New York (Top40 Charts/ American Museum Of
Natural History) - After an amazing kick-off with
Amanda Blank and
Devlin & Darko with a surprise appearance by Spankrock, The American Museum of
Natural History returns with One Step Beyond, presented with The Fader Magazine on Friday, November 13, 2009 from 9 PM - 1 AM, with headliners DJ /rupture, Matt Shadetek, MC Malcua, and Sonido Martines. Tickets are $25, which includes a free future visit to the museum, cosmic visuals by Fuevoz (with VJs SeeJ and Benton-C), and entry to the Museum's breathtaking Cosmic Collisions Hayden Planetarium Show, narrated by Robert Redford. Advance tickets are recommended and available at www.amnh.org/osb. The entrance to the event is located on Central Park West at West 79th Street.
DJ /rupture (Dutty Artz, The Agriculture) (headline) DJ /rupture has performed in over 30 countries, released records on Soul Jazz and Tigerbeat6, and performed in a band with Norah Jones and the 80-member Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. Rupture's recent album, Uproot, was named one of the 10 Best Albums of 2008 by Pitchfork. Rupture hosts a radio show on WFMU 91.1 fm in New York, which is re-broadcast weekly on local FM stations in Belgium, Croatia and France. Rupture has just released an album, Patches, with guitarist Andy Moor (The Ex) and will release a follow-up to Uproot, called Solar Life Raft.
Matt Shadetek Featuring Jahdan Blakkamoore (Dutty Artz, Gold Dust) Brooklynite Jahdan Blakkmoore has worked on hip hop collaborations with DJ Premier, Afu Ra, and Dead Prez and reggae collaborations with his band Noble Society, and Diplo and Switch on their Major Lazer project. Blakkamoore has teamed up with producers Matt Shadetek and DJ /rupture for albums Buzzrock Warrior and We Are Raiders.
Maluca (Mad Decent) Born in the Bronx and raised in Manhattan by Dominican parents, Maluca is a vocalist, cowbell player, and dancer who performs her provocative party jams with a band of tough backup dancers. Her first single, El Tigeraso, just recently released, draws on her Dominican electro meringue roots.
Sonido Martines (Soot) South American DJ Sonido Martines is based in La Paz but travels widely around South America. Also a collector and historian, Martines has helped organize the Festicumex (Festival de Cumbias Experimentales) parties in Argentina with fellow cumbia ambassador Dick El Demasiado.
A spectacular immersive theater experience, Cosmic Collisions launches visitors on a thrilling trip through space and time-well beyond the calm face of the night sky-to explore cosmic collisions, hypersonic impacts that drive the dynamic and continuing evolution of the universe. Groundbreaking scientific simulations and visualizations based on cutting-edge research developed by Museum astrophysicists, scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and other international colleagues-many seen for the first time-depict the dramatic and explosive encounters that shaped our solar system, changed the course of life on Earth, and continue to transform our galaxy. The Robert Redford narrated show explores the full range of space collisions, past, present, and future.
The series continues on January 8, February 12, March 12, April 9, May 14 and June 11, 2010.
For all photo and media requests, please contact OW! at the above information. To stay on top of the latest news on the One Step Beyond event series, go to amnh.org/osb
