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Video: Ethiopia/Nãga by Old Money and Lamin Fofana
Old Money and Lamin Fofana present the video for “Ethiopia” (shot, directed & edited by Olivia Seally), the single they released on Dutty Artz last fall. The video also includes the B-Side from the release, Nãga.
February Mixtape Mondays, pt. 4: Chief Boima & Geko Jones
For our final chapter of the Dutty Artz February Mixtape Mondays (check previous mixes by DJ /rupture & Sonido Martines, DJ Ushka, and DJ Ripley), my brother Geko Jones and I decided to chime in with a collaborative submission.
BomBeat @ LPR Nov. 24th
[youtube width=”525″ height=”360″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESj164wKc6I[/youtube]
Super excited about this new event, BomBeat, that I am launching with my crew Cumba Mela, and Nickodemus from Turntables on the Hudson. Its all going down this Saturday, November 24th at Le Poisson Rouge, in Manhattan. Expect to hear a wide range of global bass music: cumbia, dancehall, kuduro, house, moombahton, reggaeton….
We have Jeremy Sole coming from LA, repping KCRW, TheLift, and Afro Funke.
We are going to try our best to get a free EP for ever event. Be sure to check out the first one bellow!
Change The Mood Even More
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) block party that found itself in the Park of the Sunset in the year 2012 of the Christian God. The follow up manifestation will make sure the world knows that Africans are indeed real, by pulling them out of the realm of myths, and pushing them deep into your ear canals, penetrating the furthest stretches of your ancestral souls.
Excitingly, the lineup for said gathering features: a Kenyan superstar scribe making his way down from the upper reaches of the Hudson river, a DJ from Africa of the South who in the current era is able to sell 30,000 physical units of House mix CDs from out the back of his carriage, four Salone borbors including a village chief, a blind genius virtuoso musician, a house music maestro, and His Imperial Majesty Lamin Fofana I. Also appearing in the pageant will be wordsmiths Old Money and beatsmith Matt Shadetek whom both represent the colony once belonging to a great people of the North, but at the current juncture remains under the reign of Emperor Bloomberg of York (the new one).
Join us on Saturday to Change The Mood!
October 13th at Public Assembly, Brooklyn. 21+. $10. 9pm.
tickets available:Â http://
for more information, contact: family@duttyartz.com
Sat, February 11th @ The Glasslands Gallery
PopGun Presents…
Sat, February 11th @ The Glasslands Gallery
$7 ADV, $7 DOS
TICKETS AT: http://ticketf.ly/xSnTkw
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CLICKS & WHISTLES
http://soundcloud.com/clicksandwhistles
Rx
http://www.rxbass.com/
LAMIN FOFANA
http://soundcloud.com/laminfofana
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21+, Doors at 11:30pm
$7 ADV, $7 DOS
TICKETS AT: http://ticketf.ly/xSnTkw
IN THE CLUB BEFORE 11 O’CLOCK
This is one of those posts where I just blatantly jack Timeblind :
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u8Cj_ZGO_Q[/youtube]
“I’ve been listening to chicago trax, dance mania, ghetto tech all that for 15 years or so. Rashad is taking it up a level and reaching escape velocity, its more like Jungle in the way it floats. Really this stuff is practically Jungle but its totally Chicago. Juke has arrived” – Timeblind via Google+
He said it, I don’t have much to add expect that this shit is fuckin dope. The drop at around 2:03 really proves his point. I get that warm fuzzy I’m back in my jungle-raving-youth feeling. I saw Rashad on new year’s eve here in Brooklyn and he killed it. A really fun set. Overall a fun party actually, grimy warehouse illegal vibes in Bushwick. Shout out to Mike Q, Lit City, Whore House and Cunt Mafia for that. I danced my ass off.
ME, MYSELF AND I (WHERE THE MAGICK HAPPENS)
narcissism alert – hearty mag came through my spot a couple months ago and cooked this. Check the 010101 version of intimacy.
MORE WORK: JUKE + FOOTWORK DOCUMENTARY
Since you all loved up that last footwork / juke post I made I figured I’d share a video piece that Wills Glasspiegel who did the audio I posted did, I assume on the same trip to Chicago. Â Some of the material is the same but since it’s about dancing the visual is pretty key: watch those feet work!
Also Wills was nice enough to make the audio in the original post (below) downloadable for those of you who requested it for your filez.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqGSxAh8cJM[/youtube]
Also Traxman who’s in the piece will be playing in NYC this Friday at an underground party at an undisclosed location in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Â Also Total Freedom from LA! Â Looks like there will be some footwork dancers there too. Â Shout to Azizaman for putting it together, looks dope. Â FB event here w/ info.
I am not involved with this but am showing it a bit of promo love because I remember what it was like trying to bring Grime artists to NYC when no one knew what it was but I just loved this new crazy music and wanted to share. Â It ain’t easy! If you like this kind of stuff vote with your dancing feet.
FOOTWORK ORAL HISTORY
Wills Glassspiegel sent me this after I ran into him on the street and remarked how much I enjoyed the radio broadcast he worked on for Afropop about the black American roots of house and techno here.
I’ll let him speak:
“Thought you and Dutty Artz might be interested in this interview tape I recorded in Chicago with Traxman, RP Boo, DJ Earl and Boylan. I think everyone has been trying to describe “footwork” and no one quite gets to it like these guys. In publishing this tape (which i did with their permsision), I was reminded of Lomax’s old oral history interviews with blues musicians. So important for musicians to tell their own stories.”
Yup, I agree. I always prefer to listen to music talk about their own work and scenes as opposed to various usually distant journalistic interpreters. Listen, learn and enjoy.
Korak EP
I’m not sure if they’re referring to the son of Tarzan, town in Nepal, or the language from Papua New Guinea, but we’re proud to announce DA013 the Korak EP from Contakt & Mayster. The duo are behind TURRBOTAX®, Brooklyn’s own XLR8R sponsored “un-pretentious yet forward thinking and adventurous” club night at The Cove, now turning two years old.
On “Korak” tropical percussion, 808 cowbells and an assortment of clicks and pops whir and collide around a throbbing, syncopated bass line. DA’s own Matt Shadetek provides a NYC 3Ball rework with nuff bass to rattle windows and rib cages. The b-side “Opar” is a study in tension and release with a more classic 4×4 house beat while Contakt & Mayster create a soundscape with reversed cymbals and filtered percussion. Doc Daneeka comes through with a UK Funky remix.
Out Soon!!!!
BODEGA (the cat sleeps on the bread?)
[youtube width=”525″ height=”380″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqkNuAf79k8[/youtube]
pardon my a b s e n c e and tardiness… big up Prince Quan Luv and the Old Money massv.
TURN IT UP EP: OUT TODAY
NYLON mag premieres Turn It Up (So We Can Turn It Out), a tune from Kalup Linzy feat. James Franco’s Turn It Up EP, available on Dutty Artz as of today! The song was produced by DJ Rupture (mixed while in Casablanca) & Brent Arnold on cello and guitar. It’s a family ting.
The EP has three original songs plus a fantastic remix by Cardopusher, available in both vocal and instrumental versions. To get it Turn It Up (digitals now, special small-run vinyl pressing soon), you can head to iTunes, Amazon, Boomkat, and your usual online haunts.
MADE IN AFRICA – FRIDAY NITE @ CAFE NUNEZ
FRIDAY MAY 6TH
10PM – 4AM
MADE IN AFRICA
featuring DJ SIRAK of AFRICOLOGY
MIA residente’s CHIEF BOIMA + LAMIN FOFANA
CAFE NUNEZ – 240 W. 35th St. (Between 7 & 8th Ave.) NEW YORK, NY
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=219117971431923
Cover $10
Special $5 well drink till 12
Complimentary cocktails for 1st 20 ladies…
couPe decAle zouK house hipHop r&B danceHall Raï kwaiTo zouGlou kaPouka genGe maRRabenta kiZomba KuDuro pandZa soUKous nDombolo hipLife mBalaX salSa… cot damn! whatevEr uLTra afriKaNess pluS pluS!
& bug out to this!
[youtube width=”525″ height=”355″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n66-Uhf0nT4[/youtube]
MATT SHADETEK’S DUTTY HOUSE EP OUT NOW!
Matt Shadetek returns to “minimalist grime principles” this week with the killer Dutty House EP! Check out the addictive “Wonton Garden” riddim (which refused to die and here in its official/proper release) + the recent refix of Blak Ryno’s “Nuh Tek Talk” on Eddie Stats’ essential weekly roundup of heaters Ghetto Palms.
Blak Ryno – Nuh Tek Talk (Matt Shadetek Dutty House Rmx) by mattshadetek