FTW Presents: Franki Chan, Reid Speed + more - 7/3 (Event Over)

FTW Presents: July 3rd at the Roxy

With Djs:

Franki Chan (IHEARTCOMIX) (LA)
Reid Speed (Breakdown and Beep!) (LA)

Red Foxx (Hearthrob)
Morgan Louis (Hearthrob)

DJ Die Young (Basstown)
Volvox (Basstown)
Etan (Basstown)

Visuals by: bloodsugar

Photos by:

Diana Levine,

Nicky Digital, +

Dood Monkey

At the Roxy
279 Tremont St
Boston, MA

8pm - 2am | 21+ | $15 at the door | $10 with RSVP through http://going.com/ftwjuly3

Bios:

Franki Chan

Franki Chan is one of the leaders of the indie DJ movement in the USA, is an accomplished illustrator and he is the owner of IHEARTCOMIX, a lifestyle brand that encompasses a record label, an event production company, a popular blog, and a marketing/promotion company, among other things. As a DJ, FRANKI has traveled the world, rocking dance parties from east to west and sharing the turntables with the best of the best, helping to influence a whole new generation of DJs.

Raised in Indiana, but now living in Los Angeles, via Seattle and Okinawa, FRANKI found a love of DJ'ing through punk rock shows and going to the local 80's dance clubs in the late 90's. Around this time, FRANKI used to throw a lot of warehouse and basement shows. One day he decided that there should be something to do after the shows, and he liked dancing, so he pulled out a record player and began playing music. Not long after, the one turntable turned into two and he was thrust into the world of DJ'ing. The underground shows turned into after hours parties and eventually real dance clubs. It was through these years that FRANKI was able to perfect his unique blend of playing 'the hits' with the latest and most innovative dance music, often times breaking artists or songs before they became sensations.

In 2003, FRANKI moved to Los Angeles and began his company, IHEARTCOMIX, which has been highly successful and influential in the world of underground music and pop culture. Over the course of the last few years he has began and maintained several successful parties including FUCKING AWESOME, STILL FUCKING AWESOME, SUNDAY-FUNDAY, CINESPACE TUESDAYS and CHECK YO' PONYTAIL, all of which introduced the best in upcoming talent and garnered critical acclaim. FRANKI has had the honor of playing along side some of the best artists and DJs playing today including: MSTRKRFT, Justice, Spank Rock, The Rub, Flosstradamus, Switch, Boys Noize, Surkin, Drop The Lime, Riot In Belgium, Lady Sovereign, Diplo, Acid Girls, The Presets, Para One, Simian Mobile Disco, A-Trak, Crystal Castles, Peaches, Radioclit, Green Velvet and many more. He has also played private events for Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Cristina Ricci, movie premiers, magazines such as Paper, Nylon, Stuff and Jane and has even played COACHELLA and DETOUR. He's been written up and featured in such publications as DJ Times, The Wallstreet Journal, NME, LA Times, Paper Magazine, Urb Magazine, CMJ, Dazed & Confused, Vapors, Spin, BPM, Rolling Stone, LA Weekly, Angelino, XLR8R, Club Planet and The Stranger. Having recently finished a successful USA tour with THE TOXIC AVENGER, he has plans to stay on the road with an upcoming European tour with THE TOXIC AVENGER and a U.S. tour with RADIOCLIT planned.

In addition to DJ'ing, FRANKI has began releasing a series of mix tapes, including one for SCION, IHEARTCOMIX Remixed. SCION produced 500,000 of these (essentially shipping gold) to be handed out for free. He is also focusing a lot of his time on his record label, IHEARTCOMIX RECORDS, which has current and upcoming releases by Matt & Kim, Protokoll, Ocelot, The Toxic Avenger, HEARTSREVOLUTION, Juiceboxxx, Totally Michael, Acid Girls, Roxy Cottontail, and Dreamburger.

FRANKI's motivation from day one has always been about having fun, being creative and exposing those that share the same sentiment. He treats DJ'ing no differently.

http://www.iheartcomix.com
http://www.myspace.com/frankichan

Reid Speed

Reid is recognized as the USA's First Lady of Drum & Bass but has always played a range of sounds from speed garage /2 step & breaks to filthy electrohouse. In her 10 + year career she has released 2 classic mix cds on Breakbeat Science, DJ'd for network TV shows, thrown breakbeat parties, judged a Rockstar DJ contest, DJ'ed countless rave parties, festivals, nightclubs and parties of all shapes & sizes, movie premiers, museums (LA Natual History Museum and PS1 in Queens) and even the Lawn of of the US Capitol building with the top names from around the world. She stays busy regularly headling shows across North America and hosting Breakdown Radio on www.ibreaks.co.uk every Monday night. Besides Shure, Reid is or has been sponsored by Matix, Triple 5 Soul & Sinful clothing and played industry parties for Scion, Diesel, Pioneer, Numark, J Lindbergh, Beautiful Decay, Karma, JNCO, & BPM Magazine. She has been featured in countless magazines and appeared in the "Concentric Beats" drum & bass documentary and in her own short cartoon DJ superhero spot on Showtime. She also produces drum & breaks ("Danger" w/ Queensyze on Phonomental, "Mash Up" with Pacific for Twenty Hz, "Beware The Beats" and "Leaders Will Follow" for DJ Swamp, "Naughty Ride Remix" with Datcyde on Taciturn, "Deadline Remix" on Acumen, "The Bizzle" for Big H, and many more that have yet to see the light of day). She is also half electro project beep! with DJ Origin. Her tracks and mixes have been featured on pumawomen.com, Power 106 LA, shonext.com, Frisky Radio, "Bomb It"- a grafitti documentary, karmamagazine.com groove radio, planetdnb.com, "Baby Anne Rocks" mix cd, and countless other stations and mix shows worldwide as an evolving testament to her effectively wicked style of breaking it down and blowin' up the spot.