Blog (2008-2018)

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here are a few youtube videos I have been meaning to post the last few days –

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First up, Obama Chia pet commercial – We already know that one of the few growth areas in the American economy at the moment is Obama memorabilia.  So this one comes as no surprise, though it is inappropriate and hilarious – not as much as the kids in Times Square selling Obama Condoms to tourists (“Get your Obama Condoms” and “We got extra-smalls”) or the Obama tees I saw people wearing in DC a few days ago, at the Smithsonian of all places. It seems to be all about hot dogs and ice cream and Obama memorabilia down at the Mall.

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Second, SkipScreen – A Firefox extension which eleminates the unnecessary wait time when downloading files from zShare, Rapidshare, Megaupload, etc.  You still get pop-ups from zShare and other host sites but they’re still working it, and if you’re not interested in purchasing a premium account with thise hosting sites, you’ll appreciate SkipScreen.

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And last, Mos Def recites DOOM lyrics in a studio.  DOOM’s latest album Born Like This disgustingly good – “Give a MC a rectal hysterectomy/Lecture on removal of the bowel, foul technically,”  “Chrome grown men doin’ business with Anglo Sax’n’em/Lackin’ swing but that banjo’s so relaxin’,” “Villain knot his hair, he’s no Afro-American/If that’s the case, he be a bald-headed African,” and “…don’t know what he sayin’ but the words be funny.”

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oldie but a goodie:

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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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Terius Nash aka The Dream in the studio.  This guy is a BEAST.  His past two albums are crazy, pretty much all I’ve been listening to for a while.  The fact that he’s making shit this fast should just make everyone else quake in fear.  He deserves his hype. Shouts to Kingdom via Twitter for the link. I’m on there too. Tweet tweet tweet.

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New tune by me and 77Klash leaked in advance of his “No Fear” album (with more beats by me on it).

Pressure – 77Klash feat. Matt Shadetek

The Fader says: “We’ve been following the individual trails of Brooklyn’s own power-chatter 77Klash and beatmaker extraordinaire Matt Shadetek for a real hot minute, as musical innovators of the biggest borough and as style inspirers (shout to Klash’s reversible multicolor vest and purple button-down he wore during his special live performance on FADER Radio in Austin. Individually, we sweat them, but together, they make a transcendent kind of bass-laden magic (see: ““Brooklyn Anthem“). This new Klash track with the evil grimey deez by Shadetek is the Jamaican-influenced equivalent of two fuzzy eyebrows slanted downward in a mean face, or maybe just the sound of your huge crew rolling up to the park in like, five trucks. We will roll with you, dudes! ”

Shouts to Mad Decent for posting this as well.

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It’s that time of year in Budapest. Sunglasses, legs, and the wonderful ice cold soda water and white wine fröccs. If there’s anything in the youth landscape here that says “emerging economy” its the prevalence of a water downed wine drink that comes in (according to a friend) ten ratios including the “artist’s” which is 1 part wine to 9 parts water. It’s hard to imagine why I’ve spent a minute inside since the temperature hit 70 a few days ago…

Listening to the amazing set of mixes that Gex and Lamin and Matt have put out in the last month made me get over my turntable fetish and start fucking with Ableton….. Samizdat is the result. I dare you to find or put out another mix that includes both drone-doom gods Earth and Times Square Blue evoking Leif

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“Samizdat” tracklist:
So So Gutter – Hatescrwen
De Tropix – TapTap
Busy Signal -Murderer (w/ Alborosie)
Lorn – Requiem (Ft. Mobb Deep)
Verbal – (Prefuse 73 Dipped in Chrome Cadillac Remix)
Red Cafe- Hottest in the Hood
Viento Calido – Cumbia Titanic
I Get It In (Inst)
Serani – No Games
DJ Miguelon -Cada Vez RMIX Cumbia The Version (Biggup the indefatigable Ghetto Bass Quake for this and Titanic)
Leif- Timbs (Neon Coyote Slow Jam)
Jet Black – Hood Nigga (Lazer Swords Remix)
Sonido Changa- Cumbia De Los Amigos
Earth- Teeth of Lions Rule the Devine
L-Vis 1990 – Flux
I love NY – (Baobinga’s Fuck U Mix)
Jahdan – Go Round Payolla (Bye HAters Shadetek Remix)
G-Sidez – Hit Da Block ( Feat Shyft)
Taliesin – Damn

This is a promo mix of sorts for my upcoming UK tour- which I’ll throw a reminder for when closer to the date- but so far looks like this…

May UK Tour (with a quick trip to Austria)
02. Sibin Festival DUBLIN
09  The Old Bell DERBY
13  Hardknock at The Social LDN
15  Absolutely Free Festival GRAZ, Austria
16- Nuke Them All LDN
23- Cosies BRISTOL

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Thanks again to everyone who came out last time.  We’re doing it again.  We’re always looking for people doing things that we like and can vibe with in NYC to link up and get rainforesty with us.  This time our guest is new signee to Diplo’s Mad Decent label Maluca.  Those who were there  last time know what I’m saying, I tried to lean on the wall behind the DJ booth and nearly busted my ass it was so slippery.  Shoutouts to Contessa hosting and NY Remezcla on promotional support.

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Friday April 24th

Glasslands Gallery

289 Kent Ave.

10PM – 4AM

$5 b4 11PM, $7 after

DJs:

Uproot Andy

Geko Jones

Matt Shadetek

Special live guest:

Maluca [Mad Decent]

Hosted by: Contessa

And before anyone else asks me what those animals are (not the baby leopard) they’re MARMOSETS:

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ST, 6 TRE G, and AC Burna – Feel The (Chris Brown)

eXclusive new music from Slowmotion Soundz,  produced by Block Beataz so you already know it knocks.

R&B superstar Chris Brown grew up in a domestic battlefield, and eventually/allegedly/recently involved in a lovers’ quarrel with his superstar girlfriend Rihanna which turned violent.  It’s heartbreaking and sad, and I can imagine every sane individual who knew this story hope something meaningful and productive came out of the situation–more public discussions (not just in the tabloids and gossip blogs) of a domestic, hidden, and intimate problem.  And we have this track here, which is all about driving a nice car with a sick soundsystem.

For another recent Chris brown/pop violence reference in rap music, check Maino’s “Murdergram.” Not productive, but it also knocks – “down for anything even knocking out Suge.”

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dead prez – Stimulus Plan

Never mind the global economic crisis, what are your plans to feed your family? Food prices on the streets of Senegal, Malawi, Egypt and other less affluent countries are rising while people are loosing jobs. While all those powerful world leaders are in London trying to settle their differences and tackle the economic crisis in comfortable and safe trappings, away from the protesters and the grime. Here in Brooklyn, USA (while I was getting my shape-up yesterday I saw a man eating a butter-roll/bread and butter and said that was his dinner-~he might have been joking, but in these times, you never know) “our favorite major label, corporate owned black radicals” dead prez is telling you to come up with your own solution, your own fiscal stimuli, and navigate your way out of economic darkness.  From their forthcoming Pulse of the People project, said to be produced entirely by DJ Green Lantern.  Props to Nah Right.

Recession Rap Jams – My grind is my stimulus plan

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April fools, they’re not really, but that actually happened to me in junior high school and was terrible.  One week from tonight NYC it’s a wednesday night sweat-out courtesy of the great Thanh of Unit One and the Broken Teeth Crew featuring Your’s Truly.  What will I play?  I have no idea, but it will be magically delicious, I promise.

Broken Teeth w/ MATT SHADETEK of DUTTY ARTZ – 4/8 at 87 ludlow & delancey st – NYC
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Geko Jones was guest hosting Moglo Radio this week and he put together a beautiful hour of tropical travels. This is good for your in home personal dance parties, I know cause it was recorded in my Bed Stuy apartment and the place was jumping. For real, I was jumping. I got all amped and tried to have a cumbia cd delivered with our tacos, cause they do sell them at the restaurant, but alas the tacos arrived alone. Don’t worry though, I’ll try again next time, I’m determined to have cumbia delivered to my door.

In the meantime, grab the radio show below, put it on, and start practicing your moves for the next Que Bajo dance party on April 9th at APT, as well as every Thursday in April after that.

Also I wanna shout out Chief Boima who has two new productions featured in Geko’s mix, one of them in collaboration with Oro 11 under the name Banana Clipz. They’re both fire and Boima promises a trip out here in the summer so get familiar.

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Tracklist:

Filaw (Chief Boima rmx) – Issa Bagayogo
Bongo Jam- Crazy Cousins
Guata Guata- Dj Mouse
Serena Step- Hossam Ramsey
Num Deu Pra Creditá- Barbatuques
Borachera- Charly DJ
El Pescador (Uproot Andy remix) – Toto la Momposina
Mapale Sabroso – Cumbia Soledena

El Principe- Sonido del Principe
Kamphopo- The Very Best
Crisis (Banaclipz Bubustyle riddim)- Khady Black
Kawina-?
Ay paloma- La Reverenda (Geko Jones & Reaganomics Ay Kuduro rmx)
Drift Furioso- DJ Marfox
Lem Lem feat Sara- Ku Bo
Freight Dub- Stagga

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So after playing New York Tropical and Rubulad back to back, I’m looking forward to another fun weekend, this time with a lot less work.  On Friday night, the ZZK crew from Argentina touches down in Williamsburg for a show at Union Pool. If Billyburg isn’t your hood you can also catch them saturday on the soundsytem at Santos Playhouse in manhattan which should be heavy on the bass end with those subs they have downstairs. If I’m understanding correctly the ZZK at Santos thing is an early show, from 7-11pm so after el guiso en Santos,  we’re heading over to catch the AFRIKA party at Le Poisson Rouge.

FRIDAY

ZZK @ Union Pool  (8:00pm – 11:55pm) 484 Union Ave  (L train to Lorimer)

ZZK Records is a homegrown, artists’ collective launched recently out of Buenos Aires, Argentina. ZZK Records evolved from Zizek Club, the weekly party in Palermo, capital of South American hip, where visiting artists and resident deejays attract consistent crowds of global, street music fans. At Zizek, cumbia gets thrown in a sonic blender with minimal electronica, dancehall, reggaeton and dub mashups, and original beats.
“Zizek’s a cornerstone of the fast-rising cumbia scene, packing in crowds with music that can perhaps be best described as the ultimate mash-up of underground Latin club sounds: reggaetón and dancehall bleeding into ghettotech and hip-hop, with traditional and electronic dance beats swirling around the whole hot, boiling stew.” -SF Weekly

SATURDAY 

ZZK @ Santos Party House (96 Lafayette St 7:00pm – 11:00pm)

Fauna, Douster, and El G take Manhattan!

On Saturday April 4, Zizek Club jets into the Big Apple to headline at Santos Party House. They’ll be bringing their sonic blender of cumbia mixed with a dash of electronica, dancehall, reggaeton, and a ton of original beats. Guaranteed to have a down right fun time dancing your back parts off.

THE AFTER PARTY

DJ Ayo’s Global Low Frequency @ Le Poisson Rouge

158 Bleecker Street 10pm-4am

Celebrating the Urban-Hipster Musical Cultures of Africa abroad. We funk with Afrobeat, Raggasonic hiphop, Coupe Decale, Soukous, Cumbia, Zouk, Salsa & Samba breaks’n house, electro-kwassa & Kwaito.

DJs + live instruments & special guests vocals.
Incl. legendary guest drummer and flutist.

Featuring:

DJ/Live beats programming by EMCH (Subatomic Sound System)

DJ Ayo (ex-Multi Kulti store selector)

Jojo Kuo (ex-drummer Fela Kuti, Manu Dibango)

Sylvain Leroux (African Flutes)