Timberlee – Gunny Gunny (Schlachthofbronx RMX)
some more Bavarian bounce and freshness from Schlachthofbronx. You can thank Gex for this one, he is busy. This remix has been floating around for the past two weeks or so. Look here for more greatness.
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.
 
Pic flickred here.
The Qemists feat. Wiley – Dem Na Like Me (King Cannibal Remix)
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/TheQemistsKingCannibalWiley-DemNaLikeMe.mp3]
I heard this on Mary Anne Hobbs sometime in December. The mp3 surfaced early this month, and automagically appeared on my HD. Shout out to whoever liberated it. Wiley is a pioneer and he is great, but the star here is King Cannibal – check for him! Head over to the Qemists myspace to listen to the original and other mixes.
Goodz’ “Cokey the Snowman” was a response to Wiley’s “Angry Garden Gnome”, also impressive. plus the title: Angry Garden Gnome! Ultra-Britishness!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR8bYdju-OA&feature=related[/youtube]
Wretch 32 ft. Badness & Ghetto – INA DI GHETTO
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYgmsCBKmLM[/youtube]
Strong tune from The Movement with a nice video to go with it. Badness kills the chorus.
I don’t know why I felt compelled to post this track here. It feels completely irrational. Anyway, above (beneath?) the graceful, cool atmospheric surface, there’s something peculiar and brutal. It’s convulsive, dark, beautiful,…
[audio:https://duttyartz.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/my-brightest-diamond-of-fear-and-wonder-i-found-a-universe.mp3]
My Brightest Diamond – Of Fear and Wonder (I Found a Universe)
& here’s some raw, grimy, defiant, and self-reliant rap music from Brownsville-Brooklyn’s Mash Out Posse to dutty things up a bit. Download the mp3 for clarity. The content delivery platform/audio preview thing is contaminated with some persistent, annoying static.
[audio:https://duttyartz.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/mop-sharks.mp3]
M.O.P. – Sharks
new mix from our considerate Dutty Artz brethren and low end theorist Taliesin. Prepare to get soaked. Tally goes in/hard!! Tracklist and info will appear in the near future.
[audio:http://theagriculture.com/taliesintarbeach.mp3]
Taliesin – Tar Beach Mix
Yes, Dutty Artz is a recording label with actual (and digital) records in stores, tremendously talented musicians, one extremely dedicated operative, and supporters.
Here’s a tune from DUTTY REMIX ZERO which is still fresh in the stores. This remix is great, but you should really hear SHADETEk’s “Can’t Breathe” remix.
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Cauto-BonaVida.mp3]
Cauto – Bona Vida
Rupture and JahDan are in the middle of their UK trek. If you are in the area, go and see them! Something wonderful happens when these two are together. Check DATV001 for proof.
(pic by Sr Atlantico)
We also got teh mixes –
[audio:https://duttyartz.com/mp3/GekoJones_live_on_WFMU.mp3]
Geko Jones New York Tropical; live on WFMU is still up + popping.
[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Taliesin-BassBinShit.mp3]
Taliesin got some dark dark dark for ya… Well, it ain’t so dark, but it is.
First, here’s an all Steve Gurley mix I’ve been listening to quite a lot lately. I am flagrantly ripping this from the dubstepforum, where it was ripped from Uptown Music Forum, where it was posted about a year ago. The mix was done by someone named AverageJoe, an ordinary DJ with a funny Homer Simpson gif as his MySpace default.
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And now some pictures from last Friday.
The first is of Mr Eliel Lucero skankin’ (to some really good Roots music Matt was playing earlier in the night) in his brand new Dutty Artz tee! Get yours!
And here I am, standing around (yeah, i’m mad bcuz i’m only) in my plain old regular tee— waiting for that lite tropical pink.
And here’s Yellowman, AKA Geko Jones. This man spins and dances behind the decks like a mutha, (but then again, he falls into a state of deep concentration at times.) I’m not sure who’s the better dancer behind the decks, Matt or Gex? I don’t think Rupture dances behind his decks. Maga Bo doesn’t either. Well, I’ve never seen them dance behind their turntables anyway. Have you? If you have, I need photo-or videographic evidence of these two men getting down. 
Maga Bo, author of Archipelagoes —a monster I can’t find the words to describe—, here manning the controls at the bottom of a bluest ocean with weird fishes and creatures swimming over his head and around him, while at the same time modeling tee shirts by designer Ghislain Poirier. Oh, Big Poppa Ghis (© Rupture), thanx 4 D Gros Beats. One beer wasn’t enough.
(I don’t have a single picture of Matthew Shadetek for some reason, and the man wasn’t scarce either. I apologize for that.)
And the people, the people, the party people…
Yes, lady on the left can shake it like a salt shaker.
My, my.. dazzling, beautiful brown eyes…
Go ladies.. all you stereotype ladies
Getting hazy and sweaty right about here.
Goodnight.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxfsvhWVqBM[/youtube]
This has been floating around for a little while…
Courtesy of Versetti
I recently came across a slew of grime mixtapes/street albums, or should we call them road albums? In less than two weeks, I had about a dozen new mixtapes in my HD, not having enough time or attention to really listen to all the materials—ranging from artists such as Ghetto, Riko, Ears, Killa P, Jammer, Kano, Trim, and the not so grime, but definitely grimey garage crew Road Side Gees.
Jammer – Intro (to Are You Dumb, Vol. 3)
Produced by Rude Kid
Pre-album fire from a grime luminary. I feel funny about calling Jammer grime, now – especially after he states in that intro, “I make music, F grime / I make music, F crime / I’m not a lame, man, F a nine…”?
$$$
Produced by Lewi White & Smasher
This one is off Ghetto’s new mixtape Freedom of Speech. Ghetto goes hard. Looking forward to his album.
I’m happy to say that it seems Grime fans are finally starting to dance again, and not just some random jumping around and gun-fingering but some real deal dancehall-style organized named dances with steps. They’ve still got a ways to go but I’m calling it a powerful positive step in the right direction. Unsurprisingly champion skanker Skepta is at the lead of the charge with his tune “Do The Rolex Sweep”. It seems this whole Grimey Electro thing is kinda popping off, I think it’s great. I’m glad the grime kids are not standing still and letting Funky eat their lunch after building up the thing for years now. The tune is clearly a response to Wiley’s “Wearing My Rolex” (featured below) so unsurprisingly Wiley is at the head of a major development in Grime, again. Big up the whole Boy Better Know camp for keeping the game flipping and coming through with another periodic fun injection to the scene. Check out more vids here.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xV6OZdxGGw[/youtube]
Also, very unrelatedly Lamin sent me a wicked XLR8R interview with Bun B after I mentioned him earlier, thanks! There’s also these excerpts where he talks about some more general stuff, which are also great.
A few days ago I came across the Grime encyclopedia, an excellent resource for anyone interested in the music. You are free to look around and find what you like, but they offer links to the most popular pages, to the leaders in the field. Topnotch Grime DJ Logan Sama, who has a legal grime radio show on Kiss 100, offers free rips of tracks from his show. Hmm.. there’s also a wider array of free downloads here.
Doctor – Rise The Temprature (Produced by Cotti) (Logan Sama Grimepedia rip)
I’ve had this tiny tune here on repeat for days.
Martin Clark wrote about Doctor and his yard roots in his montly Grime/Dubstep column for Pitchfork in 2005;
“Take Doctor. for example. Save Skepta, he’s probably the hottest MC on road right now. Accepted by the East MC camp, he’s a talented South London lyricist with a distinctive enough voice to put him in Trim or Kano’s league. The difference between Doctor and those others, however, is that he makes a feature of his yard roots[Flowing like you’re from “yard” usually means you’re black with Jamaican heritage]. He regularly switches from London chat to Jamaican slang and back, most prominently “Gotta Man?”.”
I love this tune. Wiley & Bless Beats doing electro-house. Not much to say, just listen, drink, dance, bubble.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGyq8DqhuuE[/youtube]
I’ll definitely play this at the Dutty Artz Tropical Dance next Friday (3/21) in Williamsburg at Glasslands, so get ready. I’ve been pondering what I am gonna play and I think among a few select things like this made by other people I am gonna go hard on my own material, which I haven’t done in a while. Want to hear what’s coming out the lab this year? Come listen. We’re doing two sets each, warm up and prime time, so there’s room for a range of stuff to get played. I’m happy about this because really, who wants to listen to the promoters cousin and 900 opening djs you’ve never heard of? Definitely not me. I can play for two hours easy, why would I even want anyone else playing at my party? I’ll probably play reggae early and shadetek bangers, grime, dancehall, dutty beats late. And yes, I know there are 10 million other parties that night in NYC, and good ones too, but ours is dirty and cheap so after you pay your 6 bucks you can actually afford to buy a few drinks and make some fun mistakes on a friday night, like you’re supposed to.
AMBUSH CREW CRAZIEST RIDDIM:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMOr3JbzyfQ[/youtube]
You thought I was joking when I said Brooklyn Anthem will not die. Well, after getting rinsed on the underground throughout the world and going mainstream through placement on Madden ’08 it’s now crossed over to the Brooklyn teen bashment dance scene, which is popping off on Youtube. To be totally honest, I had no idea this was happening. Klash just sent me a mail with about 40 youtube links of kids dancing to my tune. Big up to Island Superia sound for playing it and promoting their edit of the riddim. If you want to hear a clip of it with Cypha Soundz talking over it about their big teen dance on Mar 1st go to their myspace and play “March 1st Sea Breeze Manor” or check DJ Mountain Doo’s myspace.
My original name for it was the “718 Riddim” but everybody always just called it the “Brooklyn Instro”. Now these kids are calling it the “Craziest” and I like that. I figure it’s a good name for a riddim that just will not stop.
Now, the dancers:
{check the Dutty Artz Youtube Channel for many more of these, this is just four of them}
SELL OFF FAMILY:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpkWrls27DI[/youtube]
FORENZICK DANCERS:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJWBMbEm6Lo[/youtube]
GET MADD TV:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLPuFGcBV7o[/youtube]
