2010 is the year the world remembers house music came from Chicago. Ghetto Division takes on the history of their hometown sound and lay claim to its future. Link here: http://3.ly/oypH

“When it came time to commission someone for the Chicago edition of our City Guide podcast series, we here at XLR8R spent weeks brainstorming and tossing around possible candidates, many of them legends in their own right. After all, we were talking about Chicago, the birthplace of house music. But then we received an email out of the blue from Ghetto Division, an energetic crew of young Windy City DJs and producers whose roll call includes founders Rob Threezy, Maddjazz, Charlie Glitch, and Rampage alongside newer members Lorenzo Vektor, D-51, MoonMan, M-Dok, Sigma, and Louie Cue. The guys were actually volunteering to tackle the Chicago podcast, promising to do justice to their city’s rich house music history while also incorporating the newest Chicago sounds. We’d heard amazing things about Ghetto Division’s Southside Shakedown parties, and their passion for their hometown and the podcast was convincing to say the least, so we took a bit of a risk and handed it over to them. And boy, did they deliver—this mix is MASSIVE, covering 90 tracks in fewer than 70 minutes and running the gamut from acid house classics and Chicago legends like Cajmere, Fast Eddie, and DJ Funk (to name a few) to the newer, bassier, and occasionally Latin-flavored sounds of the crew’s own productions. If this is the future of Chicago, the city has nothing to worry about.”

Let Chicago do Chicago.

Celebrate Maddjazz’s birthday AND send him and Charlie Glitch on their merry way to a TOUR in BELGIUM. Come to a Ghetto Division family get together, drink the Skyy cocktail and beer of the month specials at Sub-T Lounge in Wicker Park and just chill. Ain’t no party like a Ghetto Division party!

Friday, March 5th, 2010
Ghetto Division presents
MaddJazz
Charlie Glitch
Rob Threezy
Rampage
Subterranean Lounge
2011 W. North
(Right off the Damen blue line)
$5 – 21+ – 10pm

Ghetto Division § ghettodivision.com

Broken Disco 1980: Akira + Lefonz + Mr. Bobby

Chicago Dead Beats

Goldar

Delacutti

Video by Hey! Cliche! Video Club
Photobooth by Glitterguts
Pics by Steven Sanchez
Merch by J. Villa

18+
11:30pm – 4:30am
FIRST 250 PEOPLE IN FREE
$6 before 12:30am – $8 after
Metro Chicago, 3730 N. Clark (at Racine in Wrigleyville)

sixpointchicago.com/nights/shakedown

If dance music has a heart, it exists on Chicago’s south side, and Ghetto Division are setting its beat. In an effort to promote this forward-thinking style, Charlie Glitch, Maddjazz, Rampage, Rob Threezy, Moonman, D-51 and the rest of the Ghetto Division crew put together a recurring night at the legendary Metro to showcase their unique sound. The first Southside Shakedown was an astounding success, as supporters from around the Chicagoland area filled the 1,100-person venue to capacity with an energy rarely seen outside of a southside house party.

Fresh from his Fool’s Gold debut release, a remix of a track by Chicago’s own Kid Sister, “Right Hand Hi,” this vanguard of tropical blends, latin stylings and bass-heavy, dance-savvy sounds from around the world is catching the ear of more than a few tastemakers. Kingdom’s set at Southside Shakedown promises a signature fusion of Latin, Kwaito, Bmore, House, Juke, Soca, Bassline, Bubbling, Dubstep, and Dancehall influences likely to bring the house down.

The Chicago Deadbeats are longtime friends with Ghetto Division and will surely bring an outrageously crowd-pleasing set of hip-hop, juke and ghettotech to the night.
Goldar has been making clubs and parties bang all over Chicago, boasting the freshest tracks and an inimitable style that made him an easy addition to the Shakedown.
A southsider with a lot of experience invading the northside of Chicago, Delacutti brings a love of house and juke together with electro and bmore to satisfy every club.
Broken Disco 1980 are better known as the new wave band Perfect Kiss, but when put behind the decks, they manage to pull out some of the most amazing disco, new wave and italo heard this side of 1990.

Kingdom § kkingdomm.com
Ghetto Division § ghettodivision.com
Broken Disco 1980 §
Chicago Dead Beats § myspace.com/chicagodeadbeats
Goldar § myspace.com/electrofryedoisters
Delacutti § myspace.com/djdelacutti

Digital Press Kit available at sixpointchicago.com/nights/shakedown