The Sounds of VTech

VTech is an Official Sponsor for this year’s

Voodoo Experience in New Orleans.

VTech is proud to be an official sponsor for this year’s 2009 Voodoo Experience in New Orleans during Halloween weekend, October 30th-November 1st.

Together we’ll be celebrating Voodoo’s 11-year anniversary with three full days of performances by more than 60 renowned artists, including Eminem & D12, Justice, KISS, Jane’s Addiction, Lenny Kravitz and Widespread Panic.

Our new IS9181 Wi-Fi Internet Radio will be featured in the VTech Lounge and the Official Voodoo Kick-Off Party during Halloween weekend. In addition to hosting the VTech Lounge throughout the three-day festival, VTech is teaming up with Toyota and FILTER Magazine to present the official kick-off party for the Voodoo Festival on Thursday, October 29th. Held at the infamous Howlin’ Wolf in New Orleans, the event will welcome more than 1,000 music lovers and feature the genre-bending hip-hop duo, The Knux, Jay Electronica, and world-class DJ sets by Biz Markie and Soul Sister. Let’s not forget to mention that party attendees will enjoy custom t-shirts printed on-site, video games, a complementary photo booth and great giveaways.

Exclusive Voodoo Experience artist interviews hosted by FILTER TV, concert updates, photos, videos, and other content can be found on The Sounds of VTech blog in the upcoming weeks leading into Voodoo. Also, check out our Twitter Page and VTech on Facebook.

To attend the FREE,FREE, FREE… VTech/FILTER/Toyota party, please visit www.uptheantics.com/voodoo to RSVP.

And for more information on VTech and the VTech IS9181 Wi-Fi Internet Radio, click here: VTech.

Check back with The Sounds of VTech for more information on Voodoo and other upcoming music events.

Let’s get Shook up at Mochilla’s Open House:

Presale Tickets and Shook Magazine - Launch of new Mochilla Mix Series

Mochilla in conjunction with VTech is proud to bring you Quantic and his Combo Barbaro, Live on August 15th at the Echoplex with DJ Sets with J.Rocc, NuMark, Sake Uno and Ganas.  To celebrate the release of Shook Magazine’s cover story featuring B+’s photos of Colombia, we’d like to invite you to a little meet and greet at the Mochilla office.

With your last chance to buy pre-sale tickets to the upcoming Quantic show and 40 copies of Shook Magazine for the first 40 people to purchase tickets at the office, don’t sleep. Come see prints from Colombia and be the first to peruse the next series of Mochilla Mix CDs, including stunning mixes from Quantic, Count Bass D, Aardvark from Rednose Districkt and Phoreyez.

Come by and enjoy an evening full of Tradition in Transition with special guests. So get yourself to 4124 Verdugo Road just North of York on Thursday from 7pm until 10pm and let’s get this weekend started a few days sooner than later.

Help us begin this weekend of celebration!

Mochilla
4124 Verdugo Road
Eagle Rock, LA 90065
7-10pm | Thursday August 13th

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VTech and Mochilla present:
Saturday August 15th, 2009

Live & Direct From Cali, Colombia!

Featuring Alfredito Linares, Freddy Colorado, Malcolm Catto,
Nidia Gongora on vocals and very special guests!

The Echoplex
1154 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles Ca 90026

$15 presale :: $20 at the door
Presale tickets available at the Mochilla HQ’s
[4124 Verdugo Rd, Los Angeles, CA 90065] from 
1pm-7pm + online at: www.ticketweb.com
21 + wiser | 9pm-2am

*for more information please visit: http://music.vtechphones.com

From our friends at MOCHILLA, VTech is proud to bring you a new exclusive video from the Karriem Riggins’ Virtuoso Experience.

Tergiversation is a song by Gene Perla. Perla was a bass player who performed with legendary drummer Elvin Jones for many years. Tergiversation is a term that describes an evasion of straightforward action or clear-cut statement. Perla dedicated the song to jazz legend Miles Davis, a tergiversationist if there ever was one, who often turned his back towards the audience as he played.

Karriem Riggins’ Virtuoso Experience bring these internal jazz dedications and conversations to a new audience.

We’ll let the music and the video explain the rest.

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The Sounds of VTech / Tergiversation: Karriem Riggins' Virtuoso Experience

On May 13th, we launched the VTech IS9181 WiFi internet radio, and the buzz has been building. With access to over 11,000 free Internet radio stations worldwide, 3W front-facing tuned stereo speakers, a 10W subwoofer with class D amplifiers, auxiliary cable to play files from digital audio and CD players or any device with a 3.5 mm headset jack, and more, you’re radio never had it so good. An ideal gift for any music lover, you can’t go wrong with the IS9181.

And now VTech wants to know, “Where do you wanna go?” On music.vtechphones.com, we’re launching a new series of exclusive videos and downloads just for you. Putting our WiFi Internet radio into the hands of some of the best music producers around, and letting them loose. From Malaysia to India, from Angola to Mongolia, there are thousands places to go, and with the IS9181, finding new music has never been so easy. Users can search for stations by country, state or genre using the one-touch access button or remote control. Looking for something in particular? Visit our online guide at www.vtechphones.com.

First up in our “Where do you wanna go?” series is music producer, EXILE. Exile also known as Aleksander Manfredi is an American hip hop DJ, producer and occasional rapper. He’s worked with Aloe Blacc as a member of Emanon, Blu, and has guest produced on work with artists including Mobb Deep, Ghostface Killah, Kardinal Offishall and Jurassic 5.

Our friends from MOCHILLA spent the day at Exile’s Los Angeles home where he plugged up the radio and on the fly, proceeded to make a beat from various radio stations he came across while surfing random Internet stations. Watch the magic of the IS9181 unfold.

-Where Do You Wanna Go?-

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The Sounds of VTech / Where do you wanna go.. with Exile

EXCLUSIVE DOWNLOAD FROM EXILE

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RT click to download the exclusive track: Thinking of You by Exile

VTech has lent its support to music for years now, from festivals, music events and ground breaking concerts nationwide. Stay with us as we take you to VooDoo in New Orleans,  promote and support Damian Marley and Nas’ new Distant Relatives project, and lots more.

With our IS9181, sit back and enjoy music from around the globe anywhere in your home. Soon the words ‘Jumbo’, ‘Shalom’, ‘Anh Young’, will be as recognizable as a simple ‘hello’.

AVAILABILITY

The IS9181 Wi-Fi Internet Radio can be purchased online at www.vtechphones.com.

*All videos and music downloads directed, edited, and mastered by MOCHILLA

For those of you who didn’t make it to the screening of Tradition in Transition: A Postcard from Cali, presented by VTech and Mochilla,  you missed out on grabbing this super limited edition 5-inch “Cumbia de Mochilla” that Quantic made especially for the event. Too bad. But we’re hoping you were at least smart enough to come to the afterparty at EVFA to dance the night away to special DJ sets from B+/Eric Coleman/Jeremy Sole/Quantic and the live beats provided by Buye Pongo.

If you just answered no, don’t worry. VTech has got you covered. Only available here on music.vtechphones.com is the July 4th podcast with Quantic. So download, listen, and if someone asks you if you were there.. just lie and say yes. Enjoy.

Exclusive Download for VTech fans:

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RT Click to download our exclusive podcast: July 4th Quantic Podcast

This was definitely where the party was at on the 4th.

Images courtesy of Azul 213*’s photobooth

Tonight is the night!!!  9pm at the Downtown Independent Theater in downtown Los Angeles,VTech and MOCHILLA are proud to present to you the American Premiere of

Tradition in Transition: A Postcard from Cali.

A documentary based around the music of Will “Quantic” Holland and his Combo Barbaro from their forthcoming Tradition in Transition album (Tru Thoughts Records) featuring Arthur Verocai, Malcolm Catto, Alfredito Linares, Nidia Gongora, Will Holland, Freddy Colorado, and Joao Comanche Gomes.

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to catch the anticipated new documentary from the minds who brought you Keepintime and Brasilintime: Batucada com Discos.

$5 Tickets Available at The Independent Box Office.

Following the screening, a Q&A with Quantic and MOCHILLA.

Afterwards, please join us at the afterparty to celebrate the film and the launch of Quantic’s new album  at EVFA @ 542 S. Alameda St. LA, CA 90013

Entry is FREE with ticket stub from screening. If not, $5 at the door, cash only.

LIVE performance by Buyepongo! and DJ sets by Quantic/Coleman/B+/Jeremy Sole

Photo Exhibition by: B+ and Eric Coleman

Peace Portraits by Azul 213*