About ten minutes into my set last night on top of a Ukranian stone carring ship thats docked on the Danube river my subs had unexpected consequences on the distribution of heat on the surface of the earth…. A massive wind storm whipped up- for fears that the roof of the boat might fly down towards the Black Sea (and my needles flying around like leaves)… we had to cut things short. HOWEVER……..
If you happen to be in Berlin tonight or tomorrow… come out for my last two European Union shows before my return to Seattle at the end of the week.
Friday July 24(EARLY like 9PM) @ Jacki Terrasse on Schilling Brücke with the Dense record shop crew.
Saturday July 25 (Regular like midnight) @ Sick Girls summerfest at Picknick – live band and amazing food.
Berlin lets get it!
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Lyrical badman Jahdan Blakkamoore discusses his career thus far, how he linked up with Brooklyn’s Dutty Artz crew, started listening to dubstep, hip-hop, and grime, and his new album Buzzrock Warrior, out September 15th on Gold Dust. For more info, check out… BUZZROCK WARRIOR site.
For those who missed The Very Best at Le Poisson Rouge last week, you’ll have another chance to catch the Radioclit madmen this Saturday in Brooklyn, with a slew of special guest DJs and Vocalists. Â Peep the lineup. Â Don’t sleep. Â Â More Info
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CIAfrica – URgencia
I am ripping this directly from Jace’s mudd up! post. Get the blazing new mixtape CIA History Part 3 (zip). Listen to the new exclusive jam “Black Mama” which we played a little while ago on Mudd Up, and me getting their name wrong on air, calling them C-I-A-Africa, when it is C-I-Africa. Raw and heavy, politically hostile sounds from Abijan. Get familiar.
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Sabbo – Far To Go (feat. Little X)
The Chief put me on Sabbo while he was here a couple of weeks ago. Sabbo is a producer and DJ based in Tel-Aviv, making solid bass-heavy music and collaborating with actual Jamaican dancehall and reggae artists. “Far to Go” is from his new release It Is The Time, an EP which is out now digitally (vinyl coming next month.) All 4 tracks on the EP are remarkable, but “Far to Go” is what I’ve kept on repeat for the past week or so. The other three tracks, include vocal contributions from Jah Earth, Jah Rightful, and Chicago’s Zulu, are fully written, realized songs with verses, choruses, etc., whereas “Far to Go” contains only five lines and some chants from the vocalist Little X. Sabbo stretched and enhanced those five lines and adlibs with his programming, a wicked rhythm track and some sick synths and effects.
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(h/t J/P)
Waer Rock dropped another excellent mix last week over at Culture System, Melodic Wonkster – a collection of euphonic wobble sickness for those tired of the standard wubstep “wub wub”. Waer moved away from the downbeat treaty (or what we called “noir noir”) to a sonically harsher territory; a relentless attack of wobble/wonk that is not only tolerable but very enjoyable, simply because of the constant change up of styles in the mix and the interesting “design forms”/wobble structures the selected producers invested in the tracks.
DON’T CHAT TO MAN..
Grime fans appreciate good drama, but things have been incredibly dull lately. Watching the f@*kery between Jammer and Lethal B the last few weeks has been somewhat painful and entertaining at the same time. Their dispute, reignited recently, apparently goes back to around the time when Bizzle’s “Pow” came out. They’ve have been going back and forth, trading insults, making threats, doing a bunch of unsurprising ish MCs do these days via Grime Daily/youtube. Take a look at Jammer here, drunk and shirtless telling everybody to suck their mum –
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Jahdan Blakkamoore feat. 77Klash & Spoek Mathambo – Dem Nuh Like It
Here’s another cut from the BAZOOKA SHOT mixtape, produced by the man Shadetek. This is New York Tropical, Bashment Hype, Dutty House… Brooklyn-Kingston-Johannesburg, serious and ugly!
Next Up….
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Petrona Martinez – La Vida Vale La Pena
Petrona Martinez inherited a strong singer’s tradition from Bullerengue, an Afro-Colombian dance rhythm born during the African fight for freedom from slavery and originally sung solely by pregnant women confined to their homes and thus unable to attend village dances. The melodies were passed down through the generations. She learned them from her grandmother and great-grandmother as they sang while doing daily tasks and attending Patron Saints Festivals. She is now passing them to her sons and daughters…
Uproot Andy was inspired and made a great version of the song (especially sharp and on point – always kills the dance!) This was released by Bersa Discos and buyable here. I was going to post this prior to last Thursday’s megaparty, but here it is now –
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Uproot Andy – La Vida Vale La Pena
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Jahdan Blakkamoore – Never Gonna Stop (produced by Matt Shadetek & DJ /rupture)
from BAZOOKA SHOT mixtape, which is coming next week. Jahdan sounds incredible, and very smooth. Matt & Jace are on some old skool grime ting w/ this riddim. Some of the elements in it reminded me of Eskiboy around 2003-05. The tune also has a great slow down dancehall grind, lighters in the air vibes too.
BUZZROCK WARRIOR coming this September!
I somehow (mis)managed to have three mixes out in as many weeks. The first is the ferocious dubwise cyclone “DefinatelyMaybe”, the second “Batture” is a more humid affair… think lemonade, roux sticks and cicadas screeching in open lots on the West bank.
Cover Art by the Infinitely Talented Elvia PW from the Eaters Digest collective.
I stirred up “Batture” for Dave Qualm- the man behind the wonderfully personal blog It’s After the End of the World… It is the inaugural mix in a new series he’s curating- make sure to give him a visit- with features like his ‘Chicago Ghetto House Primer’ you wont be disappointed.
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Batture Tracklist:
Bryce Isbell – Four Pills
Lil B – Time
Salem – Sweat
Lil Wayne – The Block is Hot (Haaaawwttt Mix)
El Hijo de La Cumbia – A TraveÌs Del Tiempo
77 Klash – Call Me
Colleen – Mining in the Rain
A Guy Called Gerald – Voodoo Rage
Clouds – Protecting Hands pt. 1
Kid 606 – Monster (Cardopusher RMX)
Jahdan Blakkamoore- Nice Green (acapella)
Culturally Relevant Outro
Sometime next week the final gust of this onslaught “Heavy Sick” will be dropping…. If you happen to be in Budapest on the 23rd @ A38 or in Berling the 24th @ Maria Terrasse don’t forget to stay hydrated!
i saw a hummingbird floating with its super-fast wings in the flowers outside of Matt Shadetek’s apartment building last October. Zuzuka Poderosa is from Brazil, and she is powerful.
