Audio: Prince Aries Stops In At Soul Assassins Radio
06.22.2011
Prince Aries Takes A Pit-Stop While Tearing Up The Party Scene On His Clean Ass Whip Tour
Critical Praise for Prince Aries:
"San Francisco's very own Prince Aries has made one of the finest mixtapes of its type we've EVER heard. No BS." - Southern Hospitality
(June 22, 2011 – Brooklyn, NY) A third of the way through his Clean Ass Whip Tour, Prince Aries has spent the past couple of weeks DJ'ing parties all throughout the West Coast. With a string of successful shows in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Long Beach, and San Diego, the Hip-Hop Renaissance Man is now set to throw down in Portland and Seattle before returning to the Golden State for his final six shows. But before taking off to the Northwest, Prince Aries found time to stop in at DJ Muggs' Sirius XM show, Soul Assassins Radio, in LA where the two chop it up over the DJ's latest mixtape, Clean Ass Whip. "I was raised off this music when I moved to the Bay Area from New York" Prince Aries recalls, "The homies at SWTBRD, Al Jieh, wanted to put out a mixtape so the choice was kind of obvious. At first it was just going to be a regular mixtape but as I was going through the music I realized ‘This is all music you can ride to!'"
In addition to his latest mixtape, Prince Aries and DJ Muggs' go over what's really good with the hottest clubs and residencies in the Bay Area. And speaking of which after the show, while Aries was in LA, he wound up playing a set at one of the biggest parties in the city, Do Over, which frequently sees the biggest DJ names such as A-Trak, Jazzy Jeff, ?uestlove, Craze, and many others.
The Clean Ass Whip Tour:
06.23.11 Portland, OR - The Fix @ Someday Lounge
06.25.11 Seattle, WA - High School High @ HG Lodge
06.29.11 San Francisco, CA - Hip Hops Love Letter
07.01.11 San Jose, CA - D1ME at Pagoda Lounge
07.02.11 Sacramento, CA @ Hanami Alley
07.03.11 Cambell, CA - Just The Tip @ Cardiff Lounge
07.04.11 Oakland, CA - Smashbox Live @ Somar
07.04.11 San Francisco, CA - Krazy Mondays @ Beauty Bar
Please contact Michelle or Dan if interested in talking with Prince Aries.
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Background:
Aries Nuñez, known to the entertainment world as Prince Aries, has quite a few cards up his sleeve. Though his passion lies in music and his love for DJing, Aries became a fundamental player in the Bay Area's new renaissance - promoter, graphic designer, TV show personality, and producer - with his multimedia background placing him a cut above the rest. When his groundbreaking show, Distortion 2 Static, got picked up by a local Bay Area television station after only two seasons on Public Access, he knew that he had his finger on the pulse of a movement that started simply as a way to share his love for hip-hop. Prince Aries recently released his west coast cruising mixtape, Clean Ass Whip, via SWTBRDS.
SWTBRDS
Background:
SWTBRDS (pronounced Sweetbreads) is a Bay Area-based record label that exemplifies the raw, rare and boutique qualities of its namesake. Founded in 2009, it houses rapper, DaVinci, renaissance DJ, Prince Aries, DJ + rapper duo StreetMedia, as well as the dynamic production team, Drums & Ammo, featuring the collective musical work of producers Ammbush, REL, Al Jieh and 6Fingers. Their first release was the self-titled StreetMedia LP, followed by Adrian Champion Presents: Stars & Stripes - The White Stripes Reimagined in Winter & Spring of 2009. Their most recent release was The Day The Turf Stood Still by DaVinci, his debut album, which received critical acclaim from publications such as Pitchfork.com, Wax Poetics, SF Weekly, XLR8R, Ozone Magazine, URB.com, and more. With a diverse release schedule on the horizon, SWTBRDS kicks 2011 off with Prince Aries' Clean Ass Whip mixtape, an ode to West Coast Hip-Hop's cruising aesthetic, dropping in May 2011. Soon to follow are DaVinci's Feast or Famine EP and The MOEna Lisa LP, Drums & Ammo, Vol. 1, the self-titled first installment of a new instrumental series, REL's sophomore solo instrumental album, The Orchestration 2, Ammbush's solo artist EP, and StreetMedia's sophomore album. http://www.swtbrds.com
