JDub Records

To get y’all warmed up for the Jerusalem Hip Hop extravaganza taking place at The Lab (Hamaabada)this Tuesday, here’s a new video of the event’s 3 featured M.Cs. JDubber Sagol 59 plus up-and-coming rappers Ruff and Hasid, performing the posse cut “7″ in Tel Aviv’s Barzilay club to an ecstatic crowd.

For two days next week, Jerusalem will turn into the music, arts, theatre, food, drink and good vibes center of Israel, as the de:frost festival will offer hundreds of parties, gigs, plays, exhibitions and other mainstream, fringe and guerilla events. And if you’re looking to catch some authentic Jerusalem Hip Hop flavour, on January the  19th Sagol 59, Hasid and Ruff will perform at The Lab (Hamaabada).

For more info, check out De:frost Festival’s Facebook page.

Tomi Rotem a.k.a Crazy Dog has been rapping and freestyling for 6-7 years now, and producing tracks in his home studio for the last 2-3 years. Not bad for a kid born in 1995, huh? I should know. I happen to be his father.

About a year in the making, now’s the time to check out his first ‘proper’ release, the free, internet E.P “GTA Tribute”. Enjoy.

The inimitable Y-Love had visited Israel last week, and gave two very dope shows in Jerusalem. Y-Love was supported by Shtar, a live Hip Hop band from Beit-Shemesh and by Jewish funk-rockers Hamakor. Sagol 59 was the featured guest on both shows and local Hip Hopppers Funati Hasid, Empress Eyesis and Crazy Dog were also in attendance. More photos here.

So, what started as a Rebel Sun & Sagol 59 show at the Bass club in Jerusalem on Saturday night, eventually turned into a full-fledged Corner Prophets freestyle cipher, featuring Sagol, Rebel Sun, Knights Of The Roundtable, Marc The Black Russian, Funati Hassid, DJ Meth-A-Morph and Joseph, a dancehall M.C from Ghana.

More photos on the C.P website

Jerusalem film-goers have learned this week the the venerable Lev Smadar cinema (located at the German Colony) might be offered for sale, after a Jerusalem District Court ruling last week. As the only single-screen theater left in Jerusalem, the indie Smadar has a devoted following. Is Jerusalem, once declared “Israel’s Film Capital” by mayor Barkat, losing its cinemas?

Haaretz reports.

FACTbyFACT is a full length documentary about Fact Records - argubly the most important Independent record label in Israeli music history. The film covers Fact’s three and a half years of activity and documents the emerging Jerusalem music scene between 1999-2003. Directed by Ran Eisenstadt, the film features performances by: Yuppies With Jeeps,  Sagol 59, The Young Puritans, The Rubberband  Project, Charlie Megira, Gelbart and more, and interviews with: Shaanan Street, Quami, Nadav Ravid, Adi Gold, David Peretz, Hadara Levin-Areddy, Sagol 59, DJ  Caress, Subsoniq and many others.

You can watch the film here , or download a high quality copy here.

Enjoy.

Rebel Sun & Sagol 59, two  original Corner Prophets crew members, will perform a special joint gig at Jerusalem’s BASS club on Saturday, Sepetmber 5th ‘09, 10pm. Special guests to be announced.

Rebel Sun is currently touring the country with his band Coolooloosh, while Sagol is hard at work recording his next album.

See y’all there!

Jerusalem M.Cs (and Corner Prophets alumni) Sagol 59, Vulkan and Funati Hassid, plus DJs Guvibosh, Danny Beck and special guests, will perform live at the BASS club in downtown Jerusalem, Thursday July 30th, 21:00. Familar stuff, new songs, freestyles and special collaborations are guaranteed. See y’all there!

Festival Beshekel (The One Shekel Festival) is a non-profit organization established in the spring of 2001 by a group of musicians, artists and social-change activists. Festival Beshekel`s founders came about with the idea of the festival while they were working and performing all around Israel and became aware of the influence of socio-economic gaps in exposure to and expression of culture. At the same time, the founders wanted to combat the lack of multi-cultural awareness and openness in the Israeli society that unfortunately builds barriers between people and societies. The price of admission to all of our events is a symbolic one Israeli shekel (approximately 20 cents), which enables all sectors of Israeli society access to the richness of our local culture.

Over the past 8 years the festival has established three to four outdoor festivals and production workshops a year (cultural leadership workshops). Each year, over 20,000 citizens of diverse social, economical and ethnic backgrounds attended those festivals.

This year, there will be 3 festivals: in Gilboa Regional Council, in the mixed city of Lod, and in the Katamonim neighborhood of Jerusalem.

Among the artists featured this year:  Hadag Nachash, Mooky, Achinoam Nini, Zehava Ben, Mira Awad, Sagol 59, D.A.M, Alma Zohar, Eifo Hayeled and many others.