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his mother’s flowers, datamoshed, to Amadou & Miriam’s Sabali, produced by Damon Albarn, given the b-more bootleg treatment by Uproot Andy.
Also: leaving the internet today. Also: Secret Google Cheat Codes.
Also.
Trouble In Paradise, an amazing zoo installation project by Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf [via Pruned].
Since here we are all about NEW YORK TROPICAL and related notions of global warming in terms of temperature and riddims, irrational environments, sweat, urban entangled in nature, etc, these fotos are, well, right up our jungle-alley.
(Photos by Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf.)
It took a minute, but the most bad-ass & influential young cumbia producer is out & loose in Europe for the next 2 months.
El Hijo de la Cumbia got his start producing for big Mexican sonidero groups; I still find CDs out here in Brooklyn with his beats on them.
He’s since gone solo and when we played together in Mexico City is was pretty amazing, insane remixes and edits of his own bombs, plus all sort of deep-reach cumbia jams that had us kumbia nerds in jawdrop mode.
dates below. his debut album, Freestyle de Ritmos, is buyable @ spots like Turntable Lab, Boomkat, eMusic, and various iTunes…
EL HIJO DE LA CUMBIA – European tour (more dates TBA)
28 may – Integraliza Ourense, SPAIN
13 jun РG̦teborg SWEDEN Clandestino 16 jun РRebel Up! @ OT301 РAmsterdam NL
19 jun – Worm – Rotterdam NL
20 jun – Worm – Rotterdam NL
25 jun – München GERMANY ROTE SONNE
27 jun – Fusion Festival – Lärz – Germany
4 jul – Roskilde Copenhagen DENMARK
16 jul – Festival Tourcoing Plage – Tourcoing FRANCE
17 jul – La Nuit de Phonque meets Mash It Up! – Artheater – Cologne – Germany
The family over at Dutty Artz stay busy building and stockpiling heatseeking missiles like Jahdan Blakkamoore’s Go Round Payola. We’re about 17 hours from finishing up the artwork for his debut album (everything else is DONE), more news real soon.
In the meantime, Frankfurt’s Mr Leub, flipped Matt Shadetek’s Payola riddim, swapping out JD and splicing in Busy Signal’s ‘Da Style Deh’.
[audio:https://duttyartz.com/mp3/Mr. Leub – Da Style Deh Payola Refix.mp3]for further listening:
Eddie Stats new Ghetto Palms blend which ends with a POWER TRIO of Busy Signal slackness in the form of cellphone-centric acoustic drumloop minimalism tunes, Da Style Deh included.
and Mr Leub’s Rudebwoy Electroncia mix, which kinda reminds me of the first Toddla-T mix I heard, which is to say: stomping reggaeoid 4-4y thumpers. Very good music for weekend apartment cleaning, I can attest to this.
Not only is DJ Eddie ‘Stats’ Houghton joining Dutty Artz on the decks at the next New York Tropical party, but he received a special shoutout in the 2009 UTNE Independent Press Awards, which awarded Best Arts coverage to The Fader.
They say:
“We’re always looking for the next article from Edwin ‘Stats’Houghton, the globe-trottingest Fader correspondent, who drops into musical subcultures like a paratrooper and sends back dossiers on what’s moving butts. His vivid dispatch from the kwaito dance-party scene in Johannesburg, South Africa, was so good we published an excerpt as “Post-Apartheid Pop.”
We say:
YESSIR, HE’S A FORCE TO BE
RECKONED WITH.PARTIED WITH. Come check Eddie rock Brooklyn with Matt Shadetek, 77Klash, and Uproot Andy on Friday May 29th @ Glasslands in Williamsburg (as I hold it down in Berlin with The Bug and Geko Jones mashes up San Fran alongside brother Boima.)
Judicious use of pause-button edits strike Geko’s dodgy male MC choices mostly from this historical record; everything I rip from the radio gets the same merciless treatment. (The historical record is meant to be scratched.) Mr Jones might gift us his entire set, but it’s been two weeks so here ya go, consider the fire lit… Live NYC radio at a particularly hot moment.
Starts with acid cumbia. About halfway through its just a stomping beat with someone yelling “boozooka!!”
[audio:https://duttyartz.com/mp3/GekoJones_LIVE_NYC_RADIO_2009-04-30_21h32m37.mp3]
Dutty Artz west coast family member Chief Boima just upped a sweet toetapping guest mix for Eddie Stats’ Ghetto Palms Faderlandia archipelago: GO GET IT!
There are Forces At Work ensuring that Boima comes to our overpriced, deliriously compressed city with its decaying public transit to share his Akon mbalax/decale remixes and generally hype afro-hypen-positivity with us.
Dutty Artz Rupture-Shadetek Boima remix coming soon, Matt & I will find time to lab up ASAP.
ok. so the free tickets have long been ‘sold out’ — early bird gets the worm– but this is a quick reminder: Tomorrow I’m DJing at the SONAR festival’s first ever NYC, party! Myself, Prefuse 73, and bunch of producers / DJs / VJs from Barcelona (where both Prefuse & I lived). In fact, I’ve spent most of the 21st century based in Barcelona….
anyhow, check it out SONARsound NYC.
I go on around 11pm and spin for 2 hours, a nice stretch-out set. Will sneek in tunes from my fav BCN-based producers — Cauto (3rd generation Catalan musician!), Cardopusher (Venezuelan expat skullcrusher), Pulshar (Spanish but sing in accented English: bonus points!), Filastine (gringo total!), as well as making sure the Euro-latinos get a taste of New York Tropical — cumbia from new jersey, mambo / 160bpm merengue de la kalle edits, etc., stuff that you don’t hear over in España.
Here’s one of the Cauto jams we released on vinyl:
Reasons 17-20 why we love Rita Indiana (y los Misterios).
Keywords: palo, dominicano, perreo, gaga, nintendo, undarundeiro, mambo violento, merengue, the rhythmic capabilities of chinese ping-pong heroes.
SISISISISISI!
THE FADER kicks off their latest issue’s podcast mix with a summer single from Dutty Artz!
Go here to nab it and enjoy La Yegros’ slinky hit, “Trocitos de Madera” — I’m twisting the arm of my favorite Peruvian diseñadora as we speak, she’s finishing up artwork NOW which means the ‘Trocitos de Madera’ single will be available in a few weeks, with remixes by Matt Shadetek & I (crunk tropical), El Remolon (tropical minimal), and Marcelo Fabian (kinda insane IDM).
Until then, you can bump it alongside Salem (!), Jahdan Blakkamoore (!!) and others (?X?X?) in the Fader’s podcast.
[Aidonia]
our LDN bredren Gabriel Heatwave brings it with a deep post on Jamaican Bashment & UK Funky.
Now it seems that rather than just absorbing and adapting Caribbean influences, the sound of UK funky is crossing the Atlantic and starting to cause waves in Jamaica.
Almost every time I’ve tuned into to London bashment station Mystic FM recently, I hear funky house played by Jamaican radio hosts who are clearly loving it, sometimes rhyming in patois over instrumentals.
nuff mp3s + youtubery fleshes it out, including Aidonia (autotuned) flowing over Crazy Cousinz. EXCITING DEVELOPMENTZ.
