Your favorite disco funk party is back again!!! This month Hot Chocolate presents Sunshine Jones. Sunshine is renowned for his contribution to the seminal house act, Dubtribe Sound System, alongside his solo productions on King Street Sounds, Treehouse Musique and his weekly DJ show Sunday Soul on 90hz.org. While being half of Dubtribe Sound System, Sunshine was also the creative director of Imperial Dub Recordings. Sunshine is internationally recognized as an excellent producer/DJ and a true house music enthusiast. Hot Chocolate is proud to host a live DISCO set from this local legend.

With Residents DJ’s: Big Fat Frog, Chardmo, Duserock, Jimmy “Love” Little, Melyss, Tal M. Klein

The Hot Chocolate crew is mixing up a rich blend of old and new school funk flava’ with equal parts of soul and disco. Get your back up off the wall, and leave that nine to five up on the shelf, just come enjoy yourself!

Hot Chocolate is pleased to announce that we’ll be continuing with your fave Funk/Disco party on a monthly basis. Stay tuned for a VERY special guest joining us April 23rd, 2010 at Milk.

Hot Chocolate your fave in NuFunk & Disco is taking a break until late April when we’ll be back in monthly style. We are going out with a bang this week with:

Qdup Foundation
Tal M. Klein
Big Fat Frog
Melyss

Check out Qdups supa funky mix here: http://soundcloud.com/qdup-foundation/qdupfoundation-ali-b-kissfm-30min-mix-12-01-09

America’s Funky Breaks production trop, Qdup Foundation have made their mark on the NuFunk sound. After dropping top selling releases on Bombstrikes, Goodgroove and their own Qdup Records label over the past few years; the boys have set forth an assault of ass shaking remixes over the course of 2009. Having remixed the like of Fort Knox Five, Nappy Ridem, Basement Freaks, Danny Massure, Tal M. Klein, Normski and Ursula1000; Qdup have secured themselves a spot as one of the most in-demand artists for remixign friends of the funk. Their productions and remixes have gained massive support and play’s on Ali B’s Kiss FM show (UK) as well as NSB Radio (UK) and Triplle J Radio (AUS). Along with the air play support, Qdup’s tracks have been getting bookings in cubs and festivals by the likes of A.Skillz, Fort Knox Five, Krafty Kuts and Ursula 1000 among others.

This week the Hot Chocolate crew brings you another slammin Disco Funk session with 2 of LA’s finest. Ritesh (American Standard, LA) and Alex Mora (Bassin, LA) will share the decks with our own Duserock and Tal M Klein. Be prepared to shake your body down to the ground.

Here’s a promo mix from Alex Mora to wet your whistle:
http://soundcloud.com/aj-mora/dont-fight-the-feeling

Also, here’s his podcast link. Hosted Fre$hRo (Rong), JDisco (TopShelf), and other local homies:
http://labassin.podbean.com

Hot Chocolate is very happy to present a night with Nostalgia 77 (Tru Thoughts Records/UK).
A taste maker of fine funk and jazz, Nostalgia will head over to Milk after an in store
appearance at Amoeba to bring the funky side of his years in music!

We will have some Tru Thoughts giveaways, as well as drink specials posted next week!

NOSTALGIA 77:

Nostalgia 77, aka Ben Lamdin, first burst onto the scene with his heavy, new funk based sound in 2002. His hard work and prolific creation process has led to the release of many outstandingly high quality albums in a relatively short amount of time, containing a diverse and varied fusion of styles and influences from more mellow, solemn, moody yet beautiful offerings to more upbeat, heavy funk, hip-hop based beats mixed with dusty old jazz, obscuro funk and psych bits and pieces. This driven sound spectrum of audio offerings led to the development into the full 2007 nu-jazz orchestrated release of ‘Everything Under The Sun’ in March 2007. This hard work ethic, gifted writing talent and dedication to his music contributed towards Ben winning the ‘Jazz Album of the Year’ award at the ‘Gilles Peterson BBC Worldwide Awards’ in 2006.

Ben is also the brainchild to Impossible Ark Records, alongside bassist Riaan Vosloo, whose highly successful collaborative work on Tru Thoughts has produced six popular albums.

www.nostalgia77.com

www.tru-thoughts.co.uk

Hot Chocolate is excited to announce this week a very special guest all the way from the UK:
ALI B.
Ali currently throws a weekly FUNK focused party at Paradise in the UK which was started to “bring the Funk back to the mean streets of London” we can’t wait to see what he has in store for us!! Ali also hosts a very popular Kiss FM show in the UK featuring some the best in Nu Funk.

Check out his latest Funk Mix here:
www.airrecordings.com/mixes/OhShit2.zip

Or his latest Airpod weekly mixes here: http://airrecordings.co.uk/blog/?cat=3

Don’t miss it Friday night at Milk.

Residents Melyss, Big Fat Frog, Chardmo & Jimmy Love on deck.

5bux
9p-2a
Free before 10:30pm
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::Ali B::
Over the last decade Ali B has has held down residencies at the capital’s two most influential clubs. He spent his teens working at the Acid Jazz label and then as a DJ, made his mark as resident at the legendary Blue Note club. He now resides at Fabric where he has been from the day it opened. He also throws Saturday night Paradise sessions with the sole purpose of bringing funk back to the mean streets of West London.

He has also extensively toured Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Asia and the US, taking his sound to an international audience. Ali hosted a weekly radio show on Capital FM for five years, the UK’s biggest commercial radio station, alongside various others slots on stations including BBC 6 and Ministry Of Sound Radio. He currently hosts a weekly show on London’s Kiss FM featuring some of the best Nu Funk Artists around including Basement Freaks, Featurecast. Fort Knox Five and many more.

Ali B’s infamous Air parties have been running since the mid nineties at venues across London. It is widely acknowledged as the biggest force in British beats regularly playing host to artists including The Plump DJs, Stanton Warriors and The Freestylers.

Look for Ali B’s productions his own Air Recordings label.

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Wow-good times last week! Each Friday gets hotter!!
This week the Hot Chocolate crew is joined by local hero DJ Romanowski, Born and raised in Switzerland, Romanowski moved to San Francisco about 20 years ago. He was resident DJ for the local “Up and Down Club”, Djed for Quincy Jones, Halle Berry, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell and has literally worked at every club in the Bay Area. Romanowski is proud owner of more than 15,000 records and he is co-founder of the Soulvation Crew. He has recorded for Ubiquity Records and Germany’s Soulciety Records alike, and has worked with Sugarhill Gang, the Poets of Rhythm, Sly & Family Stone, Fred Wesley, The Meters, and many more. In more recent years, Romanowski has also become a successful artist and his work has brought him all over the world, from Los Angeles to New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Hamburg, Berlin, Zurich and many other places.

HC djs Melyss & Duserock join Mr. Romanowski.
same bat time same bat station. See you there!!

Milk
1840 Haight St
9p-2a
$5

9-10p drink specials
Free before 10pm

A costume party, a 70s TV show costume party at a disco/funk event. So put on that wonderwoman bra, spray yourself hulk green or even come dressed as the Waltons because we are going old school with this one. Lets make it a night to remember.
Celebrating Bdays of our fave peeps: Ananda, Veronica & Kat

Spinning Disco/Funk all night long with Hot Chocolate residents..
Big Fat Frog
Duserock
Melyss
Tal M Klein

5bux all night

Every Friday in 2010 our resident DJs will be bringin a rich blend of the newest in Funk & Disco – dedicated to make you shake it.
Party Line Up:
Duserock,
Jimmy “Love” Little
Special Guest: Rock Richards

Milk Bar – 1848 Haight Street
9pm – 2am | $5