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We recently produced M1 Summit, which brought the worlds biggest Hip-Hop mogul, Russell Simmons, to Silicon Valley for a mobile tech-focused conference. 

The conference featured (35) in-depth sessions and panels at a retrofitted 3-story warehouse space. Other speakers included executives at Google, Cisco Systems, Dropbox, TaskRabbit, and HotelTonight.

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Flavor Group partnered with our friends at Red Bull Music Academy again to create a special 2 week live broadcast in the heart of San Francisco. The pop-up, setup at Dijital Fix in the Mission District, featured some of the Bay Area’s most beloved and highly appraised music artists. Some notable appearances included Tycho, Iamsu, The Coup, SALVA, Kevin Saunderson + hosted shows from Amoeba, XLR8R, Honey Soundsystem, and much more!

Check out the newly renovated RBMA Radio now over at http://live.rbmaradio.com

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Recently FLAVOR GROUP produced the GDC Kickoff party for our client, Japanese mobile gaming developers, gumi Inc. We turned the MEZZANINE in SF into an old school hip hop playground with classic 90's arcade games, live graffiti artist collaborations, performances by rap legend Young MC, and a live sushi bar from famed SF restaurant DELICA.  Be sure to check out some of gumi’s awesome mobile games HERE, including Brave Frontier, Chain Chronicle, and Bust-A-Move Islands. 

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FLAVOR GROUP teamed up with our friends at Maestro Media Ventures and CAPCOM to celebrate the latest release of Resident Evil by creating the FRIGHT CLUB experience... 600+ fans ventured into a hidden subterranean bar in LA complete with the first-ever playable demos of Resident Evil: Remastered & Revelations 2, a zombie make-up bar, cosplay contest, and the Umbrella Corp pop up shop!

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Liaison Artists and Om Records join forces with Sunset Soundsystem, Lights Down Low and Honey Soundsystem to bring you Apex San Francisco: an evening of underground house & techno, performance art and visual installations. Three stages of amazing music powered by Opus Audio. This is the kind of event that comes along rarely and makes you remember the magic of San Francisco. Featuring an all star line up of international and local talent: Tale Of Us (Berlin, Life and Death) Joy Orbison (UK, Hinge Finger) Thugfucker (NYC, Life and Death) BLOND:ISH (UK, Get Physical/Kompakt) Blackbird Blackbird (Om Records) Galen (Sunset Sound System, Dirtybird Records) Solar (Sunset Sound System, No Way Back) Richie Panic (Lights Down Low) Dj Sleazemore (Lights Down Low) Shiny Objects (Om Records, Smoke n' Mirrors) Jason Kendig (Honey Soundsystem) Jackie House (Honey Soundsystem) 3 rooms of sound by Opus Audio Technologies Ltd 2 hour sets by each headliner! Visual installations by Derek Bobus and Strange Loop Beverage catering by Monarch Performance art and aerial creations by Golden Gate Dolls Tickets: http://tinyurl.com/m3c3ca4 Tickets: http://tinyurl.com/m6zwkpy www.apextour.us facebook.com/apextour

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AFROJACK feat. RAZER

Flavor Group was thrilled to be able to bring Afrojack to Razer.

The journey to becoming a global icon and Grammy award winner is fueled not only by talent and unwavering passion, but also by using the best gear in the world.

It's Afrojack's unmistakable commitment to perfection that has led him to champion new music technology with Razer.

AFROJACK Production Studio

exclusively on the razer switchblade ui

Introducing the Afrojack Production Studio, a ground breaking app that combines Afrojack’s expertise with the Razer Blade Pro laptop. It works in conjunction with FL Studio™, Afrojack's production software of choice, walking the user through the process of creating tracks from the ground up.

The Afrojack Production Studio is now available via the Synapse 2.0 App Manager for all SBUI enabled devices.

Learn more about the

Razer Switchblade UI Razer Blade Pro Razer DeathStalker Ultimate Download your free copy of FL Studio™ demo

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Red Bull Music Academy San Francisco 2014

The application phase for the 2014 edition of the Red Bull Music Academy has started! To pave the way for Tokyo, we're setting out for a three day musical takeover of the City by the Bay. From February 21th to 23th, the Red Bull Music Academy Bass Camp San Francisco will establish a creative environment at Hotel Zetta, featuring some of the most buzzed about creative names in music. Thirty selected music makers from across the West will be put through their paces by local and international creative pioneers, collaborate in custom pop-up studios, and perform at public events in the city’s venues.

On Friday, February 21st the participants will experience an afternoon lecture with the reigning queen of future vintage soul, Erykah Badu, moderated by Jeff “Chairman” Mao. Later that evening a RBMA Club Night will feature a dj set Erykah Badu's alter-ego DJ Lo Down Loretta Brown, Brainfeeder's Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner, Brooklyn’s definite crate authority Cosmo Baker, last year's Academy graduate Kid Smpl and other special guests.

The following day, a screening of the RBMA film What Difference Does it Make? A Film About Making Music will be shown at Victoria Theater. Before the film starts, guests will be treated to a lecture with iconic producer, remixer and DJ extraordinaire François K, moderated by XLR8R’s Shawn Reynaldo. After the film, we present a second RBMA Club Night featuring dj sets by creative visionary and electronic music icon Carl Craig and François K.  Additional musical talent will include Academy alumni Ghosts on Tape and Suzanne Kraft, as well as RBMA Bass Camp participants Austin Caesar (live) and Avalon Emerson. Ending the weekend on a high note, the invited guests will have a Sunday brunch while they engage in an exclusive synthesizer analog workshop series with Carl Craig and electronic computer processing pioneer Morton Subotnick.

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Hey San Francisco! Join Flavor Group and the Red Bull Music Academy TONIGHT for Lunice & Rockie Fresh at the DNA Lounge.

The Red Bull Music Academy is a world-traveling series of music workshops and festivals: a platform for those who make a difference in today's musical landscape.

TONIGHT - Red Bull Music Academy brings its unique perspective to San Francisco with a club tour featuring some of the most buzzed about up-and-coming names in trap and hip-hop -- 2010 Red Bull Music Academy graduate Lunice and Chicago based rapper Rockie Fresh.

For information and tickets, visit: http://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2013/11-20.html

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Everyone at the Flavor Group office is super excited to check out a couple house music pioneers, Masters at Work, tonight at Mighty in San Francisco. Shout out to Derek Hena for putting this together!

Who are Masters At Work? Synonymous with the rise and peak of NYC house music, ‘Little’ Louie Vega and Kenny ‘Dope’ Gonzalez met through their mutual friend Todd Terry, resulting in a fruitful production partnership full of timeless hits. MAW has remixed everyone from Madonna, Debbie Gibson, and Lisa Stansfield to Saint Etienne, Michael Jackson, Brand New Heavies, and about 800 other artists. Their sound - rooted in hip hop, funk, disco, Latin, African and jazz - has inspired a generation of house music lovers worldwide.

For more on MAW, check out their lectures on RBMA. If you're in SF, don't miss a super exclusive performance by the Masters At Work tonight at Mighty (119 Utah St., SF), buy tix HERE.

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Flavor Group teamed up with UNIQLO to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of UNIQLO's west coast flagship in Union Square. The private event featured many of UNIQLO's favorite Bay Area faces from fashion, tech, art, and music uniting together to ring in UNIQLO SF's first birthday! Click HERE to see all the photos on the Flavor Group Facebook page. 

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First time I saw Jamie Jones was at a small underground in the Dog Patch in San Francisco. These were legendary undergrounds in the bowls of crumbling and long abandoned Navy infrastructure. The events were known for blatant excess combined with forward thinking DJ's situated in the middle of the crowd. Jamie did not disappoint. Not only was his mixing flawless but he was armed with music like i'd never heard.   Fast-forward and his signature production and style have made him one of the most talked about and sought after DJs. Come rock with Jamie tonight. You know Flavor Group will be in the building.

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Afrojack partners with video games company Razer

DJ and producer will advise on new EDM app and range of laptops

Latest #flavorgroup project

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Come hang with #flavorgroup at Boston Calling

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Flavor Group made the 2013 It List on Event Marketer - The top 100 global event marketing agencies!

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Everyone in the SF offices of Flavor Group are super excited about this show coming up at 1015. Props to DJ Dials for amassing an unreal lineup.

more info and tix - http://witness1015.eventbrite.com/

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It's the start of Summer and a year ago we were helping Goapele and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee open up UNIQLO USA's Flagship West Coast Store

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Los Angeles is the most culturally relevant city in the world.

Big statement but let me explain ...

Flavor Group is working on a bold video and technology project to celebrate the unique vibrancy, personalities, and culture of Los Angeles and New York City.  The video will be viewed by a unique digital platform that allows people to customize their own version of the video showing the city they love through their own eyes.

We just wrapped shooting LA where we worked with some of the world's most iconic names in music and streetwear including: Skrillex & OWSLA camp The Hundreds The Do Over family Peanut Butter Wolf, Dam Funk, & Stones Throw Mad Decent SMOG Dim Mak Undefeated and many more ... So why is LA is the most culturally relevant city in the world ...

First of all the names of the artists on the tips of tongues globally all call LA home (whether that be recently or for decades). Maybe it's the weather, maybe it's in the water, maybe it's that you can still find affordable housing as an artist.

Most notably though:

In my 15yrs of being in the music business never have I seen such an organic and supportive community of like minded people that are crushing it on a world stage.

The collaborative approach between artists in LA falls off the bone like perfectly cooked BBQ ribs. Collaboration here is not a hyped up buzz word to maximize social media cross pollination; In LA It is the reality of good friends breaking bread on the regular scheming about the next super fun project to go tackle.

It's clear with examples like Skrillex and Diplo forming a new super group, The Hundred's covering the Well, and everyone getting hammered  at each others events. While there will always be minor drama here and there it's really inspirational to see so many successful people so happy to work with each other creatively building their versions of Never-Never land. You can call it LA and I for one can't wait to get back.