cover photo by Amir Ebrahimi amirnyc.com, layout by Matt Shadetek

After a few intense months of beat-making, recording and asking a few favors from friends, DUTTY ARTZ family finished production on Jahdan Blakkamoore‘s debut album, Buzzrock Warrior.  We think its the best thing we’ve ever made, and we’re proud to announce that Gold Dust Media agree with us, as they will be releasing Buzzrock, insuring that our take on Brooklyn Tropical Dubstep  will be heard worldwide.  The album brings together many of the Dutty Artz crew’s interests including dancehall, digital cumbia, grime,dubstep and other delicious tropical sounds.

Jahdan is in fine form throughout singing and chatting over riddims from diverse producers including homegrown tunes by Shadetek and Rupture, ragga techno dons Modeselektor, grime super hero Jammer, the Zizek crew’s Chancha via Circuito and globe trotter Maga Bo.   Dutty Artz extended family 77Klash appears twice on guest vocal duties and provides the gorgeous uncategorizable beat for ‘She Said’ while top grime boy Durrty Goodz goes in hard with JD on ‘Mesmerized’ and Abena Koomson joins in to bring us slowly down on closer ‘Rise Again’.

For an early taste of the vibes check out The General, out now on 12″ with banging dubstep remixes by Noah D. and Marcus Visionary and also look for Jahdan’s appearance, the roots flavored ‘Cash Flow’, on Diplo and Switch’s highly anticipated Major Lazer project available June 16th.

I was gchatting with Rupture talking about this tune and said “It was great when I was drunk on Friday”.  And it was, and everyone else seemed to think so too because they went crazy.  And that’s basically the best description of Uproot Andy’s Amadou & Miriam B’More remix of “Sabali” I’m gonna come up with.  Up now for free DL (along with a blend with some great new Busy Signal tunes) at the big Eddie Stats Ghetto Palms Fader column.  Eddie actually does a sick blend of it out of a new Busy vocal on the Bmore track I “Just Wanna Fuck”.  Hothead! Hothead!

Large ups going out to Chief Boima for hosting me this weekend in Cali. If you are ever in San Franciso on a weekend Little Baobab is definitely THE spot to hit up for an international crowd of people gettin down to tropical sounds… for you bassheads I even saw a flyer for thursday night weekly dubstep party there.

Lots going on this week in NYC and the variety is fantastic.

TONIGHT TUESDAY JUNE 2 the NY Afrobeat Festival at Knitting Factory kicks off with Blk Jks, Bajah and the Dry Yai crew from Sierra Leonne plus Uproot Andy and your truly on dex for a rare treat of African dopeness. doors at 9pm

Price
$14 / $12 advance Buy Tickets »
Where
Knitting Factory Tap Bar (74 Leonard St)

212.219.3132

THURSDAY you already know its all about Toy Selectah at Santos Playhouse for Que Bajo?!

BUT SATURDAY I’m playing this album Lee Scratch Perry/Dubblestandart release party with my man Emch from Subatomic Soundsystem.The remix features one Jahdan Blakkamore on the Blackboard Dubstep remix, out now.  The party has food, lights, visuals and extra subs. serious party vibes. summertime dubstravaganza / brand new spot with an enclosed courtyard, custom designed sound system, and green architecture / food, video, art, spiked slushies, and giveaways all night long Even if you haven’t heard the tune come thru.


DJ Paul Zasky of Dubblestandart (Vienna, Echo Beach) / all vinyl European exclusive dubplates off new Lee Perry album
Subatomic Sound System (NYC, Modus Vivendi Music) / live all star electro dub band, world’s first dubstep Lee Perry rmxs
Majestic Twinsound (NYC, Ghetto Roots) / traditional Jamaican style sound system crew
DJ Geko Jones (NY Tropical, Dutty Artz, Que Bajo) / king of NYC tropical sounds

VIDEO, FOOD, & ARTS

In the open-air courtyard: Ital food and BBQ
In the gallery bar: Tshirt screen printing & live painting by Ad Hoc Arts / w/ Original limited edition designs by the musicians
In the main room: music and massive video projects by Light & Water Project
free music and goodies for you the people

LOCATION DETAILS

$8 before 10pm w/rsvp, otherwise $10
at
Littlefield
622 Degraw st between 3rd and 4th Aves
sweet brand new art & music space right next to the train:
[2 blocks from Union St. R subway & near Carrol St. G/F]

Think of a cross between a mini-PS1 & Galapagos.  Beautiful indoor and enclosed outdoor space with some green eco-design elements like used tires for sound baffling.  Feels as much like an art gallery as it does a music/performance venue.

MORE INFO & RSVP
http://www.subatomicsound.com
RSVP to subatomicsound@yahoo.com

press RSVP/music previews/ interviews email subatomicsound@yahoo.com

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BROOKLYN ANTHEMS

Dutty Artz Represents the World Town

Story Julianne Shepherd
Photography Jason Nocito

Encyclopedic, scholarly and wielding deep faith in riddim and vibes—the alchemy of the Brooklyn-based Dutty Artz crew is completely mystical and slightly awe-inspiring. Its main proprietors, the power trio of DJ/producers Jace Clayton aka DJ/Rupture, Matt Schell aka Matt Shadetek, and Roberto Fernandez aka Geko Jones, are dudes preeminently known for soliciting and disseminating the globe’s bangingest dancehall, dubstep, and cumbia beats. They have explored metropolises, townships and favelas to seek out music in its indigenous state and found likeminded friends in Brazil’s Maga Bo, Montreal’s Ghislain Poirier, and Cape Town’s African Dope Records crew, and when they can’t get to the most outward of dance music’s niches themselves, they have a gang of colleagues to carry the load. When a friend recently traveled to Distrito Federal in Mexico City, Jones begged him to bring back whatever wild music he could find. Thus, when you Google “tribal guarachero,” duttyartz.com is the only non-Spanish blog that results. They are archaeologists scouring the globe’s nooks and crannies with the curiosity of scientists, not conquistadors. They are so passionate about the beat, and generous with their knowledge of it, you almost don’t know where to begin the discussion.

Click HERE to read the rest of Julianne Shepherd’s intelligent and sincere article from The FADER #61.