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“At The Fire Is NOT a MIX
it is an EMOTION”—or rather a series of emotions
Lucky Dragons – Mirror Friends
Mosholu Park – Interlude (At The Fire)
Matt Shadetek – Shield Dub
Vybz Kartel – Yuh Love
Terror Danjah – Splash
Shlohmo – Hot Boxing The Cockpit
Muhsinah – Lose My Fuse
2/5 BZ – Etnik Market, Etnik Paranoia
CIAfrica/Manusa – Dans Mon Pays
Movado – Gyal Bend Ova
Big Boi – Fo Yo Sorrows
Goro Yamaguchi – The Cranes Crashing In Their Nests
Friend – Doki
John Lupo Avanti is the brilliant artist behind the cover for Chief Boima’s African By The Bay EP (and I know folks have been praising and asking about the cover.) He is a painter, illustrator, and creator of the intriguing and grim Monster Myths comics. Check his site, get familiar with his work, and if you’re into spending money, show some class & buy some.
“Let us imagine a man who stumbles into an alien ritual in its closing stages when the devotees are winding down to a concluding chorus of amens, and who immediately and enthusiastically takes up the singing with such loudness and gusto that the owners of the ritual stop their singing and turn, one and all, to look in wonder at this postmodernist stranger. Their wonder increases tenfold when they ask the visitor later what kind of modernism his people had had, and it transpires that neither he nor his people have ever heard the word modernism.” – Achebe, Home and Exile
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DJ Sprinkles – Sisters, I Don’t Know What This World Is Coming To
From the incredible album Midtown 120 Blues by DJ Sprinkles (aka Terre Thaemlitz) which the always fascinating Word The Cat put us up on several months back. That photograph of Tina Turner is what comes to mind now when I hear this track. Perhaps because the image (that expression) of Tina Turner (from the Brooklyn Museum exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present) is somewhat similar to the Midtown 120 Blues artwork, or perhaps because whenever this track comes up I’m always on the A train looking at an ad of the aforementioned photographic exhibition.
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A hands-down classic; this is one of the greatest Coupe Decale songs ever.
& here’s the opening track from the first volume of a massive Coupe compilation Abijan En Feu (Nouvelles Dances | Nouvelles Ambiances). This has all the attributes a nice jump-start groove should have – first, a comical, deranged sounding character shouting gibberish (or rather speaking in a language we don’t clearly understand,) a few seconds in, a more commanding and heavy voice takes charge, and serious outbursts of singing and speed-rapping backed by incredible music from DJ Arafat (myspace) follows. This one is guaranteed to scale up parties and move bodies.
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Rupture is off-the-grid again, somewhere in rainy Old Europe enjoying the Holidays. I’m holding things down tonight 7-8PM on Mudd Up! radio on WFMU 91.1 fm in NYC. We have some supa-dupa exclusives to throw on the air tonight, a lot of 2010 heaters mixed in with our some of our favorite 2009 jams. Tonight @ 7PM.
Here’s something I’ll be dropping at some point tonight – probably my a favorite dancehall riddim/tune from ’09.
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Mavado – Gyal Bend Ova.mp3]Mavado – Gyal Bend Ova (prod. Stephen Di Genius McGregor)
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Summer of love ’09 = amazing heat & humidity
Friend = Tropical Chinese Traditional R&B, London
[youtube width=”524″ height=”393″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agAdm9gn-w4[/youtube]
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/04%20Money%20To%20Blow%20feat.%20Drake%20and%20Lil%27%20Wayne%20%28Chief%20Boima%20Remix%29.mp3]Birdman – Money To Blow feat. Drake and Lil Wayne (Chief Boima Remix)
Chief Boima‘s version is not as funny, but it’s a guaranteed dance floor scorcher. The Chief is a badman producer from the left coast who recently unleashed a free EP heat up your winter – African By The Bay (62 megabyte ZIP file), feel free to to download and re-post on your site.
[Artwork/cover design by Lupo Avanti]
Omzo and Yero of Minen Teye
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Minen Teye feat. Sista Soda – Yero & Omzo (One Love)
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Minen Teye feat. Gaston – Wake Up
Minen Teye is a rap group out of Nouakchott, Mauritania. The group, sometimes referred to as the conscious generation, is a rather loose collective of rappers and singers from the rural parts of the country. The main members Yero and Omzo moved to the capital to pursue higher education at University of Nouakchott. Other members of the collective moved to the city avoid civil unrest and the border squabbles with neighboring countries Senegal and Mali, which dates back to the late 1980s– but the capital Nouakchott has seen its share of trouble in the last two decades and recently with the military coup in August 2008. According to my Mauritanian source here in Brooklyn, Yero and Omzo are in the third generation (2003-present) of the rap collective which dates back to the mid-1990s. Their lyrics are politically charged and critical of the military government which has been brutally suppressing dissent and painting that suppression as fighting terrorism and Islamist militants, drug traffickers and illegal migrants. Minen Teye members have been harassed by police and government officials several times in the last year. They are in the process of recording a new album which should be out sometime next year. In meantime, these two tracks feature outside vocalists, Senegalese songstress Sista Soda and Senegalese rapper Gaston. The tracks are from their recent release, from earlier this year Moro-Itanie.
Here’s a video a Facebook friend posted a few hours ago – Women on the Frontline: Mauritania, a documentary presented by Annie Lennox shining a light on violence against women and girls. Here, they look at the Islamic Republic’s interpretation of the Sharia law Zina. [UNIFEM]
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RADIO SPECIAL TONIGHT
Mudd Up! with DJ Rupture on WFMU tonight starts early, with an additional hour from 6-8pm EST.
Tune in for new heat, send Rupture feel better wishes, throw in comments, get involved, heat up tonight @ 7PM.
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Kreayshawn‘s demo reel Summer 2009
& here’s the future! Lil B’s new video “Like A Martian,” also directed by Kreayshawn.
This is definitely dumbest track I’ve heard from Lil B this year -mind you, I can only listen to his material in tiny doses so I’ve heard less than one tenth of his output this year. Andrew Noz/Cocaine Blunts has the time and patience/attention for this. Grab the mp3/audio dope here if you dare.
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I have been waiting for a CDQ/NODJ version of this track for months! Jay Electronica (f*ck that! Call me Jay ElecHannukah, Jay ElecYalmulke…) and The Megatron Don answered the request/prayers of rap nerds and fans of great music the world over when they released Exhibit C this week. While the eyes of the world were on Copenhagen (I hope the eyes of the world were on Copenhagen! All the f*ckery, wrangling, and argument going on there matters to every single one of us on the planet. You might wake up one morning and find there is no Freetown, Monrovia, Conakry, no Dakar, no Lagos, no Accra, no Durban… they’re all cities under sea/saltwater! ahem, Solar Life Raft anyone?) one of my favorite tracks of 2009 was dropped in my mailbox! Finest holiday gift thus far, thanks Mo!
Now, let’s hope we get a full/CDQ version of “Dear Moleskine” by mid-Winter, and I’m quite certain an album in 2010 will set the globe on fire!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cA010JeecE[/youtube]
Karma Atchykah – Journée de Pluie avec Soke et Wahlee Sparks
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/KarmaAtchykah6.mp3]Karma Atchykah – Mains en l’air
The big homie Poirier recommended some nice rappity raps from Quebec. Karma Atchykah‘s current album with Shash Revolution Culturelle is downloadable here. He is also preparing to drop a new album in the new year, so keep your eyes peeled.
Jah Mason – I Told You (Paul Alt Remix)
Belgium producer Paul Alt reheats a 77Klash riddim voiced by Jah Mason. I think it’s safe to say that riddims associated with 77Klash are immune to dying. Klash City Records released The Swarm Riddim over two years ago, and refixes are still surfacing. Paul Alt whips up a sweet and heavy dance beat guaranteed to scorch dance floors, or just turn your holiday party a bit more nasty. That artwork is very appropriate for the song’s lyrics. A man expresses an excessive desire for and to a girl he has been watching admiringly for a long time – Girlfriend, I told you, you’re gonna be fine. Just give me your love & I’ll give you mine… After a few seconds, he tells her to keep it confidential.
Geoff Manaugh, author of the BLDGBLOG book & blog, will join DJ Rupture on Mudd Up! w/ DJ Rupture on WFMU tonight betweeen 7-8pm. Geoff’s a consistently fascinating writer on architecture, contributing editor to Wired UK, and a former techno DJ. Expect discussion to range from architectural acoustics & unexpected sample-discovery to a selection of Geoff’s favorite techno.
You already know the drill, tune in, throw in comments, questions, get involved, & heat up. Again, tonight @ 7PM.
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Dutty Artz is proud to present The African By The Bay EP, an exclusive collection of irresistible remixes from San Francisco/Bay Area producer Chief Boima. The EP is available for free download, and features a healthy dose of Afro dance remixes and instrumental reworkings of songs by Birdman (“Money To Blow” feat. Drake and Lil Wayne), Akon (“Right Now”), The Jacka (“Glamorous Lifestyle” feat. Andre Nickatina), Fabo & T-Pain (“Own Step”)
African By The Bay EP is a potent batch of new stateside rap tunes given the remix treatment by Boima, our favorite African-American (in the Obama sense) producer, whose trail-blazing approach weds percussive patterns from sounds like Ivorian Coupe Decale and Senegalese Mbalax. (Not to mention Angolan Kuduro, Nigerian Club, and South African Kwaito, and his Sierra Leonean Highlife and Palm-Wine refix of Cold Flamez “Miss Me, Kiss Me”.)
African By The Bay (62 megabyte ZIP file), feel free to to download and re-post on your site.
01 Chief Boima – Shake Them Dreads
02 The Jacka – Glamorous Lifestyle feat. Andre Nickatina (Chief Boima Remix)
03 Sean Garrett – Smooches feat. Young Joc (Chief Boima Remix)
04 Birdman – Money To Blow feat. Drake and Lil Wayne (Chief Boima Remix)
05 Akon – Right Now (Nananana) (Chief Boima Mbalax Decale Remix)
06 YV – Own Step feat. T-Pain & Fabo (Chief Boima Remix)
07 Cold Flamez – Miss Me, Kiss Me (Chief Boima Remix)