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Zizek Club
ZZK Records
Buenos Aires, 2010
WHAT IS ZIZEK CLUB?
Argentina's Zizek collective has spent the last few years spreading the gospel of cumbia, electro reggaeton, and mashups to all corners of the globe via its energy-fueled club nights. -XLR8R
Great music comes out of great parties and in that, Zizek artists have an edge, with three years of consistently great parties making for a fast-track learning curve. The mixtapes pop, the records are like no
others, and the live party is even better.
So just what is Zizek Club? It’s everything it says it is, roving party, high energy, participatory, and, without
a doubt, about making you move. Zizek Club brings the Buenos Aires party to you with a roster of artists
in a compact format. DJs who know what you need, original tracks and hot remixes, and what you would
expect from the people who brought you Buenos Aires gems on ZZK Sound Vol. 1, a compilation of the best
of the city.
Time Out London caught up with ZZK Records on tour calling them “Buenos Aires' finest techno-cumbia
and tropical house label, represented by ZZK's in-house DJ squad, who concoct a lesson in cutting-edge
Latin dance sounds.” The label has had a banner first year of excellent releases, touring on three continents, and glowing press. The New York Times, XLR8R, The Fader, Urb, Newsweek, NME, The Wire, Clarin,
La Nacion, and Billboard en Espanol have each found a reason to write about Zizek over the past year.
Zizek Club is a weekly party that became a laboratory of dance where DJs experimented on the audience
and it responded. The result was a dialogue of music as art interpreted by the public. Zizek DJs are curators of an event that changes the rules. Where a DJ plays an early set to try out new sounds at a new
energy level with the audience. Where the artists and audience have the chance to form a relationship.
Where the audience arrives with a heightened interest in something that crosses barriers looking forward
to the unexpected.
Zizek was created by Villa Diamante, Nim, and Grant (El G) in 2006, at a time when Argentine nightlife was
under siege by law enforcement after a tragic fire at Buenos Aires venue Cromagnon. Grant was introduced to Nim as a local tastemaker, A&R, and producer and turned up at his house in search of cumbia.
At about the same time, Nim met Diamante at a party held in a five-star hotel slated for demolition. El G
booked Nim at a film festival mansion party for 400 people and toyed with the idea of a weekly party. Bringing in Villa Diamante, who was playing all over town, sealed the deal.
Whats Up Buenos Aires promoted the new weekly in San Telmo and the trio named it after a Slovenian
philosopher with a penchant for pushing the envelope. Zizek attracted a new audience who came for the
emerging sounds of hip hop, dancehall, electronica, reggaeton, and cumbia. This new public participated
in developing the party and created the spirit of Zizek Club; artistic, home-grown, and dynamic. From the
start, local producers arrived from diverse backgrounds to craft their respective sounds. In person, artists
collaborated, took risks, and got constant feedback from the crowd. The stage became the lab where visitors joined artists on rotation and Zizek Club took shape. In 2010, Zizek Club continues to evolve and is an
integral part of ZZK Records.
www.zzkclub.com
www.myspace.com/zizektour
ZIZEK GIGS WORLDWIDE
November/December 2009
Trans Musicales de Rennes, Rennes, France
World Tronics, Berlin, Germany
Global CPH, Copenhagen, Denmark
Social Club, Paris, France
Hypie Hypie, Munich, Germany
Favela Blast, Cologne, Germany
Acapulco, Madrid, Spain
Centro Cultural el Matadero, Huesca, Spain
Ljudfesten, Stockholm, Sweden
August 2009
C/O Pop Festival, Cologne, Germany
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston USA
Cha Cha Cha, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Cafe Månefiskeren, Copenhagen, Denmark
Babel, Malmo, Sweden
WMF, Berlin, Germany
July 2009
Roskilde Festival, Denmark
Summer Stage, NYC, NY, USA
Santos Party House NYC, NY, USA
Sfinks Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
Bomb Diggity, Amsterdam, Holland
June 2009
Cha Cha Cha, Sao Paolo, Brazil
April 2009
Coachella Festival, Indio CA, USA
Trans Atlantic Festival, Miami FL, USA
Union Pool NYC, NY, USA
Santos Party House, NYC NY, USA
Boomboxx @ Zoobizarre Montreal, Canada
The Social Toronto ON, Canada
Sonotheque, Chicago IL, USA
The Marquis Theater, Denver,CO, USA
Kilbycourt, Salt Lake City Utah, USA
Nectar Lounge Seattle,WA, USA
Holocene, Portland OR, USA
The Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco,CA, USA
Synthetic Cumbias, Mexico City, Mexico
Cafe Central, Oaxaca, Mexico
January 2009
El Huevo, Valparaiso Chile
Papagayo´s Club, Santiago Chile
November/December 2008
Oslo World Music Festival, Club Bla, Oslo Norway
OCII, Amsterdam Netherlands
WORM, Rotterdam Netherlands
Les Cafe des Sports, Paris France
Club NITSA, Barcelona Spain
Zaragoza Latina Festival, Zaragoza Spain
The Rumble, Malmo Sweden
Last Days of Decadence, London UK
Movimientos, Salmon and Compass, London UK
Secousse with Radioclit, Notting Hill Arts Club, London UK
Camden Barfly, London UK
Scala with Man Recordings, Berlin Germany
July 2008
LAMC Showcase with Toy Selectah, SOBS, New York City NY, USA
Baile MTL, Lambi, Montreal Canada
Ritmo y Color Festival, Brigantine Toronto Canada
B-Side, Cleveland OH, USA
Sonotheque, Chicago IL, USA
The Crofoot, Pontiac Michigan USA
SOBs with Uproot Andy, New York City NY USA
Nectar, Seattle WA USA
Berbati’s Pan, Portland OR, USA
Mezzanine with Drop the Lime, San Francisco CA USA
Getty Museum, Los Angeles CA USA
Pasaguero with Kumbia Queers, Mexico DF Mexico
Pasaje America, Mexico DF Mexico
La Tirada Mexico DF Mexico
El Mitote Mexico DF Mexico
March 2008
Tormenta Tropical with DJ/Rupture, Mezzanine, San Francisico CA,
USA
The Echoplex, Los Angeles CA, USA
SXSW, Ninety Proof Lounge, Austin TX, USA
SXSW, Barcelona, Austin TX, USA
SXSW, Mad Decent vs. Iheartcomix, Austin TX, USA
SOBs, New York City NY, USA
Sonotheque, Chicago Il, USA
ABOUT ZZK RECORDS
ZZK RECORDS is a homegrown record label and artist collective born out of the ZIZEK CLUB nights in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Exploring urban, global sounds with electronic music production, ZZK Records is blending the old with the new,
fusing ideas, mashing continents and maximizing technology to bring Latin American music into the 21st Century with a
bass that goes boom.
Since debuting at SXSW in March 2008 the ZZK Records collective has played more than 100 shows in 50 cities including
festivals like Oslo World Music (Norway), Trans Atlantic (Miami), Coachella (California), Roskilde (Denmark) Summer Stage
Central Park (NYC), Sfinks (Belgium) C/O Pop (Germany), Worldtronics (Berlin) and Trans Musicales de Rennes (France) along
with numerous clubs, live music venues and cultural institutions.
ABOUT WHATS UP BUENOS AIRES
Whats Up Buenos Aires is a bilingual arts and culture hub in Argentina, presenting local artists, musicians and events to a
public of locals and global fans intent on discovering the Argentine underbelly. Hosting events like Zizek has made WUBA
the go-to center of the artistic underground in Buenos Aires. Relationships with urban artists, musicians, designers, and
venues puts WUBA in the unique position of Argentine representative of the arts at large, folding foreigners and locals into
the underground mix seamlessly and with style.
www.zzkrecords.com
www.whatsupbuenosaires.com