Om 2003: Summer Solstice Festival

Title: OM Summer Solstice Festival
Promoter: OM
Date & Time: Friday, June 20, 2003 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Lineup: Sumkidz Sound System
Your friendly neighborhood Sumkidz crew
welcomes you to our 6th annual musical stew.
Bringing together friends and family old and new...
Exploring amazing art and music of the global zoo!

LIVE:
INTERGALACTIC FAERIE FUNK (Mossyrock Records, Los Angeles)
HeSoHi (Imperial DUB Recordings, San Francisco)
Resinators (Maximum Dub, www.resinators.com)
Brassmonk (Heavy Heads)
Random Order (RandomOrder.ca)
Warsaw Pack (G7 Welcoming Committee)
Kan’Nal (Acoustic Trance Records)
TeLeFUNk Soundsystem (Aria, Toye, & Zumba, Sumkidz)
Rythmicru (www.rythmicru.ca)
Sourfly (live breaks)
Yoshi and Chie (Japanese sitar & vocal)
Pype & friends (flute & more)

accoustic:
Anwar & Loel (classical Indian sitar & tabla)
JesseVisser, Sandfly, Elisha Lim (acoustic guitar - breakfast music to feed your soul)
Robbie "Beaver" Anderman (Cool Hemp)

DJs:
STATE OF BENGAL (Six Degrees Records/One Little Indian)
Lorin BASS NECTAR (Moontribe, Los Angeles. www.bassnectar.net)
Sleepy G (Imperial DUB Recordings, San Francisco)
Aberration (Predawn, San Francisco)
DJ Zahra (Funkasia, www.djzahra.com)
Dalia (Best Kept Secret CHRY, Chicks Dig It)
Franks & Beats
General Eclectic
Jah Reverend
Chocolate (Scratch Free Press, Chicks Dig It)
Katikata
Rollin’ Cash
Siren
LeeLee Mishi
Michael Lambert
andy schnerg
Gabor
Zumba
Sircut Breaker
Fable
Arklectic

performance:
Archedream (Blacklight Theatre, Philadelphia)
Chhandam Dance Company (Contemporary North Indian Kathaa Dance)

visuals:

stunning projections by blankfoto
blacklight art installations by ian newton & darrell kearns

Gn(om)e Sound Village

East meets west this year as BC-based Balance Productions teams up with the Toronto-based Gnome Network, to create a sonic environment to celebrate new and complex forms of rhythm, art and energy. Featuring a colourful spectrum of drum+bass, jungle, dub, dancehall, hiphop and experimental breaks, this project will showcase some of Canada’s best up and coming talent while
encouraging active participation and positive social change.

LIVE:
Amazon
Line 47
Monster
The Naw Dub Sound System
Subrythm
Zirco Reshife

DJs:
Akira
Deep Six
DMS
Frankie Gunns vs. C-Rat
Gnome Chumpsky aka. Stinky Marinky
Jonah K
Kim
Medusa
Mental Floss vs. Gabor
navi *(with a lowercase ’n’)*
Orpheus & Breeze
Poldek
Savage
Saige
Sela
Sennes
Silverfox
Sky
Sleuth
Stryka
Thalheim
Tomoko
Vigilence

MCs:
Barracuda72
Noah23

Healers:
Sleeping Tree Aromatherapy

Special Visual Installations:
S&M Visuals and Lighting
Rob Fines
+ Live art w/ special guests and much more.

And...of course... special appearances by the Lawn Gnome Massive.

Field of Drones

\\drone\\, n. A humming or deep murmuring sound.

_field_of_drones_ is a sound/art/life environment. imagine an endless open field filled with ambient sound lulling you into a hypnotic, restful state. the field will feature solely ambient music. the experience is designed for deep contemplation, meditation, or rest. the field will contain tentable space so that you can play, rest or sleep within a tranquil sonic drone - day or night.

_field_of_drones_ website - http://www.dub-beautiful.org/om
presented to you by dub beautiful collective - bringing elitism to the masses.

electro organic sound system
in the shade of the twisted pines, bop to electrotech-no type, experimental decks
and minimal-mono-MIDI. Mixers, effects, 909\’s and glitchy lines, moon pop, robotic roots rock, and hip hop records drop.

LIVE

solvent vs. lowfish (suctionrecords.com, ersatz audio, morr music, t.o.)
kero (shitkatapult.com, bpitchcontrol.com , djkero.com, detroit)
dick richards (notype.com, raum music, t.o.)
naw (clonk, piehead, noisefactoryrecords.com, mtl)
ollie (forwardmusic.com, hamilton)
zug island (subverseco.com/zugisland, t.o.)
toye + guest mc’s (toyesm.com, telefunk, t.o.)
samiland (notype.com, mtl.)
oeuf korrekt (notype.com, mtl)
obtuse angle (moon pop, t.o.)
the pieces (labelled:black, t.o)
yehudah (live cello, elegant flux, t.o.)
wooden robots (pop com, ghetto$Y$TEM, niagara)

DJs
karri o (monorecords.com, www.abflugrec.com, finland)
eric downer (deep disco, guelph)
task (wabi.org, t.o.)
ian guthrie (fukhouse, t.o.)
onastic (labelled:black, chicks dig it, t.o.)
sarcastic (level4productions.com, mtl)
kf (the dukes, ottawa)
tobias (technoWest, vancouver, mtl)
granny’ark (clove vancouver, zora lanson berlin)
aria (.333 of telefunk, semiotik.com, t.o.)
ricky bionix (the red squirrel, guelph)
jonah k (gnome, t.o.)
ante (swayd, niagara)
what’s in your diaper!? (da shit, worldwide)
lily (moon’s mama, t.o.)
taunja (lewis street, t.o.)
machine aka stinky marinky (porno house, $t.ca$hrine$)

Blacklight Activists

Live TETRAKTYS- SubMachine Records- France
Jota live - Deliria- Vancouver
Isms live - BLA -Toronto

DJs
Sketi-Zpoc- South Africa
Chaneke- Mexico- Ollin Lak’ech
Solar- Mexico- Deliria, Kin
Sense, Mexico- Sounds Of Earth
Reptilian - Geomancer, Little Brother Ottawa
Mandelbrot - BLA- TO
Yeb - Cold Groove Rec., BLA TO
Quivering Virgin- BLA TO
Jarek BLA TO
Marz BLA TO

DECO ARTIST
Geoaxiom
N, Gibson
Invokvyata
Deliria

Alchemist Arena
DrumHumz
Michael Moon’s Temple of Sound
Anwar Khurshid (sitarschool.com)
LAL (ptrmusic.com)

PoemSongz
Andrea Thompson
Ayla weedz (poetreekicks.com) & christine shaw (Bancroft/Tofino/Whitehorse), Laurien Rowan (Ju Ju), PlumDragoness (Exracktx, Philadelphia),
EF#Sharp (Foood/word is mightier), Wakefield Brewster (bfunkee productions), enlight & jugular, the human beatbox (suhana.ca), Oaxerai (oaxerai.com, Philadelphia), Aliza Zorlutuna, u.r. dna, Kevin Sutton (Prince of Omens), Slim

DanceDigz
Fire Fabulon "War of the Worlds" (firefabulon.com, Detroit)
The Funkdamental dancers & friends "Back in the day"
Marlee Cargill "Solo w/file cabinet"
Holly Treddenick & Michael J

Kidz
Slim – sing move play
Charlie (LittleFingersMusic.com)

Venue: TBA
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Info: 416.202.64OM (6466) http://www.omfestival.ca/info.html
Admission: $90 adv., $120 at door
Extras: All Ages, 1 Room(s), Special/Rave