Thanks to everyone who came out on Friday to NY Tropical 4, it was CRAZYYYYYYYYY. I’m so happy that we were able to bring together everyone on that bill, Geko, Andy, Kingdom, Esau, Mariana all KILLED IT. It was one of the best parties I’ve played at or been at in a long time. Here’s a selection of pics from the night, thanks Lamin, Jean and Andy for taking these.
This just in from Geko:
“Esau Mwamwaya, best known for his collaboration on the Radioclit mixtape “The Very Best” is going to be in the house performing with us on Friday. He’s collaborated with MIA, Bonde do Role and Vampire Weekend for his next album and Esau is definitely someone you’ll be hearing a lot more about his year. Did anyone go to their show at SxSW? AMAZING
The most intercontinental booty/beats/bass line up in New York for your money this week. Glasslands get ready.”
Download THE VERY BEST Mixtape, Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit free.
DJs:
Matt Shadetek
Kingdom
Uproot Andy
Geko Jones
Live:
La Yegros
Esau Mwamwaya
Hosted by Contessa
What: Dutty Artz Tropical Dance
Where: Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent St. near to JMZ Marcy and Bedford L trains, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
When: March 27 10PM til they kick us out.
How much: $5 before 11PM, $7 after.
my mind is disintegrating im so tired but as i wait for the CD to burn, this seems funny. of course for an awake version of corrective blacknesses, try Lilith’s Brood (Xenogenesis), which is reminding me i need to finish Butler’s Patternist series. . . anyhow, back to satiric asslessness
h/t veiled gazelle
Next up in the Dutty Artz Podcast series, La Nueva Guaracha, a great new mix from Geko Jones. If you stay up on this blog you know he and Dutty Artz amigo Uproot Andy have a party we call Que Bajo?! where they but a latin spin on the New York Tropical sound.
This is a snippet of the uptempo stuff Gex is playing around 2am at these parties. There’s also a quite a bit of glitched out and remixed cumbia, latin mashups, reggaeton and other sounds involved at the shows but we only have so much bandwidth. If you want to hear more be sure to pick up a copy the brand new Dutty Artz mixtape New York Tropical Vol 1 – Rupture vs Geko Jones available at the Glasslands party Friday March 27th.
Starting Thursday April 9th Que Bajo?! will be weekly at APT (409 W 13th St btw 9th ave/Washington in Madhattan)
stay chooned.
TRACKLIST:
Olha o Beijo – Joao Linho
La Vida Vale La Pena- Petrona Martinez
Canto de Tucanes- Pedro Tapias (El Kuduro Sabroson remix by Reaganomics)
Kuduro Esaboka- DJ Prako
Juana La Caribe- Petrona Martinez
Ay Paloma (Geko Jones mashup)- La Reverenda
Los Olivos- Los Palos de DR
El Botellon (Uproot Andy remix)- Grupo Naidy
 
Gabriel from Heatwave sent this over. It is, as they say ‘a portable party for your mp3 player’. You might black out and find yourself daggering the coatrack in your office, so be careful. Hardcore dutty dancehall, don’t play this for your kids. A nice fast mix with a lot of the new crazy riddims, mashups etc. coming out.
[audio:http://www.theheatwave.net/mixes/theheatwave-rowdybashment2008.mp3]DOWNLOAD:
New York Tropical is back for it’s fourth edition, returning to Glasslands. This time we’ve got the amazing Kingdom and Uproot Andy (two of the best upcoming producers in NYC for my money), La Yegros is in from Argentina and Contessa hosting. As usual I am sure there will be many hot latina girls dancing, thanks to the kind promotional support of NY Remezcla. It will be wild like a rainforest. Spot the animals hiding in the flier, made by me. Yes, not only do I make beats but I go hard on photoshop like Suge Knight dipped in diamonds. As usual Grim, our sound man, will be bringing extra bass for us. We just can’t have enough.
What: Dutty Artz Tropical Dance
Where: Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent St. near to JMZ Marcy and Bedford L trains, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
When: March 27 10PM til they kick us out.
How much: $5 before 11PM, $7 after.
Certainly, after “I Used To Get It In Ohio” Cam’ron was official back. He had everyone scratching their heads with the recession rap banger “I Hate My Job”–seriously, rapping from the perspective of the everyday workingwoman–long way from the pink chinchillas and lamborghinis. Check the video below.
Yesterday, this completely absurd track with Soulja Boy-style hook leaked. Welcome back, Killa!
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Camron-CookiesAppleJuice.mp3]Cam’ron – Cookies & Apple Juice
$$$
Recession Rap Jams, follow protocol…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWQWTZVWVZs[/youtube]
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 I <3 synths! Like for real- I just fucking love them. (Is that like saying you love drums?)
Having spent countless hours soldering little bits of plastic and metal on bread boards and taking apart toys and keyboards.(and plugging away at a Serge like the one to the left).. I’m still amazed by how emotive a little bit of electricity can be. Eternal love to Mr Gray for getting the whole thing started- but there are some new comers who are pushing the envelope and combining serious dance floor sensibility (or maybe sensitivity) with enough experimental flare to keep things interesting.
In Vienna last Saturday I stopped in at the nearly impossible to find Club U (as cute as it might seem- maybe dont name your venue the same thing as the five thousand signs for the subway that surround it) to hear from Glasgow’s Hudson Mohawke. Running a combo serato and ableton set up with some akai mpd controller action- dude properly destroyed the room with a much too short set. I’ve been checking Hudmo ever since his “Ooops” release of absolutely face melting hip-hop/rnb refixes. Seeing him live made me wonder if the term braindance might make a resurgance…but the music gods want something NEW to talk about….
If you squint a little music criticism starts to embody all the reasons that I hate (and find myself returning to) academic art history. Inbred pedanctic circle jerks aside- there’s something to be said for trying to come up with a critical apparatus for new works that have, in their unwieldy descent through the market, yet to find their historical/critical resting place. While creating/defending/destroying genre designations certainly is not the most important work of a critic- no one can avoid recycling and regurgitating the genre question when it comes to (cue Marsalis trumpets) the new era in BASS music that we may, are, ought to, have, havnt, possibly, can, enter did enter or passed through.
Saving my own didactic desires/nonsene- I’ll just share what to me are prime examples of……(wait for it)….. music that makes people dance in the club and makes me smile – even while enjoying my Hungarian subway stations multi-use communal restroom, bakery and public transportation smell. Both tracks have great synth work and even though they are bass heavy bangers- they both sound solid on laptop speakers.
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/3-Let_Me_See_What_U_Workin_With_Rustie_Remix_.mp3]Rod Lee – Let Me See What U Workin With (Rustie Remix)
Cop from Dress 2 $weat
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/HudmoOoops.mp3]Also- buyable
p.s. Can we talk about Tweet’s “Oops” as presaging the Recession Rap movement with her own libidinal credit crunch tale?
This Friday, the Dutty Artz crew is servin Brooklyn all u can eat bass to ya face from an underground bunker just below the earth’s surface.
Our tropicaliente beats and bassline party, New York Tropical, is back with resident dj’s Geko Jones, Matt Shadetek and DJ/ Rupture. This time around, live and inside the place we’ll be joined by Brooklyn’s hometown heroines Bunny Rabbit. This is your last chance to chance to check Bunny out before they head to Eastern Europe to spread their Cult of Miracles gospel in March.
NEW YORK TROPICAL 3: OUT N’ BAD
FEB 20th @ Kodeez
834 Myrtle Ave @ Marcy (G Train to Myrtle-Willoughby)
$3 PBR, $4 Mixed Drinks, $4 Wine
$2 Hotdogs, $3 Hamburgers, $4 Cheeseburgers
!0pm – $10
Reduced $8 dollar before 11pm
This location is RIGHT IN FRONT of the G Train (literally!)
Don’t hate on the G, it’s 25 minutes or less from Union Sq!
Bunny gets the party hoppin…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQXKs6BJQ_M[/youtube]
is what I typed into YouTube and found these. Spoek Mathambo’s mix a while ago inspired me to go and look for some of this weird slow house that they make in South Africa. Some of it is really cool, and the videos are great. Like this one:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjJpXfWZamU[/youtube]
And you can’t go wrong sampling Yo Yo Ma:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPVuSpjB8YI[/youtube]
In my mind I think of this as snaredrum house, because of the snare patterns, which people often say ‘soca’ to talk about it. This really doesn’t sound like soca at all but it DOES sound a lot like what they’re calling Funky in London, especially the beats. Anyway I like it. I feel like the recent changes in house have made it a lot more interesting and fun and I might now go and try to make some, we’ll see. I almost never work at 120bpm which is kinda what makes it appealing to me.
And WTF is this?:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duf2WKr23ug[/youtube]
quick last minute reminder: Geko and Andy invade Manhattan with Que Bajo?! tonight @ APT (no cover). 10PM. 419 W 13th St Manhattan. A/C/E/L/1/2/3 to 14th St.
Head over to Pitchfork TV, a subsidiary of the great tastemaker Pitchfork media, to see the rest of what looks like a brilliant five-part documentary on Jamaican Soundsystem, dub culture, and the roots of the “offbeat African energy.”
The days between Xmas and New Year’s are good days, always. Here in Alexandria, VA, I went to a naming ceremony (Sierra Leonean/Islamic style, culture and religion) for one of my uncle’s children, a beautiful baby girl named Fatima, which is the name of her great grandmother.
Sierra Leoneans are party people (okay, maybe not as much as Jamaicans, but nevertheless Salone people party hard too) so after all the formalities with the imam, the old men and women, the soundsystem was turned on, & the disc in the system Best Of Africa, Vol. 1 – a fantastic party compilation, containing a series of mini-mixes plus a few original songs by one Sierra Leonean artist, whose name is shouted, reverberated, and unclear. The CD booklet and case are nowhere to be found, but from what I can make out (and I might be completely wrong here), the DJ is Ousmane Sayyid and the singer is Succulent The Bug. Here’s the opening mix, with the first/title track performed by Succulent.
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/TumbaMix.mp3]
Tumba Mix
“And in fact, my love for you is like a water with many fishes…”
The comp is buyable here.
Look below for Sierra Leone autotune tumba worship music (via youtube)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3K8BM8BkXE[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCmgPHoJcjU[/youtube]
[audio:https://duttyartz.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/lilwayne-canitalktoyou.mp3]
Lil Wayne – Can I Talk To You (Feat. Nutt Da Kidd & Mack Maine)
I’m not going to talk about this track (from The Leak V) It’s great, you already know… but what can we say about this new picture/image? Emotional, laughter, astonishment, what do you feel?
Lil Wayne threw away the pen and the pad, completely erasing the distance between himself and his art.
pictures courtesy of The Smoking Section.
[audio:https://duttyartz.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/nickiminaj-beammeupscotty.mp3]
Nicki Minaj – Beam Me Up Scotty
UPDATE: Correction; it’s Nicki and not Nikki.
