Blog (2008-2018)
LOS DESTELLOS
Classical Peruvian chicha cumbia band Los Destellos running through New York with DJ assistance by Geko Jones and Benoit of Masala & La Congona.
You may have heard Los Destellos as remixed by Sonido Martines a year or two back:
Los Destellos – Elsa (Sonido Martines remix feat Fefe)
Sonido tracked down Los Destellos, explained to them what was going on in the slippery world of ‘new cumbia’, and with their blessings got permission to flip this remix. Now-thing realness with respect for the foundational musicans!
PURE CAPITAL DANCE PARTY
THE PURE CAPITAL DANCE PARTY
WITH DJS
N-RON AND REAGANOMICS
COME FOR THE CASH AND STAY TO DANCE TO THE SOUNDS OF
BAILE FUNK + CUMBIA + BRASIL + BHANGRA + KUDURO + BASS + TREBLE + EVERYTHING ELSE IN-BETWEEN
FRIDAY MAY 21, 2010
11 PM ON AT B.EAST NYC
171 east bway
FREE
Here’s DJ N-RON’s M-C-M1 Mixtape to get you hype for the free party. Head over to Spannered, where it was originally posted for download link, tracklist, + info.
[audio:http://www.span.nered.org/mixes/djnron/DJ-N-RON_The-M-C-M1-Mixtape.mp3]
& from Reaganomics SoundCloud page:
20 meninas remix by dj reaganomics
LIONS WILL ROAR
Friday and Saturday, May 21 & and 22, starting at 8pm, Award-winning New York-based Zimbabwean contemporary dance artist and choreographer Nora Chipaumire will be teaming up with musician Thomas Mapfumo — the legendary “Lion of Zimbabwe†— for the New York premiere of lions will roar, swans will fly, angels will wrestle heaven, rains will break: gukurahundi at the Kumble Theater at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus. Along with the live musical acompaniment by the great Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited, dancer Souleymane Badolo will also join Chipaumire for the performance.
We have a pair of tickets to give a way to the performance on Saturday. The first reader to respond to the question by sending an email with the correct answer to family@duttyartz.com (and make sure you include the word contest in the subject line) wins the pair of tickets.
The ticket contest is OVER! The contest question was what does “mapfumo” means in shona? Answer = “spears”
NORA CHIPAUMIRE + THOMAS MAPFUMO & THE BLACKS UNLIMITED
May 21 & 22 at 8pm
Kumble Theater at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
[youtube width=”525″ height=”393″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0TF3H6-iK0[/youtube]
ESCAPISM
We played alot of really fun parties last year collectively but one of the stand out ones for me was the Vallenato on the River Boat Cruise. New York with all its bright lights, concrete and asphalt can sometimes wear down on the soul. Playing at night, out on the water with a bunch of drunk folk while doing a lap around the Statue of Liberty made for one of the more memorable events of 2009 and the band that played with us, Very Be Careful, recognized that our combined forces made for one hell of a party. VBC plays a raw and sticky acordion vallenato sound with a healthy helping of cowbell, which we all could use a little more of.
Sunday May 23rd, we’re celebrating the release of their new album, Escape Room in 3D at SOB’s. Come thru
Dem Pinche Que Bajo?! Boys Pon Di Attack
grab the tune here. http://soundcloud.com/yage/marimba-de-chonta
or Sonoraa’s version here http://soundcloud.com/sonoraaa
PRIME TIME FILASTINE
Filastine’s blog is great – check this post on Siberia – and he’s always got interesting things to say. Below, a piece broadcast on Catalunyan TV recently:
ABRAZAME (HOLD YUH RIDDIM REMIX)
Fucking big chune. Dutty Artz familia Uproot Andy kills it again on the remix foot. If you don’t know the original already you will hear it out of a car near you soon. Super 2x double marinated remix wherein Los Rakas re-vocaled Hold Yuh Riddim by Brooklyn’s Ricky Blaze (vocaled by Gyptian under the same name) then Uproot Andy took the remix acapella and re-did the beat in his inimitable NY Tropical style. New Yorkers if you are anywhere around us this summer you are gonna hear this again and again. And again. Also check the vocals over the original riddim here.
DOWNLOAD:
Los Rakas feat. Faviola : Abrazame (Uproot Andy Hold Yuh Remix)
[audio: http://media.xlr8r.com/files/downloads/mp3s/Abrazame%20%28Uproot%20Andy%20mix%29.mp3]SUMMER’S HERE
BACKYARD BUILDING – SUMMER SPACE
“…What is the temporary were forever? The goal is to design a public space with these precepts.”
I’ll be on the jury of Temporary Publics Sketch 120 charrette competition in Brooklyn tomorrow, hosted by SUPERFRONT and The Architecture League of NY’s Design in 5. Should be fascinating – several community organizations from Bed-Stuy have submitted indoor/outdoor summertime public project proposals, and tomorrow around 30 designers and architects will be submitting designs in which to realize them — the winning sketch will be built in Superfront’s massive backyard and active throughout the summer!
Innovative public spaces are so hard to create and maintain – especially in dense, expensive cities like Nueva York – so it’s great to help coax one into being. I’ve been reviewing the communty groups’ proposals and it’s already exciting. You are welcome to come join us as the various design teams develop rapid-fire proposals…
Sketch 120: Sketch Cypher – Temporary Publics
Design in 5 Charrette
A program within SUPERFRONT’s spring series, “Cypher on Urban Affairsâ€
Jury: DJ/rupture, nARCHITECTS, and Slade Architecture
Saturday, May 15
2:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
SUPERFRONT
1432 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn“Participants will be randomly assigned a detailed program brief, submitted by community organizations through a SUPERFRONT open-call, with parameters for a semi-outdoor space to be managed for public activity in Brooklyn. The selected team will have the opportunity to construct their design in a 1,000 square foot outdoor space behind the SUPERFRONT gallery in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, in collaboration with SUPERFRONT. Construction will be supported through donated materials from Materials For The Arts, other partners, and novice construction volunteers. Winners will be given a budget of $500 for additional supplies. The temporary outdoor installation will open on June 26th and will run until August 15th.”
EL BAILONGO 2010
This party is going to be multiple varieties of bananas. serious – cumbia villera pioneers Damas Gratis (for those who don’t know, read up my Fader article on cumbia which involves careening around Buenos Aires w/ Damas Gratis leader Pablo Lescano), Bomba Estereo, Toy Selectah, and me with special guest vocalist Jahdan Blakkamoore, raising temperatures down in Monterrey Mexico. Puro fuego!!!
also on the bill, Instituto Mexicano del Sonido, Sonidero Nacional, etc….. BOOM.
29 de Mayo #MEXICO | Presentado por @HellowHellow con DAMAS GRATIS, @ToySelectah, @djrupture, @BombaEstereo, IMS (@CamiloLara), y mas!
(Note the fine print: children under 5 get in free – amazing!)
Del Patio : From A Yard
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/11012434[/vimeo]
So I know ya’ll got up on Whatagatapitusberry via the interwebs but did you do the extra credit assignment and start diggin for more tunes from Del Patio? Don’t worry about it if you didn’t, there’s always more bandwidth over at the fail blog.
Sensato and Saweso are two Bronx-based Dominican MC’s with a great ear for club music. Wayne Marshall has already contributed alot of thought on their first smash and Toy Selectah’s remix has been on a lot of DJ’s playlist in the past 6 months so I don’t need to get into the fact they have more than 4 million youtube views. They’ve been cranking out hilarious videos for their songs at at a breakneck pace and its paying off. Pitbull and Lil Jon jumped on the ‘berry remix and Voltio is on this next joint which is banging in the latin clubs in NYC and the Dominican Republic. I watched a video of some of their live performance in Puerto Rico longside the top dogs in reggeaton and their stage game is the real deal. He’re’s a new 140 bpm jawn that’s bubbling in NYC right now feat Sensato and Voltio.
La Fila India-DNC ft Sensato y Voltio
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/g3kojones/La Fila India.mp3]Two things I find interesting from both these guys and Los Rakas are that they let go tons and tons of music online and they both let the accapellas go out alofoke to see what happens in remixlandia. This sort of ‘Just let go’ approach is something alot of artists are scared to do and I think it shows the confidence of both duos. It takes alot of swag to say ‘my verse is dope, sit that on whatever beat you want, I’m still gonna sound fly.’
Hit up watagatapitusberry.com and alofokemusic.org and stay up on their new stuff and more artists from la republica. I’ll be here trying to get both them and Los Rakas on a track together and getting them to play at Que Bajo?! this summer.
STOP SHOOTING ARTISTS
O’Neil Edwards 1/3 of Dancehall trio Voicemail.
Jamaica, please stop shooting your artists.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fl5JRyABfQ[/youtube]
Voicemail come first on this Style and Swagga medley.
From Dancehall.Mobi:
‘Oneil Edwards, one-third of the popular dancehall group, Voicemail, was reportedly shot multiple times at the gate to his house in Duhaney Park, Kingston, early this morning, and is now undergoing critical surgery at the Kingston Public Hospital. Unconfirmed reports indicate that robbery was the motive, and that he was shot at least once in the head.’
I’ve been playing a lot of Voicemail tunes lately, especially the Style and Swagga version above and I would like all of them to continue making their great music.
Badmen of Jamaica, I would humbly request that you refrain from shooting any more artists, producers, djs or anyone else. If you need to shoot someone please shoot each other and leave everyone else out of it. Thanks.
El Tembleque
Our man Panchitron follows up his Who Killed Cumbia EP with a dubby space age guarachero tune.
Mete le con pepa.
El Tembleque (SM Remix)
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/g3kojones/El Tembleque (SM RMX).mp3]
REMBETIKA SOLACE HOUR
[Yannis, smiling. Andy, wearing someone else’s glasses]
a pertinent blurb: On Monday May 10th, from 7-8PM: Mudd Up’s DJ Rupture will host guitarist Andy Moor (The Ex, Dog-Faced Hermans) and composer Yannis Kyriakides. They’ll be talking about Greek rembetika music, as well as their incredible duo collaboration for guitar and electronics! WFMU, 91.1fm NYC.
+ + +
YES, in other words, the men behind one of the year’s most captivating albums to date, Rembetika, will be live in-studio, talking about the sonically expressed woes of displaced Turkic Greeks, sharing dark old songs from Asia Minor which unspool in time signatures as unsettling and engaging as the stories behind the players, and demystifying the magic contemporary music they make together using guitar and “computer”.
Here’s a tune from Rembetika ‘reinterpretations of classic Rembetika songs’:
[audio:http://negrophonic.com/mp3/Yannis Kyriakides & Andy Moor- A School Burnt Down.mp3]Yannis Kyriakides & Andy Moor – A School Burnt Down (Rembetika)
