Usually people put out a mix before their tour to promote upcoming shows… Well, I’m putting one out after — many excuses as to why — most importantly because I wanted to share a part of my set that got some interesting reactions from crowds this past month touring the U.S. (more…)
Swedish production duo Cocotaxi hit us with a remix of Blingo, a Panamanian cover of La Negra Tomasa by Papi Brandao y Sus Ekecutivos (from Soundway’s Panama Vol. 3). (more…)
To be released on June 10th and available now for pre-order, Dutty Artz is proud to present Kafundó Vol. 1 a collection of some of the hottest tracks from the contemporary Brazilian DJ scene, curated by Maga Bo and Wolfram Lange. (more…)
Geko Jones and I are making our NY stop on the Africa Latina tour this Thursday at Superfine in Dumbo. This is the unofficial after party for Celebrate Brooklyn at Brooklyn Bridge Park, featuring the Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars, OkayAfrica, DJ Underdog, and myself earlier that evening. (more…)
New York’s best annual Cinco de Mayo celebration Cinco de Gallo is back! Que Bajo and Mex and the City host Boogat at Santos Party House.
We love to have spirited conversations over email, Twitter, and the Facebook over here at Dutty Artz. But the ephemeral and/or private nature of those mediums often leaves us wanting for more public input. Yesterday our man /rupture put up a post about The Dream’s new video…Â Here’s what @oldmoneycrime, @laripley, and (mostly)Â myself had to say in response:
Our man @Talacha is on a T-Shirt design bonanza! Not content to only leave you with a massive collection of To.Be designs inspired by the Dutty Artz catalog, he has also put together a series of personal designs for you to rock all summer long! Check out the designs below and head to our web store to pick up each one at amazingly reasonable prices! As an added bonus, he’s throwing a set of matching @Talacha stickers with each T-Shirt purchase! (more…)
Last week the first episode of Africa is a Country Radio, with your host Chief Boima, went live! This marks the beginning of an official three-way partnership between Groovalizacion, Dutty Artz, and Africa is a Country. (more…)
Just wanted to take a moment to point to two of my music writing pieces from the past month, which can also serve as a kind of travelogue of my past six months. (more…)
Sam Hillmer aka The Diamond Terrifier has just released a new mixtape sampling and chopping up songs from the Dutty Artz catalog. I really love the scattered and distorted sample chopping, overlaid by his sometimes atmospheric, sometimes Ornette Coleman inspired saxophone playing. (more…)
Keeping with my contemporary Africa-Caribbean crossover obsession… [insert new genre name here? AfroBASS!? MOOMBAtlantic?] I thought I would point to a couple of the latest and very exciting developments in Caribbean and African artist collaboration… this time mostly centered on Jamaica: (more…)
“The reason why we’ve chosen to support Listen Global, Act Local during SXSW is because of its mission to bring some of the community element back to this annual gathering of artists from around the world…”
Now archived, listen back and watch: Cumbia, Love, and Latin Americanidad, a panel featuring Kumbia Queers and Que Bajo.
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After a couple of initial tweets, the great Wayne and Wax chimed in, and asked my why I heard the songs as Azonto. We had a quick exchange where we discussed the rhythmic breakdown thatidentify it as Azonto or not. Siddhartha called us nerds. Alexis Stephens chimed in with Busy Signal’s version of U Go Kill Me, and pointed out the connections that DJs in London like Hipsters Don’t Dance are making in their work. So Shifty responded with Yung Image’s cover of P Square on the Alingo Riddim, and Iswayski submitted a mix by Brooklyn-based Guyanese Grenadian DJ Speedydon. Erin MacLeod loved it, and an overall grand time was had by everyone.
