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Tune in Mudd Up! with DJ Rupture tonight 7-8PM EST, WFMU.org or 91.1 FM if you’re in NYC to catch Dutty Artz ambassador and crate digger extraordinaire Geko Jones live on Rupture’s radio.  Listen, dance, drop some comments. WFMU cut and paste below –

Latin/Caribbean music expert & DJ Geko Jones will be joining Rupture. The Colombian-Puerto Rican digger will share with us some of his latest finds from the cutting edge of tropical soundsystem and street music culture, from Mexican tribal guarachero to freshly made ragga-bass mutations and Afro-Colombian soul gems. A deep live mix from Geko Jones — ¡¡No te lo pierdas!!

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The Police ¨Roxanne¨, as performed by Microsoft´s weirdly great new software – you sing an acapella, it ´composes´the music.  i heart presets!! [more @ pitchfork]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypycpKQxXR0&eurl=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/148560-wtf-van-halen-the-police-the-cars-oasis-the-doobie-brothers-microsoft-so&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

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Pic flickred here.

The Qemists feat. Wiley – Dem Na Like Me (King Cannibal Remix)
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/TheQemistsKingCannibalWiley-DemNaLikeMe.mp3]

I heard this on Mary Anne Hobbs sometime in December. The mp3 surfaced early this month, and automagically appeared on my HD.  Shout out to whoever liberated it. Wiley is a pioneer and he is great, but the star here is King Cannibal – check for him! Head over to the Qemists myspace to listen to the original and other mixes.

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Filastine is currently wrapping up an Australian tour w/ Maga Bo and gearing up for a series of European dates.  His new album, Dirty Bomb comes out next month on Soot (US/UK), Uber Lingua (Australia), Post World Industries (digital), Jarring Effects (France), and ROMZ (Japan). Hot, sizzling beats to tear down systems of authority, break regulated, logical frameworks, overthrow the world, create/imagine something else.  Yes, it’s a very inspiring and raw record you need to get your ears around.  Filastine is one of the few producers who can actually build coherence by cutting up and juxtaposing voices and noise, creating spark and astonishment thru sound collage.  In addition to being an incredible artist, he’s a great blogger, here, detailing his routes, travels, and telling the stories behind the songs on his new album.  Check out this excerpt from a recent post about the creation of the track “Hungry Ghosts”:

I developed this track over a few weeks in Kyoto, staying in the house of Shimizu (guitarist of post-rock band Soft). It’s the kind of old kyoto house made mostly of paper and thin wood, where someone of my height must duck at all times.

On my way to Tokyo to record ECD and fly to the United States, I detoured via a series of trains and small buses to arrive in a mountain village. From there I walked up a path through the forest for a few hours to arrive at the hot springs frequented by a pack of wild monkeys.
There i stripped naked to sit in a hot pool, with curious monkeys gazing on. Later I went to stare at them in their preferred pools. After a few hours of this I hiked down to the small bus, then small trains, then a shinkansen bullet train that took me into central tokyo, changing to a few metro lines and arriving in Shinjuku financial district, the odd location of Irregular Rhythm Asylum, Japan’s anarchist/activist infohub.

Filastine – Hungry Chosts (Feat. Wire MC & ECD)

[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Filastine-HungryGhosts.mp3]

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Brooklyn’s future-latin sound weekly combining Afro-Colombian and
classic latin heat with Tropical Beats and BASSS….is on the move.

We’re still going strong over at Rose Live in Williamsburg every
tuesday but next week, the rising tidal waves are washing us up on the
Manhattan shore. We’re bringing the tropical sound into the city for
all the uptown massive that has a hard time making it out to Billyburg
on a school night. This is another FREE EVENT. Shouts to DJ Small
Change for having us out.

THURSDAY JAN 22 UPSTAIRS @ APT (no cover) 10pm

419 W 13th St Manhattan

A/C/E/L/1/2/3 to 14th St

Dancefloor Wreckage en Espanol.

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Now here are some of our turtle friends doing the milli-vanilli to a Joe Arroyo tune you shoulda caught on Negrophonic.com a while back and remixed the shit out of by now.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUBVGeiUTDM[/youtube]

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in case you missed it: I did an hour-long cumbia mix for Rob Da Bank’s BBC Radio 1 show last Sunday (the first ever cumbia mix on the BBC!). It’s streamable for a few more days…. info + links here (in English) and here (en Español).

it will warm up your winter.

cumbia copy

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Ricky Blaze, BK Autotune dancehall techno pop don goes in with the help of Harlem’s current pitch-corrected ambassador Ron Browz and Nicky Minaj who you might remember from a while back in these pages.

Ricky Blaze – Feel Free ft. Ron Browz, Red Cafe, Nicky Minaj

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nJeb-mglBY[/youtube]

And apparently he’s been listening to bmore, or something. Chelley is on Blaze’s label Fire Unit Music Group and I’m assuming he produced this.

Chelley – Took The Night

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWdqN8luXpw[/youtube]

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* the Hungarian people- as an explanation from a cultural minister as to why everything in Budapest is decaying into a fine silt.

Refix of a classifc for '09 from the infatiguable Adam R. Garcia
I’m feeling optimistic so check this refix of a classic from indefatigable designer Adam R. Garcia

I have just moved to Hungary to take up my position as the newly minted central/eastern (depending on your cartographic/geopolitical inclinations) European D.A. correspondent. I thought I might give you a short timeline cribbed from the BBC.

1526 – Ottoman Turks defeat forces of Hungarian king at Battle of Mohacs

And lots of other shit happened (roughly in the order of Austro-Hungarian Empire, Communists, Nazis, Communists, Democracy, NATO, and finally EU membership) as well…. but this one point will augment my main observation about the city….

1. Budapest  is  OLD (meaning you can still go enjoy a sunday floating in the medicinal baths built by the Ottomans in the middle of the 16th century)
2. It’s also really fucking cold (meaning that it is hard to imagine anything nicer then spending sunday floating  in the medicinal baths built by the Ottomans in the middle of the 16th century)

Quality of life here for an expat tourist/student like myself (especially given that my money is kept in dollars) is high. Amazing affordable food, cheap housing with 20 ft. ceilings and all that….. but rather then bore you with a Rick Steve’s travelogue… here’s my latest mix (recorded for the helpful hotlinkers over at BassFaced)  finally coming to rest at home- recorded way back in 08….Now that I am in Hungary, my  lack of turntables is pushing me towards ableton, so expect original tunes and mechanically tinged mixes soon…

 Taliesin “Apricity” 66.9 MB

[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Taliesin-Apricity.mp3]

NGUZUNGUZU – HATE2WAIT (Kingdom Refix)
“?????” – Kubo Remix
Dev79 – In Ya Face
CardoPusher – Low End Legacy
Vybz Kartel – Empire Army
Dead Prez – Politrikkks
Wisp – Whisper
Thark – Apatia
BD-1982 – Seeing Orange
Connor- Belles
Aleister Crowley – Gnostic Mass
Duran Duran Duran – Unholy Dracula Vagina Alien
Flying Lo – RobertaFlack (feat. Dolly)
David Banner – Shawty Say (feat. Weezy)
Saigon – Come on Baby (Inst.)
Mali – Pale Twop
Shit Mat – Big Ben’s Big Remix
Jahdan Blakkamoore – Bus it Pon Dem
Small Professor – Kelis

Also if you happen to be in Europe, Ill be taking much of April and May (and various weekend trips) to tour the continent- so be in touch- either for bookings, or just to go out for a drink somewhere along the way.

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Former backup dancer for Brenda Fassie and Kwaito pioneer Arthur Mafokate asked in a two page document “am I the king of Kwaito?” He allegedly proceeded to answer the question and justify his position as king of the South African dance music. That document is nowhere to be found.  Check this interview from ’03. “Oyi Oyi” is one of his big hits from the late 90s.  I found it on South African Rhythm Riot: The Indestructible Beat Of Soweto Volume 6, which also contains some classic Brenda Fassie tracks.

Arthur – Oyi Oyi
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Arthur-OyiOyi.mp3]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PwH1U5s6bU[/youtube]

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511px-British Beef Cuts

[British cuts of beef]

Beef brings out the best in people. It might be time to start some over here… but first:epic Wiley slapdown delivered by Durrty Goodz. High velocity, high density.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19G2B9Aw3MI&feature=related[/youtube]

Goodz’ “Cokey the Snowman” was a response to Wiley’s “Angry Garden Gnome”, also impressive. plus the title: Angry Garden Gnome! Ultra-Britishness!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR8bYdju-OA&feature=related[/youtube]