Anyone who’s come and seen me DJ lately knows I’ve been loving me some UK Funky. This guy Roska is doing some nice stuff that sort of connects with some of the vibes and textures of Grime. Some rugged with the smooth. Here’s a podcast he did of all his own stuff, enjoy.
Roska – 100% Roska Podcast
A nice reggae dubstep mix from the big bad Vibes Ambassador sound out of Nurenberg, Germany. Jahdan and I had a great time playing for them on our last tour at their Amplified Attitude dance and cut a dub of The General for them, which is on the mix. Tracklist here.
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New video for Schlachthof Bronx and big Spoek Mathambo’s new joint ‘Ayoba’ from their Ayoba EP on Man Recordings. Love the low-fi video, blankets, cardboard cutouts lets gooooooooo!
EDIT: And here’s the track as a legit free download:
Schlachthofbronx “Ayoba” feat. Spoek + Gnucci Banana by MANRECORDINGS
We’ve decided to throw a last minute benefit show to help make a financial contribution to the ongoing relief efforts in Haiti. If you’ve followed this at all it is an absolutely harrowing, horrible catastrophe that has befallen a place that was already a very difficult place to live for many people. The show is in only two days so PLEASE email this to your friends in New York, put it on your Facebook, Twitter, etc. and help us get the word out. We as DJs will not be taking any payment from this and the proceeds will be donated to charity. We are currently seeking expert advice on who to donate it to, suggestions are welcome.
DUTTY ARTZ TROPICAL RELIEF FOR HAITI
DJs:
DJ Rupture
Matt Shadetek
Lamin Fofana
Feliz Cumbe
Bingy
THIS Saturday 1/16 10PM
FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE.
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
$10. More is welcome: All proceeds donated to Haitian relief
Check me out this Sunday the 17th here in NYC playing with 6Blocc aka RAW from LA for Konkrete Jungle at Coco66 in Greenpoint. I started raving in 1994 at Konkrete at Coney Island High on St. Marks (which is now a juice bar or some bullshit). Always an honor to link back up with the foundation.
Info:
Konkrete Jungle x Quality of Life
6Blocc aka RAW
Matt Shadetek
Junglist@Large
Goldielocks x Tazanite
KaeSharp x Junglez
$10 / $7 b4 midnight ir w/flyer
10 PM 21+ w/ID
Coco 66
66 Greenpoint Avenue
FACEBOOK EVENT
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRM5x2ShXyg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
Nice new version on Dre Skull’s Smoke Machine Riddim, the riddim for Vybz Kartel’s “Yuh Love” by Ms. Thing and Psycho Tanbad. This one is called “Bonify”. Ms. Thing you know from her hit with Bennie “Dude”, Psycho Tanbad I don’t know but he sounds good on this. It’s a nice call and response ballad and I still love this riddim, soft and sentimental, a great bed for dutty love lyrics. Big tune, and bigup to the Mixpak records crew for giving these out on a freebie, dutty and clean.
Ms. Thing & Psycho Tanbad – Bonify (320)
Ms. Thing & Psycho Tanbad – Bonify (320 clean)
This guy Beniton is a Brooklyn artist I’m digging at the moment. You might have heard me playing his Recession joint (YouTube below). Here’s a legit free download of his new single ‘Time to Get Paid’, Biggie sampling BK bashment hype. He’s going in hard with the haircuts as well, as you can see.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yea0utdV2cw[/youtube]
Lately I’ve been having fun typing things into Google’s little search box at the top right of my browser and seeing what comes up as suggestions. Today I was reading about the Pine Ridge Lakota Sioux Reservation on Wikipedia and there was a mention of Caucasian people, who have a wikipedia entry too. This however lead me to see what google had to say about white people so I tried my friend the search box. Hilariously the first result was ‘white people stole my car’. What? Needless to say I clicked through. Turns out that a while back if you typed ‘white people stole my car’ into Google, the helpful googleoids would ask “did you mean black people stole my car?” Screenshot below. I can’t vouch for the veracity of the screenshot but I did find it very funny.
Catch me January 7th at Turrbotax in Williamsburg at The Cove (formerly Hugs). No cover and free Asahi beer from 10-11PM.
Jahdan and I are off to Europe tonight and looking very much forward to our shows. We’ll be in Berlin from the 14th – 17th (Monday – Thursday) with some down time doing some interviews, voicing dubplates and seeing friends. If you’re around get at us via email or similar, my phone won’t be working out there. If you’re a sound and want dubs from Jahdan and are in any of the cities on the tour, holler.
JAHDAN BLAKKAMOORE & MATT SHADETEK: BUZZROCK WARRIOR LIVE
Dec. 10th Vienna @ FLUC WANNE w/ DUBBLESTANDART + SUBATOMIC SOUND SYSTEM
Dec. 11th Nuernberg, AMPLIFIED ATTITUDE @ DESI
Dec. 12th Linz @ KAPU
Dec. 18th Cologne @ GLOBAL PLAYER
Dec. 19th Dresden @ ALTES WETTBÃœRO
Dec. 20th Berlin TBD
Here’s a new mix I did for K-Mag aka Knowledge Mag from the UK. This one kind of reflects pretty accurately the stuff that I’m playing out now. Lot’s of 130bpm house and dancehall and a little bit of dubstep and stuff like it. There are several new unreleased unheard tunes by me in the mix. There’s also an interview with me and Rupture with the original post about the mix. Enjoy!
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MATT SHADETEK: SECRET KNOWLEDGE MIX
1. Matt Shadetek – Singularity
2. Mykal Rose – Shoot Out
3. Hard House Banton – Sirens
4. Matt Shadetek – Coco
5. KG – 808
6. Matt Shadetek – Wonton Garden
7. Fada Bookie – Mi Name (Shadetek NY Tropical Remix)
8. Jahdan Blakkamoore feat. 77Klash and Spoek Mathambo – Dem Nuh Like It
9. Aidonia – In Her Belly
10. Footsteps – Worker
11. Dotstar – Stick Up (Dutty Artz special)
12. NB Funky – Riddim Box Rmx
13. Chelly – Took the Night
14. Royal P – Between Us
15. KG – Feelin Funky
16. Rudimental Records – Want You Back
17. Vybz Kartel – Dutty Angela
18. Matt Shadetek – Shield Dub
19. Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo
20. Matt Shadetek – New York Attitude
21. Noble Society – Mama So Divine (Marcus Visionary rmx)
22. Matt Shadetek – Strength In Numbers
This is tomorrow night here in Brooklyn, come early! There will be open bar. N8 is 213 N8th Street Williamsburg BK btwn Roebling and Driggs.
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Former KKK leader Johnny Lee Clary discussing his run ins with a brave and funny black reverend named Reverend Wade Watts with the benefit of hindsight. Strong stuff, an incredible example of how courage and humor can defeat ignorance and hate.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR_-Y-eIlQo[/youtube]
My friend DJ Kiva who teaches at Dubspot with me showed me this yesterday. It’s a compilation of a couple of clips of artist/engineer Theo Jansen’s work in motion. He calls it kinetic sculpture and it’s insanely beautiful.
Real talk from one of my favorite DJs in the UK Funky scene. In this interview by Blackdown Marcus Nasty speaks out in his traditional opinionated way about why he thinks the grime scene died and the way forward for UK Funky which he has become one of the leading DJs in. I enjoy Marcus sets because as a fellow post-grime person he is playing house but keeping it raw. I love the new UK funky sounds and have been playing a lot of it and find that it is even leading me into some of the smoother stuff but basically I still like raw, percussive, heavy tunes. Getting into a lot of what people think of as ‘normal house’ is just too far for me and a lot of the DJs coming from there into funky play too smooth for me. Marcus has (or has had, he’s sounding a little more mature now) a rep for being a big muscle-y dude who will beat you up and you can tell he’s pretty unconcerned about offending anyone which lends a certain truthiness to this interview.
