If I had more time I would of recorded street traffic and added it as a bonus cut “BK 4’33” on the new iphone friendly .m4r ring tone version of New York Tropical. Which now happens to be coming out on Nov. 9 – so push back your calendar a week and call it a date.
It’s gonna be good: DAS RACIST has put together an amazing playlist of music from South Asia & diaspora for today’s special edition of MuddUp with DJ Rupture on WFMU 91.1fm. It starts with Queen! So tonight’s show is already next-level. Tune in live from 7-8pm EST, streaming worldwide via wfmu.org. (if this DR reminder is news to you, check this post).
And I’m very pleased to announce that my next radio guest wil be the always-inspiring writer / editor / superhero JULIANNE ESCOBEDO SHEPHERD (with a 78% chance of Dapwell)! She’ll be joining us on Monday November 8th. Keywords: DANCE MUSIC.
(I’m blogging this on a phone on BoltBus. Now I’m bus-sick. Dedication vs stupidity).
My article on Christine Abdelnour Sehnaoui for The National is now online. Ordinarily I harbor a strong dislike for the saxophone. But in Christine’s hands, it is pure weird gold. Continue reading.
This is the moment in the game when Rita Indiana takes over. When she starts to win everything. Rising stars, the best celestial event, we sit back & enjoy.
Just months (!) after her debut release entered the world via yr favorite GIF-maker’s favorite DIY media hallucination/fuckup-garden, DUTTY ARTZ, Rita indiana has created a Modern Masterpiece, a genius-monster of an album called El Juidero. It launched this week on the same label that catapulted Aventura into bachata stardom.
Rita’s one of those people who seem to effortlessly bend the laws of the possible… and do it in style — with content as well! The mind boggles. I tried to explain things over here… The former novelist’s way with words is incredible, so let’s just say we feel sorry for the gringo massive who can’t understand her lyrics because Rita is at the top of the lyrics game… for real. And the more you know about Dominican and related music(s), the deeper her songs & structures will reach. Context! plus Voodoo, baby! UNDARUNDEIRO 4 LIFE. (By the way, I was just talking with Ivory, he joined Rita & I to lay down some percussion on ‘Los Poderes’, and he was telling me about Garifuna musicians playing gigs up in the Bronx! Plus young, fast accordionists.)
So. El Juidero. We love Club Fonograma’s 5-star review: “Add Rita Indiana Hernandez to the list of extraordinary individuals who carry transcendence in every step of their creative spectrum.” We love the review because it is one hundred percent accurate, a rare journalistic event!
[clearly, Dominican cake]
The best part about running a DIY media hallucination/fuckup garden is watching great things happen to members of the Dutty Artz family as we explode into the world, determined to make it swing a little harder. We’re gonna make our cake and we’re gonna share our cake and we’re gonna eat that cake too, all at same time. (Cake metaphors = prepping you for our 12-part series on Dominican cake extragavance in NYC, they’re downright architectural).
Here’s the title track from El Juidero:
plus a deliciously funny song about ‘el maldito feisbu’ (think Zuckerberg) which she fed to the internet this winter:
DJ Dinho, a DJ from a local sound system when interviewed, mentioned: “The music is made to promote the artists. The artists don’t use the music to sell millions of copies. It’s to give the artist attention and to get shows”.
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My first appearance on U.S. TV and I’m speakin’ Spanish! Welcome to the 21st ct., amigos. Gonna throw a tea party to celebrate, tod@s estan invitad@s. #DemographicWarfare
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Richard A Ingram, “…Gd Wll Rcgnz Hs wn,†from Consolamentum (2010, White Box)
first up, today is a Very Special Edition of Mudd Up! Radio on WFMU, because I’ll be going from 6-8pm. It’s always nice to do a double shift (two hours instead of my usual action-packed 60minutes). Tune in early!
then get ready for the following week:
DAS RACIST! We’ll be broadcasting live from the combination Pi… I mean, Das Racist are rising rap stars, post-meta, consisently awesome, endlessly quotable, and “super credible.” Their 2010 output of next-level mixtapes, videos, and video games is simply astonishing. So – mark yr calendars and alert yr Social Networks: next Monday, October 18th, I catch up with Das Racist to talk about Ford trucks, apple pie, and bald eagles!
If you haven’t heard Sit Down Man then remedy that. Here are 2 jams from it:
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Chip Tha Ripper, “Ain’t No Love Here,†from From Me, To You (Prelude To Gift Raps) EP
Cleveland rapper Chip Tha Ripper is part of the newer generation of rappers coming out of Midwestern U.S. cities, and making interesting, street hip hop, and sometimes just sinister mid-90s-style throwback rap jams. Look beyond the cartoonish artist package, and you’ll find some solid rap music. “Ain’t No Love Here†is one the best tracks I’ve heard from Chip since “Get It Gurl.” Also check his verse on Freddie Gibb’s “Oil Money” –
We are dropping  a 12 track tropical compilation just in time for when things start to get cold in New York and hot in Rio. Ten unreleased TROPICAL tunes + anthemic FUNKY THAT WE HAD TO COSIGN and A HEAVYWEIGHT NEW MASTER OF NGUZUNGUZU’s EL BEBE AMBIENTE. We feel bad that we have not kept up our LEGENDARY New York Tropical parties- but we just do not have time to promote a crew club night in New York- but maybe again in the future, with some good partners we would get into it again- because NEW YORK TROPICAL WAS A FUCKING BLESSING. The first time I went was before I had really started working with DA and everything about it was perfect. From the German Belgian installation art that slowly dissolved as the dancefloor spread to all surfaces, to the perfect Sangria, the heavy weight dancehall soundsytem that we rented from SoundMan Grimm, a crowd that reflected the diversity of the music…. basically NYT was one of the dopest party series I’ve ever taken part in (although sadly I never got to play caus I was busy learning things in school and hanging out in Europe).
For the comp we hooked up with DA resident internet excavator Seacrest Cheadle  892 u mean computer mean2 computer did u mean competitor a force that has been so next level for so long that it is basically my only internet news source. We have been dreaming of doing projects with him/it/her/zee since before the first .com crash but he’s basically the zeitgeist embodied and besides pretty regular appearances at Korea Town Karaoke Bars and Neurogenetic labs in undisclosed locations- she is damn near impossible to locate. but somewhere in the #based ether we convinced it them 2 make a deadline… and magically, it worked.
Our promo machine is at about cotton gin status at this point… so we just moving FWD looking towards a more cohesive way to reach a larger audience. I dont open or listen to almost any of the promo email I get, and you dont either. But some of it will keep coming but really this whole thing is about relationships. I, for one, am working on my relationship to the ocean and fresh fruit juice in Brazil. I suggest you keep a dream journal while you ask these questions.
There are also tracks on this compilation from important and soon to be important musicians like Lamin Fofana, Kingdom (flipping RITA INDIANA OMFG!), Lido Pimienta, Matt Shadetek, DJ /Rupture, Chief Boima, DJ Orion, Sonora, Salem,  Knight Magic,  La Ola Criminal, Maga Bo.
Tracks will be sold digitally via Hulk Share and on custom GuccixDuttyArtz all-over-print USB sticks
Joyful music for an expensive, shitty city with decaying infrastructure where DUTTY ARTZ lives & loves.
[Rocio Rodriguez Salceda – untitled 2010, courtesy of Caption Gallery]
Dutty Artz family member and general superstar Rocio Rodriguez Salceda has her debut solo show in New York City, opening this Thursday at Caption Gallery in DUMBO.
The show contains photographs and an animation. The photographs inhabit a provocative space between psychological portraiture, fashion, and creepyland. Powerful! “Though RodrÃguez Salceda ultimately blacks out the individual faces of her models, a gesture that lends them both anonymity and universality, all of the women that she picks as subjects are close friends, often artists or performers themselves. Taking stereotypical ideas of femininity as her jumping off point, RodrÃguez Salceda proposes a psychological alter ego for each model…”
Join us at the opening this Thursday! It’s open gallery night across DUMBO and in the building at Water St., so there’s much to see.
Caption Gallery is pleased to present Art Fight,
an exhibition of new work by RocÃo RodrÃguez Salceda.
September 30th- October 21st
Opening Reception October 7th, 6:00-8:00pm
Caption Gallery. 55 Washington St., suite 802, Brooklyn NY.
[Rocio Rodriguez Salceda – untitled 2010, courtesy of Caption Gallery]
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