HOME & OBEY Present SYNDICATE ft Samiyam

Line Up:
Samiyam [Brainfeeder, LA]
Kiat feat JJ Maics on drums (live)
Cherry Chan
Darren Dubwise
Rafi Dean
Izaak Stern

Visuals by Brandon Tay
Live Screen-Printing by HIT+RUN

The Beat Invitational Showcase hosted by Trytoplay

Masterpiece
Oceans
Gema
Intrigue
Azrael the iLLchemist
Max Lane
Event Details

SYNDICATE is back on 1 October! In partnership with the most iconic name in underground culture, OBEY, we bring you two great music-makers from Los Angeles.

Brainfeeder’s Samiyam takes to Singapore his brand of shifty and slouchy rhythmic patterns infused with snippets of soul, funk, Nintendo bonus level music and even 70s Italian horror flick soundtracks. So get ready for a major head-nodding session with the regular at LA’s definitive night, Low End Theory, and the man behind the most important instrumental hip-hop album for 2011.

Another LA-based musician JJ Maics will also be making his SYNDICATE debut in a special live set with SYNDICATE resident Kiat. A jazz drummer and beat producer, JJ studied under Kevin Kanner and Willie Jones III, and has played with music greats such as Austin Peralta, Joe Sanders and Josh Nelson.

We are excited to bring you live screen-printing by LA art collective HIT+RUN. They have screen-printed the official licensed art of Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Matt Groening and Shepard Fairey just to name a few, and you can look forward to creating your own one of a kind wearable art piece on that night.

Don’t miss out on the third Beat Invitational showcase where we’ll unearth more local musical gems such as Oceans and Intrigue, and sets by SYNDICATE residents Cherry Chan, Darren Dubwise, Rafi Dean and Izaak Stern!

1 October 2011, Saturday
10PM – 4AM
Home Club, 20 Upp Circular Road, The Riverwalk, Singapore
$15 admission with 1 drink

Syndicate Oct 2011 trailer – “Children Of The Future” from SyndicateSG on Vimeo.

ABOUT SAMIYAM:

Sam Baker, alias Samiyam, is an instrumental hip-hop producer from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is best known for his work with experimental producer, Flying Lotus, and his 8-bit video game inspired hip hop beats. In 2008, Samiyam released his debut album, Rap Beats Vol. 1. The album was self-released. Each album cover, a magazine cut out covered in sharpie-drawn doodles, was custom created by Sam himself.
As a regular at Los Angeles’ definitive night, Low End Theory, Samiyam is part of the LA beat movement which is taking the world by storm together with the likes of Gaslamp Killer, Free The Robots and Daedelus. His latest offering, Sam Baker’s Album, released on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label, has been dubbed as one of the most important instrumental hip hop album for 2011.

Photographs courtesy of Theo Jemison