On Friday March 22nd at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn, Dutty Artz presents Change The Mood: The Empire Never Ended. Matt Shadetek will perform material from his album The Empire Never Ended live! with a guest performance by Brooklyn rapper Troy Ave, and DJ sets by DJ /rupture, Geko Jones, and Chief Boima. Buy Tickets Here: http://ticketf.ly/10fRLma. RSVP […]
It has been declared by decree that the Changing of The Mood from this point forth will be an event held quarterly unless otherwise decided upon by the powers that be. For the first incarnation of said gathering of revelers, we were able to raise a bushel of American monetary units and throw a (beyond the) […]
photo by Nicole Lesser One of the best things about having a lineup of killer musicians performing at the same event is that everybody on board steps up their game… so with that, we are very happy to announce tonight’s SECRET GUEST, leader of New New York, Venus X! If you’re in need of an […]
Last night I hit the decks to put together 22 minutes of summer, blended and intensified for your listening pleasure. Stream below. Direct download here [50 MB]. Better yet, we’d love to see you at the party I’m throwing with Dutty Artz crew @ Glasslands in Williamsburg *tonight*! Here’s my original post about the event, […]
you’s got to be slick…–> CHANGE THE MOOD! Friday August 17th @ Glasslands BKLYN. Dutty Artz presents CHANGE THE MOOD! a fundraiser party for Beyond The Block. Fri. August 17th at Glasslands, 289 Kent Ave., Brooklyn. 11pm. $10 Hosted by Pupa Bajah and Jasmin Cruz NYC debut of Chants (live from Madison, WI) DJ Ushka […]
On August 17th at Brooklyn’s Glasslands, the Dutty Artz collective will throw a fundraiser party as part of our new CHANGE THE MOOD! series. This event is the first stage of fundraising for a new Beyond Digital project, ‘Beyond The Block.’ Beyond The Block combines the best of block party vibes with an overt commitment […]
This Wednesday, April 29th at our Dutty Artz Keeps Changing the Mood party at the Knitting Factory, we’ve got DJ Ripley stepping up to the decks to deliver her signature style: using music to celebrate people’s experiences across race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, highlighting the beauty of interconnecting global stories and rocking them into your body on the dance […]
It’s been a while since the Dutty Artz crew threw a party. If you’ve been following us for awhile, you know about the infamous Sweat Lodge parties, and you might have been there when we threw down in 2012 with our “Change the Mood” party.
Next up for Dutty Artz February Mixtape Mondays is the one and only Thanu, or DJ Ushka of iBomba fame.
HBM-001: St. Google Prayer Candles (available exclusively at Change the Mood, Aug 17th @ Glasslands NYC) HBM-002: Dubious Prey Tanks (available now at the DA webshop) Hello Bad Mind is a new object oriented project studio I opened to bring physical manifestations of my work into the world. I’m sick of the screen. We all […]
We travel in circles. Our lives move in cycles. Our dreams spin us around. This is something that artist Rafi El understands intuitively. Through his life and music, he’s been constantly circling back to the source of his creativity, the mountains of South America – long a source of cultural wealth and shamanic power. Raised […]
In support of Matt Shadetek’s The Empire Never Ended album, Dutty Artz is hitting the road! The tour kicks off in Brooklyn tonight with Matt’s album release party at Glasslands in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Details on individual shows below:
*co-written by Boima Tucker and Thanu Yakupitiyage Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Photos in this series were taken by Sabelo Narasimhan (daytime photos) and Neha Gautam (evening photos). On September 18th, 2012, Dutty Artz, Beyond Digital, La Casita Comunal de Sunset Park, La Union, CAAAV-NY, and the Arab American Association of New York presented the first […]