Catch me January 7th at Turrbotax in Williamsburg at The Cove (formerly Hugs). No cover and free Asahi beer from 10-11PM.
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Jah Mason – I Told You (Paul Alt Remix)
Belgium producer Paul Alt reheats a 77Klash riddim voiced by Jah Mason. I think it’s safe to say that riddims associated with 77Klash are immune to dying. Klash City Records released The Swarm Riddim over two years ago, and refixes are still surfacing. Paul Alt whips up a sweet and heavy dance beat guaranteed to scorch dance floors, or just turn your holiday party a bit more nasty. That artwork is very appropriate for the song’s lyrics. A man expresses an excessive desire for and to a girl he has been watching admiringly for a long time – Girlfriend, I told you, you’re gonna be fine. Just give me your love & I’ll give you mine… After a few seconds, he tells her to keep it confidential.
and the winner is…..
Somebody call Kanye and tell him to say somethin stupid.
Buzzrock Warrior was just awarded Best Reggae Album 2009 by iTunes in both US and Germany. 2008’s award went to his band Noble Society so that’s double down on the BRAGADAPS!!!!
UNDERWATER HIGH RISE
The horns came from my days in Barcelona (Kurzweill K2000 in the house, I think), as did the vocal snippet – it was a group of French girls in front of the cathedral, singing, ambling. (I haven’t done any field recordings since my minidisc died.) This year Matt + I revisited those samples/sounds, built a new tune around it, and finished things off with a great live session over at DJ Kiva’s awesome studio setup out in Bburg – Kiva added guitar played through some wild filter, a bit of live percussion, the works.
This tune is on Solar Life Raft and Sara Taigher’s animation; here’s the unmixed original. Look for it on 12″ soon.
MANAUGH ON MUDD UP! RADIO TONIGHT
Geoff Manaugh, author of the BLDGBLOG book & blog, will join DJ Rupture on Mudd Up! w/ DJ Rupture on WFMU tonight betweeen 7-8pm. Geoff’s a consistently fascinating writer on architecture, contributing editor to Wired UK, and a former techno DJ. Expect discussion to range from architectural acoustics & unexpected sample-discovery to a selection of Geoff’s favorite techno.
You already know the drill, tune in, throw in comments, questions, get involved, & heat up. Again, tonight @ 7PM.
Subscribe to the Mudd Up! podcast if you want downloadable versions: , Mudd Up! RSS.
For those outside our FM broadcast range, WFMU offers live streaming and even has its own free iPhone app!
Tell dem already…..
We haffi tell them again and again and again.
It’s constant slewin every time Blakkamoore gets on the mic.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpCIX3vFn28&NR=1[/youtube]
Liondub‘s original is just as lethal and Sotto Bless’ voice will come as a revelation to the roots massive.
available in cracktastic plastic and full strength digi-mode at Boomkat, Mixmag and other fine music retailers.
CIAFRICA FAMILY VIDEO
Ya Yo Se
Synthy Nu-Wave Latin Afrobeat from the one called Chico Mann, long time member of NYC’s Antibalas crew.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elpiDB9SoJg[/youtube]
WE’RE GOING
Jahdan and I are off to Europe tonight and looking very much forward to our shows. We’ll be in Berlin from the 14th – 17th (Monday – Thursday) with some down time doing some interviews, voicing dubplates and seeing friends. If you’re around get at us via email or similar, my phone won’t be working out there. If you’re a sound and want dubs from Jahdan and are in any of the cities on the tour, holler.
JAHDAN BLAKKAMOORE & MATT SHADETEK: BUZZROCK WARRIOR LIVE
Dec. 10th Vienna @ FLUC WANNE w/ DUBBLESTANDART + SUBATOMIC SOUND SYSTEM
Dec. 11th Nuernberg, AMPLIFIED ATTITUDE @ DESI
Dec. 12th Linz @ KAPU
Dec. 18th Cologne @ GLOBAL PLAYER
Dec. 19th Dresden @ ALTES WETTBÃœRO
Dec. 20th Berlin TBD
Sounds Like the End is Near
URGENT CALL FOR SOUND COMPOSITIONS
On a topic even more urgent: Climate Chaos
Deadline: December 13, 2009
Public Performance: December 16, in the streets of Copenhagen during the Climate Summit, broadcast from the Sound Swarm, a of battery of bicycle-mounted megaphones within the Bike Bloc
Compensation: Air that you can breath & weather that doesn’t kill you
Curated by: Filastine
From the 7-18th of December the world’s leaders will be in Copenhagen to decide the conditions of this planet’s future. Given the suspects & their financial backing, it’s nearly impossible we’ll be presented with solutions, far more likely we’ll see further privatization, enclosure, and commodification of the our atmosphere under the alias of carbon trading.
This is your chance to put pressure, speak truth to power, or sonically disrupt, at HIGH VOLUME.
Anything on-topic is welcome: remix the speeches of corporate & government leaders, environmental soundscapes, the sounds of nature or it’s undoing, appropriate collages, home-cooked theme songs, subliminal mob-inflaming drones, advertising jingles of the apocalypse
Submission Details:
1. Composition can be of any duration, but there is no guarantee your composition will be broadcast.
2. The loudspeakers do not reproduce frequencies below 500hz. Use a highpass EQ filter. Also, megaphones respond better to longer sounds than short transients. Translation: no bass, no drums.
3. Please submit 5 dual-mono wave files with equal start times. Use the diagram below for conceptualizing space. If you are technically unable to compose and render for 5 channels, submit it anyhow, if it’s good I’ll make the effort to cut it into multi-channel.
4. Send files via an ftp, yousendit.com, sendthisfile.com, or a similar service to this email: filastine.soundswarm@gmail.com
5. Name the files like this:
1RR_title
2R_title
3C_title
4L_title
5LL_title
This is how we’ll try to be arranged in the street, the X’s signify non-sound bikes of the bike block.
(imagine Sarkozy, Wen Jiabao, or Obama here in front of us listening attentively.
or maybe just a load of riot police & TV cameras)
X 5LL X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 1RR X
X X X X X X 4L X X X XX X X 4R X X X X
X X X X X X X X X X 3C X X X X X X X X X X
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X
(+ another ~ 1000 bikes)
Move fast. We are just about out of time.
in other languages: versions español/français/japanese/bahasa
AFRICAN BY THE BAY
Dutty Artz is proud to present The African By The Bay EP, an exclusive collection of irresistible remixes from San Francisco/Bay Area producer Chief Boima. The EP is available for free download, and features a healthy dose of Afro dance remixes and instrumental reworkings of songs by Birdman (“Money To Blow” feat. Drake and Lil Wayne), Akon (“Right Now”), The Jacka (“Glamorous Lifestyle” feat. Andre Nickatina), Fabo & T-Pain (“Own Step”)
African By The Bay EP is a potent batch of new stateside rap tunes given the remix treatment by Boima, our favorite African-American (in the Obama sense) producer, whose trail-blazing approach weds percussive patterns from sounds like Ivorian Coupe Decale and Senegalese Mbalax. (Not to mention Angolan Kuduro, Nigerian Club, and South African Kwaito, and his Sierra Leonean Highlife and Palm-Wine refix of Cold Flamez “Miss Me, Kiss Me”.)
African By The Bay (62 megabyte ZIP file), feel free to to download and re-post on your site.
01 Chief Boima – Shake Them Dreads
02 The Jacka – Glamorous Lifestyle feat. Andre Nickatina (Chief Boima Remix)
03 Sean Garrett – Smooches feat. Young Joc (Chief Boima Remix)
04 Birdman – Money To Blow feat. Drake and Lil Wayne (Chief Boima Remix)
05 Akon – Right Now (Nananana) (Chief Boima Mbalax Decale Remix)
06 YV – Own Step feat. T-Pain & Fabo (Chief Boima Remix)
07 Cold Flamez – Miss Me, Kiss Me (Chief Boima Remix)
DUPPY ARTZ TELEPATHE REMIX
Telepathe‘s Dance Mother album has been one of the year’s standouts for me; the instant I heard it I knew I wanted to incorporate some of the material in our Solar Life Raft‘s emergency toolkit. (Never face the end of the world without nice synths – solar-powered when possible – and singing).
Matt Shadetek and I did two totally different remixes of “In Your Line”. This version, where we excavated a drafty house with bass foundations and disappeared the original guitars & drums, won out.
XLR8R has it on exclusive. Duppy artz!
[audio:http://negrophonic.com/mp3/Telepathe_InYourLine(DJ_rupture+MattShadetekRMX).mp3]Telepathe – In Your Line (DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek remix) from Solar Life Raft: The Ingredients
KALA DJULA
“Kala Djula” is from Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate‘s forthcoming album Ali and Toumani, which will be released in February 2010. Their previous collaboration In the Heart of the Moon is one of our favorite albums of the decade. Ali Farka Toure passed away in 2006, and left us an incredible amount of beautiful music.
[via pitchfork tv]
SWAGGER JACKSON’S REVENGE
Jay Electronica – Swagger Jackson’s Revenge
Regardless who you vote for
If the mind don’t grow, and the poverty lines don’t go
But the dope keep coming, and the TV keeps flashing images of a sports car
Then you’re bound for a coke war
The meek get clowned by the coke law
The sheep get drown in the folklore
Then lured to sleep by Tom Brokaw
What a pity?
The hope on the politician’s tongue never ever trickles down to the city.
This track is from a compilation/mixtape floating around titled ElectroChemicals, containing exclusive songs and rare materials previously available only as radio-rips or web/myspace-rips from Jay Electronica – a brilliant voice in hip hop (in music and poetry in general) who is going to set drop an album in 2010. This cut has a great Michael Jackson speech in the intro— from an interview in which The King sounded defiant, and saying there’s a conspiracy in the US; it is suspicious that his album is number one all around the world, except in America where he is facing all kinds of legal and financial woes.