What would you get if Blood, Sweat, and Steroids had a baby with a Beauty Pageant Queen? What happens when Funky meets Sexy? Or if Soul Train crashed into Knight Rider while the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders mudwrestled Vanity 6? What if this all happened at the same time?
Eh! Team DJ's Calgary representative DJ Pump gets together with local heros Koosh and Trever to search for answers to all these questions and more on the dance floor at the Old School Party called STARS & MUSCLES. Come down and jam with these Macho Men as they give you the goods right where it counts. You know the drill: strictly Boogie-Funk to Disco, Italo, 80's, Classic House to Dance Music and all that good stuff. It really doesn't get any better than that, we keeps it Funky.
DJ PUMP….. of Eh! Team DJ's… In a world full of run of the mill DJs, Pump stands out as being extremely talented and unique. Pumps' abilities are surpassed by few, while his diversity stretches the boundaries of Turntablism and what it means to be a DJ. While theoretically speaking, there should be no boundaries between a Turntablist and being a DJ, many Turntablists isolate themselves into the monotony of doing three-minute routines, while forgetting the basic elements of DJing, rocking a party and mixing records. When scratching, creating beat juggles or blending beats, Pump focuses on the overall musical composition and the sound of the end result. His performances have earned him the respect amongst his peers as one of the funkiest DJ's around, as well as one of Canada's best kept secrets. Throughout his career Pump has received many notable awards and accolades, headlined some of the most exciting club nights around the globe and showcased alongside a myriad of elite DJ's. In 2000 Pump won BOTH the Canadian ITF and DMC DJ Championships and went on to represent Canada at The DMC World Championships at London's Millennium Dome. Fast forward 10 years and the man is rockin' harder than ever... travellin' Canada coast to coast as a handpicked member of Team Canada's DJ Squad... The Eh! Team DJ's. The brash DJ Pump, who ignited a city and a country back in 2000, is most comfortable when he's rocking the crowd with his unique blend of Funk, Soul, Old Skool, Disco and everything in-between using his unbounded DJing skills and talents. His No Gimmick Style of Skilled Accuracy coupled with a Distinct Ear for all things Funky makes him one of the nations most versatile vinyl violators. Its this balance and diversity which basically encompasses his entire being, the balance of musical value and technical skill, the balance of commercial success and underground credibility and the balance of b-boy cockiness and soft spoken humbleness.
KOOSH..... Koosh started making mixes on pause tapes from the radio in the late 80's before he could get his hands on some good tables. In the early days of club and party culture in Vancouver he cut his skills on the dance floors of the after hours scene. Then a move to Victoria in the early 90's started a whole new groove. Mashing together House and Disco, Soul with Hip-Hop, and Techno laced with Funk all brought together in a night called “Hi-Fi”. As the rave movement exploded in the mid 90's Koosh was part of some of Victoria's biggest parties playing under many different aliases, but always “Thumpin’ tha Funk”. A move to the Gulf Islands saw Koosh start to concentrate on production, where Koosh and his good friend the “Mole of Soul” compiled a 12 inch that features not only their trax, but a formidable mixes of their friends as well. This 12 inch will be available soon and has been picked up for distribution from Word and Sound, Berlin. Koosh has been DJing, collecting Disco and making edits for more than a decade and a half. Expect the unexpected as the dance floor gets a Disco Workout.
DJ TREVER..... Straight from tha hood… Gordonhood Victoria that is! DJ Trever has been droppin’ science for many many moons now. Currently you can hear him play Saturday at Touch in the heart of Victoria. Trever plays the Funkiest Old Skool Party Jams to make you bump and grind, as well as creating some of the Dopest Mixes on fly. He scratches like a he don’t care n’ definitely turns a party out! He's played along side many great DJ's: Afrika Bambaattaa, Mark Farina, David Alvarado, Thomas Michael, Malente, Atomic Hooligan, Donald Glaude, Mat the Alien, Czech, and Miss Moneypenny. He's toured across New Zealand a couple times, played in Mexico, blasted in Amsterdam, got lost in Bermuda, spanked in Fiji, and crushed it in Detroit… Bottom line is…this DJ will "ROCK YA PARTY”!!