This Friday I’ll be playing at my current favorite party in NYC, Turrbotax. I really like what Contakt and the Turrbotax crew have put together there. They’re playing a really cool blend of new dance music and it’s always a fun hype atmosphere. Free beer by Asahi from 11-12 doesn’t hurt either. I’m especially pleased about this Friday’s Turrbotax Business Edition since I’ll be playing with Mosca of Night Slugs. Mosca produced the 10 minute post-funky epic ‘Nike’ which really got my ears open last year. I expect this to be one to remember so please do come out and sweat with us.
Friday, July 2nd, 10pm – 4am
@ The Cove (formerly known as Hugs)
106 N. 6th Street, Williamsburg BKNY (btw Berry & Wythe)
$FREE before 11pm, $5 before 12am, $7 after
With Special Guests: Mosca (Night Slugs/London/UK)
Matt Shadetek (Dutty Artz)
Norrit (Think 2Wice/Lawrence, KS)
Residents: Video City
Rem Koolhaus
Mayster
C-Sick
Contakt
Bienvenidos a the official 2010 New York City Latin Summer Events Guide! Summer invaded this week with a sweaty onslaught of sun and filth. It’s great! The temperature might make you loopy. So loopy, in fact, that you might forget to hit up the best events New York City has to offer this year. Which is why we’re here. Who else can better filter the bueno from the whatever in anything and everything Latino? This year NYRemezcla.com and Latin Media & Entertainment Commission (LMEC) bring you even better festivals, fiestas, and films to catch from June to December. That’s seven months of non-stop awesomeness. Who needs sleep anyway?
You can find it at Que Bajo?! /Shops all over the city or download directly from their site.
Dutty Artz is very pleased to announce the debut official release from Dominican underground superstar Rita Indiana. For those unfamiliar with Rita’s vibe download her La Hora De Volver here, courtesy of Remezcla. Perez Hilton is a fan saying: ”Super caliente! We are obsessed with it – and HER!!!!!!!”
Her Dutty Artz single features two songs. One, called ‘No Ta Llevando El Diablo’ (translated as ‘The Devil is Taking Us Away’) is Rita backed by her band Los Misterios. It’s an angry blast of punk mambo with Rita singing about grannies smoking crack over distorted guitars, guira and 808 boom added by Shadetek and Rupture. The second track ‘Los Poderes’ is Rita solo over Shadetek and Rupture’s rework of a Bannana Clipz riddim (Bannana Clipz is Dutty Artz own Chief Boima and Bersa Discos Oro 11). Over a mix of digital and live hand-drumming contributed by Ivory Nunez playing an interpretation of Dominican Palo over Bannana Clipz 4×4 beat Rita sings a haunting tropical voodoo ballad.
The release will be available July 6th in all fine digital retailers including iTunes, Juno, Amazon and Boomkat. In the meantime, soak your eyes in these:
I’m betting this show goes down as the unofficial closing party for the Latin Alternative Music Conference which goes from July 6-10. Last year, we sold out and had to leave some friends on the pier. This year we got a bigger boat but be sure to get your tickets well in advance, this show will sell off.
The second episode of Dutty Artz Radio is up! Me (Matt Shadetek), DJ Rupture, Mosholu Park aka Lamin and Taliesin all got together in the basement of Dubspot to all DJ some short 20 minute sets and do the first episode of our new book club!
The book we talked about is Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower.
I chopped the audio into separate parts for your mp3 player pleasure. We streamed it on UStream although somehow the video got lost. The full chat transcript is after the jump though so you can read back if you want. We’ll be doing this weekly on Thursday nights at 7PM NYC time (EST) at http://www.ustream.tv/duttyartznyc
This coming Monday we’ll have a special edition after Dubspot Radio which is at 8 (and I also run) with special guests NGUZU NGUZU! YAAAAA! We’re very excited
Eyebeam Open Studios, this Friday 3-6pm in the Chelsea space. I will present a cumbia research project I’m working on as one of Eyebeam’s resident artists this season. La Congona New Cumbia will culminate in a mixtape CD + bilingual poster, and be documented on our blog of the same name.
So feel free to drop by and see/say what’s up. A very diverse group of people will be showing their work-in-progress. For example: while I’m doing weird cumbia distribution/circulation mapping & hotwiring bootleg networks, Ted Southern, pictured below, is building honest-to-God astronaut gloves. (the last pair he designed outperformed NASA gloves on NASA’s own tests). Astronaut gloves!
Open Studios continue on Saturday, although I won’t be able to attend.
It’s a great feeling when your friends blow the fuck up. But when they only have a few decent press shots- all of which you’ve already used- you have to get creative. H/T to the Basic Sounds for the totally unrelated but amazing image from Paco Pomet.
If your part of the growing legion of Uproot Andy supporters you should head to the Dubspot blog for an indepth interview with the man himself.
Choice quote- Andy on remix work: ”The most important thing is that I love it. The second is that I can imagine how to make it work in the club.”
If somehow you have missed our tireless support of the Canadian phenom- hit his soundcloud.
If you didnt read the in-depth Dutty Artz feature in the Economist last month you probably missed the official announcement that we have synergized with http://urmean2computer.tumblr.com/ to bring you a more immersive content experience.
Me and Lamin are both working at Dubspot now and we are doing a new radio show out of the Dubspot basement! It’s being streamed and podcasted. Subscribe at the original post!
Our first guests on the Dubspot Radio Podcast are two New York heavyweights: Dave Q and Badawi. Dave Q has played a pivotal role in bringing Dubstep to NYC through his respected Dub War parties and his forward looking DJ sets. Badawi aka Raz Mesinai is a long time participant in many mutant strains of dub music in NY and internationally and has now teamed up with Dave Q to start The Index, their new label project. Among his many activities Raz is also an instructor here at Dubspot teaching students to produce in Ableton Live. The broadcast contains a mix by Dave Q playing from Serato followed by a short set from Raz on Ableton and at the end an interview with host Matt Shadetek.
Check out the mix and interview on Dubspot’s soundcloud:
Yaaaaaaa!! Can you tell I’m excited about our new Dutty Artz UStream and Podcast radio show? I am, very.
We’re doing it Thursday nights regularly at 7PM from the basement of Dubspot. But we’re also gonna be doing it irregularly whenever we feel like it! So the currently planned broadcasts are gonna be tomorrow Thursday 6/24/10 at 7PM AND next Monday the 28th at 10PM with special guests NGUZU NGUZU! YAAAAA! I am excited. A lot of cool people are gonna be in NYC this coming week and I want to get as many of em as we can to come and wile out with us in the basement and do radio.
The first episode is up in two chunks, first me Matt Shadetek and then Lamin aka Mosholu Park:
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You’ll get these in the course of the regular Dutty Artz Podcast if you’re already subscribed. Also if you want to go back and check out the video that goes with us (watch me dance, dj and sing along to Busy Signal!) you can go check out our UStream channel. This is where it will be going down tomorrow: http://www.ustream.tv/duttyartznyc.
Also equally exciting is that we’ll be inaugurating the first session of the DUTTY ARTZ BOOK CLUB tomorrow at the beginning of the broadcast. We will be talking about Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. We over here read a lot of books and talk about them a lot so in an effort towards increased transparency and over the top nerdiness we will be sitting on UStream talking about science fiction tomorrow. Log eeeeeeeeeeen! It’s gonna be fun (if talking about books is your idea of fun, otherwise after about 15-20 minutes we’re gonna start firing musical bullets).
Today I’m going to host WNYC’s Soundcheck from 2-3pm on 93.9FM, then at night – tonight, Wednesday June 23rd – I’ll switch into my DJ /rupture costume and shake up the Que Bajo party.
Tropical enthusiasts will not be disappointed: humid city, rich old cumbias, synthed-up new beats, we got you covered. Geko Jones and I trading off all evening. Santos Party House, $5, 11pm. Village Voice writeup.
para empezar: a nice ‘Cumbia de la Playa’ version, group unknown:
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and a 6-minute medley from Ecuadorean genius, Polibio Mayorga. Mayorga’s telltale bounce goes through subtle musical shifts as shouts of encouragement animate a real or imaginary dancefloor. The guy who gave me this CD was worried that, back home, it was old people’s music – but, he said, it would get them dancing every time. There’s little bass in the original; you need to boost the low-end to get an idea of how it’s supposed to sound. “Bass weight”, in dubstep parlance…
I have a wonderful life-affirming Polibio Mayorga / soundsystem hoarding story from Mexico City, will share soon.
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I’m pleased to announce that I will be guest-hosting a few episodes of WNYC’s Soundcheck this week! WNYC is New York’s flagship public radio/NPR station, and Soundcheck is the daily talk show about music. I’ve been on twice as a guest – once with Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein discussing myth & mystery in music in relation to our inclusion in the Best Music Writing 2009 book, and once for a live performance (which got bungled by the head of the label who put out Uproot, alas).
This Wednesday and Thursday, however, I’ll be hosting the show while regular presenter John Schaefer escapes NYC’s current heatwave on vacation somewhere undoubtedly nicer. You can tune into the live broadcast on 93.9 FM from 2-3pm, or catch the various incarnations as online stream, podcast, 10pm rebroadcast, etc.
Check Soundcheck’s site for information on the guests and live performers I’ll be speaking with. (Hint: undead Paul McCartney).
The following infographic should answer any additional inquiries you might have:
Radio – freely available music & talk about music delivered locally to anyone with access to a cheap FM receiver – played a huge role in my musical upbringing (I’m remembering high school evenings spent taping shows beamed out from Boston’s college stations); it’s an honor and a pleasure to participate with the Soundcheck team.
Further left on the dial, you’ll find WFMU 91.1 FM entering its summer season, where my weekly show maintains the 7pm Monday night slot. Tonight’s episode was fun…
Dutty Artz own mr_blakkamoore is ramping up for the release of his new album Babylon Nightmare coming soon on Lustre Kingsand brings us this excellent podcast mixtape for a teaser: Global Warning (click here to download). Me and Liondub, who I produced ‘The General’ with contributed a remix of Jahdan’s ‘Songs of Love’ the first single for the new album. There’s a bunch of great stuff on here including some exclusives from Digital Ancient aka Andrew Moon Bain and a feature from Baja of Dry Eye Crew and Delie from Noble Society. Check out the post over at Largeup.com for a little bio of Jahdan and enjoy the mix.
Check 1:40 for the real moment(s) of clarity here.
Dutty Artz is a book club. You might have thought we were a record label- given that we’re releasing tracks every month and constantly feeding the internet with audio files- but it goes a lot deeper then that. If you want to be part of the club, you should read Octavia Butler’s Parable of The Sower. If you’re not in the Northern Hemisphere- you might want to wait until Summer, caus this one is dark, and if read before bed, almost guaranteed to induce the vivid nightmares that lodge in your psyche for days before revealing themselves as dreams and not memories.
We’re scrambling just like everyone else right now- trying to figure out what it means to be a record label in an era where recorded digital media has no value- and the only people making money are slicing off pounds of flesh to get branded. You’ll see us move in that direction too. It’s inevitable. Hopefully we can do it without losing too much respect. Until then you can find me steady dreaming of new distribution paradigms as we pass each other printed relics.
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Regrettably, I can’t understand or link to anything particularly useful on the Cleveland Museum of Art’s calendar/CMS/blog, but I am happy to say that I’ll be DJing a midnight set at this Saturday’s summer solstice party (whose pricing system resists simple understanding), taking an increasingly crunk crowd into darkness on the longest night of the year. I play til close so we’ll have time to sink deep. Also on the bill, Javelin, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Omar Souleyman, etc.
Omar Souleyman plays dabke, and if you like his SubFreq-filtered brand of Syrian wedding folk-techno you should get yrself to a nearby Arabic Music Shop, because dabke is a hugely popular genre in several countries, and you’ll find gems like this 14-minute flute-float party number, here chopped off midway because I’m saving the best half for my Arabic mixtape, which will be coming “soon”.
I love all languages countries and people that have words or phrases for different denominations of ‘now’ and subtle variations of ‘soon’, like in Mexican Spanish with its ahora and ahorita.
Where where we? Brooklyn. Andy Moor bought this CD in Bay Ridge. It’s either Palestinian or Syrian. The cellphone/music store has either sold or removed the ceramic black Sambo figurines it had on sale.
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& here’s another song I might play. Latin fight song! A 128bpm banger from Papi Sanchez, Dominican in Miami, complete with ragga English language intro courtesy of Shabakan. Drop this at the right time & place and you will be rewarded. Or bottled. Maybe both.
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It’s a great feeling when your friends blow the fuck up. But when they only have a few decent press shots- all of which you’ve already used- you have to get creative. H/T to the 
