DJ Eurok aka Peace Justice Upset The Setup
Saturday May 3, 2008 At Eighteenth Street Lounge (DJ Set)
1212 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20036

DJ Eurok aka Peace Justice UPSET THE SETUP is a DC based DJ/producer and hip hop artist. Known for his party rocking DJ sets, Eurok has been tearing up dancefloors around town for the past decade with an analog blend of hip hop, funk and soul, reggae, remixes and latin grooves.

A fixture in the DC music scene, Eurok has been a guest and resident DJ as well as featured performer at a number of venues and events including The 9:30 Club, The Black Cat, Local 16, The Velvet Lounge, and Reunion Thursdays. In 2004 he was nominated by the Washington Area Music Association for both the Electronica and the Hip Hop DJ of the Year awards ­ the first dual genre DJ of the year nomination in WAMA history.

An artist with global aspirations, Eurok was a selected participant at the 2004 Red Bull Music Academy in Roma, Italy. He has performed in Europe and Latin America and his self produced original releases have received radio play on globally recognized stations including NPR (USA), Radio 1xtra (UK), Triple J (Australia) and NRK (Norway.)

http://www.djeurok.com
http://www.upsetthesetup.com

Working a day job

Working on a new album

Blogging

Occasionally he does shows, and once in a blue moon, he comes out to DJ.

maybe you have these from back in the day, but I just posted a few of my classic mixes. put em on your iphone.

It’s bigger than hip hop…

Fifth annual music Festival featuring Hip Hop, Reggae, R&B, Jazz, Rock and Country. Gates open at 5pm on August 24th, Fish Fry and Music begin @ 7pm. BYOBI posted an announcement about this in July – and it is now upon us! This weekend MuStock! Schedule of performers! Directions!

I’ll be perfoming with Head-Roc and Grizz at 8:30!

After a few years of being out-of-print, my 2003 debut downtempo instrumental album Self Realization is back in stock. Order a copy today. PEACE!

The Upset The Setup shirts are back in stock. Now also available in Black with white printing. Order one today – $15 with free shipping! All proceeds go to funding this 100% DO IT YOURSELF OPERATION!

DJ Verb over at Ground Lift magazine has a nice review of the Jon Kennedy EP I am featured on. He had this to say: “American MC/DJ Eurok drops easy-going science on “The Cowboy and His Sub,” a stripped-down beat with a nice harmonica snippet that continues the EP’s country-blues theme.” Check it out the review at GroundLiftMag.com

Flick jacked from flickr. Photo by Lindsey Astin

Ardamus ft. Keyote and Peace Justice Universal (DJ Eurok)

Ardamus did the beat. My lyrics are posted over at my Upset The Setup blog

Just ticked 10,000 free downloads of a non-single album-cut from my 2003 downtempo instrumental album “Self Realization.” Album should be back in stock at CD Baby soon…

Just talked to the crew at Time Matter Energy in the Bronx. Looks like the new Upset The Setup shirts should be shipping this week. You can pre-order here. Check this shirt they did for Creature who we talked about over at the blog last week.

Jon Kennedy from the UK asked me to rhyme on one of his tracks in the summer of 2005. I slept on the beat for ever and never finished my verse. After hurricane Katrina, I was listening to the beat and noticed the vocal sample Jon built the track around “I left my favorite briefcase in New Orleans, playing all the bars intown, whatever the hell that means.” I swear I listened to that track 100s of times before, but it never clicked. Anyway during Ramadan of 05, I finished and recorded the track at Apex’s studio. Jon got the joint pressed, and now, finally, there is a DJ Eurok record on the lab. Take that Lab mgmnt!

Here’s the story so far. 2 summers ago, I gave Ian Mackaye a bootleg promo CDR at Head-Roc’s show at Fort Reno. Ian has always been supportive of the indy hip hop that we do, and has repeatedly told me how much he likes my song “This is DC.” In April of 2007, Ian was in Australia doing shows with the Evens. Him, Amy Farina from the Evens, and Henry Rollins stopped by the Triple J morning show with Zan Rowe and played some music from DC including “This is DC.” Ever since that first play the Triple J (A national radio station broadcast across Australia) has been getting mad requests for the song. Random emails and Myspace friend request from kids in Australia started trickling in.

Ok, pause there. I have no record label, no promo, no video. Nothing. I make music, record it, hustle it here and there, put it out on the Internet. Yeah I do my little myspace thing, I’m trying to get my website back in shape, start selling music online again. But you know what, shit is hard. I got a job. I’m an artist with issues, I’m not trying to be all out there all the time, dig? But kids from Australia are hearing a song I wrote about DC Statehood, googling the lyrics, finding me on-line, and connecting with me. Fuck web 2.0 – this is some next generation future music shit, and I’m trying to get a hold of it and build a movement!

But then in the midst of me being overwhelmed by RSS feeds and content syndication, I stumble upon some shit like this:

The Triple J – Australian Broadcast Corporation
June 1, 2007

the HOTTEST TEN SONGS OF THE WEEK are…

1. HILLTOP HOODS – RECAPTURING THE VIBE (RESTRUNG)
2. KINGS OF LEON – FANS
3. CHEMICAL BROTHERS – DO IT AGAIN
4. ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI – HEART IT RACES
5. MUSCLES – ICE CREAM
6. SMASHING PUMPKINS – TARANTULA
7. DJ EUROK – THIS IS DC
8. WHITE STRIPES – ICKY THUMP
9. BILLY TALENT – FALLEN LEAVES
10. OPERATOR PLEASE – GET WHAT YOU WANT

I mean, really? NUMBER 7 in AUSTRALIA! ON A NATIONAL RADIO STATION? Can I get some help? Investors, street team, beats, an article on your blog, collabos, studio time? something! Holla at the kid!

I just figured out how to use WordPress and RSS feeds to create a simple content management solution for my website. This is on some next level web 2.0 shit.

I can even embed images…!