Reggae Monday @ Pulkvedis

On Monday, August 31, “Crystral Sound System” again will spin damn sweet reggae & dancehall at “Pulkvedim Neviens Neraksta”, start 23:00.

Mojo Cafe

Not a long time ago a tiny and cozy place called Mojo Cafe was opened in Old Riga right next to the President’s palace (Pils str. 7). Crystral Sound will play reggae and dancehall there on Saturday (from 10pm). If this is not a sufficient reason for you to go out, then we can add, that our friends from Apofeoz Sound System – miss Puma and Rahaz Buzz will spin Jamaican tunes in Cuba cafe (3 mins from Mojo) the same night, so – why not to make a Caribbean travel in Riga city?

Random Monday morning news

We had quite a busy weekend organizing and planning the project Passport:Music together with our foreign friends. It will happen from September 10 – 20 in a nice seaside house in Liepaja, where dj’s, video artists and producers will come together for exchanging experience and work together for ten days. The project is financed by European Union Youth in Action Programme (Big Up to the EU for the opportunity) and we are really excited about what is coming out of this. We will soon put profiles of all the participants in the Project webpage.

We have published pictures of the last parties on our gallery section.

The next hot dancehall night is.. tonight! Crystral ladies will spin a new selection of the freshest Jamaican production in Pulkvedis club the whole night from 11pm. By the way – we are working on a new dancehall mix, hope it comes out soon.

And – the last thing we wanted to share – the article of our Varka kru friend dj Kone – about the future of digital dj-ing and his new discovery in audio gadgets – Vestax VCI-300. Nice piece about his experience and reflections.

Buku Open Air

Tomorrow, August 22, Crystral Sound System at time between 00:00 – 5:00 is going to select favourite ragga-jungle tunes in festival Buku Open Air. We are looking forward also to our foreign  friends’ DJ and VJ performances: Konik Polny (GER), Jasper (NL), FatCat (IT), Jeremejs (GB).

Yello Powa!

Today we have some friends coming to Riga! Here will be tekno DJ, producer and promoter Konik Polny (Berlin) from Joprec.org, VJ FatCat (Italy) from Underscorevision, Jasper (The Netherlands) from studiovasim.nl and also Jeremejs (London). Tonight starting from 22:00 together with some local DJ’s and artists we come to play and party in Peahen (Andrejsala) wid a taste of jungle, ragga, dancehall, minimal and tekno.

Another Reggae Monday @ “Pulkvedis”

This Monday, August 17, “Crystral Sound System” is going to give some reggae & dancehall bass to those brave people who are not afraid to go out and party at the very start of the week. So, if you are one of them, party takes place at “Pulkvedim Neviens Neraksta”, start 22:00.

Last weekend story

Last weekend was so full of events, that we are still running on low battery. First of all on friday morning we picked up Psychofreud from Riga airport to go for a show in Lithuania. We played 2 hours of our best ragga-jungle selections and after that enjoyed great music of Psychofreud. Special thanks to him for dubplate voiced over Major Lazer’s tune. As Lithuanian promoters had some problems with Psychofreud’s transfer back to Riga, he cancelled his second show in Lithuania and on Saturday morning left for Riga together wid us.

At 5:00 PM we had to be back in Riga to take part in BiFri DanceNonStop DJ competition at the Opera House. They had made Opera’s parking place look like beach – with sand, palm trees and couple of beach-bars. We selected ~120 bpm Jamaican dancehall and dancehall mash-ups and out of 200 DJ’s who applied we made 2-nd place:

1. DJ Rudd
2. Crystral Sound System
3. Gustavito

After this kinda weird event we had to select in surfers’ bar Cabo Cafe. And again thanks to Psychofreud – that night we got exclusive  and almost private reggae set from him. Sorry for those who missed this event!

Festival “Zaļumballe”

Crystral Sound System in Festival Zalumballe: Friday, August 28 in chillout with dub’n'reggae and on “Ritmiņš” stage with positive jump-up raggajungle. Catch your last chance for a real outdoor festival this summer. More info: www.festivalszalumballe.lv

Reggae @ “Cabo Cafe”

If there is a place in Riga where beach party goes on, then “Cabo Cafe” is the one – bar for surfers at the Kisezers lake. “Crystral Sound System” is going to select there real hot choons on Saturday, August 15, all night long!

“Nights In The Greens ’09″

On Friday, August 14, “Crystral Sound System” packs bags and goes to brother country next doors – Lithuania to play some wicked ragga-jungle set at electronic music festival “Nights In The Greens”. Line up is nice – alongside Lithuanian massive every junglist will be able to mash and groove to the original sound of Psychofreud (love).

“Regeja Ritmi” on “Alibi” summer terrace

It was Autumn/Winter 2008 when every Thursday “Crystral Sound System” held “Riga Goes Ragga” events at “Sunset bar” (R.I.P.). Now it’s Summer 2009 and again we have opportunity to play reggae music every Thursday but different place – on bar’s “Alibi” summer terrace in Old Riga. So, guys, you are welcome to “Regeja Ritmi” every Thursday from 19:00 – 23:00.

Reggae Monday @ “Pulkvedis”

This Monday, August 10, “Crystral Sound System” is going to give some good reggae & dancehall vibes to clubbers and after-work-beer-drinkers who are not afraid to go out and party at the very start of the week. So, if you are one of them, party takes place at “Pulkvedim Neviens Neraksta”, start 22:00.