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Ruth Flowers: Electro Rockabilly

Domingo 24 de Abril de 2011 05:33 Vasco A. Carinhas

Don’t call her Disco Granny. The name wouldn’t do her justice. For it is Ruth Flower’s relatively amateur DJ career, with less than three years in the music business, which was exposed as a late-blooming yet early unique trajectory.

With a subtly ghettofied lady of high society get-up, Ms. Flowers took possession of Red Code’s main DJ set-up last Saturday, April 23^rd. In a totally friendly ambience, vaguely reminiscent of the pull and fell of the PLUR era, DJ Mamy Rock, as some people have come to call her, commanded the set with ladylike twirling of the wrists demarcated by her rhythm depiction.

Ms. Flowers’s music ranged from contemporary dance numbers like Taio Cruz’s Dynamite mixed down into rock classics like Queen’s We Will Rock You. In a purely [trans]generational set, Ruth Flowers’s music became an expositional educative process within a classy rave setting.

Rat Pack influenced beat-downs exploded with sultrily mixed breakbeats, with surprising intermissions by the iconic voices of Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley; whose Jailhouse Rock was masterfully integrated into Justice’s D.A.N.C.E.. DJ Mamy Rock’s heritage was also played homage to with the frequent use of Celtic fiddles with melodic crescendos of the drum beats.

Ruth Flowers, stylishly wearing dark wide sunglasses and sequined headphones atop a gangsta-goth bling-bling array, surrendered herself to her ecstatic audience. Her electric cadence was fluxed in within synthesized cardiac beats, into which Ms. Flowers gladly responded with frantic excitement. Every breakbeat was announced with a giddy smile and an almost kiddy-like expectation from the night’s musical hostess.

Ms. Flowers’s influences transpire from old-school beds mixed in with current modifications of a freestyle approach to Top 40 singles, with whom obvious enjoyment was delved from. With the clean use of single tracks she momentarily captured the audience’s attention and voices in order to guide them into her flourishing electro symphony.

Red Code provided an already familiar venue to old-school ravers in an architectonic remix. With friendly security and excellent bar service, the club became an optimal stage for the innocent naïveté inherent in the rhythm-guided nation that gave themselves up to that night’s beats.

DJ Mamy Rock is promised to return once again to our Island of Enchantment during the current year 2011. Those present can guarantee a return visit, taken from the exhilaration showed on her Puerto Rican debut, while those who missed it would be pitied fools to let a second

Exclusive photography by:

Michael Maya Román

Special thanks to:

CROWD EVENTS

Felipe Durán