Blog (2008-2018)

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This just in from the Kolleidosonic blog…

Brand new mixtape chock full of exclusive productions from outernationalist Maga Bo, this mix takes you through some stuff he’s been working on over the past year. Last I heard, the next album will incorporate alot more of the Brazileiro vibes from his soon to be native homeland (10 years in Rio!!). There’s a couple of things to watch for here like the forthcoming Wha-la-la-leng remix for Poirier, Jahdan on Maga Traz a lenha, and the Petrona Martinez refix I sat in with him for at Casa de los Jones.

Outras Terras Mixtape

Outras Terras Mix

1. “Ê Boi (Maga Bo Remix)” Coco Raízes de Arcoverde (Unreleased)

2. “E Daí feat. Speed Freaks” Sonar Calibrado (Maga Bo and Filastine) (12″ Shockout)

3. “B’tallah (Maga Bo Remix)” Filastine (12″ Post World Industries – forthcoming)

4. “Alesh feat. Jawad” Sonar Calibrado (Filastine and Maga Bo) (12″ Shockout)

5. “Longa Nahawand feat. Mohammed Issa Matona” Maga Bo (Soot Records)

6. “Se Liga feat. Mario Z” Sonar Calibrado (Maga and Filastine) (12″ Shockout)

7. “Boucan (Maga Bo Remix of Dr. Das Bhajni Ragga Remix))” Pitcho (Unreleased)

8. “Aunty Adoley (Maga Bo vs. Sabo Remix)” X-Pensive Nframa (Akwaaba – forthcoming)

9. “Maga Traz a Lenha feat. Jahdan Blakkamoore” Maga Bo (Unreleased)

10. “El Critica (Maga Bo Remix)” Petrona Martinez (Unreleased)

11. “Kizomba; A Festa das Raças feat. BNegão” Maga Bo (Unreleased)

12. “Alleyways” Fletcher Meets Maga Bo feat. Neon Don (African Dope Records)

13. “Ransom (Pacheko Remix)” Maga Bo (Senseless Records – forthcoming)

14. “Earthshaking” Jahdan Blakkamoore (Produced by Maga Bo) (Duty Artz/Gold Dust)

15. “Nqayi feat. Teba” Maga Bo (Soot Records/African Dope Records)

16. “Wha La La Leng feat. Face-T (Maga Bo Remix) Poirier (Ninja Tune – forthcoming)

17. “La Paix feat. Xuman” Maga Bo (Unreleased)

18. “Rise Again feat. Abena Koomson” Jahdan Blakkamoore (Produced by Maga Bo) (Dutty Artz/Gold Dust)

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Rupture is off-the-grid again, somewhere in rainy Old Europe enjoying the Holidays. I’m holding things down tonight 7-8PM on Mudd Up! radio on WFMU 91.1 fm in NYC. We have some supa-dupa exclusives to throw on the air tonight,  a lot of 2010 heaters mixed in with our some of our favorite 2009 jams. Tonight @ 7PM.

Here’s something I’ll be dropping at some point tonight – probably my a favorite dancehall riddim/tune from ’09.

[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Mavado – Gyal Bend Ova.mp3]

Mavado – Gyal Bend Ova (prod. Stephen Di Genius McGregor)

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For those outside our FM broadcast range, WFMU offers live streaming and even has its own free iPhone app!

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Lately I’ve been having fun typing things into Google’s little search box at the top right of my browser and seeing what comes up as suggestions. Today I was reading about the Pine Ridge Lakota Sioux Reservation on Wikipedia and there was a mention of Caucasian people, who have a wikipedia entry too. This however lead me to see what google had to say about white people so I tried my friend the search box. Hilariously the first result was ‘white people stole my car’. What? Needless to say I clicked through. Turns out that a while back if you typed ‘white people stole my car’ into Google, the helpful googleoids would ask “did you mean black people stole my car?” Screenshot below. I can’t vouch for the veracity of the screenshot but I did find it very funny.

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[youtube width=”524″ height=”393″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agAdm9gn-w4[/youtube]

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Birdman – Money To Blow feat. Drake and Lil Wayne (Chief Boima Remix)

Chief Boima‘s version is not as funny, but it’s a guaranteed dance floor scorcher.  The Chief is a badman producer from the left coast who recently unleashed a free EP heat up your winter – African By The Bay (62 megabyte ZIP file), feel free to to download and re-post on your site.

African By The Bay
[Artwork/cover design by Lupo Avanti]

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Omzo and Yero of Minen Teye

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Minen Teye feat. Sista Soda – Yero & Omzo (One Love)

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Minen Teye feat. Gaston – Wake Up

Minen Teye is a rap group out of Nouakchott, Mauritania. The group, sometimes referred to as the conscious generation, is a rather loose collective of rappers and singers from the rural parts of the country. The main members Yero and Omzo moved to the capital to pursue higher education at University of Nouakchott.  Other members of the collective moved to the city avoid civil unrest and the border squabbles with neighboring countries Senegal and Mali, which dates back to the late 1980s– but the capital Nouakchott has seen its share of trouble in the last two decades and recently with the military coup in August 2008.  According to my Mauritanian source here in Brooklyn, Yero and Omzo are in the third generation (2003-present) of the rap collective which dates back to the mid-1990s.  Their lyrics are politically charged and critical of the military government which has been brutally suppressing dissent and painting that suppression as fighting terrorism and Islamist militants, drug traffickers and illegal migrants.  Minen Teye members have been harassed by police and government officials several times in the last year.  They are in the process of recording a new album which should be out sometime next year.  In meantime, these two tracks feature outside vocalists, Senegalese songstress Sista Soda and Senegalese rapper Gaston. The tracks are from their recent release, from earlier this year Moro-Itanie.

Here’s a video a Facebook friend posted a few hours ago – Women on the Frontline: Mauritania, a documentary presented by Annie Lennox shining a light on violence against women and girls. Here, they look at the Islamic Republic’s interpretation of the Sharia law Zina. [UNIFEM]

[youtube width=”525″ height=”455″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zdkB_gm_VI[/youtube]

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS4KAImORd8[/youtube]

Kreayshawn‘s demo reel Summer 2009

& here’s the future! Lil B’s new video “Like A Martian,” also directed by Kreayshawn.

This is definitely dumbest track I’ve heard from Lil B this year -mind you, I can only listen to his material in tiny doses so I’ve heard less than one tenth of his output this year. Andrew Noz/Cocaine Blunts has the time and patience/attention for this. Grab the mp3/audio dope here if you dare.

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

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Jay Electronica

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Jay Electronica – Exhibit C

I have been waiting for a CDQ/NODJ version of this track for months! Jay Electronica (f*ck that! Call me Jay ElecHannukah, Jay ElecYalmulke…) and The Megatron Don answered the request/prayers of rap nerds and fans of great music the world over when they released Exhibit C this week. While the eyes of the world were on Copenhagen (I hope the eyes of the world were on Copenhagen! All the f*ckery, wrangling, and argument going on there matters to every single one of us on the planet. You might wake up one morning and find there is no Freetown, Monrovia, Conakry, no Dakar, no Lagos, no Accra, no Durban… they’re all cities under sea/saltwater! ahem, Solar Life Raft anyone?) one of my favorite tracks of 2009 was dropped in my mailbox! Finest holiday gift thus far, thanks Mo!

Now, let’s hope we get a full/CDQ version of “Dear Moleskine” by mid-Winter, and I’m quite certain an album in 2010 will set the globe on fire!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cA010JeecE[/youtube]

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Karma Atchykah  – Journée de Pluie avec Soke et Wahlee Sparks

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Karma Atchykah – Mains en l’air

The big homie Poirier recommended some nice rappity raps from Quebec.  Karma Atchykah‘s current album with Shash Revolution Culturelle is downloadable here. He is also preparing to drop a new album in the new year, so keep your eyes peeled.

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Meet Cero 39.

The son of a high level intelligence agent for the Colombian government, Cero grew up wanting to be James Bond. He was exposed early to all manor of high-end gadgets and has become a multi-faceted artist that incorporates ambient video edits, live art installation, and lively digi-doombia-passa-passa-champeta-y-mas sets that really create a great atmosphere for what he calls the Tropical Advanced sound in Colombia. Factor in the Max Headroom meets Cocheese fashion sense and Secret Agent Gel is gettin a serious run for his money in 2010.

Uproot Andy and I had a chance to get to know Cero 39 aka Sabrosongo while in Bogota for the Que Bajo?! tour this fall. He invited us to play his Santo Show monthly, a sonic sister party to ZZK, Tormenta Tropical and Que Bajo?! You can catch him playing to underground lockdown clubs full of swanky jetset Telemundo actresses, art galleries and clubs all over his native Colombia. His production incorporates cumbia, champeta, dub and synthy happiness. When last I spoke to him, he was working on a motion-censored cumbia installation for the museum in Medellin. I could explain but it would require diagrams, illustrations and schematics and my security clearance just isn’t that high yet.

Instead, download the brand new 2-sided mixtape below and get to know one of my favorite discoveries of 2009.

Vias Del Caribe Vol 2