Tuesday, November 13

Etnies Presents the Solid Steel Tour

Press Release

Now in it's thirteenth year, Ninja Tune's Solid Steel radio program continues to broadcast the most diverse selection of music to be heard on one radio show. Where else can you enjoy anything from jazz, breaks and beats, funky rock, hip hop, techno, drum and bass, soundtracks, world music, poetry, electronic oddities or even a children's story? The emphasis is on mixing styles seamlessly with love and feeling, rather than being willfully obscure.

A key element of the show is the way 100's of spoken word samples are used to lace the music together, which has often been imitated but never bettered elsewhere on radio. The collections of 'word treasures' have been gathered over the years from diggin' through crates of obscure vinyl or 'borrowing' from TV and films.

Etnies and Ninja Tune launch Solid Steel's syndication this fall on college, public access, and cutting-edge radio stations across the U.S. and Canada. For a complete list of stations, click here. (More stations are constantly being added.) DJs say that Solid Steel is "kinda like the big brother you want to get you into cool music before your friends hear about it."

Here are a few other things that radio programmers are saying about Solid Steel: "Sponsored by Etnies? Very cool!" - CFUV, Victoria B.C. "YES YES YES! GIMME GIMME GIMME!" - WXDU, Durham N.C.

Also in conjunction with the Solid Steel radio program, DJ Food and DK are launching a fall tour starting November 22 in Montreal, and winding its way across the U.S. and Canada. The complete line-up is Strictly Kev/DJ Food, DK, Bonobo and Four Jet, with Mr. Scruff on the latter part of the tour. Click here for complete tour dates, or check out the graphic below.

To thank YOU, the fan of Ninja Tune's Solid Steel ('cause we know you're going to hit the shows in your local area, as well as check out the radio program), we're going to be giving the first 10 people to answer a really easy trivia question correctly a FREE pair of Etnies shoes and a rare Ninja tune Solid Steel re-mix CD! Keep checking the Etnies website..…contest will be up shortly………

In the meantime, for more info on Solid Steel and Ninja Tune, check out ninjatune.net. They've got lots of cool features on their site, including a section where you can listen to archived Solid Steel programs and a chance for all you Canadians to win Solid Steel tour tickets.

TOUR DATES

11/22 Jingxi Montreal, Quebec
11/23 Knitting Factory New York, NY
11/24 DC Armory Washington, DC
11/25 Silk City Philadelphia, PA
11/27 Babylon Ottawa, Ontario
11/28 Queens University Kingston, Ontario
11/29 Reverb Toronto, Ontario
11/30 Motor Lounge Detroit, MI
12/1 Rednofive Chicago, IL
12/2 Mercury Austin, TX
12/4 Knitting Factory L.A., CA
12/5 Justice League San Francisco, CA
12/6 Sonar Vancouver, BC
12/7 Lucky Bar Victoria, BC
12/8 I-Spy Seattle, WA

SOLID STEEL RADIO SYNDICATORS

CFRU University of Guelph Guelph ONT
CFUV University of Victoria Victoria BC
CHUO University of Ottawa Ottawa ONT
CHYZ Université Laval Ste-Foy QUE
CIUT University of Toronto Toronto ONT
CJSF Simon Fraser University Burnaby BC
CJSW University of Calgary Calgary ALB
CJUM Univ. of Manitoba Winnipeg MB
CKDU Dalhousie University Halifax NS
Galaxie AMBIENT LOUNGE Ottawa ONT
KALX Univ. of California Berkeley Berkeley CA
KAOS Evergreen State College Olympia WA
KBOO Portland OR
KCPR California Poly. State University San Luis Obispo CA
KCRW Santa Monica CA
KCSB University of California-SB Santa Barbara CA
KCSB Ventura CA
KDNK Carbondale CO
KDVS University of California, Davis Davis CA
KGNU Boulder CO
KHNS Haines AK
KLSU Louisiana State Univ. Baton Rouge LA
KLZR Brooklyn NY
KRSC Rogers Univ./Fine Arts & Comm. Claremore
KSHU Sam Houston St. Univ. Huntsville TX
KSPC Pomona College Claremont CA
KUCR University of California Riverside Riverside CA
KUNM University of New Mexico Albuquerque NM
KUOI University of Idaho Moscow ID
KUSF University of San Francisco San Francisco CA
KVCU University of Colorado Boulder CO
KVMR Nevada City CA
KVRX University of Texas Austin TX
KVSC St. Cloud State University St. Cloud MN
KWUR Washington University St. Louis MO
KZSC University of CA-SC Santa Cruz CA
KZUU Washington State University Pullman WA
Radio-Shanghai Somerville MA
WAPS "Cool Tunes" Aurora OH
WBER Penfield NY
WCFM Williams College Williamstown MA
WDCC-NC Central Carolina CC Sanford NC
WDET Royal Oak MI
WEOS Hobart & Wm Smith Coll. Geneva NY
WESU Wesleyan University Middletown CT
WHRB Harvard University Cambridge MA
WHRW SUNY Binghamton NY
WHUS University of Connecticut Storrs CT
WIDR Western Michigan State U. Kalamazoo MI
WKPS Penn. State University State College PA
WLSO Lake Superior State U. Sault Ste. Marie MI
WMSE Milwaukee Sch. of Eng. Milwaukee WI
WMUC-FM University of Maryland College Park MD
WNRN Charlottesville VA
WNUR Northwestern University Evanston IL
WORT Madison WI
WPLA FORBIDDEN PLANET Jacksonville FL
WREK Atlanta GA
WRFL University of Kentucky Lexington KY
WRHO Hartwick College Oneonta NY
WRKU Kutztown University Kutztown PA
WRTC Trinity College Hartford CT
WRUV University of Vermont Burlington VT
WSIA College of Staten Island Staten Island NY
WSMU Metronome Cumberland RI
WSUM Univ. of Wisconsin Madison WI
WTJU University of Virginia Charlottesville VA
WTPS Kettle Moraine Community Radio Milwaukee WI
WTUL Tulane University New Orleans LA
WUAG University of North Carolina Greensboro NC
WUNH University of New Hampshire Durham NH
WUOG University of Georgia Athens GA
WUSB SUNY-Stony Brook Stony Brook NY
WUSM University of So. Mississippi Hattiesburg MS
WWVU West Virginia University Morgantown WV
WXDU Duke University Durham NC
WXJM James Madison University Harrisonburg VA
WXYC University of North Carolina Chapel Hill NC
WZBC Boston College Chestnut Hill MA