Me, Berlin, March 2004.
Lately over at Dubspot I’ve taken on an expanded role beyond my normal teaching in the form of producing some materials for them in the form of articles and soon some tutorial videos. The first article is up on their blog and is about a concept I learned from Timeblind which he calls Speed Dating. It’s a method for improving your production workflow and I thought producers who read this blog might find it helpful.
Tomorrow I’ll be DJing at a benefit show along with DJ Small Change for an art project which two of my long time friends, including former collaborator Zack Shadetek have been working on. The show is a benefit to raise money for Swimming Cities trip down the Ganges river in India.
From the press release:
Taking a new waterway each year our projects create a vivid community of artists floating into towns to present an interactive environment which encompasses art, sculpture, music and performance. The uncommon talents of our members interact in an organic design process in a unique form of living art. Our previous projects include THE SWIMMING CITIES OF SWITCHBACK SEA on the Hudson River for Deitch Projects and THE SWIMMING CITIES OF SERENISSIMA across the Adriatic Sea for the Venice Biennale.
Basically they build these crazy ass art-boats and float them down various rivers while living on them and doing performances and freaking people out. There are a bunch of good artists, many who are also friends who will be having a silent auction of donated works to raise funding for the project. And there’s an open bar.
FRIDAY MARCH 05
56 Walker St, Tribeca
7pm-1am, $10 Door, Open Bar
DJs Small Change and Shadetek
A few days ago, I found a CDR compilation labeled Super Hits of Nigeria in the ungoogleable/bootleg section of my CD-DVD collection. It was a gift from my cousin who bought it in the streets of Freetown sometime last year. The opening track from the comp is “Yori Yori”– a massive pan-Nigerian/pan-African (global) hit in 2009 by the duo Bracket. This tune was large from Lagos to Nairobi, Freetown to London, even nightclubs in Guangzhou were unsafe from the contagious tune (Guangzhou has the largest population of Africans in China.) I saw a video for the tune in early ’09 while watching Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) in northern Virginia. Boima also mentioned it over at Ghetto Bassquake.
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Timaya, who appears on at least 6 tracks on the compilation also had a great year in ’09. I saw a few of his videos on NTA – epic, conscious Nigerian rap grooves. Here are two more tracks –
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Timaya-Yankuluya.mp3] [audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/J_Martins-Good_Or_Bad_Owey.mp3]J Martins feat. Timaya, P-Square, Banky W., etc. – Good Or Bad (Owey)
“Heavy As Stone” by Mark Pritchard
from Elephant Dub / Heavy As Stone “12 – it’s a real no-brainer!
These are not not normal times. We are in the midst of another major winter storm in Brooklyn, NY (and our neighboring east coast cities and towns are witnessing/feeling the wrath of Old Man Winter.) Mala’s Deep Medi Musik released this superb 12″ from Mark Pritchard a few days ago. Side A is probably more apt for the weather (wet and heavy snow + smouldering xtra-subs = murky funk for dead bodies) but I’ve decided go with the flip because it melds many beautiful things together easily and well! It’s also warm – Tell the people of earth to be strong / You’re as heavy as stone / You are never alone…
[youtube width=”524″ height=”393″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3cfGzuICzA[/youtube]
Follow us @DuttyArtz – & big up @Nguzunguzu and @Bok Bok for inspiring this.
[youtube width=”524″ height=”393″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNTvI1BqvHM[/youtube]
Weird new video from Nguzunguzu feat. Leilah Weinraub for the track “Got U” which is off the brilliant free Nguzunguzu EP –still up for grabs, so get it in your life.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXIwQR1v-ds[/youtube]Big tune from Wiley’s forthcoming album. The beat is by Shy FX which apparently was a remix that became the main mix. Very nice house/old school hiphop something or other vibes. Wiley in top form as always, picked up from Marcus Visionary’s blog where there’s lots of other good stuff.
Big shout out to the people from Tunes on Bunch.TV, they put together this very nice concert film of Jahdan and myself, Matt Shadetek, performing at the Stadtgarten in Cologne. It was the first night it had really snowed on the tour and I remember we ended up having to walk back to the hotel with our stuff after trying to get a cab for about 45 minutes through the streets full of wasted people who had all just gotten out of various clubs and bars into the new snow. Big shoutout to Uh-Young Kim who put the show on and all the people who braved the elements to come rock with us, we had a great time.
ALSO me and Jahdan are planning to come back out to Europe in June, if you’d like to have us play in your town get in touch via bookings AT duttyartz DOTT com.
On the radio tonight, I’ll be hosting Austin’s DJ Orion, performing live in studio! He’s extending the great Texan tradition of keeping cumbia crunk with his latest release, Carajo Colombia. After his DJ set we’ll find time for a quick interview and ticket giveaways to his Que Bajo show @ Santos on Thursday.
Here’s a taste of ‘Carajo Colombia’, you can buy it – setting your own price! – here
Extra dirty! Extra bomb! Extra short fuse! New EP of remixes from Filastine’s Dirty Bomb now a la venta. Eight lovely tracks that shit on geography & genre, drenched in the sweat of Jahcoozi, Cardopusher, Ill Gates, Maga Bo, Electromeca, phowa, & Deep Throat X. Frequency is the lowest common denominator- put stress your subwoofer: get it via download, iTunes, or on 12″ vinyl. I’m out here in Barranquilla Colombia for carnival, crate diggin and digi-swapage. Carnival wrapped up tuesday night in a major way. I’ll be posting video of that next but I’m taking some time out to put up this post because I promised you guys some new tunes from my bin each month, so here’s my Feb-10 5-spot In the bag this month, Barney Iller’s version tweaked out merengue submission for the Schlachthof Bronx AYOBA remix contest. He’s got a couple more choons over at Culture System this week Schlachthofbronx – Ayoba (Barney Iller Remix) Hands down my favorite wiki-wiki style turntablist DJ in the tropical scene, my man DJ Reaganomics doin it up Brasileiro dancehall style. Dark and minimal, this sexy lil diddy has gotten some some telemundo forwards from the pelaitas out here. Ask yourself mister wobble wobble, what have you played to get the gyal dem moving on the dancefloor lately? Chiado Boom- Dj Reaganomics (Dutty Artz Podcast from this dude soon come) I’m a lil late on this one but I rediscover stuff i should have been playing all the time. Teleseen is another Brooklyn based producer we check for around here. If your inna the dub stylee you should check out his album Fear of the Forest Vybz Kartel- Life sweet (Teleseen Rmx) Forthcoming from Monkey Steak is this likkle piece of hotness due out 3/8. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRabVr409O8[/youtube] And for my F-I-F FIF! I’m letting you get a taste of what’s to come in my Barranquilla reports. I spent a couple hours trading tunes with the Skorpion Disco Show, one of the biggest champeta sound systems out of Barranquilla. (Boima – I got you when we link up at SXSW big homie) These Skorpion dudes run tings! Their carnaval closing party which will be my next post involved girls with guns, 20+ foot speaker stacks, motorcycles, crowd surfing, an ill light show and a fire hose…. the video is insane but the experience of a champeta party and hearing all this african stuff touched up with drum machines is way better… dig this
[Filastine, photo: Wayne&Wax] In support of his 2009 album, Dirty Bomb (amazon|itunes), Filastine circled the earth twice in a 100-stop tour that began at a squat in Jakarta, Indonesia, tore up Europe’s most respected festivals (Sonar, Transmediale, etc.), and ended in a cloud of tear-gas outside the Climate Summit in Copenhagen. For real. Brother is hardcore. In a swirl of emotion and sheer exhaustion following the Copenhagen clash, Filastine lost his laptop & made this DJ mix on borrowed equipment while recovering in his Barcelona home base. We’re pleased to debut this mix, especially as it contains a heap of unreleased material from upcoming EP ‘Extra Dirty Bomb’. Filastine doesn’t do DJ mixes very often – preferring to perform live with various bits of electronics, percussion (including shopping kart), and vocalist Nova (your favorite Indonesian rapper). That said, this is my fav Filastine mix to date. Nimble percussion, dark brass, bleeps, intense vocals, non-dull dubstep, grit. Also: French people like him. A disfrutar!
[display_podcast] track listing: Infernal Noise Brigade- live in Mexico at street protest with words lifted from: Cool Dutty Artz interview/mini-doc featuring Shadetek and Jahdan over at XLR8R – part of their Labels We Love Series. Check iTunes for XLR8R Presents Labels We Love, Vol. 1 featuring a new tune from Chief Boima titled “Techno Rumba” (an official release will be out soon) and the Jahdan Blakkamoore banger “Buss It Pon Dem” (produced by Chancha Via Circuito.) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvpP0ORcDMA[/youtube] I can’t believe I missed this phenomenal banger from Quik and Kurupt… I guess singles culture kept me from listening to all of BlaQKout… BUT DAMN!! If your feeling like getting out on Friday in NYC- Mosholu Park, Tombs and myself will be tearing up one very small part of the massive FLUX FACTORY space up in Queens. I used to live in the old space they had- and they KNOW how to throw a party. NES.Avi will be on live video duties – even if we wern’t gonna be there this party would be fucking insane. From Flux facebook event- Join us on Friday, February 19th for Housebroken, Flux’s inaugural show! In celebration of our newest home, we’ve invited dozens upon dozens of artists to create works throughout the building. Housebroken is easily our biggest project ever, with over 100 installations, performances, and homey additions to our factory. Eclectic performances and unparalleled reverie begin at 8 pm, continuing on into the night. 39-31 29th Street, LIC, NY 11101 Suggested donation, $15 (tax-deductible)Extra Dirty Bomb
Live from Barranquilla!
FILASTINE MIX: WE ARE EXPERIENCING TURBULENCE
(This is part of our DUTTY ARTZ podcast series. You can subscribe via regular ‘podcatchers’ or iTunes .)
Jazzsteppa- ??
Filastine/Cardopusher – Discontinuities (Singularities remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb)
Fnaire- Lalla Mennana
Filastine/Jahcoozi- Opium Den (Desordenador remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb)
Beats Antique- Oriental Uno (feat. Fanafara Kalashikov)
Oro 11- El Cangrejo
Arena & Etian acapella- Voces RebeldesXXXXX
Filastine/Ill Gates- Pharma Sutra (Fitnah remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb)
Filastine/Maga Bo- Batalha Cotidiana (B’talla remixed- from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb)
Chancha Via Circuito- Calzada
Foxdye- Foxdyechek Collision
Frikstailers- Sudaka Invasor
Tego Calderon- Diento de Oro cameo
Sonik Omi- Ye Jawani Hai Mera Jaan
Simbad- Airport Beat 1008
Jahdan Blakkamoore- Dem A Idiot (instrumental – prod. by Matt Shadetek & Modeselektor)
Amir Sulaiman- Danger
Sunship feat. Warrior Queen/ Sinden(remix)- Quits
Filastine/Deep Throat X- Con Las Manos En La Masa (remix, from the EP Extra Dirty Bomb)
Madera Limpia- La Lenta (Schlachthofbronx remix)
Bassnectar- Cozza Frenzy
Venetian Snares- Sabbath Dubs
Kray Twinz feat. Twista- What We Do
Suckafish P. Jones- Caribbean Nightmare Agent
Dubchild- Can’t Keep Me Down
Caving- Slimthug
Dog Murras (feat. Propria Lixa)- Vai Levar Galheta
Brasil 96- Batucada
Lightning Bolt- On Fire
Rhythm Collision featuring- Indian Street Music #3 / Sein Sah Thin / Tabuh Winangun Marga / Venetian Snares / Filastine / Drumcorps
Filastine- Como Fugitivos (instrumental version)
UK newscasters
Carl Sagan dubbed into castilian spanish
ANC Radio Freedom Broadcast, South Africa, 1969
a US Military Commander
Waking Life
The Century of Self
Spectres of the Spectrum
Slavoj Zizek
and more sources of lost originDUTTY FUTURE
IT’S GONNA DROP AGAIN
Open bar courtesy of Campari, 21+
Please rsvp to rsvp@fluxfactory.org
Housebroken will remain on view every Saturday and Sunday from 12 – 6 pm until March 21st.
