We're teaming up with Nice Enough Entertainment to bring you Off the Hook: A Pirate Dance Party! Nice Enough has been a driving force for our local hip hop and rap scenes, and when they asked us to collaborate on an event together, there was no question about it. There is a lot of overlap between Electronic Music & Hip Hop. Both have influenced each other throughout their respective histories. 2pac & Dre were electro artists before their rise to the charts in the hip hop world. Ice T has a techno label with Afrika Bambaataa, and electro-funk and breaks were integral to him in his early years as a producer. Then on the flipside, there's artists like Mr. Carmack, Boombox Cartel, Troyboi where hip-hop is the primary influence on their music, and more recently, artists like T-pain have even crossed into exploring dubstep. We had the Trap wave, which at its core, was the perfect blend of hip-hop & EDM. Collectives like the All:lo collective blend hip-hop, RnB, and trip hop. Grime is another prevalent genre that seamlessly blends both worlds. Then we have other styles like Juke, Footwork, Jersey Club, Baltimore Club, Breakbeats, all rooted in hip-hop. Dance music wouldn't be what it is today without hip-hop and black culture, and we aim to honor these roots. So, we specifically curated our lineup to showcase both worlds. We have 2 hip-hop & RnB centric DJs, and 2 EDM DJs who all have a deep respect for the history of this symbiotic spheres of music. We present our lineup: DJ Dee Bvssbratt Riz the DJ Ghoulish Benjamin Fast will also be performing his stellar spoken word to start the night off! So join us on the seas of 808s and saw waves, put on your best pirate garb (should probably leave your parrots at home for this one though), eat, drink, be merry at a Reverb Lounge on Nov 7th. Decent Dogs will also be slinging hot dogs out front of Reverb for the evening, and they do it best!