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COMING SOON TO A THEATER NEAR YOU

“Cinco de Gallo” starring Geko Jones as Ricky Retardo and Uproot Andy as Gauchito Gillis

Wednesday May 5- we’re parking a taco truck outside Santos Party House and bringing the best Mexican bands in NYC to come rock out in Manhattan for a Hyper-Mexican party.. think Tron meets mariachis with fluorescent colors, spaceship cumbia, and glowsticks.

sponsored by Mex And the City and New York Remezcla

Weds May 5 Santos Party House

96 Lafayette St Doors 930 PM $15

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BACK AFTER THOUSANDS OF YEARS….

XANGO!

goes down tonight with CUMBA MELA, QUE BAJO?!  y LA MADRE FUERZA

I’m a little misty-eyed about announcing tonight’s event. One of the last shows going down at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn. This venue has hosted some of BK’s finest up and coming bands and DJ’s, in an artist friendly/ half-open air environment that has brought together thousands of folks together to witness pretty much the craziest concotions the Borough has had to offer. Uproot Andy and myself back to back for the late night posse – 2am till we pack it in.

April 17 2010
gates: 8:30pm
show: 9:30pm…
Djays: 10:30 .until the sun rises
3rd Ward. 195 Morgan Ave.
Admittance through the gates: $15 all night long

Be on the look out later this week as we began the spring/summer assault on NYC with a Tuesday night jammy jam at Sin Sin and the beginning of our new Wednesday night residency at Santos Party House.

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I’m out here in Barranquilla Colombia for carnival, crate diggin and digi-swapage. Carnival wrapped up tuesday night in a major way. I’ll be posting video of that next but I’m taking some time out to put up this post because I promised you guys some new tunes from my bin each month, so here’s my Feb-10 5-spot

In the bag this month, Barney Iller’s version tweaked out merengue submission for the Schlachthof Bronx AYOBA remix contest. He’s got a couple more choons over at Culture System this week

[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Schlachthofbronx-ayobaBarneyIllerRemix.mp3]

Schlachthofbronx – Ayoba (Barney Iller Remix)

Hands down my favorite wiki-wiki style turntablist DJ in the tropical scene, my man DJ Reaganomics doin it up Brasileiro dancehall style. Dark and minimal, this sexy lil diddy has gotten some some telemundo forwards from the pelaitas out here.  Ask yourself mister wobble wobble, what have you played to get the gyal dem moving on the dancefloor lately?

[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/chiado boom – dj reaganomics.mp3]

Chiado Boom- Dj Reaganomics (Dutty Artz Podcast from this dude soon come)

I’m a lil late on this one but I rediscover stuff i should have been playing all the time. Teleseen is another Brooklyn based producer we check for around here. If your inna the dub stylee you should check out his album Fear of the Forest

[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/g3kojones/life sweet (Teleseen Rmx ).mp3]

Vybz Kartel- Life sweet (Teleseen Rmx)

Forthcoming from Monkey Steak is this likkle piece of hotness due out 3/8.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRabVr409O8[/youtube]

And for my F-I-F  FIF! I’m letting you get a taste of what’s to come in my Barranquilla reports. I spent a couple hours trading tunes with the Skorpion Disco Show, one of the biggest champeta sound systems out of Barranquilla. (Boima – I got you when we link up at SXSW big homie)

These Skorpion dudes run tings! Their carnaval closing party which will be my next post involved girls with guns, 20+ foot speaker stacks, motorcycles, crowd surfing, an ill light show and a fire hose…. the video is insane but the experience of a champeta party and hearing all this african stuff touched up with drum machines is way better… dig this

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El Sargento Chan- Unknown

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First off, tomorrow Uproot Andy and I are bringing Que Bajo?! back to the bassment at Santos Party House. We’ve taken several trips to south america in the past year and this will be our first time together since our tour back in October.
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Secondly, I think its about time we kicked off top 5/10 monthly for you so here’s a few of my picks for the party.

Geko Jones’ Top 5 Latin January 2010


Suckafish P. Jones– Cloak and Dagger Empire
found this via Culture System full EP available here. La Zeneida gets reworked into absolute cumbia mayhem on Disboot Records

Crystal Fighters – I love LDN (Meneo’s menrenstep remix) Fakes left with a cumbia shuffle then breaks down double time merengue wobble


Barney Iller – La Bony
Digi-bullerengue bizness from the heart of brooklyn, Que Bajo?! regular making it happen in the studio! This one will be out soon on vinyl with B-sides from me and andy. Wobble heads give a listen to his tune Ay Carajo!

Blank Point ft Del Patio– Watagatapitusberry (Toy Selectah’s MexMore rmx)
Tribal Guarachero/Ubsurd lyrics/Ass-shaking bottom end- what more do you want from a club banger?

Rita Indiana y Los Mysterios – Jardinera

Rupture spotted a video performance for this in august. I got my hands on it this weekend and am rediscovering it for its dancefloor possibilities. Laid back merengue on the disco tip

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This just in from the Kolleidosonic blog…

Brand new mixtape chock full of exclusive productions from outernationalist Maga Bo, this mix takes you through some stuff he’s been working on over the past year. Last I heard, the next album will incorporate alot more of the Brazileiro vibes from his soon to be native homeland (10 years in Rio!!). There’s a couple of things to watch for here like the forthcoming Wha-la-la-leng remix for Poirier, Jahdan on Maga Traz a lenha, and the Petrona Martinez refix I sat in with him for at Casa de los Jones.

Outras Terras Mixtape

Outras Terras Mix

1. “Ê Boi (Maga Bo Remix)” Coco Raízes de Arcoverde (Unreleased)

2. “E Daí feat. Speed Freaks” Sonar Calibrado (Maga Bo and Filastine) (12″ Shockout)

3. “B’tallah (Maga Bo Remix)” Filastine (12″ Post World Industries – forthcoming)

4. “Alesh feat. Jawad” Sonar Calibrado (Filastine and Maga Bo) (12″ Shockout)

5. “Longa Nahawand feat. Mohammed Issa Matona” Maga Bo (Soot Records)

6. “Se Liga feat. Mario Z” Sonar Calibrado (Maga and Filastine) (12″ Shockout)

7. “Boucan (Maga Bo Remix of Dr. Das Bhajni Ragga Remix))” Pitcho (Unreleased)

8. “Aunty Adoley (Maga Bo vs. Sabo Remix)” X-Pensive Nframa (Akwaaba – forthcoming)

9. “Maga Traz a Lenha feat. Jahdan Blakkamoore” Maga Bo (Unreleased)

10. “El Critica (Maga Bo Remix)” Petrona Martinez (Unreleased)

11. “Kizomba; A Festa das Raças feat. BNegão” Maga Bo (Unreleased)

12. “Alleyways” Fletcher Meets Maga Bo feat. Neon Don (African Dope Records)

13. “Ransom (Pacheko Remix)” Maga Bo (Senseless Records – forthcoming)

14. “Earthshaking” Jahdan Blakkamoore (Produced by Maga Bo) (Duty Artz/Gold Dust)

15. “Nqayi feat. Teba” Maga Bo (Soot Records/African Dope Records)

16. “Wha La La Leng feat. Face-T (Maga Bo Remix) Poirier (Ninja Tune – forthcoming)

17. “La Paix feat. Xuman” Maga Bo (Unreleased)

18. “Rise Again feat. Abena Koomson” Jahdan Blakkamoore (Produced by Maga Bo) (Dutty Artz/Gold Dust)

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Meet Cero 39.

The son of a high level intelligence agent for the Colombian government, Cero grew up wanting to be James Bond. He was exposed early to all manor of high-end gadgets and has become a multi-faceted artist that incorporates ambient video edits, live art installation, and lively digi-doombia-passa-passa-champeta-y-mas sets that really create a great atmosphere for what he calls the Tropical Advanced sound in Colombia. Factor in the Max Headroom meets Cocheese fashion sense and Secret Agent Gel is gettin a serious run for his money in 2010.

Uproot Andy and I had a chance to get to know Cero 39 aka Sabrosongo while in Bogota for the Que Bajo?! tour this fall. He invited us to play his Santo Show monthly, a sonic sister party to ZZK, Tormenta Tropical and Que Bajo?! You can catch him playing to underground lockdown clubs full of swanky jetset Telemundo actresses, art galleries and clubs all over his native Colombia. His production incorporates cumbia, champeta, dub and synthy happiness. When last I spoke to him, he was working on a motion-censored cumbia installation for the museum in Medellin. I could explain but it would require diagrams, illustrations and schematics and my security clearance just isn’t that high yet.

Instead, download the brand new 2-sided mixtape below and get to know one of my favorite discoveries of 2009.

Vias Del Caribe Vol 2

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We haffi tell them again and again and again.

It’s constant slewin every time Blakkamoore gets on the mic.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpCIX3vFn28&NR=1[/youtube]

Liondub‘s original is just as lethal and Sotto Bless’ voice will come as a revelation to the roots massive.

available in cracktastic plastic and full strength digi-mode at Boomkat, Mixmag and other fine music retailers.