A Week of SXSW 2009: Champagne Champagne

[SXSW 2009]
Champagne Champagne
Sounds Like: Hip-Hop
Drinking Buddies: The Cool Kids, N.A.S.A., Jaguar Love
Synopsis: Foolish flows for hectic hipsters.
Appearances at SXSW:

• Red Eye Fly - Suicide Squeeze Showcase (8:00 PM, March 18)
• Long Branch - Mt. Fugi Showcase (6:00 PM, March 19)
• Beerland - Panache Day Party (3:00 PM, March 22)
  

[Myspace]




All this week, Voilà! is covering South by Southwest.
Time for the third Voilà! featurette.
Today, the featured SXSW artist is Champagne Champagne.



It's something about a groove that can get you moving. Something about a flow that speaks the feeling better than anything else. In some circumstances, no form of poetry nor diatribe can possibly compete with the flow; the rhyme. It's a magnificent feeling when the beat drops and the MC begins to break it down like a demolition site, laying down logic for you fools, kid. It's like magic, or magnetism, or something simply indescribable. And it's something that takes talent.

Champagne Champagne has talent to a scientist. But maybe that's because they have talented individuals among their ranks. Pearl Dragon is the house rapper who drops his knowledge, "rapping to the first degree." Thomas Gray compliments Pearl Dragon's style, all orchestrated by DJ Gajamagic - AKA Mark Gajadhar - AKA former member of ex-band The Blood Brothers.

It is this talented trio that fuels the fire for Champagne Champagne crew. Rockin' the house out of Seattle, the guys formed back in 2007, beginning to craft their thoughtfully provoked tunes. Tunes, tunes, songs that bubble like fresh champagne out of the bottle, blasting out and spewing across the room, lively and festive. Champagne Champagne is tangy in a may that makes you want to go, "WOO!" after having a just a little. And it all goes down smooth.

Champagne Champagne has one album so far, self-titled, filled to the brim lyrics of the sass and sarcastic. You can catch this, along with plenty of their tunes, off of their Myspace. When it comes to shows down in South by Southwest, you can see the trio first on March 18 at the SXSW Suicide Squeeze Showcase, around 8:00 PM at the Red Eye Fly. On Thursday - March 19 - they'll be at the Mt Fugi Showcase at Long Branch, performing at 6:00 PM; Champagne Champagne may be playing on the 20th and 21st, but are definitely set to perform at Beerland for the Panache Day Party at 3:00 PM. Performances you won't want to miss!