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I’m getting together clips of me and Jahdan live preparing my materials to send out for our next European tour in June (promoters, holler at booking AT duttyartz DOT com!) and thought I would share these.

THE GENERAL: live at the Museum of Natural History

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFXLJTGJw9I[/youtube]

WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS: Live in Cologne, Germany

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7u3YDvFZxI[/youtube]

Shoutout to Uh Young Kim and the guys from Bunch TV in Cologne, Germany they also taped an in depth interview with us that should be forthcoming.

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[youtube width=”525″ height=”455″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6oOA-G8wLA[/youtube]

A hands-down classic; this is one of the greatest Coupe Decale songs ever.

& here’s the opening track from the first volume of a massive Coupe compilation Abijan En Feu (Nouvelles Dances | Nouvelles Ambiances). This has all the attributes a nice jump-start groove should have – first, a comical, deranged sounding character shouting gibberish (or rather speaking in a language we don’t clearly understand,) a few seconds in, a more commanding and heavy voice takes charge, and serious outbursts of singing and speed-rapping backed by incredible music from DJ Arafat (myspace) follows. This one is guaranteed to scale up parties and move bodies.

[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/DJArafat-5500Volt.mp3]

DJ Arafat – 5500 Volt

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[youtube width=”524″ height=”393″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agAdm9gn-w4[/youtube]

[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/04%20Money%20To%20Blow%20feat.%20Drake%20and%20Lil%27%20Wayne%20%28Chief%20Boima%20Remix%29.mp3]

Birdman – Money To Blow feat. Drake and Lil Wayne (Chief Boima Remix)

Chief Boima‘s version is not as funny, but it’s a guaranteed dance floor scorcher.  The Chief is a badman producer from the left coast who recently unleashed a free EP heat up your winter – African By The Bay (62 megabyte ZIP file), feel free to to download and re-post on your site.

African By The Bay
[Artwork/cover design by Lupo Avanti]

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Omzo and Yero of Minen Teye

[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Minen_Teye-Yero_et_Omzo_feat_Sista_Soda.mp3]
Minen Teye feat. Sista Soda – Yero & Omzo (One Love)

[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Minen_Teye-Wake_Up_Feat_Gaston.mp3]
Minen Teye feat. Gaston – Wake Up

Minen Teye is a rap group out of Nouakchott, Mauritania. The group, sometimes referred to as the conscious generation, is a rather loose collective of rappers and singers from the rural parts of the country. The main members Yero and Omzo moved to the capital to pursue higher education at University of Nouakchott.  Other members of the collective moved to the city avoid civil unrest and the border squabbles with neighboring countries Senegal and Mali, which dates back to the late 1980s– but the capital Nouakchott has seen its share of trouble in the last two decades and recently with the military coup in August 2008.  According to my Mauritanian source here in Brooklyn, Yero and Omzo are in the third generation (2003-present) of the rap collective which dates back to the mid-1990s.  Their lyrics are politically charged and critical of the military government which has been brutally suppressing dissent and painting that suppression as fighting terrorism and Islamist militants, drug traffickers and illegal migrants.  Minen Teye members have been harassed by police and government officials several times in the last year.  They are in the process of recording a new album which should be out sometime next year.  In meantime, these two tracks feature outside vocalists, Senegalese songstress Sista Soda and Senegalese rapper Gaston. The tracks are from their recent release, from earlier this year Moro-Itanie.

Here’s a video a Facebook friend posted a few hours ago – Women on the Frontline: Mauritania, a documentary presented by Annie Lennox shining a light on violence against women and girls. Here, they look at the Islamic Republic’s interpretation of the Sharia law Zina. [UNIFEM]

[youtube width=”525″ height=”455″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zdkB_gm_VI[/youtube]

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS4KAImORd8[/youtube]

Kreayshawn‘s demo reel Summer 2009

& here’s the future! Lil B’s new video “Like A Martian,” also directed by Kreayshawn.

This is definitely dumbest track I’ve heard from Lil B this year -mind you, I can only listen to his material in tiny doses so I’ve heard less than one tenth of his output this year. Andrew Noz/Cocaine Blunts has the time and patience/attention for this. Grab the mp3/audio dope here if you dare.

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

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Jay Electronica

[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/01_Jay_Electronica-Exhibit_C.mp3]

Jay Electronica – Exhibit C

I have been waiting for a CDQ/NODJ version of this track for months! Jay Electronica (f*ck that! Call me Jay ElecHannukah, Jay ElecYalmulke…) and The Megatron Don answered the request/prayers of rap nerds and fans of great music the world over when they released Exhibit C this week. While the eyes of the world were on Copenhagen (I hope the eyes of the world were on Copenhagen! All the f*ckery, wrangling, and argument going on there matters to every single one of us on the planet. You might wake up one morning and find there is no Freetown, Monrovia, Conakry, no Dakar, no Lagos, no Accra, no Durban… they’re all cities under sea/saltwater! ahem, Solar Life Raft anyone?) one of my favorite tracks of 2009 was dropped in my mailbox! Finest holiday gift thus far, thanks Mo!

Now, let’s hope we get a full/CDQ version of “Dear Moleskine” by mid-Winter, and I’m quite certain an album in 2010 will set the globe on fire!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cA010JeecE[/youtube]

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[youtube width=”525″ height=”410″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYt4fp3TYQg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

The beautiful piece of music accompanying that uncomfortable (grotesque, disturbing and great!) video art is “Hotel Freund” from a remarkable new album, Alphabet 1968 from Black To Comm, a project by Hamburg-based Marc Richter. Listen closely to the “esoteric psychedelia” cunningly arranged pieces- hear the sound of children playing as giant rabbits look down from hilltops, intense and sinister.

[unrelated/reference points: The Food of the Gods Night of the Lepus & “let your love come down in the midnight hour.”]

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[youtube width=”525″ height=”455″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_82ZMRnU0U[/youtube]

“Lee Perry’s ‘Blackboard Jungle: From Dub to Dubstep'”

A mini documentary featuring Lee Scratch Perry, Subatomic Sound System, Jahdan Blakkamoore, Dubblestandart (plus interview footage with Rusko and live clips of Jahdan with Major Lazer)

1973, Jamaica.  2009, to the world!  The story of the seminal dub album “Blackboard Jungle” from Lee Scratch Perry and King Tubby that was cornerstone of the dub music craze that would extend around the world.  In 2009 Vienna’s dub masters Dubblestandart called on Perry to revisit the vibes.  This collaboration stretched around the globe to involve New York City’s dub scientists Subatomic Sound System & rising reggae vocal talent Jahdan Blakkamoore, and resulted in the first ever original dubstep tunes from Lee Scratch Perry plus a journey back into the Blackboard Jungle!

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[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Anti-Pop_5_minute_mix.mp3]

Antipop Consortium – Fluorescent Black 5 Minute Teaser Mix

…followed by Buffie The Body and two symphonies

[audio:http://nyc.duttyartz.com/mp3s/Volcano.mp3]

I love this album. It drops next Tuesday. Anti-Pop Consortium will be joining us for a live broadcast Monday, the eve of the album’s release, on Mudd Up! with DJ Rupture on WFMU 91.1 fm. Rupture and I will talk with Beans, HPrizm, M. Sayyid, and E. Blaize about their music, influences, history, lyricism, technology, afrofuturism, their insane live sets, etc. plus we’ll be playing some exclusive selections from the group. It should be tremendous!

Subscribe to the Mudd Up! podcast if you want downloadable versions: , Mudd Up! RSS. Listen, get involved, throw in comments, questions. Again, Mondays @ 7PM.

For those outside our FM broadcast range, WFMU offers live streaming and even has its own free iPhone app!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gi7VcP4yt4[/youtube]

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yqaFp981Yw&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
“Me nah run like track star / through the thick and thin she have mi front she have mi back star”

Been knocking this one around the house lately. Vybz Kartel in a surprisingly sweet mode. No gun ballad here. Dre Skull went in on the buttons, also check his tune with 77Klash ‘Call Me’. Sensitive thug music from the Gaza. Get it on iTunes.

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[youtube width=”525″ height=”455″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UogeAFYnBo[/youtube]

Pill speaks about coming up in West ATL’s Pink City, the hard, un-glossed reality he deliberately portrayed in his video for “Trap Goin’ Ham” -which ruffled a few feathers, trapping and rapping, other generalities like blunt communication/honest expression thru rap.

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