"...the inspiration for assembling his Spam Allstars band was seeing Mr. T's Ten Commandments video. 'Come on, "I pity the fool who doesn't have their own style"?' Yeomanson recites earnestly. 'Those are words to live by!' - Miami NewTimes

...Spam Allstars are the creator of the contemporary Miami sound.... - Miami Herald

…an authentic Miami sound is being forged by DJ Le Spam and the All Stars. - Rolling Stone

"Often credited as pioneering the new Miami-fusion sound, a synthesis of electronic music with Latin beats from Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela, and other countries whose musicians have migrated to Miami, the Spam Allstars combine live and improvised electronic music and turntables in a vigorous rhythmic celebration that defies categorization." - Boston Globe

Spam creates a Cuban vibe mixed with hip hop and dub, with great swinging violin, horns, synthesizer solos and flute parts. It's fresh and highly danceable, and you'll wonder why you didn't hear of Spam earlier. The Gazette (Montreal)

DJ Le Spam & Spam Allstars blend improvisational electronic elements and turntables with latin, funk, hip hop and dub to create what they call an electronic descarga.  It’s not a known genre.  It’s hard to describe.  It attracts many types of people. But as they look out and see people dancing salsa, next to break-dancers, and festival-goers driving for hours to catch a show -- they know something very special is going on.

Spam Allstars were formed by Andrew Yeomanson, a/k/a DJ Le Spam,  who was raised in Toronto, Bogota and London, and has called Miami home since 1993.  He got his start by playing guitar in Haitian band Lavalas, and recording and touring with Miami based artist Nil Lara.   Along the way he added to his vinyl collection, and when off the road he would DJ locally. These DJ gigs evolved into collaborations with live musicians, performing on an internet radio show, recording in his home studio, and the first of many residencies combining his samplers & DJ skills with a live band.  

In 2002, Spam Allstars began a weekly residency at Hoy Como Ayer in Little Havana, which continues today. In 2003 they started monthly residencies in New York City, Gainesville, Tampa, Atlanta, and New Orleans, and playing nationally wherever people would host them.  Today they perform 200+ shows, and average 56,000 miles each year.   They still do the weekly in Little Havana, and have monthlies in Miami and Miami Beach. 

Spam Allstars are proud to have five independent releases - Electrodomesticos/2007; Contra Los Roboticos Mutantes/2004; Latin Grammy nominated Fuacata Live/2002; Pigs In Space/2000; and Pork Scratchings/1999 - on their own Spamusica Records label. Their most recent release was a compilation for  World Music Network (owners of the Rough Guide) - Introducing Spam Allstars (2008).

Spam Allstars are Andrew Yeomanson/DJ Le Spam (turntables, samplers, guitar, bass), Tomas Diaz (timbales, vox), AJ Hill (saxes, vox), Mercedes Abal (flute, vox), Chad Bernstein (trombone, vox), Jose Elias (guitars/tres), Ted Zimmerman (trumpet), Lazaro Alfonso (congas), Adam Zimmon (guitars), & Steve Welsh (saxes).  For more info go to: www.spamallstars.com

For more info go to:

SPAM ALLSTARS WEBSITE
SPAM ALLSTARS EPK 
SPAM ALLSTARS ON MY SPACE 
SPAM ALLSTARS AT ELEVEN:11

SPAM ALLSTARS FILM/TV PLACEMENTS & COMPILATIONS

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