Artists & Musicians

THE ASTHMATIX “It’s not often that hip-hop and Chassidism are used in the same sentence. But for avante-garde band Asthmatix, merging the two has become their mantra... The band, consisting of Micha Walter aka Mickey Morphingaz, Dan Pliner aka FreeKey, Daniel Weltlinger aka Welt-Machine and Yossi Mlynsky aka DJ Asparagus, describe their style as ‘stuck somewhere between Kingston Avenue and Utica.’ The band is an instrumental mix of jazz and Jewish melodies combined with funk grooves, Chassidic children’s vinyl, turntablism and virtuosic playing. We like mixing up Jewish Chassidic samples, children’s records with more modern beats and jazz grooves,’ Mlynsky explains. ‘So people are often confronted and don’t know what to make of (our music), but everyone takes something different from it. We enjoy the mixed reactions we get.’ The band is working hard on an album they hope to release in the near future while juggling other individual commitments in the music business. Read more: http://www.myspace.com/teamasthma#ixzz0xm3d3Q5N