A man who police say was shot a week ago by Detroit rapper Proof died early Tuesday.
Army veteran Keith Bender, 35, had been in a critical condition since being shot in the head at a nightclub in Detroit, a week ago.
According to police, eye witnesses said Proof, born Deshaun Holton, shot Bender in the head, after knocking him to the ground during an argument.
Bender’s cousin Mario Etheridge, 28, returned fire and killed the rapper instantly with multiple shots to the head and body.
Etheridge claims he was acting in self-defense. He faces a maximum of five years in prison.
Lawyers for Proof have vigorously denied eye witness accounts that he fired first.
Etheridge, 28, posted $US7000 bail and was released from the Wayne County Jail.
Proof, 32, was a close friend of Eminem and had a small part in his 2002 movie, 8 Mile.
“He will be missed as a friend, father and both the heart and ambassador of Detroit hip-hop,” said the singer in a message on the D12 website.
“Proof was funny, he was smart, he was charming. He inspired everyone around him.”
A funeral is due to take place this Wednesday.
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Get Loaded in the Park rock n? rolls its way to a field near you this summer as the Award-Winning festival touches down on the grassy plains of Clapham Common for a 3rd consecutive year. As part of the Metro Weekender, the Get Loaded gang have firmly established themselves as London?s definitive indie-dance crossover event. Last year?s sell-out show saw 20,000 smiley faces bouncing around in the sunshine, as the capacity doubled in size and this August Bank Holiday weekend, Get Loaded in the Park will be bringing more mischief and mayhem south of the river as we unravel our most outrageous adventure yet?
Main Stage:
BABYSHAMBLES
(UK EXCLUSIVE FESTIVAL)
The Buzzcocks, De La Soul, Adamski (Live),
Hosted by The Cuban Brothers (+ Full 8 Piece Band)
The Slits, Killa Kella, Hacienda Soundystem
(Peter Hook, Graeme Park & Bez) feat. N-Joi (Live),
James Lavelle, Adam Freeland (Live)
Bugged Out! Arena:
Greenvelvet, Tiga,
Erol Alkan, Digitalism (Live),
Justin Robertson, Jojo De Freq, Serge Santiago
The Midday Ramble Vs Stylish Riots Arena:
Hosted by John Kennedy (X-FM)
British Sea Power, The Boy Least Likely To,
65 Days of Static, The Chalets, Lethal Bizzle
Guilty Pleasures Arena:
Sean Rowley, Terry Hall (The Specials)
An Audience with Howard Marks
The Comedy Store
Barefoot, Son of Dave, Kid Carpet
Plus Many more Acts to be Announced soon across all stages
Babyshambles ? UK Exclusive Festival Performance
In true Get Loaded tradition, we?ve gone for the jugular this year - exploring more musical genres than ever. Last year?s headliners included The Happy Mondays, Fatboy Slim, Paul Oakenfold and The Stereo MCs? whilst this year we?re delighted to announce the last great Rock Star, Pete Doherty and his band Babyshambles as this summer?s chosen sons. Pete & co will be Getting Loaded on the Common in an Exclusive UK Festival performance, making their appearance even more of a spectacle. Get Loaded in the Park will be the only place to catch Babyshambles out in the open air this summer and we wouldn?t be surprised if their performance was to go down in the history books? for all the right reasons! Forget the supermodel girlfriends, the court appearances and the daily press attention? beneath it all is a poet, a genius and a true rock and roll icon of our generation.
The Buzzcocks, De La Soul & The Cuban Brothers
Meanwhile, the multi-talented (and multi-tanned) Cuban Brothers return as exclusive hosts for the day, plus will be debuting their full 8 piece live band onto the Get Loaded crowd for the very first time. To celebrate 30 years of Punk we welcome The Buzzcocks as very special guests, with support from punkettes ? The Slits. The afternoon?s entertainment will be brought to life by pioneering US hip-hop hippies, De La Soul. Expect Clapham to erupt as the famous trio unleash classic cuts like ?Magic Number? and ?Me, Myself and I?, with more hip-hop beats coming your way from the World?s No.1 Beat boxer Killa Kela. Having previously reformed The Happy Mondays, The Farm and Flowered Up, this year Get Loaded goes one better as we bring you a ?Killer? and uber-rare live performance from acid house hero Adamski ? who?s back in the groove after 15 years. Look out for special guest vocalists (fingers crossed!!) DJ sets come in the shape of the Hacienda Soundsystem (Peter Hook, Graeme Park & Bez) featuring Madchester faves N-Joi offering a Live PA of their classic anthem, erm ?Anthem?. Also on the main stage will be everyone?s favourite Unkle ? James Lavelle around a live show from breaks don Adam Freeland.
Greenvelvet, Tiga & Erol Alkan get Bugged Out!
Following the success of last year?s dance tent (which was hosted by Fatboy Slim and his Southern Fried Records crew), this summer the DJ baton is passed onto Bugged Out! - one of the UK?s most respected and forward-thinking club nights. Bugged Out! will be have the dance dudes rocking, as they bring you the heavyweight sounds of Greenvelvet, Tiga, Erol Alkan, Digitalism (Live), Justin Robertson, Serge Santiago and Jojo De Freq, with a few more surprises up their sleeves to announce soon. X-FM?s John Kennedy returns to Get Loaded as the official host of The Midday Ramble Vs Stylish Riots Arena, which already features the likes of British Sea Power, 65 Days of Static, The Boy Least Likely To, Lethal Bizzle and The Chalets. The remaining tent on the Common will be co-hosted by Sean Rowley?s sensational Guilty Pleasures and the world famous Comedy Store. Expect cult choons from Sean, Terry Hall (The Specials) and more, alongside live performances from the brilliant Barefoot and one-man bands Kid Carpet and Son of Dave. Legendary drug smuggler Howard Marks returns for a 2nd year too, reading unheard extracts from his forthcoming new book. Other festival oddities this year include Breakdance Battles, Punk Fancy Dress, Laughing Gas, Cabaret, BBQ?s & the lovely Laundrettas. Tickets now on sale.
COMING SOON? GET LOADED IN THE PARK: CARDIFF
Bank Holiday Sunday 27th August 2006
Clapham Common, SW4
LONDON
12pm - 9pm / 20,000 Capacity
Early Bird tickets priced ?25+BF in Advance / ?30 Others
Tickets available from www.ticketmaster.co.uk / 24hr Hotline: 08700 601801
www.getloadedinthepark.com
1. Tiefschwarz ft Tracey Thorn / Damage (Buick Project Mix) - Fine Music
2. Kurd Maverick / The Rub (I Never Rock) - Cr2
3. Chris Lake / Changes (Funkagenda?s Babooshka Mix) - Alternative Route
4. Astro / Awake Or Dreaming (Martijn Ten Velden Awake Dub) - Phonetic
5. Funkagenda / Le Soak - Big Love
6. Djaimin ft Crystal Re-Clear / Give You (Jamie Lewis House Cut) - Purple Music
7. Bodyrox / Yeah Yeah (D Ramirez Mix) - Eye Industries
8. Afromento / Human Wave (GN + Wawa Mixes) - Soulfuric
9. Paul Harris & Kevin Swain / Change Down (ATFC Mix) - SR2
10. Timmy Vegas & Barbara Tucker / Dutty Funk (Audiowhores Remix) - Mn2s
11. Kid Creme ft Bashiyra / The Game (Kid?s Voodoo Mix) - Illegal Beats
12. Jody Wisternoff / Cold Drink, Hot Girl - Instinct
13. Lifelike & Kris Menace / Discopolis (Chris Lake Mix) - Defected
14. Mark Knight & MTV ft E-Man / A New Reality (John Dahlback Mix) - 1 Trax
15. Robbie Rivera / Bizarre Love Triangle (Dave Spoon BLT Mix) - Juicy Music
16. Darkmountaingroup / Lose Control - Buzzin’ Fly
17. Dj Rage / Disco Dancer (MK Re-Edit) - Toolroom Trax
18. Timmy Vegas & Andy Daniell / Disco s*** (Sandy Rivera & Andy Daniell Mix)-Blackwiz
19. Bryan Dalton / Gimme Something - R&G Electronics
20. Dagio ft Corey Andrew / Try (Moussa Clarke Mix) - Oxyd Records
More info: http://www.noir-music.com
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/noir
1. LOLEATTA HOLLOWAY - LOVE SENSATION 2006 (DEAD STEREO MIX) GUSTO
2. GUSTAVO SANTADALLA - THE WINGS (GABRIEL & DRESDEN MIX) CDR
3. MY FRIEND SAM - IT’S MY PLEASURE (RAUL RINCON MIX) J FUNK
4. GABRIEL & DRESDEN - TRACKING TREASURE DOWN (ORIGINAL) ORGANIZED
NATURE
5. SPACE COWBOY - I KNOW WHAT GIRLS WANT (ROGESEVENTYWO MIX) TIGER
TRAX
6. HEMSTOCK & JENNINGS - BABYLON (REMIX) CDR
7. MYNC PROJECT - SOMETHING ON YOUR MIND (SWITCH MIX) APOLLO
8. DADA LIFE - BIG TIME (ORIGINAL) BREAST FED
9. LAST RHYTHM - LAST RHYTHM (MARTIJN TEN VELDEN MIX) RENAISSANCE
10. BOB SINCLAIR - WORLD HOLD ON (CLUB MIX) DEFECTED
Catch the Galaxy Club Chart every Friday on Andi Durrant’s ‘Big
Nite In’ (11pm-2am) across the Galaxy Network: Galaxy
Manchester,Galaxy Birmingham, Galaxy Yorkshire and Galaxy North East.
Also listen on DAB
Digital Radio, the digital services of BSkyB, NTL and Telewest across
the UK and online via www.galaxyfm.co.uk
The Hardest Way To Make A living has given Mike Skinner a second number 1 album, the follow up to A Grand Don’t Come For Free and The Streets first album Original Pirate Material.
Massive Attack’s greatest hits collection Collected remains at number two.
Gnarls Barkley held onto the number one single for a third week with Crazy.
Eleven people have been arrested in a drugs raid on south London club The Fridge.
It is understood some 200 police officers had been involved in the raids on Saturday night following an intense two-month operation that had been focusing on supply of class A drugs - these include cocaine, amphetamines and ecstasy.
The raid, codenamed Atuna, started at about 2325 BST on Saturday and was triggered by a command of “attack, attack” as scores of officers burst in through the front door while others covered the rear.
Officers took control of the foyer and the dance floor, turned the music off and the lights up.
Plain-clothes officers, operating undercover, were inside the club as the raid began. Some of the revellers were then brought into the foyer and searched for drugs.
The raid came as hundreds of clubbers were arriving for the start of the venue’s “Polysexual” night, which had been due to run until lunch time today.
Video Of Raid On BBC Website
Following stints at Soulfuric, MN2S, Look at You, MAP Dance & Peppermint Jam UK production Duo Graham Lord and Adam Unsworth, collectivaly knows as the Audiowhores, have launched their own label Tempogroove Recordings .
For their debut relase the Audiowhores have teamed up with vocalist Pete Simpson on the single ‘Not Going Back’ a track that oozes quality, everything the guys are famed for. With its slick warming chords and bubbly punchy beats, Pete’s glossy vocals add a whole new dimension to the track with the chorus hook destined to have the dance floor swamped in delight with hands aloft.
Chopping around with the vocals and slightly beefing up the bassline, the Dub adds a vibe for the peak time soulful floors ? as infectious as the original mix only toning down the verses for the looped chorus to weave its magic. Finally the remix lands courtesy of Brazilian hotshot DJ Meme - with a vast array of major and independent label remixes under his established belt, he delivers a slice of disco-infused magic to perfectly compliment the vocal for a truly uplifting and inspiring workout.?
Janet Jackson who is currently working on a her new album, has been alerted that songs she recently recorded with hitmaking producer Rich Harrison have leaked to the internet.
At least one song has already made the rounds, titled “Put It On Me.”
“A couple of years ago I recorded some tracks with Rich Harrison. But none of that music will appear on my new album,” Jackson said “I have a tight rein on all of the music that has been recorded.”
The new album “20 Years Old,” is expected to be released later int the year.
The most exciting event taking place this Easter has just got bigger, better, and even fatter than any amount of Easter eggs will make you - the legendary Kenny Dope is confirmed to play Club Azuli at The Cross on Saturday 15th April. Kenny is notoriously reclusive so a 3 hour up close and personal set in the Lounge looks set to make this one very special night indeed. Kenny attendance will mark the release of his ?Choice? album. A double cd of classics filled with seminal disco and funk grooves from days gone by.
The master at work himself lands in the Big Smoke to play at Azuli?s newest party ?Club Azuli?, which is taking over London?s infamous venue The Cross for the start of a bi-monthly residency. Every other month there will be three rooms offering the best in house cuts: the main room will showcase electronic house, while the lounge will cater for the more soulful sounds. The third arch will be hosted by the Togetherness collective aka Rob Marmott and DJ Marble who are legends for putting on great parties on both the white isle and at home in London.
For those not in the know (where have you been?) Club Azuli is a new album series that highlights the future sound of underground dance as well as the current big room tracks on the dance floor. The album marks a new era for the countries most-popular house label, not only through the output of these quality albums, but also by establishing Club Azuli as a force in club land.
Superchumbo star Tom Stephan and Azuli?s own David Piccioni will entertain the crowds of the main room whilst the living encyclopaedia of beats that is Kenny Dope will woo the crowds in the lounge. The line-up for the third arch are Togetherness? own Rob Marmot and DJ Marble, who are no strangers to flirting with the crowds at The Cross.
Event: Club Azuli
Venue: The Cross, Goods Yard, Kings Cross, London
Date: Saturday 15th April (Easter Bank Holiday)
Time: 10pm ? 6am
Entry: ?15, ?12 (Azuli card holders)
DJs: Main Room - Tom Stephan, David Piccioni, King Roc, Luke Ashworth
Lounge ? Kenny Dope, Rap Saunders, Raymundo Rodriguez
3rd arch ? Rob Marmot, Marble, Robo, Jael
Kenny Dope?s Choice A Collection of Classics is out May 1st on Azuli.
www.azuli.com
To celebrated the re-release of the clubland classic ?Blaze Featuring Barbara Tucker ? Most Precious Love? this week - we have a special video interview with Barbara Tucker.
Barbara Tucker is better known for her previous club land classics ?Beautiful People? produced by Louie Vega, ?Stay Together? and ?I Get Lifted?. She has also recorded background vocals for Pet Shop Boys, Dave Steward, Deee-lite, Wyclef Jean, George Clinton and Reel to Reel.
Barbara Tucker Interview Video
When GardenAfrica was looking to create the perfect musical backdrop to accompany their exotic inspired event, ?The Pleasure Garden? they looked no further than to
Housexy. With its aural delights a perfect compliment to the luxurious surroundings of London?s fashionable Sin Club, Housexy will take over and no doubt shake the funky house room to the ground in support of GardenAfrica.
Fast becoming the brand name to drop on the vocal house scene, the Housexy Spring 06 release is already helping to kick away the winter blues with the current UK and International tour blazing up dance floors. With Richard Murray, Tom Murgatroyd and MYSOUL spinning cuts from the likes of David Morales, Mish Mash and Haji & Emanuel, the soulful sounds will offer revellers a decadent environment where hip swinging and glamour will go hand in hand.
Alongside the Housexy room The Pleasure Garden @ Sin will also treat clubbers with The Ballroom which brings together some of the finest hard house DJs currently on the circuit.
With such talent from two rooms it would be hard to fault the ?12 entry with all proceeds going towards helping such a unique and vital cause. The Pleasure Garden will allow clubbers to dance to abandonment whilst feeling happy to put their hands in their pockets at a time when it?s most needed.
Housexy Spring 06 is out now on Minstry of Sound. Join the housewarming: www.housexy.com
GardenAfrica is a non-governmental organisation that creates & supports a wide ranging programme of garden-related developments across sub-Saharan Africa, aimed at overcoming poverty, disease, and malnutrition. Gardens offer sanctuary, nourishment, inspiration, and pleasure ? they can feed the hungry & help cure the sick.
For poverty really to become history, to achieve real and lasting change, GardenAfrica believes in taking direct action at the local level with development aid, starting from the bottom-up. To find out more about Garden Africa visit www.gardenafrica.org.uk
The Pleasure Garden @ Sin, London, Friday May 5th, 10pm til late
Advance tickets are ?12 each incl booking fee or ?15 on the door. Advance tickets are available from www.pleasure-garden.co.uk or 08702 43 23 46.
Hi:Fi South is the brand new festival taking place over the last bank holiday weekend in May on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th. Located at the Matterley Bowl Estate near Winchester, its the first time a camping event has taken place on the site. The music bill is already making festival history by programming rock and dance deities such as Ian Brown, Hard Fi, Super Furry Animals, Oakenfold, Roni Size and Sasha and Digweed.
However, the organisers want guests to overdose on entertainment throughout the two days so have put together an eye-popping menu of extra curricular activities and attractions. After all festivals are not just famous for the music: they also revolve around one central element- FUN!
Hi:Fi South will feature:
Yoga
The World Record Attempt for the biggest outdoor yoga session will be attempted at this years HiFi festival. With over 20000 people expected to camp this gives the perfect opportunity to set a record that should stand for many years to come.
Roller Disco
Madonna?s latest video was shot at one, and no child of the eighties could forget the happy days spent roller-rocking to Michael Jackson tracks. This will be no ordinary roller disco because the kings of spin from Kiss FM are at the controls, providing a booty-shaking selection of phat n funky tracks.
Karaoke
When the drinks are rolling and spirits are high what better place to completely embarrass yourself than at a karaoke booth. This one has a special twist? you don?t perform to a backing track but to your own real life band. The best frontman will be rewarded with a Fender guitar signed by the bands playing the event!
AfterShock Games Arena
Aftershock are hosting their own arena fully of festival games which are the grown up equivalent of party games you?d play as kids. They will have a beyonc? castle which sees you bounce around on an inflatable that resembles the famous popstar?s posterior; dancing polls to swing
around, hot tubs with towels and swimming costumes provided plus a whole range of combat games and water fights.
Urban B Boy Arena
AfroDizzyScratch the Birmingham based Hip Hop promoters are bring their bboys to the festival for live beatboxing, breakdancing, body-popping, BMXing and Graffiti style spray painting. UK DMC Champion Blakey will be joining the WORLD DMC champion Skully to provide the beats.
Internet Caf?
Want to show off to your mates who didn?t manage to get tickets, well the internet caf? allows you to mail wish you were here messages direct from the action.
Lockers
The best ideas are always the simplest and what could be more convenient that lockers guarded by 24 hour security teams. You can lock up your jumpers, cigarettes, camera and for the price of ?5 relax in the knowledge your kit is safe and everything is on hand.
Outdoor Cinema
This year Hi-FI South will be hosting an Outdoor Cinema within the campsite area for up to two and a half thousand people. There will be a variety of cult films being projected on the large screen throughout the weekend.
PunchFunk
Popular south coast club promoters have their own festival arena playing a mixture of house, techno, electro and breaks.
On top of these attractions, the Hi:Fi festival would boast no less than six arenas per day hosted by some of the UK?s finest club brands including: Godskitchen, Hed Kandi, Polysexual & Slinky, Movement, Ali B?s Air and Radio Soulwax.
Full line-ups can be seen at www.hififestival.com
Weekend tickets have gone on sale for ?99 though a VIP weekend package is also available for ?150.
Tickets can be purchased at the website or from the 24 hour ticket hotline:
0870 042 2006.
The event campsite opens at 10am on the Friday 26th and the music arenas kick off from 2pm ? 4am each day.
Carl Cox will host an area of his own on Saturday 15 July during Dance Valley. Now that the programme for the Global Stage is fleshed out, the line-up for Dance Valley Festival, The Weekender, is nearly complete.
?Hosting the Global Stage at Dance Valley is like a homecoming?, says Carl Cox. The man who has sent tens of thousands of dance enthusiasts home in utter euphoria is returning to host the Global area for the third time in the festival?s history. The friendly techno giant from London once famously said: ?A year without Dance Valley is a year not lived?. And many festivalgoers will agree that ?an edition of Dance Valley without Carl Cox is a year without having partied.? The DJ / producer has put together a thrilling programme that only features huge, international techno names.
The Spanish fury CRISTIAN VARELA, owner of the Pornografic label, is a matador at the turntables. His steaming sets have the same effect on a dance floor as a red flag does on a bull. Rotterdam?s MICHEL DE HEY, possibly Holland?s most important techno export product, has done his part to make the country famous for more than just cheese, tulips and weed. Germany?s empress of techno DJ MONIKA KRUSE has helped single-handedly to speed up the emancipation process in the scene by showing that female DJs are by no means inferior to their male counterparts.
Carl?s friendship with soul mate TREVOR ROCKCLIFFE from London goes back nearly 15 years. And Cox shares the same love for seriously funky techno with house influences with his fellow Englishman, who has produced for Carl?s In-tec label. Diamond in the rough DJ HAL (alias Roger Watson), another fellow countryman from the techno underground, keeps shining brighter. Finally, France?s dance god JACK DE MARSEILLE won over more than a few fans in 2000 when he treated audiences to a brilliant set in the sun kissed valley. That one memorable set of electro, house, techno and tech-house alone more than justifies his invitation.
Dance Valley will be held this year during the weekend of 14 and 15 July. For more information please visit: www.udc.nl & www.dancevalley.com.
PRESALE INFORMATION Price: 62.50 euro / Weekend tickets 85 euro
NETHERLANDS: Tickets available at Ticketbox and all the usual presale addresses www.ticketbox.nl
GERMANY: All CTS outlets / www.eventim.de
UNITED KINGDOM & THE REST OF THE WORLD: www.ticketbank.co.uk / Phone +44 1702345050 / info@ticketbank.co.uk / www.radicalescapes.info
The most anticipated compilation of the year is on its way* - ?Space ibiza 2006? is the carefully crafted summer vibe album from Azuli Records that is packed with the best selection of big club tracks for the summer.
The choice of tunes on this album bottles the sound and vibe from Ibiza?s most infa-mous venue and the even more famous Space terrace. ?Space Ibiza? is an essential for any CD collection whether you are an Ibiza regular or not.
Space is up there as one of the best clubs in the world. It?s no wonder that capturing its unique atmosphere on this album leaves you reaching for your sunnies and heading for the terrace.
For the first time ever, this year we will see two instalments of ?Space Ibiza? ? one to kick start the summer party season in May 2006 and the second to mark the end of another fun filled summer.
ALL the BIG summer tracks that will be rocking Ibiza are featured on this album, su-perbly mixed by David Piccioni. Over two CDs it includes hot new and unreleased tracks. CD1 is packed with uplifting house and CD2 represents the darker side of house music that creeps on the dancefloors at Space.
The album is available with an exclusive Space Experience DVD. Get your mitts on this while you can!
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