
Boogaloo Mutante is out now for FREE download at MPEACH’S BANDCAMP! Don’t forget the release event tonight in New York! (more…)
After premiering at SPIN, the video for the title track off of the Mothership EP is here! Check it out now and purchase the EP on iTunes/bandcamp. (more…)
London based DJ and production group LV just dropped this new mix w/ i-D mag. Lots of dope sounds in this one, including some from the Dutty Artz crew: Chief Boima’s remix from the Mothership EP, Uproot Andy’s “Worldwide Dembow” and the Smakk Riddim produced by Robzilla and Matt Shadetek, versioned by Chan Dizzy on “Calling All Girls.” Check it out below.
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Last week the first episode of Africa is a Country Radio, with your host Chief Boima, went live! This marks the beginning of an official three-way partnership between Groovalizacion, Dutty Artz, and Africa is a Country. (more…)
Just wanted to take a moment to point to two of my music writing pieces from the past month, which can also serve as a kind of travelogue of my past six months. (more…)
Sam Hillmer aka The Diamond Terrifier has just released a new mixtape sampling and chopping up songs from the Dutty Artz catalog. I really love the scattered and distorted sample chopping, overlaid by his sometimes atmospheric, sometimes Ornette Coleman inspired saxophone playing. (more…)
Dutty Artz was the featured label in this month’s Starwax magazine, a French electronic music monthly distributed for free across all of France. They interviewed current label boss Chief Boima on the past, current, and future happenings of the label and crew. (more…)
I am off to Mexico City, Distrito Federal, to perform at the Vive Latino festival this weekend. DF is without a doubt one of the world’s most incredible cities (more…)
Old Money’s Mothership EP is here! (more…)
Keeping with my contemporary Africa-Caribbean crossover obsession… [insert new genre name here? AfroBASS!? MOOMBAtlantic?] I thought I would point to a couple of the latest and very exciting developments in Caribbean and African artist collaboration… this time mostly centered on Jamaica: (more…)
I was recently a guest on Impose Mag’s Audio Imposition show, where the host Eric Phipps and I talked a bit about what’s next with Old Money, Shamans in Peru, and more. I got pretty hype in particular when the question of early influences came up, because it made me think back to old Kayslay CDs with freestyles by an up and coming rapper named Grafh – a cat who reminded you at every turn that it’s spelled with an “f” and not a “p” – perhaps correctly anticipating the importance of a Googleable name.