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Gil Scott-Heron – On Coming From a Broken Home (Part 1)
I’m New Here (XL Recordings, 2010)

I’m New Here, Gil Scott-Heron’s first album in sixteen years was released last week on XL Recordings. The album was recorded between 2007-09 and produced by Richard Russell. On the opening and closing tracks “On Coming From a Broken Home (Part 1 & Part 2) – Scott-Heron offers a tribute to the women of his family, not so much an explanation but a reflections, giving us a portrait of the women who raised him.  Producer Richard Russell provided the perfect backdrop, a sampling the intro (just a few seconds on loop) to Kanye West’s “Flashing Light.”

The people from local NY PBS TV show ‘New York On The Clock‘ came and filmed a show that Jahdan  and I did a few months back at Public Assembly along with a short but informative interview with Jahdan.

Photo by Clair Lim, at my Logic class at Dubspot.

For those that follow this site you’re probably familiar with some of the things I do, like produce, dj, make records etc. Lately I’ve been doing some new things though, and I figure they’re worth mentioning here because some of you might be into them. The first I’ve mentioned before which is teaching at Dubspot. I love Dubspot, it’s a great place with a great group of people involved. I’ve been there for a bit over a year now and I really enjoy it. I’ve met a lot of great people there, students and instructors and it’s helped me to realize that I really like teaching music. I teach the production in Logic class there where I basically teach people how to operate Logic, the main program I use to make all my stuff, but I also teach the broad strokes of my own low-tek Hi-Fi production ideology. Basically the idea is that it’s not about expensive equipment or perfect anything but more about wading in, getting your hands dirty and having fun making something, which I preach and practice. I teach Logic in small groups of 4-8 people, usually once or twice a week at Dubspot. As a result of the class I’ve developed relationships with some of my students and continued teaching them in private lessons which are basically us working on their tracks together, solving problems, and talking things through.

One of the reasons I really like teaching and helping people produce is that I’ve spent about ten years now developing a pretty specific niche of skills, basically how to produce weird bassy dance-ish music, and it’s great to be able to share that knowledge, guide people away from the pitfalls and cliffs of the learning curve and point them in the right direction. Mainly because people just get so happy when they finally get how to do something that they really wanted to do.

More recently I’ve had a few people approach me to do this but without the teaching component, which has turned into people hiring me to go to their studios and help to finish their tracks, which I’m really enjoying as well, and have decided I’d like to do more of. So, if you’re someone in New York, who’s working on tracks and are looking for production help, be it mixing, arranging, polishing, achieving certain sounds or just help finishing stuff, get in touch. I do have limited time and limited mental stamina for working on stuff I don’t like so please point me at some kind of a musical sample or describe what you’re trying to do in your message and I’ll let you know if it’s something I think I can help with.

My next logic class is starting on Friday, January 29th and will be Wednesdays and Fridays from 10:15-1PM.

Contact me about production through Myspace, Facebook or Twitter.

 

 Mosholu Park - At The Fire: Play Now | Play in Popup

MOSHOLU PARK – AT THE FIRE

“At The Fire Is NOT a MIX

it is an EMOTION”—or rather a series of emotions

Lucky Dragons – Mirror Friends
Mosholu Park – Interlude (At The Fire)
Matt Shadetek – Shield Dub
Vybz Kartel – Yuh Love
Terror Danjah – Splash
Shlohmo – Hot Boxing The Cockpit
Muhsinah – Lose My Fuse
2/5 BZ – Etnik Market, Etnik Paranoia
CIAfrica/Manusa – Dans Mon Pays
Movado – Gyal Bend Ova
Big Boi – Fo Yo Sorrows
Goro Yamaguchi – The Cranes Crashing In Their Nests
Friend – Doki

We’ve decided to throw a last minute benefit show to help make a financial contribution to the ongoing relief efforts in Haiti. If you’ve followed this at all it is an absolutely harrowing, horrible catastrophe that has befallen a place that was already a very difficult place to live for many people. The show is in only two days so PLEASE email this to your friends in New York, put it on your Facebook, Twitter, etc. and help us get the word out. We as DJs will not be taking any payment from this and the proceeds will be donated to charity. We are currently seeking expert advice on who to donate it to, suggestions are welcome.

DUTTY ARTZ TROPICAL RELIEF FOR HAITI

DJs:

DJ Rupture
Matt Shadetek
Lamin Fofana
Feliz Cumbe
Bingy

THIS Saturday 1/16 10PM

FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE.

Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery
$10. More is welcome: All proceeds donated to Haitian relief

Check me out this Sunday the 17th here in NYC playing with 6Blocc aka RAW from LA for Konkrete Jungle at Coco66 in Greenpoint. I started raving in 1994 at Konkrete at Coney Island High on St. Marks (which is now a juice bar or some bullshit). Always an honor to link back up with the foundation.

Info:

Konkrete Jungle x Quality of Life

6Blocc aka RAW
Matt Shadetek
Junglist@Large
Goldielocks x Tazanite
KaeSharp x Junglez

$10 / $7 b4 midnight ir w/flyer
10 PM 21+ w/ID
Coco 66
66 Greenpoint Avenue

FACEBOOK EVENT

This guy Beniton is a Brooklyn artist I’m digging at the moment. You might have heard me playing his Recession joint (YouTube below). Here’s a legit free download of his new single ‘Time to Get Paid’, Biggie sampling BK bashment hype. He’s going in hard with the haircuts as well, as you can see.

“Let us imagine a man who stumbles into an alien ritual in its closing stages when the devotees are winding down to a concluding chorus of amens, and who immediately and enthusiastically takes up the singing with such loudness and gusto that the owners of the ritual stop their singing and turn, one and all, to look in wonder at this postmodernist stranger. Their wonder increases tenfold when they ask the visitor later what kind of modernism his people had had, and it transpires that neither he nor his people have ever heard the word modernism.” – Achebe, Home and Exile

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DJ Sprinkles  – Sisters, I Don’t Know What This World Is Coming To

From the incredible album Midtown 120 Blues by DJ Sprinkles (aka Terre Thaemlitz) which the always fascinating Word The Cat put us up on several months back.  That photograph of Tina Turner is what comes to mind now when I hear this track.  Perhaps because the image (that expression) of Tina Turner (from the Brooklyn Museum exhibition Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present) is somewhat similar to the Midtown 120 Blues artwork, or perhaps because whenever this track comes up I’m always on the A train looking at an ad of the aforementioned photographic exhibition.

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Juelz Santana f/ Yelawolf – Mixing Up The Medicine

Juelz Santana and Yelawolf echoing/channeling Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”. If the rest of Born To Lose, Built To Win (his much-delayed third album– push-backs and title-changes) sound anything like “Mixing Up The Medicine” then it’ll be a decent album, but I doubt that after hearing that awful radio single/standard club number featuring Chris Brown.

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Pill f/ Freddie Gibbs – Run Up To Me

Pill continues leaking out great materials from 4175:The Refill which drops sometime this week — check The Educated Villains. He once again link up with Freddie Gibbs, and each time these two get together, the result is great.

Directed and animated by Sara Taigher – in 3 minutes, she offers a perfect accompaniment/visual narrative to the music and short story you’ll find in the CD packaging. Solar Life Raft BBC/Amazon 5-star review.

UPDATE: Contest over!

Alright, we’re giving away a pair of tickets to One Step Beyond.  We’re going to keep this simple and straightforward; the first person to email family [at] duttyartz.com with the correct answer to the following question wins a pair of ticket to the show; What was the first joint-release from DJ Rupture and Matt Shadetek/Team Shadetek?

You must also include “One Step Beyond Ticket Giveway” in the subject line.

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The FADER Presents

ONE STEP BEYOND at the American Museum of Natural History

Friday, November 13, 2009

DJ /Rupture
Matt Shadetek Feat. Jahdan Blakkamoore
Maluca
Sonido Martines

9pm – 1am
$25- Price includes admission to the Space Show and a free return visit to the Museum.

Buy tickets in advance at http://www.amnh.org/rose/specials/

The Rose Center for Earth and Space
Enter on 79th Street at Central Park West
Must be 21. ID Required

amnh.org/osb

The FADER Presents

ONE STEP BEYOND at the American Museum of Natural History

Friday, November 13, 2009

DJ /Rupture
Matt Shadetek Feat. Jahdan Blakkamoore
Maluca
Sonido Martines

9pm – 1am
$25- Price includes admission to the Space Show and a free return visit to the Museum.

Buy tickets in advance at amnh.org/osb

The Rose Center for Earth and Space
Enter on 79th Street at Central Park West
Must be 21. ID Required

amnh.org/osb

This is tomorrow night here in Brooklyn, come early! There will be open bar. N8 is 213 N8th Street Williamsburg BK btwn Roebling and Driggs.

FACEBOOK EVENT HERE.

What did the doctor say?  Too much too soon!

I want a girl who is allergic to cheese!

via BLUNT RAPPS

“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!