awards. He has also been nominated by Q magazine as one of the "Ten DJs To See Before You Die", has released a series of mix-tapes, and has toured the globe with Goldie and the Scratch Perverts. In 2010 he also won the 9th Annual Independent Music Awards for Contemporary Classic Album with the Heritage Orchestra. He is currently the hip-hop correspondent for IDJ magazines, and also writes the DJ page for Hip Hop Connection magazine. He has also been on the judging panel for the DMC DJ World Finals for the last three years.

He has been a regular guest on BBC Radio 1 appearing alongside Steve Lamacq and Annie Mac. In 2009, he was nominated for a Sony Radio Academy Award.