Havana Calling presents Muévete! @ Notting Hill Arts Club w/ DJ Tahira (Sao Paulo)

Havana Calling presents Muévete! @ Notting Hill Arts Club

Saturday 18th October

7pm-2am // Free before 9pm // £6 before 10pm // £8 after 10pm

Decks: DJs Cal Jader & special guest DJ Tahira (Sao Paulo)

Live: Animanz (Early from 7.30pm)

This month DJ Cal Jader is joined by the legendary Brazilian selector and producer Tahira for the monthly fiesta that is?Muévete with it's original formula of uptempo Latino-Caribbean-Tropical soundclash vibe where classic rhythms get bastardised and twisted up for the modern dancefloor.

Making a long awaited return to London the DJ, producer and digger Tahira blends genres and eras, from traditional sounds to the electronic mixtures from the DJ culture, hugely influenced by African, Latin, Brazilian, jazz, 70s funk, disco and soul music.

His recent releases including 'Baiano' with Mental Abstrato on Far Out Recordings have been gaining him many plaudits from the likes of François K, Gilles Peterson, Laurent Garnier and Nickodemus - whilst his edit of Gilberto Gil's 'Toda Menina Baiana' was even given the thumbs up by Gil himself who shared on his Twitter and Facebook.

Plus on the early live set from 7.30pm there's a chance to catch west London's very own local Afro-Latin Hip Hop punks Animanz with their riotous very funky sounds.

PURE TROPICAL PARTY VIBES!! A favourite for Saturday night crowds in West London, Muévete is a monthly fiesta - a pure party version of Movimientos, with a dance floor-slammin' mash up of raw Latin beats and tropical bass. From the rolling Latin rhythms of salsa, cumbia, merengue and Samba to the raw urban flavours of reggaeton, Hip Hop, dancehall, moombahton, baile funk and dutty carnival rhythms, incorporating a healthy dose of African beats and global underground music.

Put simply Muévete translates as 'Move it!' so we're not beating around the bush - straight to the dancefloor!

Check out Movimientos on Mixcloud for a sample of the kind of music you're likely to hear:http://www.mixcloud.com/Movimientos_1/

Havana Calling presents Muévete!

Saturday 18th October

7pm-2am // Free before 9pm // £6 before 10pm // £8 after 10pm

Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3JQ

(Please bring photo ID to the club as the Notting Hill Arts Club uses Clubscan system for the safety of our customers)

More info on Tahira

Around for more than 20 years, the DJ, producer and digger Tahira features another eclectic and instructive djing which blends genres and eras, from traditional sounds to the electronic mixtures from the DJ culture. His work is hugely influenced by African, Latin, Brazilian, jazz, 70s funk, disco and soul music.

Productionwise, his two last releases - Dr Estereo “Cumbia Perdida” (Tahira Afro-Cumbia Remix) and Gilberto Gil “Toda Menina BAiana” (Tahira Re-edit) - have been getting positive feedback from DJ culture legends such as François K, Gilles Peterson, Laurent Garnier, Nickodemus, Lefto, Jo Jo Flores, Alex From Tokyo, DJ Izem, Mop Mop, Ease from Nightmares on Wax, Whiskey Barons and even Gilberto Gil himself, who posted Tahira’s version on Twitter and Facebook.

His netlabel EBS Diggin promotes contemporary sounds taken from the Brazilian underground scene and its rich diversity. Once more, the focus ranges from the tradition to the electronic music. The label’s releases have been attracting worldwide attention and getting the deserved space on podcasts and radio shows all around the planet.

With ears always open to the past, present and future of music in the most diverse styles, Tahira is one of the few DJs active in different music scenes, from jazz festivals, Brazilian, African and Latin music parties, experimental music projects, lounges, shows to electronic music clubs (see clipping).

Tahira is a resident of the Green Sunset project, which happens monthly at Museu da Imagem e do Som, and of the itinerant parties Festa Fela, Anamauê and Ginga.

Currently, he is one of the most active DJs nation and worldwide, and has showed his music in different cities such as Tokyo, Dublin, Paris, New York, Viena, Berlin, Tallin, Bratislava, Kiev, Hanover, Porto, Montreal, Belgrade, Florence, Roma, Munich, Tartu, Linz, Helsinki, Lisboa and Ottawa, among others.

His informative side can be checked online on his monthly show EBS Podcast, hosted by Deep Beep (Brasil), Groovalizacion (Spain) and Africa.FM (South Africa).