INFILTRATE 4.0 PRELIMINARY INFO...
In 1999, Pl3x, a local design and print company
established in 1997, together with various local
organizations among the urban and experimental electronic
community formed the first annual Infiltrate 1.0 in Miami.
Infiltrate was held on March 13, the opening day of the
annual music conference, as an act of defiance. We gained
access to and attached ourselves to the largest electronic
music beach festival ever held on South Beach (a 2 block
long event on the beach itself). This beach festival had
become the full embodiment of what this conference has
always represented; showcasing mainly watered-down
commercial and mainstream club acts. Pl3x secured a large
vending spot and rather than vending, a large sound system
was brought in and some of the most respected underground
talents from Miami and around the world were smuggled in;
talents that would normally be shunned by such an event.
This subversive act was in reaction to the fact that
although the conference is held here in our hometown,
Miami's wealth of talented musicians and innovative labels
are not acknowledged nor invited. The conference comes to
Miami, sets up, and leaves without making any valid
contribution to miami's underground. Our mission has become
to flip the script by becoming a parasite within the
underbelly of the beast and feed off it for the advancement
of our cause. Pl3x and Miami's underground took action and
now the aural virus known as Infiltrate has since spread.
The goal is to spread until the host feels the symptoms of
our musical rebellion here in Miami, which will only
continue to grow.
This year the focus is no longer the host
(our point has been clearly made), rather on the growth and
development of the virus, the infiltrate movment itself.
This year the goal is to cultivate awareness of problems
of the world around us together with underground music.
There will be a handful of speakers speaking about subjects
ranging to human right to how to start your own indepenedent
record shop. All subjects that the mainstream media and music
indusrty choose to ignore. The host has now no longer
become some petty music conference but mainstream and corporate
society and menatlity itself. United WE stand.
why infiltrate?
Local miami djs, labels and promoters continue to look for acceptance. They
want to get a badge, throw a little party on South Beach and prostitute (oops
we meant "politic") themselves. "We gonna blow up this year, kid!".
why infiltrate?
Americans citizens are sitting around waving flags while their rights are being
stripped away because they're too busy shining their rims or cruising the mall,
instead of in the streets protesting and exercising the rights they still have
left. While our government locks everything down here in our country with
secure anti-immigrant borders, ID cards, retina scans and on the outside the
agenda of free-trade zones, globalization, the beginnings of a one-world
currency US has given itself the green light to surveil and destroy groups that
don't agree with it's foreign policy. Apathy and conformity is the disease we
face in our community today.
why infiltrate?
Because we are alive and breathing and all of us together can make a change.
"Indie" is a way of life not a label on some music. If you support indie labels
and music, you should also be supporting indie food products, clothing
companies, record shops, restraunts, films, etc.
why infiltrate?
We live here, this is our block. We all run shit here in Miami. Last year we
were over 500 strong (mainly locals from here in Miami), this year we plan to
double that. The infiltrate virus has entered the host and is multiplying.
Can't do a damn thing to stop it.
Pre-liminary line-up:
adult . alpha 606 . algorithm . beta bodega coalition . calamalka . craze .
cyne . danny l . deaf to the general public . eog . fat jon . five deez . greg
davis . infamous . judah manson & ses . hrvatski . needle . machine drum . mta
. people under the stairs . panda one . slug . sony mao . supersoul . todd
sines . transparent sound . void....
with many more SPECIAL guests still to be confirmed and announced!!!!!
Venues are planned for Opening (Saturday March 23) and Closing night (Saturday
March 24) both at Chuchill's in the Little Haiti community of Miami.
Pre-registration venue will be held Friday March 22 at 2 Left Feet in the
Wynwood community of Miami.
Are you down? infiltrate@pl3x.com