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Jahdan Blakkamoore: We Are Raiders 12

The Dutty Artz family is VERY pleased to announce that we’ve just finished the first artist release for DA, Jahdan Blakkamoore’s EP entitled “We Are Raiders”. Jahdan is a Brooklyn local hero and has been doing his thing for years. From providing the ragga verse on Smif & Wessun’s hip-hop classic Sound Bwoy Buriel to singing the chorus on my tune Brooklyn Anthem (known in the hood as the Craziest Riddim) Jahdan has done a lot. Now, the next phase. Me, Rupture, Geko and Jah D have been labbed up for the past 6 months in the depths of Brooklyn recording his album for Dutty Artz under the working title Buzzrock Warrior. The album is crazy, it’s JD continuing the grimey direction he and I started in with Brooklyn Anthem and branching out in others as well. Dubstep is present, Cumbia is in the building, mad digital Dancehall is there and a lot of stuff that I don’t even know what to call it. Reggae? Sort of. Hip-hop? mmm, yeah. R+B? Kinda.
We’re calling it New York Tropical, before someone comes up with an even stupider name. When we put some audio online you’ll be the first to know and you can stick your own labels to it. In the mean-time, here’s the 12″ art. The four track 12″ will be out first followed shortly by the CD which adds the instrumentals.

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I’m happy to say that it seems Grime fans are finally starting to dance again, and not just some random jumping around and gun-fingering but some real deal dancehall-style organized named dances with steps. They’ve still got a ways to go but I’m calling it a powerful positive step in the right direction. Unsurprisingly champion skanker Skepta is at the lead of the charge with his tune “Do The Rolex Sweep”. It seems this whole Grimey Electro thing is kinda popping off, I think it’s great. I’m glad the grime kids are not standing still and letting Funky eat their lunch after building up the thing for years now. The tune is clearly a response to Wiley’s “Wearing My Rolex” (featured below) so unsurprisingly Wiley is at the head of a major development in Grime, again. Big up the whole Boy Better Know camp for keeping the game flipping and coming through with another periodic fun injection to the scene. Check out more vids here.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xV6OZdxGGw[/youtube]

Also, very unrelatedly Lamin sent me a wicked XLR8R interview with Bun B after I mentioned him earlier, thanks! There’s also these excerpts where he talks about some more general stuff, which are also great.

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Rupture put up his verdict and covered a lot of ground, so I’ll just say a big THANKS to everyone who came out. I loved the party, I haven’t had that much fun on decks in a while. We had a great time and if the heaving dancefloor was any indication I hope you all did as well.

 

Here’s a few pics from the night, more soon(ish) (Thanks Karla!).

 

MARIANA FROM ARGENTINA PERFORMING:

 

Mariana from Argentina performing at Dutty Artz Tropical Dance GEKO JONES ON DECK:

Geko Jones

 

MATT SHADETEK (ME) ON DECK:

 

MATT SHADETEK ON DECK AT GLASSLANDS, 3/21

 

DJ /RUPTURE IN DEEP CONCENTRATION:

DJ RUPTURE AT GLASSLANDS RAVERS:

glasslands 3/21

MORE PHOTOS, THANKS TOM:

 

 

 

 

 

 

NO WAIT!!! LISTEN TO MY HARMONICA!!!!!!! I AM NOT JUST SOME RANDOM HARMONICA GUY! GIVE ME A MIC! PLUG IN TEH HEADPHONES! SERIOUSLY!

 

 

AZIKIWE LAUGHS CRAZILY:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I love Bun B. His last album “Trill” was sick, and I’m sure “II Trill” the new joint will be great. Here he is courtesy of the Fader talking about sociological dimensions of the hood, Barack, and 4 minutes worth of other stuff. This dude basically holds Houston down singlehandedly (if you never read his excellent polemic against the critics of southern rap, it’s sick) and is in my opinion almost everything you want from an MC, smart, articulate, ill with the flow and advises people to “defend your blocks/ and turn your projects into fort knox”.

edit: embed code is breaking my formatting, sorry, follow the link.

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THIS IS YOUR FRIDAY NIGHT REMINDER:

dutty artz flyah

Dutty Arts Fam, listen up:

DJ Rupture, Matt Shadetek, and Geko Jones Dutty Arts Dance is TONITE in N.Y.C.

DUTTY ARTZ TROPICAL DANCE
Fri. March 21. 10pm-late
Glasslands, Williamsburg NYC

$2 b4 11, $6 after.
289 Kent ave. Cheap drinks all nite

*dancehall*cumbia*hood-electro

*grime*dubstep*tropical

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$2 before 11pm, only six bucks after… cheap drinks & all the dutty wine and tropical shakers you could ask for!

We’re doing two sets each, early playing slow and low sweet warm up music and late molten lava bangerism, so come early if you want to catch both.

We have deep record crates and a lot of new heat to share. hosted by Ladidadi, crazed color-art by Artz Atak, plus low-end reggae soundsystem reinforcements for that extra bump.

keywords: FUN MISTAKES

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And the pendulum swings again. The kids are dancing to a new (old) beat. Since the police in London have decided to criminalise Grime and ban it’s fans and artists from holding any sort of public performances in their home city, the kids have started to fulfill their itch to drink, dance, bubble at clubs playing what is called “Funky”. Originally short for Funky House the rise in popularity in the scene has triggered a wave of new producers, many of them former grime heads to start making this new stuff. Some say that the rise in popularity of Funky is due to it’s explicit dancfloor focus and the fact that girls do not seem to want to go to grime raves at all any more. This leads to a mass movement of guys following the girls leaving (including most of the big grime artists) and ending up in “Funky Dances” wearing button down shirts, shoes and drinking champagne. While the scene is still in it’s early “what do you call it?” type phase and things are being hammered out, a few tunes have arisen that people are pointing to and saying, “that there, that’s it”. One of the guys making many of these tunes is the man with the most google-handicapped name ever: Apple. Not helping things by calling his tune Mr. Bean (who appeared in an ad for apple computers, search engine camouflage), he’s making these stripped, rugged, post-grime/sort of soca-ish house tunes, which I am digging.

Check out two tunes from Apple:

APPLE – MR BEAN

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uENOY2cSRcA[/youtube]

APPLE – DE SIEGALIZER

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ-C-ID61EA[/youtube]

Also check out his myspace to hear more, last I checked I was digging “SAMPLE of wots to come”. Grimy, swinging and dark, I hope it is indeed a sign of what’s to come.

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I love this tune. Wiley & Bless Beats doing electro-house. Not much to say, just listen, drink, dance, bubble.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGyq8DqhuuE[/youtube]

I’ll definitely play this at the Dutty Artz Tropical Dance next Friday (3/21) in Williamsburg at Glasslands, so get ready. I’ve been pondering what I am gonna play and I think among a few select things like this made by other people I am gonna go hard on my own material, which I haven’t done in a while. Want to hear what’s coming out the lab this year? Come listen. We’re doing two sets each, warm up and prime time, so there’s room for a range of stuff to get played. I’m happy about this because really, who wants to listen to the promoters cousin and 900 opening djs you’ve never heard of? Definitely not me. I can play for two hours easy, why would I even want anyone else playing at my party? I’ll probably play reggae early and shadetek bangers, grime, dancehall, dutty beats late.  And yes, I know there are 10 million other parties that night in NYC, and good ones too, but ours is dirty and cheap so after you pay your 6 bucks you can actually afford to buy a few drinks and make some fun mistakes on a friday night, like you’re supposed to.

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BUSY SIGNAL – UNKNOWN NUMBER

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBhn-EfAV8Y[/youtube]

Big chune! My man Mode Raw put me up on this a few days ago and I’ve been clicking that youtube link again and again to listen to it. Auto-tune, space, real-life lyrics. All private-caller-ignorers, your time now.

And big-up to Island Superia and all Team SeaBreeze, Brooklyn’s Biggest Teen Party EVER was live. Big up to Max Glazer from the big Federation Sound for playing Brooklyn Anthem (Craziest Riddim) and big up all dancing crew going maddd.

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There’s just too many of these videos to leave it at one post.

The kids have gone madddddd. Dun know the youtube channel.

Crazy Legs:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsh38uFMS1c[/youtube]

Frosty:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRsBChnA4lg[/youtube]

Versatile Crew:

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

Squadi & Caspa:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2H5JmHJqEE[/youtube]

Dzzyboo:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tOE63A4adM[/youtube]

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrERVKkFSQ4[/youtube]

Another great speech from Barack who is ahead of Clinton  for the Democratic Party nomination and a shot against McCain at the presidency. If he wins I do actually feel like America and the world will be quite different, in a better way.

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AMBUSH CREW CRAZIEST RIDDIM:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMOr3JbzyfQ[/youtube]

You thought I was joking when I said Brooklyn Anthem will not die. Well, after getting rinsed on the underground throughout the world and going mainstream through placement on Madden ’08 it’s now crossed over to the Brooklyn teen bashment dance scene, which is popping off on Youtube. To be totally honest, I had no idea this was happening. Klash just sent me a mail with about 40 youtube links of kids dancing to my tune. Big up to Island Superia sound for playing it and promoting their edit of the riddim. If you want to hear a clip of it with Cypha Soundz talking over it about their big teen dance on Mar 1st go to their myspace and play “March 1st Sea Breeze Manor” or check DJ Mountain Doo’s myspace.

My original name for it was the “718 Riddim” but everybody always just called it the “Brooklyn Instro”. Now these kids are calling it the “Craziest” and I like that. I figure it’s a good name for a riddim that just will not stop.

Now, the dancers:

{check the Dutty Artz Youtube Channel for many more of these, this is just four of them}
SELL OFF FAMILY:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpkWrls27DI[/youtube]

FORENZICK DANCERS:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJWBMbEm6Lo[/youtube]

GET MADD TV:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLPuFGcBV7o[/youtube]

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[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vdTl2zOrqPI[/youtube]

This is a video, by Bashy, from a couple years ago of him just talking to Wiley on road in London. They’re basically just chatting about this and that, grime, the war they had, etc. The content is not actually what’s interesting. More it’s a view into Wiley as a person, which is what makes him so compelling as an artist. I met him once and he was polite and friendly, but I definitely wouldn’t say that I know him like that. That said, from listening to his avalanche of mixtapes I feel like I know him, his struggles, happinesses, scars. He seems like a genuinely likeable person and this makes me want to spend time with him through his music. Few people can do this. This video is a little window into that. Here his new “spirit in the beat” over at Rupture’s blog.

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DATV is very proud to present DATV#003: Dexplicit at Trouble & Bass. T&B brought Dexplicit to play at Love in NYC and we were there to film the mayhem. It was a great party. Dex ripped it up with a banging set of bassline/niche tunes, the T&B crew dropped their own blend of 4×4, dubstep, club hotness whatever (not quite sure what to call what they’re playing nowadays) and the ravers LOVED IT UP. A couple days later me and Rupture met up with Dex and Star Eyes for some shopping and an interview. Check it:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4BAqqv0Tp0[/youtube]

Dex is a great guy and was very cool to talk to, he had a lot of interesting stuff to say. We had to cut it way down to keep the piece moving but for the hardcore heads who want to hear EVERYTHING he had to say you will be able to catch the full version on the DATV DVD later this year. The video starts with a killer Dexplicit remix of DTL alter ego Curses! “What I Need” that will be out soon on Trouble & Bass. Check their website for more info on releases, parties etc.

Big shouts to the whole Trouble and Bass crew, Drop The Lime, Star Eyes, Math Head, The Captain and my boy Zack Shadetek, Dexplicit, the photographer who goes by Madaes on flickr (wicked pictures bro) and all the ravers who were there raving. More DATV episodes coming soon, we’ve been having fun making ’em, keep watching.

AND if you’ve been listening to Rupture’s radio show you may heard the excellent “Language Removal Services” piece played by his guest, poet Caroline Bergvall, in which they take people reading or speaking and remove everything but the silences between words, umm, uhh, ehhs, etc. Inspired, DJ Empirical went and made one out of the show where Rupture broadcast a longer version of our Dexplicit interview as audio. Want to listen to Jace and Dex umm and ehh and wow for a bit? Here, now you can. It’s pretty funny, and wierd. The show is now podcasting here, and you can also check out the WICKED mix that Dex did for the show, broadcast the week before he appeared.