New York Ravers, next weekend come get dutty with me on Saturday night at an underground party in Soho details here. Thanks to everyone who came out to Oceans of Blood and skanked out this past Friday, great party. Seems like I’m getting asked more and more to play at these underground jams in informal locations more and more, I’m really happy to see them happening again after many years of being verrrry bored going to regular clubs in NYC. Support these events and let’s keep ’em happening.
Heatwave continuing to hott up the funky bashment axis. This time with a nice Natalie Storm – now crowned The Queen of Funky Bashment – over Footsteps “Worker” funky riddim. I’ve been playing this riddim a lot in my dj sets for the past few months and it always works, cool to hear Nats on it.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ2twPVjj9Y[/youtube]
Natalie Storm & Footsteps – Play Di Ting (The Heatwave Refix) by GabrielHeatwave
Next Tuesday, April 27 Dutty Artz will release Techno Rumba, official debut EP from producer/DJ-extraordinaire Chief Boima. Techno Rumba is Boima’s elegant and fresh take on Afrobeat and contemporary African dance music. Head over to XLR8R now for an exclusive stream/preview of the entire EP – which features two original tracks from Chief Boima and a pair of remixes from Dutty Artz own DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek and Uproot Andy.
You can download DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek additional refix with original vocal contribution from performance artist Kalup Linzey. Also downloadable is the free remix EP African By The Bay – to hold you over until Tuesday when Techno Rumba drops in digital shops.
BD1982 has been one of my favorite producers for a minute. I’ve been including his tracks on mixes and dropping them when I play for about two years now. His Spaceboots EP on Seclusiasis was one of the most banging EPs of the last 12 months- and he now has a full length out entitled “Lets Talk Math.” He laced DA with a lengthy interview, an exclusive mix for the podcast- as well as an Erykah Badu vocal version of “Subtract”.
BD1982 – Soldier (Subtract) 320[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Soldier_%28Subtract%29.mp3]
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tracklist after the jump
T: So- we’ve been in touch for at least two years now- I first became familiar with your production through your monstrous “Water-Faucet” riddim, which shows up here as the instrumental for the gun man tune “Shotta Pon da Corner.” Lets maybe begin there. How did you come to work with Two Seven? Were you always planning on getting a vocal on that instrumental? What about “Fresh Air Ft. Syntonics” (one of my absolute favorites on the album) and “Chased by The Rain”- where the vocals take on a more instrument like role. How do you conceptualize the role of a vocalist in mainly instrumental genres? When your djing out are you playing primarily instrumental tracks as well?
B: I had been a fan of 77klash since hearing “Brooklyn Anthem” and sent a message through Myspace to see if he’d be interested in voicing a tune and luckily he was up for it! I hadn’t really planned on trying to get an original vocal for “Water Faucet” intially, maybe just because the “Blueberry Afghani” bootleg remix was making some rounds, but I’m still incredibly happy at how dope “Shotta Pon De Corner” ended up .
More Interview Under the Hood (more…)
In which our Intrepid Soundboy shall perform in front of a mandala made from bioluminescent toothpaste…
I’m looking fwd to this gig, Pittsburgh it’s finally happening!
DJ /rupture +
James Gyre & Edgar Um
@ Garden of Earthly Delights
9PM – 2AM April 22nd @ Brillobox
4104 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA
$7 pre-sale $10 at the door
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nmUqMZKmWU&feature=related[/youtube]
Normally I get a lot of stupid shit in the form of press releases but today I actually got one with something cool in it. Publicists, just because I’m blogging about something I got in a release doesn’t mean you should send more! I hate them! What does this say about how we should all be promoting our music? I don’t know.
Anyway, Pursuit Grooves is a female producer/singer/rapper from BK who I’ve never heard of but has a new record out on dubstep label Tectonic although it’s not dubstep. I like what I’ve heard. Also, dubstep labels take note: you need more female energy. You are all turning (have turned) your genre into a big macho dick grabbing testosterone fest and it’s turning me off. As rising dancehall artist Professor says in one of my recent favorite songs:
“Nuff Bwaaaaaay / a gwan like dem nuh wan roll wit de gyal dem… Some bwaaaaay would rather roll out wit one bagga man fren… my yout it no look good.”
– Professor, Roll With The Gal Dem
Pursuit Grooves “Fox Trot Mannerisms” Tectonic TECCD008 by Multiverse
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgPNLWPTESY[/youtube]
And here’s the Professor tune I was quoting. Big tune on Don Corleon’s new Gala Riddim.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkq9VGD_DA[/youtube]
On my way back from SXSW to New Orleans we stopped to pay tribute to the late great DJ Screw at Screwed Up Records and Tape. The interior of the shop is super minimal- a rack of RIP SCREW tall tee’s and a couple of well worn binders with lists of hundreds of Screw CD’s and Tapes. While I was browsing the catalog a middle-aged woman walked in and asked the young cashier behind the bulletproof transaction counter about a CD she was looking for. He responded, “We only sell screwed up music here, m’am.” Of course, they had the latest Z-Ro mixes and some other Southern artists- but she thanked him and left. In the land of Swisha House the air was heavy with dank.
Here’s an extra tape compressed, phased, distorted, heavy, heavy Screw version of the Master P’s blunt and heem anthem. It came on this morning while I rode to school- I tried to bump it- but the sound refuses to ever return to its Caddy and Box Chevy 12″ king-kong in the trunk glory. The newer Screwed tapes from DJ Michael Watts and the rest are Serato Box Fresh – but something about these poorly transcoded and squashed tapes keep me coming back. The distortion is a reminder of the sounds displacement, forcing you to reflect on Houston and a particular draped up and dripped out southern ambiance.
DJ Screw – Pass Me the Green (Master P)[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/DJ_Screw_Pass_Me_the_Green_%28Master_P%29.mp3]
I actually LOLed at this one, posted by Eddie Stats over at Okayplayer’s new(?) Large Up blog. The last and first of his Toppa Top 10 fake reggae songs are the picks for me. Eddie Murphy taking a polished and very funny dig at Bob Marley (seems pretty clearly aimed, I could be wrong) and then some youtube guys hilariously misinterpreted transcription of Busy Signal (with jpegs!).
R.I.P. Guru
Above the crowds above the clouds
where the sounds are original
infinite skills create miracles
warrior spiritual
Above the clouds reigning down
Holdin’ it down
This Friday I will be swimming the Oceans of Blood with former Change Agent homies Orien McNeill and Zack Shadetek on a fundraiser for their crazy boat project. Open bar and a fake blood slip and slide and me djing from 11-1AM What more do you want, really?
Strange info after the jump>>
Jahdan is performing with his band Noble Society at Santos Party house longside Brooklyn’s Game Rebellion.
9pm-4am
96 Lafayette Street- Chinatown
BACK AFTER THOUSANDS OF YEARS….
goes down tonight with CUMBA MELA, QUE BAJO?! y LA MADRE FUERZA
I’m a little misty-eyed about announcing tonight’s event. One of the last shows going down at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn. This venue has hosted some of BK’s finest up and coming bands and DJ’s, in an artist friendly/ half-open air environment that has brought together thousands of folks together to witness pretty much the craziest concotions the Borough has had to offer. Uproot Andy and myself back to back for the late night posse – 2am till we pack it in.
April 17 2010
gates: 8:30pm
show: 9:30pm…
Djays: 10:30 .until the sun rises
3rd Ward. 195 Morgan Ave.
Admittance through the gates: $15 all night long
Be on the look out later this week as we began the spring/summer assault on NYC with a Tuesday night jammy jam at Sin Sin and the beginning of our new Wednesday night residency at Santos Party House.
BROOKLYN STAND UP!
A full length LP of Mos Def refixes free on soundcloud
heads up by @natemars via twitter
I guess were kind of beating a dead meme on this one- (and I guess I’m kind of becoming the joke blog post guy around here) but for real… if you dont fuck with Wayne Marshall we probably cant be friends.
