EVERY FIRST FRIDAY PANDEMIC hits the Brillobox click the flier above to RSVP

10pm-2am for all the global music needs

OCT 15-16 I’ll be djing the Maker Faire between bands and speakers. Come be a part. Click on the image for link.

The Meditations w King Banga at salems banquet hall October 22 9pm. $20 door $15 advance

ADVANCE TIX AVAIL HERE
A Joint Venture
Afarmusicgroup, Truth&Rites & Pandemic.

Drinking Dancing Stomping Yelling!

Pandemic is your monthly dose of Global Dancehall,Post Natinonal Bass, Global Glitch, Digital Cumbia, and more

EVERY FIRST FRIDAY

CUMBIA
BHANGRA
BALKAN
REGGAETON
DANCEHALL
FUNK CARIOCA
ELECTRO SHAABI
+++

9:30pm-2am

Brillobox
https://pandemicpgh.com/

$6

Also really excited to announce and open our store at Commonwealth Press with these new and old shirts

http://compressmerch.com/collections/spynda

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT FOR PITTONKATONK!!!! PLEASE DONATE TODAY TO HELP MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Last year, Hollywood came knocking in the remote eastern Romanian village of Zece Prajini, a hop, skip, and a jump from the former Soviet republic of Moldova. With its muddy streets, horse-drawn carts, and modest houses, the place, even according to villagers, is “the end of the earth.” What attracted movie moguls to Zece Prajini? Borat needed a cover of the biker anthem “Born to be Wild,” and they had a very particular group in mind. That group was Fanfare Ciocãrlia, the speed-loving masters of Romany brass music’s curlicue melodies and exhilarating rhythms, who were sought out for the soundtrack of last year’s quirky hit, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.”

SPECIAL GUEST FOR APRIL PANDEMIC :::: ERICK JAIMEZ from Dallas, TX.

We are bringing the bass music!

Pittonkatonk is back May 7

visit our new site http://pittonkatonk.org

check back regularly for updates on future shows. Big things in the works for May and June. Lots of outdoor events featuring great bands.. Dos Sanos Antibeat Band, Miramar, XIXA, and more.

I don’t know where to start so i’ll just post some fliers for upcoming events. Click any of the images for the Facebook event pages.

ADVANCE TIX FOR DENGUE DENGUE DENGUE

DENGUE
DENGUE
DENGUE

(Lima, Peru)

PANDEMIC PETE

DJ JUAN DIEGO

JAMES GYRE

@ SALEMS EVENT CENTER
(FORMERLY CJ’s)

$10 advance

9pm-3am

pandemicpgh.com
denguedenguedengue.com

Dengue Dengue Dengue! is an audiovisual duo from Lima, Perú. Behind the masks are Felipe Salmon and Rafael Pereira, two producers, dj’s and graphic designers. Their work focuses in exploring native rhythms from Peru and other parts of the world, recreating them in an electronic form, mixing the old with the new, analog and digital, to create their own unique sound and visuals. Their musical explorations go from Psychedelic Cumbia to Dub, from Salsa to Footwork, from Tribal to Techno, the sound and visual palette keeps growing and adding more and more flavours to the mix.

This year DDD are releasing their second full length album titled La Siete Raices (The Seven Roots) which will be out in November on Enchufada Records. This record will come with a new video too, directed by Mikael Stornfelt, who also directed the Simiolo and Chichón videos. They where commissioned by legendary Salsa record label Fania Records to remix one of his classics for a special 50 year anniversary compilation. They also released a new track for a Greenpeace / Rhythm and Roots label project, a compilation of birdsong inspired tracks. Its also been a year of intense touring, Latin America from January to March, Europe in June, USA in August and October and now preparing for the album release tour in December and January 2016 in Europe.

In 2014 they got officially singed to Enchufada Records, and released the EP Serpiente Dorada. They did a lecture for Red Bull Music Academy in Tokyo and released the track Pineal for RBMA project 20 before 15. They also remixed Tremor, Symbiz Sound, El Remolon and king Doudou. They had 3 European tours, playing shows in Dour, Roskilde and Paleo Festivals among others including an amazing set at SONAR Festival in Barcelona, reviewed by Xlr8r and others as one of the best shows in the festival. They also played Cuba, Japan. Argentina, Chile, China, Brazil, Jamaica, Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia.

B2B- Bear to Bear

Pandemic Presents:::

Black Bear Combo 6-8 piece brass band hailing from the depths of the windy city. They appeared at the 2014 Pittonkatonk Brass Fest and are returning for a night of Drinking Dancing Stomping and Yelling.

PANDEMIC DJ SETS

$8-10

@SPIRIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHoQJHg7hVg

Pandemic is every First Friday and Third Saturday at The Brillobox. The Drinking, Yelling, and Dancing Party that’s lasted for ten years. For those new to Pittsburgh, it’s the perfect companion to Unblurred Gallery Crawl if you care to venture further down Penn Ave.

then off to DETROIT for a party w/ Detroit Party Marching Band, Black Bear Combo, and Detroit Pleasure Society.

P.L.A.V. Post #10
$10
9PM, doors

The Detroit Party Marching Band is a group of 20+ musicians devoted to unanticipated revelry, driving jams, and the power of the un-amplified horn blast. They’ve been playing impromptu performances celebrating life and community in & around their dear city of Detroit since 2010. The group has been featured in the New York Times, French Vogue, The Detroit News, and The Detroit Free Press. The group has toured to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, played the HONK! Festival in Somerville, MA and has collaborated with Detroit artist My Brightest Diamond to tour the Netherlands.

Black Bear Combo is a raucous mutt channeling the common energy between traditional music from eastern Europe and the Balkans, punk rock, and free jazz. Since 2002 we’ve brought our sound to clubs, basements, festivals, weddings, funerals, parties and streetcorners across the country.
http://www.blackbearcombo.com/

Detroit Pleasure Society keeps the traditional jazz of New Orleans alive and well with a fresh twist and raucous candor. Combining folk, bebop, and brass band sensibilities, DPS adds a little Motor City to the Big Easy in a bar near you.
http://www.detroitpleasuresociety.com/

PANDEMIC is hybrid of traditional folk music and contemporary dance music from around the world. DJ sets are borderless, combining cutting edge dance music from remote regions of the world with traditional folk music reenergizing cultural identities. Consider Pandemic the digital crate diggers for underground glitchy ethnic bass music, but it doesn’t end there. Pandemic explores traditional folkloric music and recontextualizes it by the juxtaposition with modern dance music and pop music from other countries. Pandemic fuzes together TROPICAL BASS, CUMBIA, DANCEHALL, BHANGRA, ELECTRO SHAABI, CHALGA, RUSSIAN FOLK, BOLLYWOOD, AFROBEATS, AZONTO, KUDURO, BRAZILIAN BASS, ASIAN POP, BALKAN BEATS, and whatever else we come across our path.
https://pandemicpgh.com/

Fanfare Ciocarlia, hailing from the Romanian village of Zece Prajini, is a twelve-piece maelstrom of trumpets, tuba, clarinets, saxophones, and percussion. Noting their range of influences, from Duke Ellington to Balkan wedding music, The Guardian raves, “They were faster and more frantic than any other brass ensemble I can think of, but never lost control, and constantly and ingeniously varied the repertoire.” Don’t miss these two outstanding ensembles about whose collaborative album Balkan Brass Battle was praised by AllMusic as “thrilling and packed with virtuosic playing.”

TIX LINX

FIRST FRIDAY MADNESS. As always

Now in its third year, Pittonkatonk is a free, outdoor, family friendly community celebration of brass music that features both local and touring musicians. Held at the Schenley Park Vietnam Veterans Pavilion, Pittonkatonk blurs the lines between music festival and family reunion. There’s no formal stage, no mandatory ticket prices, and no vending. Instead, bands play in the crowd with little to no amplification. The community creates a potluck table of food donations for refreshment, and folks of all ages can be seen dancing together.