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PAX NICHOLAS AND THE RIDIMTAKSI is a band of 12 skilled musicians from Africa, Latin America & Berlin who share the love for heavy and funky music. Lead by experienced showman, singer and percussionist Pax Nicholas from Ghana they are out there to make you happy with hard-hittin' AFROBEAT and a heavy dose of SOUL. In 2010, they left an impressed audience when they opened the show for Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings at Huxley´s, Berlin. Be it original Fela Kuti songs or Pax´ own Soul, Funk and Highlife influenced compositions, be it classic or modern: when the Ridimtaksi is on the move you better be ready, these guys will make you move your feet and shake your hips
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BLACK ATLANTIC BEATZ-DJs Matatu & Bongo will take the audience on a transatlantic trip to the funkiest soundz ever made! From heavy Funk'n'Soul of the 60s and early 70s via tropical music with a funky flavor as Latin Boogaloo and Afrobeat, Cumbia and various Afro-Brazilian rhythms to Afro & Latin urban styles of the 21st century as Baile Funk, Kwaito & Kuduro... it's all part of the Black Atlantic Beatz experience: five decades of killer grooves from Africa and the African diaspora in the Caribbean, North and Latin America. Massive dancing action guaranteed, all night long!
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On this autumn´s SJDK Europe tour, Berlin will be the stage for a very special encounter: an Afrobeat veteran will share the stage with Soul Sister No.1! Pax Nicholas and his band Ridimtaksi are proud to open the Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings show at Huxley´s, Berlin. Born in Accra, Ghana, Pax played in Fela Kuti's legendary band Afrika 70 between 1971 and 1978, and has been living almost unrecognized in Berlin until 2009, when Daptone Records reissued "Na Teef Know De Road Of Teef", a long lost solo album of Pax, recorded in Lagos, Nigeria in 1973. Since 2003, Pax leads his own Afrobeat project with highly skilled musicians from West Africa and Germany: RIDIMTAKSI - hard-hittin' Afrobeat guaranteed, keepin' alive the Fela spirit and adding some fresh ingredients! Don´t miss this Daptone family meeting, when heavy Afrobeat and dynamic Soul join forces to shake Berlin down to the ground!
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Tagesspiegel 20.10.2010
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Schon die Vorgruppe Pax Nicholas & the Ridimtaksi stellt einiges an Personal und Instrumenten auf die Bühne vom Huxleys. Bläsersektion: Trompete, Tenorsaxophon, Bariton-saxophon. Rhythmussektion: Schlagzeuger, Congaspieler, zwei Schüttelpercussionisten, Bassgitarre. Orgel. Gitarre. Und dazwischen wieselt und wuselt ein kleiner kompakter Mann. Er nennt sich Pax Nicholas, stammt aus Ghana, gehörte einmal zur Band des Nigerianers Fela Kuti und lebt seit Jahren in Berlin. Zum dampfenden Sound seiner kompakten schwarz-weißen, afrikanisch-deutsch gemischten Band bongot er exzessiv und gibt den rasanten Shouter mit heiser kräckelnder Stimme, die ein bisschen an Bob Marley erinnert. Eine gute Dreiviertelstunde spielen Pax Nichols & the Ridimtaksi eine mitreißende Mixtur aus Afro-Beat, Soul und Reggae, afrikanischen und karibischen Rhythmen, gestochen scharf. Jede Note, jeder Beat, jeder Abschlag exakt auf dem Punkt. Nicht nur die Bläser sind eine Wucht.
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