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This Thursday requires careful decision-making.

Over at Manhattan’s APT, Geko Jones & Uproot Andy are holding it down for another episode of Que Bajo, everyone’s favorite tropicaliente afrocolombian bass whumpathon.

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And at Williamburg’s Glasslands, Kingdom is throwing a Club Vortex party – where hosts outnumber performers! But the performers include House of Ladosha. “They are Crunk / Vogue / Terror” explains Kingdom.

[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/house of ladosha_BURNING LIKE PARIS.mp3]

House of Ladosha – Burning Like Paris

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Thanks again to everyone who came out last time.  We’re doing it again.  We’re always looking for people doing things that we like and can vibe with in NYC to link up and get rainforesty with us.  This time our guest is new signee to Diplo’s Mad Decent label Maluca.  Those who were there  last time know what I’m saying, I tried to lean on the wall behind the DJ booth and nearly busted my ass it was so slippery.  Shoutouts to Contessa hosting and NY Remezcla on promotional support.

FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE

Friday April 24th

Glasslands Gallery

289 Kent Ave.

10PM – 4AM

$5 b4 11PM, $7 after

DJs:

Uproot Andy

Geko Jones

Matt Shadetek

Special live guest:

Maluca [Mad Decent]

Hosted by: Contessa

And before anyone else asks me what those animals are (not the baby leopard) they’re MARMOSETS:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oiLfTnrC40[/youtube]

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April fools, they’re not really, but that actually happened to me in junior high school and was terrible.  One week from tonight NYC it’s a wednesday night sweat-out courtesy of the great Thanh of Unit One and the Broken Teeth Crew featuring Your’s Truly.  What will I play?  I have no idea, but it will be magically delicious, I promise.

Broken Teeth w/ MATT SHADETEK of DUTTY ARTZ – 4/8 at 87 ludlow & delancey st – NYC
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Geko Jones was guest hosting Moglo Radio this week and he put together a beautiful hour of tropical travels. This is good for your in home personal dance parties, I know cause it was recorded in my Bed Stuy apartment and the place was jumping. For real, I was jumping. I got all amped and tried to have a cumbia cd delivered with our tacos, cause they do sell them at the restaurant, but alas the tacos arrived alone. Don’t worry though, I’ll try again next time, I’m determined to have cumbia delivered to my door.

In the meantime, grab the radio show below, put it on, and start practicing your moves for the next Que Bajo dance party on April 9th at APT, as well as every Thursday in April after that.

Also I wanna shout out Chief Boima who has two new productions featured in Geko’s mix, one of them in collaboration with Oro 11 under the name Banana Clipz. They’re both fire and Boima promises a trip out here in the summer so get familiar.

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Tracklist:

Filaw (Chief Boima rmx) – Issa Bagayogo
Bongo Jam- Crazy Cousins
Guata Guata- Dj Mouse
Serena Step- Hossam Ramsey
Num Deu Pra Creditá- Barbatuques
Borachera- Charly DJ
El Pescador (Uproot Andy remix) – Toto la Momposina
Mapale Sabroso – Cumbia Soledena

El Principe- Sonido del Principe
Kamphopo- The Very Best
Crisis (Banaclipz Bubustyle riddim)- Khady Black
Kawina-?
Ay paloma- La Reverenda (Geko Jones & Reaganomics Ay Kuduro rmx)
Drift Furioso- DJ Marfox
Lem Lem feat Sara- Ku Bo
Freight Dub- Stagga

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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.

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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.

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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

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 matt shadetek's get drunk and lose your phone mix

New DJ mix from me, Matt Shadetek, that I put together to promote our party next Friday Mar. 27th at Glasslands in Brooklyn.  The mix is called “Get Drunk and Lose Your Phone”, which is precisely what I expect you to come out and do with us next week.  Don’t worry, you’ll get another one and probably find that cute girl’s number again, maybe.  I included tracks from Kingdom and Uproot Andy who will both be playing, along with some stuff by me of course.  The first tune is a brand new exclusive 4×4 Tropical remix of The Dream’s “Rockin’ That Shit” that I just made.  I love The Dream, his new album is great and is apparently doing really well.  If you had told me a few years ago I would be listening to and making housey R+B I would have laughed in your face.  Ha!  Here we are in 2009.  Anyway, enjoy the mix, it’s the third installment in our Dutty Artz Podcast, following Lamin’s Recession Rap Mix.

Here are links for subscribing to the podcast: this one for regular ‘podcatchers’ and this one for iTunes icon itunes smaller.

Note: Link change from this afternoon to fix iTunes compatibility, if you were linked directly update yr links.

LISTEN & DOWNLOAD:

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TRACKLIST:

1. The Dream – Rockin’ That Shit (Matt Shadetek Tropical Mix)

2. Schlachthof Bronx – We Nah Fraid

3. Kingdom – Mindreader feat. Shyvonne

4. Noite e Dia Ft. Puto Prata vs Quantic – Mana Dança Só (Uproot Andy Remix)

5. Blak Ryno -Ay Ya Ay Ya

6. Jahdan Blakkamoore – Go Round Payola (Matt Shadetek Bye Haters Remix)

7. Zomby – Strange Fruit

8. Jahdan Blakkamoore – Nice Green (Matt Shadetek Nice Ghost Remix)

9.  Grupo Naidy – El Botellón (Uproot Andy Remix)

10. Vybz Kartel – Rampin’ Shop feat. Spice

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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.

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We’ve got a lot to give thanks for this week. The addition of Archer ‘Babytek’ Schell to the DA Fam. The forth coming family reunion this friday in Bed Stuy. and this….

Jahdan’s band Noble Society, winners of the I-tunes Reggae Album of the year are taking time off the grind to celebrate the release of their second full length, Take Charge.

OKAYPLAYER.COM had this to say…

“Noble Society is not your weed head uncle’s reggae band. Fronted by former Boot Camp Click affiliate, Jahdan, this Brooklyn outfit eschews the open, organic grooves of traditional roots music. Their ambitious debut, Take Charge is winter time reggae, world music for the new world order; a juxtaposition of the social and spiritual ruminations of vintage island music, the cold, claustrophobia of modern electronica, and the aggressive percussion of hip hop. When everything clicks, the urgency of the production adds heft to the fiery content that is characteristic of the genre, but often muted by the mellow bounce of the soundscapes. “

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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]

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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.

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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)

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t&b dec 12th flier

Dec. 12th Dutty Artz will be throwing down alongside long time NYC homies Trouble & Bass at the newly revamped Studio B in Greenpoint BK. We’ll be in the side room throwing down all night, me, Geko and Uproot Andy, who if you haven’t heard his Guacharaca Migrations tape, check it, IT’S CRAZY!

Lineup:

Main Room:

Fake Blood

Mikix the Cat

Drop The Lime & Star Eyes tag team set

The Captain

Side Room:

Matt Shadetek

Geko Jones

Uproot Andy

At Studio B, 259 Banker Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, USA, The World. 19+, 10$ Advance, $15 at the door, 10PM to 4AM.