What’s Going On?

The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) is the largest Asian American Film Venue in the country. The Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) played host for it in San Francisco and this year CAAM celebrates it’s 30th year as an established Asian American organization.

Directions in Sound is an event that is put on by the festival. It showcases Asian American talent through music. The musical talent range from DJs, musicians, singers and rappers. The venue for Directions in Sound this year took place at the Mighty Night Club. This year the festival kicked off with mixes from DJ Nako. She is known for playing indie rock, 80s, and Brit Pop Sound.

Followed DJ Nako was a performance by Kero One and Green Tea. Kero One is a hip hop artist that got the crowd going with his unique flows accompanied with music played by Green Tea. Kero One presents his audience with a jazzy soulful flavor and an upbeat synth-driven sound.

Following Kero One, DJ Shortkut mixed the sound up by incorporating a video-mixing set, using music videos by various artists.  DJ Shortkut kept the crowd going for a good amount of time enough to prepare the group for the next performance.

Hot Tub is a Bay Area group that came up on the stage to rile up the crowd to insanity. The performance is given by three ladies in spandex who throw out flows like no other to upbeat hip hop beats. Hot Tub involved the crowd in a couple of ways that if you were there you would not forget. The ladies of Hot Tub jumped into the crowd to get people pumped up, they even piggy backed some of the party goers to get them to go crazy. Towards the end of their set they brought onto the stage several audience members to dance up on the stage to liven up the crowd.

To finish up the night, DJ Navdeep mixed it up with music of a South Asian flare and Bhangra rhythms.

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