New York it’s time to get tropical again. This time Uproot Andy and Matt Shadetek will be joined by The Fader’s own Eddie Stats, Lamin Fofana of Recession Rap fame will be making his DJ debut early and DA extended family 77Klash will be live on-stage bringing that BK heat. Those who know me definitely know Klash from our songs together “Brooklyn Anthem” with Jahdan Blakkamoore, “Mad Again (Whoa!)” featuring Johnny Osbourne and the newest “Pressure” which you can download below.

Friday May 29th.

Glasslands Gallery

289 Kent Ave.

10PM – 4AM

$5 b4 11PM, $7 after

DJs:

Uproot Andy

Matt Shadetek

Eddie Stats (The Fader / Ghetto Palms)

Lamin Fofana

Special live guest:

77Klash (Klashcity Records)


Download 77Klash feat. Matt Shadetek – “Pressure”

RSVP: Facebook event page

Check out Eddie Stats awesome Ghetto Palms column for The Fader.

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Dutty Artz west coast family member Chief Boima just upped a sweet toetapping guest mix for Eddie Stats’ Ghetto Palms Faderlandia archipelago: GO GET IT!

There are Forces At Work ensuring that Boima comes to our overpriced, deliriously compressed city with its decaying public transit to share his Akon mbalax/decale remixes and generally hype afro-hypen-positivity with us.

Dutty Artz Rupture-Shadetek Boima remix coming soon, Matt & I will find time to lab up ASAP.

This mix gets denser then pigs at a Smithfield subsidiary in Veracruz. Sonido Del Principe out of the Netherlands sent his New Summer Cumbia Mix over almost three weeks ago (is it five now?)- but better late then never. Some might not go in for the mashups and refix’s- but waking up on a Sunny day in hungary Hackney with the subs turned up this mix is a surefire winner.
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With limited bandwidth- so grab from Mega Upload until I have a chance to up it to our servers…

Tracklist:

01. Chico Cervantes – Cumbia de la Paz
02. Tremor – Viajante (Cumbia Cosmonauts Remix)
03. El Hijo de la Cumbia – La Mara Dub (SDP edit)
04. El Remolon – Bolivia
05. Dj Panik – Like this like that
06. Fauna vs Grandmaster Flash vs SDP
07. El Norte vs SDP – Wu-umbia!
08. Sonido Del Principe – El Principe
09. El Hijo de la Cumbia – Bombon Asesino version
10. Vampiros Deejaay vs SDP – Sexy Rod Dub
11. Prince vs SDP – If I was your Girlfriend
12. Grupo Adixion – Porque te Vas
13. Dj Panik – Te Vez Buena
14. Sonido Del Principe – Cartagena
15. Dead Menems – Taliban del Amor (El Remolon rmx)
16. Jozefa Matia vs SDP – Cumbia Solede
17. Sonido Del Principe – Shake it
18. Zomby vs. SDP – Shake that strange Fruit

If you missed the insanity that was Demolition- Rob from Pollinate was dropping a sick Tribal Guarachero set to a very receptive crowd-  you’ve got another chance to act like you know!
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ok. so the free tickets have long been ‘sold out’ — early bird gets the worm– but this is a quick reminder: Tomorrow I’m DJing at the SONAR festival’s first ever NYC, party! Myself, Prefuse 73, and bunch of producers / DJs / VJs from Barcelona (where both Prefuse & I lived). In fact, I’ve spent most of the 21st century based in Barcelona….

anyhow, check it out SONARsound NYC.

I go on around 11pm and spin for 2 hours, a nice stretch-out set. Will sneek in tunes from my fav BCN-based producers — Cauto (3rd generation Catalan musician!), Cardopusher (Venezuelan expat skullcrusher), Pulshar (Spanish but sing in accented English: bonus points!), Filastine (gringo total!), as well as making sure the Euro-latinos get a taste of New York Tropicalcumbia from new jersey, mambo / 160bpm merengue de la kalle edits, etc., stuff that you don’t hear over in España.

Here’s one of the Cauto jams we released on vinyl:

Gucci Mane

I keep on hearing voices/Telling me to ball, so I keep on buying Porsches/My watch’s like a portrait, Gorgeous!

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Gucci Mane – Gorgeous

Gucci Mane is one of the most interesting figures in rap music at the moment, and he’s suffering not only from the general psychosis of being dope but also severe auditory hallucinations.  I downloaded “Gorgeous” from cocaine blunts several weeks back, and I just got around to  hearing it. According to Noz ““Gorgeous” finds him walking the line between language and commerce obsession by way of voices in his head. We’ve heard the balling as a compulsion defense but never the full on insanity claims.” The beat is great as well, providing a perfect background for the experience that is Gucci Mane.

F*** The Recession, my bank accounts are pregnant!

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Augustus Pablo – Africa Dub

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Hugh Mundell – Africa Must Be Free By 1983

To bring us back to reality, away from Gucci Mane and the Hearing Voices movement, here’s Augustus Pablo’s “Africa Dub”, plus the original tune “Africa Must Be Free By 1983” by Hugh Mundell, a teenage prodigy, who died far too early (1962-1983~ shot to death in Kingston while driving a car with Junior Reid.)  Hugh Mundell wrote and recorded several albums, some of which were produced by Augustus Pablo. I have yet to hear them.

Speaking of unheard/undiscovered Jamaican reggae – Props to Professor Wayneandwax for the heads up & review. I ordered Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae from Amazon weeks ago, and still haven’t received it.

Reasons 17-20 why we love Rita Indiana (y los Misterios).

Keywords: palo, dominicano, perreo, gaga, nintendo, undarundeiro, mambo violento, merengue, the rhythmic capabilities of chinese ping-pong heroes.

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Pulshar – Ashmatic

Pulshar‘s Brotherhood has been in heavy rotation lately.  It has some spectacular tunes I return to time and again, but frankly I listen the album in its entirety perhaps more than I should.  We like to keep things dutty and heavy here, but a little clean, beautiful, soulful tech-dub from Bercelona is appreciated.  We played “Mr Money Man” on Tax Day (4/15) on Mudd Up! with DJ Rupture, a show you can also stream here.  Update: I’ve changed the tune from “Mr Money Man” to “Ashmatic” for a good reason.  “Ashmatic” is also part of the excellent Babylon Fall Collection.

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Due to the recent election, people feel no need to keep pumping their fists. It’s as if they’ve been tricked to believe that the years of hatred has been erased with one achievement. If you’re one of the ones that fell into this trap, stay tuned… for some post-election rap jams/news from Playboy Tre, who last month dropped a brand new street album/mixtape titled Liquor Store Mascot.

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Playboy Tre – Breakin’ News

My partner Tally put me up on Tre’s excellent 2008 mixtape Goodbye America, which noz called a near classic— I think it’s an absolute classic and one of the most criminally slept on street albums of last year. In a sense Liquor Store Mascot feels as if it should have been the precursor to Goodbye America, rather than the other way around.  LSM continues with the same themes, same relentlessness, but it is more dramatic, more nightmarish, and even funnier (Bobby Ray asking “what about HAM Squad? How am I supposed to smoke all these HAMs by myself?” gets me every time.)  The themes here, on the track above and on the mixtape about crime, poverty, race, alcoholism, police brutality and the recent increase in gun sales and gun club membership in the Obama era.

I still haven’t fully wrap my ears around the tape or even this track, “Breakin’ News,” which is dense, and Tre is reflecting on deep, serious problems (like Oscar Grant‘s shooting in the Bay) but his flow is so deceptively disarming with that Georgian accent and Southern drawl, the grand social comments (and criticisms of Obama) like “ain’t nothing change in the streets we walk” or “the president’s black but the neighborhood sad” just breeze through, as if they are of no significance– just a drunk talking shit over beats.

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DJ Drama – People Will Be Heard feat. Ludacris, Willie Da Kid, Busta Rhymes

I don’t like Luda, but he’s alright– I have been saying that for a decade.  Here, Luda warns the government about trampling voices of dissent and encourages said voices to reassert themselves, after the euphoria and noise.  Busta shouts out Obama, empathizes with struggling people, –the starving, the evicted, the unemployed, etc. In the middle, there’s that Willie kid. Why is Barack O’Drama always shouting? We are already listening to our music at very dangerous dBs. Deafness descends upon all of us.  Sounds bleeding out of our earbuds and headphones, in trains and buses, the constant blasts of noise in New York, sound levels at clubs are usually over 120 dBs.  I was at Que Bajo?! for about three hours last night, and my ears are ringing right now.  I was briefly exposed to that wobbly monster Geko was in search of in Colombia.  To conclude this, a whole generation is at risk of premature deafness and the DJ business is loudness.

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Capone-N-Noreaga – Dead Broke

Empty fridgerator and pissy elevators… welcome to Queens? And it’s 1997 all over again! The image of the pissy elevator as a prominent identifying feature in mid to late nineties New York rap is as significant as say the scuffed timbs. I liked Wallabees and Mountain Gear better then.

Recession Rap Jams, mixed with the struggle, alcohol, and the kick!

SISISISISISI!

THE FADER kicks off their latest issue’s podcast mix with a summer single from Dutty Artz!

Go here to nab it and enjoy La Yegros’ slinky hit, “Trocitos de Madera” — I’m twisting the arm of my favorite Peruvian diseñadora as we speak, she’s finishing up artwork NOW which means the ‘Trocitos de Madera’ single will be available in a few weeks, with remixes by Matt Shadetek & I (crunk tropical), El Remolon (tropical minimal), and Marcelo Fabian (kinda insane IDM).

Until then, you can bump it alongside Salem (!), Jahdan Blakkamoore (!!) and others (?X?X?) in the Fader’s podcast.

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If you happen to be within striking distance of London- make sure you come out Friday night to check the Dutty Artz sound coming loud to Demolition.
Shaun Bass puts it well “Choose unemployment. Choose a constant struggle to be noticed. Build your own fucked up, contorted family, Fuck paying for a television license, Fuck doing the laundry, Fuck cars, iPods, and your fucking Blackberry.
Choose poor health, poor diet and slacking off visits to the doctor.

Choose low priced, rented accomodation. Choose a squatted Warehouse in Hackney Wick. Choose your friends. Choose handmade and charity shop clothing, gaffa tape and rubbish, fuck matching luggage.
Fuck a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY Fashion, art and music and knowing exactly who you are on a Saturday night.
Fuck sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Fuck rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Destroy the future.

Choose demolition!”

***FREE ENTRY b4 11pm***

DESTRUCTION BREEDS CREATION! LET’S PRESS THE RED BUTTON, LET’S PUSH IT OVER THE EDGE, LET’S KNOCK IT ALL DOWN!

THE LOOK / DUSTY SUITS / FACEMASKS / BLACK GOLD & BLOOD / DARK WAVE CHIC / PROTEST-PUNK / BILLBOARD HACKER / LOGO RIPPER / COUNCIL CAMO / GHETTO UNIFORM / ESTRANGED PEOPLES & FUTURE SOUL

E-mail names to demolitioncoalition@gmail.com for early-bird £4 cheaplist
Start Time: Friday, May 8, 2009 at 10:00pm
End Time: Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 5:00am
Location:
The Ghetto (Both Floors)
58 Old Street
London, United Kingdom


Check me out in Manhattan tomorrow! This is the party that had to be rescheduled from last month due to the venue being sold (weird, I know).

INFOS:
Unit.One Presents
BROKENTEETH at The Studio at Websterhall – SPECIAL EVENT!!

A Wednesday Night Affair
Wednesday May 6th, 2009

So, we have changed our LOCATION and have decided to bring you guys SPECIAL WEDNESDAY NIGHT one offs. This Month we have Matt Shadetek DUTTY ARTZ and Joee Irwin pf PALMS OUT!!

The night is to push fun, music and drinks. Special Guest are encouraged to play rare vinyl or tunes that they usually don’t play out. These DJs grind it out on tour and play for the crowd, but Brokenteeth is about playing the music they really love and rarely get to play. It is a Wednesday night affair.
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No kidding!  Thanks to all who came out to New York Tropical 5 to see Uproot Andy, Geko, me and Maluca.  It was a lot of fun.  Maluca killed it, super energy and the people loved it.  Here are some pics from the night.  This month we’ll be back at Glasslands on Friday May 29th doin’ it again, flier and info very soon.