Dutty Artz was the featured label in this month’s Starwax magazine, a French electronic music monthly distributed for free across all of France. They interviewed current label boss Chief Boima on the past, current, and future happenings of the label and crew. (more…)
Old Money’s Mothership EP is here! (more…)
In celebration of the release of Old Money’s Mothership EP, XLR8R is offering Lamin Fofana’s unreleased ‘Mothership’ Remix as an exclusive free download! Head on over to their site to grab it. (more…)
Steppin off the intergalactic Range Rover, it’s the Dutty Artz takeover bringing the new tech specs to prep you for the polar vortex.
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The last stop on Matt Shadetek’s The Empire Never Ended Spring Tour will roll through Boston tomorrow night (Wednesday, May 15th.)
Having played host to almost every legend of experimental party music in the past decade, Dutty Artz is honored to show up and represent at a special edition of Beat Research for Boston’s growing Together electronic music festival. Since an astonishing number of Dutty fam have represented at Beat Research before, it’s amazing that this will be Matt’s first time playing the party! He will be performing alongside DJ Ripley, Chief Boima, and Beat Research co-founder DJ Flack’s live electronic band The Sublings!
You can also catch Matt and Ripley on several of the daytime panels for the Together Fest. Check the whole schedule here, and details on Matt’s panels below:
After a brief respite, Matt Shadetek hits the road again this Friday. First up will be Madison with Chants at a Barbershop! Then both Matt and Chants head to Milwaukee to play alongside Milwaukee’s Kiings, and DJ Marcus Doucette of the great independent radio station Radio Milwaukee.
On Friday May 10th, Matt, Old Money, and Chief Boima are in Providence (kicking off Old Money’s summer tour), and on Wednesday May 15th Matt headlines the opening night of the Together Festival at Beat Research alongside DJ Ripley, and Chief Boima. May is a month of Dutty Artz showcases.
May 3rd – Madison @ Thorps
May 4th – Milwaukee @ Stonefly Brewery
May 10th – Providence @ Fete
May 15th – Boston @ Good Life (Beat Research – Together Festival)
This Saturday DJ /rupture will be playing music at the Brooklyn Flea Record Fair in Williamsburg. 50 collectors, shops, and record labels will be selling their goods, and a small stage will feature DJ sets from a Red Bull Music Academy curated line up:
1pm-1:45pm- Dan Selzer (Acute Records)
1:45pm-2:30pm – James Friedman (Throne of Blood)
2:30-pm-3:20pm – DJ/rupture (Dutty Artz)
3:20pm-4:10pm – Veronica Vasicka (Minimal Wave)
4:10pm – 5pm – James Pants
We’re throwing in our lot to the list of specialty items with seven different Dutty Artz bundled merchandise packages. We’ve just printed up some t-shirts, so the special deal of the day is: buy a t-shirt get one vinyl AND one CD Free. Several Dutty Artz members will also be selling vinyl from their personal collections. Come out for a fun afternoon of music shopping, and food sampling.
Hours are 11am-6pm, adjacent to Smorgasburg inside East River State Park, at Kent Avenue and North 7th St. in Williamsburg.
On Sunday April 21, come join us for the NYC debut of Jace Clayton’s The Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner! Featuring pianists David Friend and Emily Manzo, vocalist Arooj Aftab, special guest, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, and Jace /Rupture pulling the whole thing together/apart.
4pm at MoMA PS1. Performance is free with museum admission.
The album version is called Julius Eastman Memory Depot – Bandcamp | iTunes | Amazon. Pitchfork review.
We travel in circles. Our lives move in cycles. Our dreams spin us around. This is something that artist Rafi El understands intuitively. Through his life and music, he’s been constantly circling back to the source of his creativity, the mountains of South America – long a source of cultural wealth and shamanic power. Raised by parents from Argentina’s historical Jewish communities, Rafi was born in Israel and grew up in Los Angeles, where he currently lives. His earliest days were steeped in the sounds and cultures of three continents.
In anticipation of the release of Rafi El’s debut full length album this summer, Dutty Artz releases the lead single “Tra Ba” as a free EP:
