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This book is great – but you can hear for yourself next week!

On Wednesday, May 6th, 7-8PM, Raquel Z. Rivera and Wayne & Wax, co-editors of the new ‘Reggaeton’ book, will be joining me on my weekly radio show (WFMU 91.1 FM NYC, streaming worldwide, no te lo pierdas!).

From Panamanians to Playeros to post-DemBoleros, they’ll be spinning rarities alongside lively discussion of the genre’s complex roots and current possibilities.

Then the next day, Thursday May 7th, catch W&W turning up the tropical pressure at QUE BAJO in APT, Manhattan, after a 6:30pm book release party @ Hunter College. Todo gratis!

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Don’t let this well-shot video fool you – i have never seen Filastine go for more than 12 hours without his laptop(s). (Or, can one man really take on hypercapitalist consumer society with so many Mac products in his life?) I’m a PC user, btw.

Regardless of your OS and/or consumption patterns, check it, its awesome. Video to ‘Singularities’ from Dirty Bomb:

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last time I played with Kevin The Bug in Berlin it was a very. fun. party. The Bug mashed it up, i got grimey, and Modeselektor + Paul St. Hillaire performed one of my favorite ‘live’ electronic sets ever.

this event should be lively as well… Next day (Saturday May 30th) I’ll be playing @ Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival, same stage as folks like Ghostface Killah, A-Trak, and Lemonade! craziness indeed.

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This Thursday requires careful decision-making.

Over at Manhattan’s APT, Geko Jones & Uproot Andy are holding it down for another episode of Que Bajo, everyone’s favorite tropicaliente afrocolombian bass whumpathon.

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And at Williamburg’s Glasslands, Kingdom is throwing a Club Vortex party – where hosts outnumber performers! But the performers include House of Ladosha. “They are Crunk / Vogue / Terror” explains Kingdom.

[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/house of ladosha_BURNING LIKE PARIS.mp3]

House of Ladosha – Burning Like Paris

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wholesale chop from Cocaine Blunts:

It turns out Lil B’s “My Baby” wasn’t an isolated instance of lunacy but just one small part of a grand experiment. The 19 year old Pack frontman currently maintains 114 myspace pages… all launched over roughly the last eight months and each showcasing five or six original songs and freestyles.

The pages are numbered chronologically and listening to them in order is like reading an abandoned space journal, a slow descent into madness. Except it’s the good kind of madness.

read more! it’s hard to fathom. There’s a greater narrative to explore here (ref. Lil Wayne) about what happens when a compulsion for content outstrips all editorial filters. FWIW, Shoot the Bitch Bra sounds like ‘golden era’ Lenny Dee / Industrial Strength. And not The Pack.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2bK8YwVCI0[/youtube]

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oldie but a goodie:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAO4EVMlpwM[/youtube]

1) I’m gonna be participating in a free afternoon talk @ The New School tomorrow, “What Was The Hipster?” I’ll be joined by Mark Grief, editor of n+1, and Christian Lorentzen of Harper’s. info

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2) US people — Soot’s rising star El Hijo de la Cumbia has the iTunes US Latin Single of the Week! Go Now to grab his “Soy El Control” hit for free. and feel free to grab the whole album while there….

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required listening Dutty fam:

Jahdan podcast exclusive on XLR8R, accompanying an ‘Artist to Watch’ piece on JD in their March issue!

direct mp3 | m4a itunes enhanced

Jahdan Blakkamoore’s Full Hundred is a blazing 22 minute showcase of the Brooklyn singjay’s work bringing reggae/hiphop vibes to the dubstep, grime & garage arena, mixed by Matt Shadetek. Jahdan’s band Noble Society received the iTunes ‘Reggae album of the year’, and now we’re presenting his more electronic side as a solo vocalist with the Dutty Artz family handling production. Things kick off with a worldwide debut of the first single from his forthcoming Buzzrock Warrior album, “The General.”

Full Hundred unleashes a batch of exclusive remixes from producers including Matt Shadetek, Ghislain Poirier, Zomby, and Marcus Visionary. Look for “The General” single on vinyl this April in collaboration with Liondub International. Jahdan Blakkamoore’s We Are Raiders EP is out now on CD/12″/digital.

The Buzzrock Warrior album — coming this summer! — features JD at the heights of his powers, with vocals by Durrty Goodz, 77Klash, and production from Modeselektor, Matt Shadetek, DJ Rupture, Maga Bo, and more.

Jahdan Blakkamoore – Full Hundred (mixed by Matt Shadetek)

01 Jahdan – “Full Hundred Intro”
02 Jahdan Blakkamoore – “The General” (prod by Matt Shadetek & Liondub)
03 Jahdan Blakkamoore – “Long Road” (prod by Liondub, rmx by Matt Shadetek & Liondub)
04 Noble Society – “How We Gonna Get There” (prod by Ovaground)
05 Iron Shirt – “Gave You All My Love (Zomby Bassline Remix)”
06 Iron Shirt – “Gave You All My Love (Cauto Dubstep Remix)”
07 Iron Shirt – “Gave You All My Love (Matt Shadetek Gave You All My Dub Remix)”
08 Jahdan Blakkamoore – “Fever” (prod by Peter Gunn)
09 Jahdan Blakkamoore – “Nice Green (Ghost Library Riddim Mashup by Matt Shadetek)”
10 Noble Society – “Mama So Divine (Marcus Visionary Sub Soca Mix)”
11 Team Shadetek – “Brooklyn Anthem Feat. 77Klash & Jahdan (Ghislain Poirier Remix)”
12 Team Shadetek – “Brooklyn Anthem Feat. 77Klash & Jahdan (Scatta Riddim Mashup by Matt Shadetek)”
13 Team Shadetek – “Brooklyn Anthem Feat. 77Klash & Jahdan (Marcus Visionary Remix)”
14 Noble Society – She Told Me Feat. 77Klash (Cassava Riddim by Nokea, Mashup by Matt Shadetek)”

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Honky

“….Even further, the very notion of ‘honky’ itself is a deeply slippery idea. Sometimes it indicates de-quantized drums (as in Flying Lotus, Lukid, and other post Dilla beat-artisans), sometimes pitch-bent synth and bass work, sometimes a maddening rush of 8-bit arpeggios. Honky is not a genre unto itself. Instead it operates as a kind of trans-generic mutational agent, spreading seamlessly between BPM species, liquidating textures, and mixed trainwrecked metaphors, distending rhythmical consistency like so many British adjectives: All that is solid melts into a new electronic psychedelia, as fluid and mellifluous as the [insert trite ‘global capitalism’ reference here] which spreads it.

“Honky in the sense of off-key, out-of-place, misshapen, breaking through an electronic music environment increasingly characterized by myopic microgenre developments and parodic stylistic affectations, as a set of strategies to be jacked by broke-ass Americans.

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XLR8R podcast in the form of a brand new Jahdan Blakkamoore & Matt Shadetek mixtape, just got it from Matt and it’s hot & heavy with exclusives… Matt, Zomby, Marcus Visionary, Peter Gunn & more.

Hold tight for some Jahdan acappellas here soon.

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Just yesterday Shadetek & I were wondering about the sample Conquest uses in “Forever”. Veiled Gazette points out this post, which locates the source sample for that, as well as a few other dubsteppey tunes from Burial (Sizzla!), etc.

The roaring crowd noise made it obvious that Conquest sampled a live show — Jamaican soundclash/gig footage has provided a notorious wealth of samples and entire acappellas for the last 15 years or more. Turns out that it was Barrington Levy, riffing slack on the ‘Here I Come’ riddim!

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and Conquest’s version