This post is cross-posted from the brand spanking new blog at mattshadetek.com. In addition to my usual stuff here at Dutty Artz I wanted a place to call my own and talk about some of my less dutty, more clean artz that I am up to. Expect a lot more wordz.
photo by the author in Flatbush, Brooklyn
I assume if you’re reading this blog that you’re someone familiar with my musical output. If not, please get familiar here at my soundcloud page.
Generally speaking I am pretty cagey about my new projects until they’re nearly done. I want to try an experiment this time in going through the process of making an album completely in public. Transparency! Throwing stones in a glass house!
“From radical turntablism (Otomo Yoshihide) to laptop music innovation (Numb), via classical instrument hijacking (Sakamoto Hiromichi), Tokyo’s avant-garde music scene is internationally known for its boldness.
While introducing some of the greatest musicians of this scene, “We Don’t Care About Music Anyway…” offers a kaleidoscopic view of Tokyo, confronting music and noise, sound and image, reality and representation, documentary and fiction. “We don’t care about music anyway”…
In other words, “we make it and that’s all”. Beyond the music and beyond its performance, the future and mode of existence of a city, and society as a whole, are in motion.”
For the lucky BK people this gem shows this coming Friday 16th at 8pm as part of the Rooftop Film Summer Series at the Old American Can Factory 232 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY (info).
Last Monday we had a great show here in the basement of Dubspot on Dutty Artz radio. We streamed live on UStream as usual and had a bunch of people logged in while Taliesin, Mosholu Park and myself played some short sets followed by an epic 80 minute throwdown from NguzuNguzu. Listen through to the end to hear Daniel playing congas over juke beats live. I was a little drunk by that point but I remember it sounding super duper dope. You can check our ustream channel to see video of the session. I’m told that not all files in these posts are being pushed to the podcast stream so I’ll put their set first and you can click to stream or download the rest of ours.
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.
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.
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.
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:
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).
So how else was I supposed to up two weeks with my man Chief Boima at Que Bajo?! than by bringing the king of the Afrobeat meets 80′s freestyle. Live set from the band plus one of Brooklyn’s best kept secret DJ’s Reaganomics is gonna make it rain on ya, tropical monsoon style.
WEDS JUNE 16th
Santos Party House
Doors @ 11pm
$5 before Midnight $10 After
Shout Outs to Erik Marika-Rich for the best GIF Flyer ever.
My new solo instrumental album Flowers is out! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
It took me a while to get this out, longer than I’d like considering it’s on my own label but now it’s out and it feels GOOD! I love completing projects. But it’s not done! Now I have to actually sell some copies! If you or your grandma or your friends on the internet would like to support the Dutty Artz movement and contribute to the cause of me buying diapers, catfood and continuing my lavish lifestyle for me and my young family that would be great! There are many places to buy it. Here is a list:
BUY MATT SHADETEK – FLOWERS:
Boomkat:
This is probably a good option if you want FLAC or any of those non-mp3 formats.
If you buy here please write me a lavish review and give me five stars! I deserve it! If you’re browsing the store from your phone or whatever I am featured in front of the Electronic category in the USA store.
For those of you who missed my relentless Twitter assault promoting this mix here you go. This is a 60 minute mix I did for the very excellent XLR8R podcast series. I had a lot of fun recording it in the bassment of Dubspot on decks and Serato (no ableton or synch buttons on this one, it’s actual live djing and you can hear it).
It’s got a lot of new exclusives in it from me and my friends including some forthcoming stuff from Dutty Artistz Rita Indiana and Mosholu Park up front.
“A raspy-voiced and diminutive queer rapper in throwback-eighties-chic screams overtly sexual call-and-response commands. A special-ed teacher with the authoritative demeanor of an army TAC officer instructs you to “Walk it like a dog” and “Do the Jubilee All”, a middle-aged mother yells fighting words at a rival. All of this over frantic, break-neck beats sampled from a small smattering of funk and hip-hop oldies. This is the sound of New Orleans Bounce. From darkened clubs to tricked-out cars, high school dances to neighborhood bars, family reunions, barbecues and birthday parties, New Orleans locals of all ages have been bouncing to “Dat Beat” since the early nineties, incorporating the rhythms and vocal styling of second-line street parades, undulating Caribbean and African dance moves, and stolen hooks ranging from Beyonce to Bill Haley. It’s the sound on the street in the City that Care Forgot,, the booty-shaking cousin to Miami Bass, Detroit Ghettotech, Baltimore Club, but with the chaos and audacity of punk, a spirit that reflects the chaos and audacity of the Crescent City that birthed Bounce music.
A native Dirty Southerner and long-time New Orleans resident, Deejay Karo offers up this mix as a taste of Bounce from the last several years. These tracks were recorded off of burnt cd’s, traded back and forth by local dj’s, producers and performers and bought out of car trunks beneath the live oaks of uptown or in beauty supply store parking lots. Because of this, making a track listing would be next to impossible, but here are the names of some of the performers and producers in the mix:
Blaq N Mild, Peacachoo, J Rock, Showbiz CJ, Big Freedia, Sissy Nobby,Magnolia Shorty, 10thWard Buck, Gotti Boi Chris, Katey Red, Smitty Out Da City, Monsta wit da Fade… Respect and Love to everyone featured and deepest apologies those we didn’t rep in this list”
COME FOR THE CASH AND STAY TO DANCE TO THE SOUNDS OF
BAILE FUNK + CUMBIA + BRASIL + BHANGRA + KUDURO + BASS + TREBLE + EVERYTHING ELSE IN-BETWEEN
FRIDAY MAY 21, 2010
11 PM ON AT B.EAST NYC
171 east bway
FREE
Here’s DJ N-RON’s M-C-M1 Mixtape to get you hype for the free party. Head over to Spannered, where it was originally posted for download link, tracklist, + info.
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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 
