Line Out Music & the City at Night

  |  

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Last Night ’Til the Break of 2 am: Stop Biting @ Lo-Fi

Posted by on Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:44 AM

Since 2004, Stop Biting has provided a platform for hiphop culture to thrive. The weekly night’s resident DJs are steeped in the funk and know their hiphop classics like the A+ students of the art form that they are. With the recent addition of Ohmega Watts and Zac Hendrix to the lineup of Introcut, Absolute Madman, WD4D, Hideki, Kamui, Element, Sean C and Same DNA, Stop Biting boasts a deep roster that will never let the good times cease to roll (or uprock).

Speaking of which, Stop Biting always draws some of the 206’s flyest breakdancers. Massive Monkees members regularly work out their acrobatic machinations here, but the floor’s open to anyone with the moves and moxie to enter the circle of fire. The dozen or so B-boys and B-girls who frequently haunt Stop Biting put on a dazzling show of improvisational athleticism and pretzel-limbed logic, an elegant synthesis of gymnastics and funkitude that induces envy in those who lack these abilities (or maybe that’s just me).

Last night, reportedly, was some kind of holiday involving the copious consumption of cerveza verde, but the vibe at Lo-Fi was not so much drunken as it was elated and elevated by the perpetual stream of classic rap joints and obscure funk gems and the contortionist interpretations of them on Lo-Fi’s slick wood floor.

It’s a night full of phenomenal rapid, crab-like floor maneuvers, handstands, backflips, twirls, and head spins and, ultimately, heads win.

 

Comments (0)

Add a comment

 

All contents © Index Newspapers, LLC
1535 11th Ave (Third Floor), Seattle, WA 98122
Contact Info | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Takedown Policy