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With a tradition like the leaves changing in Central Park, The American Museum of Natural History launches another space age season of One Step Beyond, presented with The Fader Magazine on Friday, October 15, 2010 from 9 PM - 1 AM. Headlining the October date is none other than space age spinner SHABAZZ PALACES, drawing Blockhead and Activaire into their gravity well. Space age visuals by Fuevoz (with VJs SeeJ and Benton-C) illuminate the night, while in the Hayden Planetarium, Whoopi Goldberg narrates Journey to the Stars, throughout the night. Tickets are $25 which includes a free future visit to the museum. This event will sell out, so get your tickets early at www.amnh.org/osb. The entrance to the event is located on Columbus Avenue and 79th Street.
SHABAZZ PALACES (Sup Pop)
Like rich velvet hijabs or gold threaded abayas. Luxury as understood by the modest. Shabazz Palaces. If Bedouins herded beats instead of goats and settled in Seattle instead of the atlas mountains, this would be their album. Shabazz Palaces are the first music recipients of The Stranger’s Genius Awards. The Genius Awards are given to outstanding visionaries in Literature, Film, Art, Theater, and for the first time ever, Music in the Seattle area.
For more information, please see www.shabazzpalaces.com
Blockhead (Ninja Tune)
Blockhead grew up in downtown New York City. The son of an artist, early on he found his passion was for music. A fan of a whole range of sounds, especially hip-hop, Blockhead steadily built a tremendous collection of tapes and later CDs from innumerable artists. After a brief stint as a rapper, he realized his calling was behind the boards and not on the mic, and from there he began to produce beats.
Since making that decision, he's been kept pretty busy. Blockhead produced 9 tracks on Aesop Rock's critically acclaimed album Labor Days. Additionally he produced half the tracks on Aesop's follow up EP, Daylight. Blockhead has also been working with other indie giants such as Slug of Atmosphere, Murs, Mike Ladd and SA Smash. Oh, and the guy does comedy, too. He's a member of the Party Fun Action Committee who's hip-hop/comedy debut album was recently released on the legendary Def Jux. And what was the other thing? Oh yeah, exquisite, emotional instrumental hip hop on the one and only Ninja Tune…
Activaire DJs
Activaire, devoted to developing custom music programs, blends the disciplines of design and architecture with DJ culture.
The Rose Center for Earth and Space is one of the most beautiful public spaces in the world. Inside One Step Beyond, attendees can check out the Cullman Hall of the Universe and see artifacts of space and science, while the DJs and live acts provide suitably otherworldly experiences. Featuring extraordinary images from telescopes on the ground and in space and stunning, never-before-seen visualizations of physics-based simulations, the dazzling new Journey to the Stars launches visitors through space and time to experience the life and death of the stars in our night sky, including our own nurturing Sun. Tour familiar stellar formations, explore new celestial mysteries, and discover the fascinating, unfolding story that connects us all to the stars. Those who come along for the journey may never see the night sky in the same way again.
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