DJ Cash Money and Peanut Butter Wolf in Melbourne

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  • Hip hop happens this long weekend in Melbourne when guests DJ Cash Money (USA) and Peatnut Butter Wolf (USA) headline at the Esplanade hotel
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  • There is still time to fit in a mention of more events before Melbourne's long weekend of partying for the Queen's Birthday holiday. Hip hop happens this long weekend in Melbourne when guests DJ Cash Money (USA) and Peatnut Butter Wolf (USA) headline at the Esplanade hotel on Saturday 11 June. Philadelphia's DJ Cash Money took the hip hop world by storm by winning the New Music Seminar Dj Championship in New York, the DMC American Mixing Championship in LA, and the DMC World Supremacy DJ Championship in London throughout the late eighties. Since winning all three championships, Cash now judges DJ contests worldwide. His unique style and raw innovation on the turntables brought him charting singles such as Where's the Party At? As a young kid growing up in San Jose, Peanut Butter Wolf aka Chris Manak soon realized he needed an escape from the realities of suburbian life in the Silicon Valley. Alongside partner Sweet Steve, young Chris fashioned primitive mix-tapes (using the pause button) and ran amok at the local roller rink. Wolf and his more conventionally-named counterpart, Charizma, began recording in 1989 when the two were still teenagers. After releasing the song "Just Like A Test" with Charizma for David Paul's Bomb Hip Hop Compilation early in 1994, Upstairs Records, a label known primarily for house music, approached Wolf to record an instrumental LP. Thus, the Peanut Butter Breaks was born; the record became the Wolf's calling card, leading to meetings and collaborations with like-minded DJs like Q-bert, Cut Chemist and Rob Swift. In 1996, Peanut Butter Wolf founded Stones Throw Records. Charizma's posthumous My World Premiere was the single to launch the label. Lately, PB Wolf has moved away from producing (save the odd remix or compilation track) to build the Stones Throw label and to travel as a DJ to Europe, Japan, Australia, Canada, and across the US. Presale tickets are available now for only $15+BF. Upcoming Elementz parties to look out for include DJ Teebee and Black Sun Empire on 1 July at Platform 1, and Grooveride on 8 Jul at the Hifi. Set times FRONT BAR: 9.00pm - 9.20pm Okwerdz 9.20pm - 10pm Nick Sweeper & Aux-One 10.30pm - 11pm Skas on 45 11.45pm - 12.30am TZU 12.30am - 2.30am DJ Cash Money (USA) 2.30am - 3.00am Gsan GERSHWIN ROOM: 9pm - 9.30pm Flagrant (during the changeovers) 9.45pm - 10.30pm Illzilla 11.00pm - 11.45pm Still Thinking 11.45pm - 1.15am Peanut Butter Wolf (USA) 1.15am - 3.00am Gentlemens Record Club

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