Starting as an idea for a party to expand one city's musical horizons in 2005 TIMEKODE has grown to become a movement. The TK signal pulses from the blissfully hot and sweaty dancefloor of the Eri Café on the 3rd Friday of every month in Ottawa, Canada's capital city. It aims at the planet via the usual host of social media suspects, and our monthly live-to-air broadcast on terrestrial and internet radio; but only because it can't reach other worlds....yet.
The root of the name is in the bytes that began traveling through samplers and drum machines in the early eighties. MIDI timecode is the data that keeps sample loops, filtered basslines and drum hits moving in unison – it’s the glue that holds together a culture based on pulling together bits of the past to create the sounds of the future.
Our own take on it is a little broader. It’s exposing the exciting new rap, bass and house from this golden age of sample-based music. But it’s also celebrating the raw materials - the classic soul, funk, disco and reggae. It's about keeping the tradition of mixing music and dancing alive while exploring the freshest sounds of yesterday, today and tomorrow with two turntables and a microphone. And you of course.
Year after year our dancefloor proves it; Ottawa's got soul, and while everything changes, soul is forever!
See you in The Future.
Team TK
It's going to be quite night of great music! From our favourite classics to new and forward thinking jams. Get ready for pure dancefloor dynamite!!
Cover: $5 before 11. $10 after.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/TIMEKODE/100208280064143
http://timekode.com/index.php
http://www.mixcloud.com/topsecretTK/
And don't forget the The T Dot Crew!
Jason Palma
General Eclectic
Dj Stuart aka Basic Soul Unit
Location: The Rivoli, 334 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON
https://www.facebook.com/groups/footprintstoronto/?fref=ts
http://www.mixcloud.com/FootprintsToronto/
https://twitter.com/Footprints_TO
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