When we finish up at Kowdo Eshun’s new school lecture Ill be walking down the street to see MPEACH/Mariana release her new video. When I first went to Mariana’s house it was long past lunchtime and she rolled out of bed wearing electric blue tights. Tropical blood.

If your in NY next week come by
please rsvp to VIP RSVP to: mpeach.info@gmail.com
Thanks!
♥
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TUESDAY OCTOBER 25TH

ABSTRACTOR, MEX AND THE CITY AND AMYLULITA

PRESENT

MPEACH RELEASE SHOWCASE

@DROM 85 Avenue A, New York, NY (btwn 5th and 6th St.)
$5 Ron Santa Teresa 9pm-11pm
Door 9pm. Showtime 10pm

W/ MPEACH Debut Live Show (Abstractor) – GEKOJONES (Que Bajo?)
DJ CASTOR (Candelation) & party pics by PIAN (pian.me)

“VENGO POR TI”
NEW EP AVAILABLE 10.25.11
on www.abstractor.net & www.nwla.tv

http://mpeachhh.com/

Some people are good enough that all they have to do is speak, or threaten speech to get me to show up. Other people I need to be assured will perform. But Kowdo Eshun is in the former category. His music writing is full of neologisms and the sort of insightful criticism as prose poetry that makes first time reading (especially as a liberal arts student) something like finding the solar anus in a econ textbook. Music writing is supposed to be about selling music- or something- but Eshun, whose out of print More Brilliant Then the Sun is indeed sublime, writes with phrases like “synthetic architecture of moving parts that turns itself slowly , throwing off rotary forces of bewilderment and solace…” and i guess maybe in the end I did buy.zip that Hype Williams EP- but somehow I would have been satisfied just to have read the review.

Location:

Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, 66 Fifth Avenue
6PM

http://www.newschool.edu/eventdetail.aspx?id=69952 Part of an ongoing afro-fucha series at the new school. H/t to boima

Goldman Sachs presents:

* Genre-Specific Xperience * 15$ for non museum members

New Museum, Friday Oct. 21st from 7pm – 9pm.

*
Five videos (in collaborations with artists Kamau Patton, Tabor Robak, Leilah Weinraub, Sophia Al-Maria, Ryan Trecartin and Rhett LaRue)

from the new EP, Genre-Specific Xperience, will be screened followed by a Q&A between Fatima Al Qadiri and artist Kamau Patton.


I SPENT THIS MORNING WIPING BABY FOOD OFF CDS BEFORE HAULING A 60 POUND DUFFEL THROUGH NY TO GET OUR MAIL ORDER SORTED. THIS IS REAL.

IF YOU ARE IN NEW YORK AND CAN COME TO LIBERTY PLAZA TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT. PLEASE DO SO.
CORPORATE DOUBLE SPEAK AS EXCUSE TO CLEAR THE PARK TOMORROW MORNING AND ENFORCE RULES REGARDING PARK USAGE THAT EFFECTIVELY ENDS THE OCCUPATION. IN SPAIN THEY UPROOTED BUSHES TO PLANT FOOD. I DONT THINK OCCUPY WALL ST IS THE BEST THING EVER BUT IT IS POWERFUL. THE ONLY THING BAD ABOUT NEW YORK IS THAT THERE IS NO RED INK.

“[Zuccotti Park] was recently renovated at Brookfield’s considerable expense as an amenity for the general public. It is intended to be a relaxing tree-filled oasis in the middle of the hustle and bustle of Lower Manhattan,” the letter explained.

The management company seemed most concerned about the health and public safety issues of the park, claiming “conditions at the Park have deteriorated to unsanitary and unsafe levels.”

“Complaints [received from concerned citizens and office workers in the neighborhood] range from outrage over numerous laws being broken including but not limited to lewdness, groping, drinking, and drug use.”

The letter also expressed concern for the lack of security and screening for the large number of packages that have been delivered to the park.

“Brookfield protocol and practice is to clean the park on a daily basis, power-washing it each weeknight, and to perform necessary inspection, maintenance, and repairs on a regular, as-needed basis. Since the occupation began, we have not been able to perform basic cleaning and maintenance activity, let alone perform more basic repairs. For example, if the lenses to the underground lighting have become cracked, water could infiltrate the electrical system, putting occupants of the Park at risk of an electrical hazard or causing short-circuiting which result in repairs requiring the Park to be torn apart for rewiring,” the letter continued.

“Brookfield has rights, too,” Mayor Bloomberg told chanting protestors in Zuccotti Park Wednesday evening.

DJ RIPLEY- who is a genius- pretty much knocked it out the box on her commentary about Occupy Wall Street/Boston , writing
“In the camps, people are providing it for themselves and each other. So rather than saving up money, inheriting it, borrowing it, abandoning one’s responsibilities, or simply not having any yet, in order to stick it to the man without fear of losing your health care or child care or whatever…these people in these camps are demonstrating how you can do without the man. And the skills that come from that are indeed transferable. And as I keep suggesting, these skills are also unglamorous. Often seen as “feminine.” The caregiving, organizational, maintaining skills. But they are the skills that make things accessible to more people, especially to people more at the margins. They are also the skills of people who are not dependent on the system, they make it easier to resist selling out or buying in.”>”in the camps, people are providing it for themselves and each other. So rather than saving up money, inheriting it, borrowing it, abandoning one’s responsibilities, or simply not having any yet, in order to stick it to the man without fear of losing your health care or child care or whatever…these people in these camps are demonstrating how you can do without the man. And the skills that come from that are indeed transferable.

And as I keep suggesting, these skills are also unglamorous. Often seen as “feminine.” The caregiving, organizational, maintaining skills. But they are the skills that make things accessible to more people, especially to people more at the margins. They are also the skills of people who are not dependent on the system, they make it easier to resist selling out or buying in.”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWzPL4d7ATI[/youtube]

MORE LIFE – CAPE COAST GHANA 2012
We are currently working on a major major DA WEB OVERHAUL. as you can tell, we have been running this wordpress setup since the beginning. a part of the big re-design will be a new DA webshop /merch table. Inspired by places like Kiosk, and the markets of the world, we will share an increasingly astounding collection of items and ephemera. We will start with the things we have, music on different recording mediums, clothes, hats, stickers, and move into increasingly interesting territories. One-off cassette mixes, pirated architecture thesis’, plant seeds, and platinum pocket compasses are all real possibilities. We are tired of being a “net-label” focused on “tropical music” – we built this zinc-oxide hyperlink hole and we are building its future.

For now it is really simple- http://duttyartz.bigcartel.com/ – with five things for sale because that’s the limit to a free big cartel site. Not that we are not going to put money into this- but we are just starting with what is available to us.

We care about music. We will release music that reflects this care. But we also care about architecture, sci-fi, paintings, obsolete futures, really good food and the best tacos in D.F.

Things will get weird. Stick with us. I’ll be packing all the boxes from our shop in our hq/my living room in Queens and putting in lots of dope extras because we got you like that.

WE REALLY WANT THIS TO WORK- I MEAN THE WHOLE PROJECT THAT IS DUTTY ARTZ- THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING. YOU KNOW US. WE ARN’T FUCKING STOPPING.

CROSS POSTED ON GOOGLE

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/28686029[/vimeo]

“Count C cemented his status in his West Kingston community, and in Jamaican music and cultural history, when he launched the Count C Sound System in 1947. Radio was nonexistent and, even when it did arrive in Jamaica in the late 1950s, few in West Kingston could afford either the box or the pay-as-you-go service. In times like these a sound man like Count C really was royalty. His was a small sound (a few horns and an over-sized, 5ft+ speaker, familiarly called a ‘house of joy’), but he was tough. Count C would never back down from a challenge, even when Duke Reid and the “big dogs” arrived on the scene.” – Soul Of The Lion

If you missed Josh’s perfect post on Count C earlier in the year- check it here.

It was an honor and privilege to be at 6 Wellington for Count C’s Nine Night. Skanking until dawn for one of the men who started it all.

Cardo has been DA family ever since we didn’t release his amazing “Green Disorder” and I had to break into his Barcelona apartment complex at 5 AM to sleep on his porch. He absolutely killed his remix for our last release from Kalup Linzy AND he has a fantastic new mix out last week for 1000 Dragones. If you’re in Accra come over and we can listen to it together.

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/10046418[/vimeo] h/t our newest contributor DJ Bent– who can hopefully give some more personal commentary on Tunde Olaniran
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDhGF14YoAg&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
D1 is the Bada Bada homie holding it down whether he flips it as a deejay or rapper. Check his mixtape from last summer at Dat PIFF.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ShkQ1gpCs[/youtube] h/t to Siobhan Jones

If you really want something to relax though- pull up Lamin’s heartbreakingly skillful radio board running archive. set it & forget it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elmoaw94Wcg[/youtube]

Last year we dropped Chief Boima’s epic bay-centric refix ep “African By the Bay.” If you never got it- DL it for FREE here. On that release he took some of his favorite African riddims and laced already fire jams with them- my favorite was his 40-water sampling delight “Shake Them Dreads”- and while I was bummed we didn’t get a Boima once over on D-Lo or Sleepy D- I still can’t help but pull from this release nearly everytime I play out.  Since then- Boima has been producing killer tracks for Los Rakas, running rampant with his group Banana Clipz,  all while moving to New York, starting the legendary Made In Africa party with Lamin Fofana AND hitting the books. “African In New York” brings more next level production from B- sorting details now, but looks like we’ll be lacing y’all with vinyl and digital on this one.  If you don’t already know- he  just kicked off a new mix series for Okay Africa. It’s a great intro for the breadth of Boima’s DEEEP knowledge from the continent and ability to go transatlantic like it was nothing.

Chief Boima’s Okayafrica/Ghetto Palms Mixtap by The FADER
 

TWO WORDS: PERCOLATOR DECALE

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyAhRPh6ETA[/youtube]
Bee and I drive for hours from Jeppestown looking for Nozinja’s house on the edge of Soweto. I’m using the GPS on her Blackberry- but keep fucking up and suddenly we’ve left the city behind and are driving for 20 minutes out into the countryside where sprawling townships blend in from afar with the yellow umber tall grass. The drive was supposed to take 45 minutes- but we arrive at dusk to his spot next to the rail tracks in a clean cut row of brick single story houses. A gleaming Benz sits in the dirt driveway and Nozinja, creator of the Shangaan Electro sound, is inside waiting for a BBC interviewer to call back. I apologize for being hours late- but he says it’s fine and just makes fun of Bee for not knowing her way around Soweto. Shangaan Electro is the new marketing title for the wildly inventive update on Shangaani music that Nozinja has been making and selling throughout S. Africa for years.

Rich from the Tshetsha Boys in one of his masks - Nozinja plans the costumes and a seamstress makes them
DIY Kitchen Distro At Nozinja's House

This is a classic untouched genre discovery story – weird computer music, hyperspeed dancing, clown costumes, youtube, serendipitous ringtones, cancelled return trips home from South Africa- but the music is mindblowing– and more so for all seemingly coming from the mind of one man. Nozinja gives me one of the his early releases from Tiyiselani Vomaseve- a group produced by Nozinja consisting of five women who dance and one who sings. The CD is hand screen-printed and comes off a spindle from his distribution/storage cupboards in the kitchen- it is hard to get all the way through, the midi music is relentless and exhausting for the uninitiated- but the rest of the Shangaani music that has been coming out via Honest Jon’s has been addictively listenable. After killer coverage of those releases, including a massive summer tour, Nozinja is set to start releasing his own music digitally to the world via his eponymous label. The first two releases are availble now from Tiyiselani Vomaseve (itunes) and the Tshetsha Boys, whose album is straight forwardly titled “YouTube Top Hits” (itunes).

Stream a couple cuts from the Tiyiselani album below.

Tiyiselani Vomaseve – Bombani
[audio: http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Bombani.mp3]
Tiyiselani Vomaseve – Voseveni
[audio: http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Voseveni.mp3 ]

If you want to keep up on Nozinja and his label- you can follow them on Facebook until their website gets finished.

More Photos and Tour Dates After the Jump.

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It’s hard not to be jealous that Dre Skull has pulled off such a fucking dope coup as getting “Kingston Story” completed and out today. And by jealous I mean so happy and excited for him, the mixpak crew, and Adi. Full page coverage in the times(remember you can just turn off Java to get over your monthly limit), Hot 97 rotation, an eloquent Rolling Stone interview, and the fader cover. All without any real PR budget. Talk about zeitgeist surfing. I already told you the album was dope when I heard most of it, mostly completed, at Big Yard between sessions with Dre. I went to Kingston feeling so Gully- but I left with a rain-check appointment with Styles to get Gaza across my neck. BUT NOW YOU CAN KNOW FOR YOURSELF. BUY THE THING.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeQ0asfmvBs[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv3mZlDMMys[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9ANGxTBSVk[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WlXGuDIY1c&feature=related[/youtube]
Today I am renting two cars and we are driving ten+ hours into and over the atlas mountains to a desert filled with palm oasis because Hassan Wargui is a genius.#getfamiliar
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p0h6jM66U8[/youtube]

So in the last 48 hours: news was finally disseminated about Rupture, Brent Arnold and Shadetek’s collabo EP with Kalup Linzy and James Franco. I’ve had at least 36 cups of sweet Chinese gunpowder and mint tea at cafes across Casablanca. AND according to at least one rubric the Huffington Post has overtaken the New York Time’s in online traffic. BUT THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME. So tonight we are going in on Sweat Lodge tradition once again at The Cove. The party celebrates the release of our fresh-as-hell new line of gear with Emeka Alams and his killer designed Tee’s and Hats will be waiting for you.