I have to say, at the Monterrey tribal guarachero rave I wrote about for The Fader, it was incredible to watch the DJs go from 128bpm tribal, then slam into a cumbia rebajada (crowd cheers!) then move onto crunk-en-espanol, then Cypress Hill en espanol, then back to tribal, all in the space of 10 minutes. It was the only rap moment of the night — mediated by syrup-cumbia… and the dancing never stopped! Outside the party, one kid walked around with a SWISHAHOUSE tee on.

HOUSTONE TEXAS BITCHES.!

  • Here’s what ppl dont understand. We were raise in Texas, so screw music is what we know. But our parents raised us with traditional music like cumbias, etc. This is our music, a mix of what we know and what we grew up hearing.

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    After almost a year of work, New York Tropical is finally hitting digital shops today, and we couldn’t be more excited about it. 12 dope tracks, almost all unreleased, and styles from Funky to Cumbia with a little bit of ambient/Rupture in between for the subway ride home.  If you didn’t already pick up the ringtone (.mp3 and iphone compatible) edit of the album- grab it– I highly recommend DJ Orion’s Undertow Inst for early morning wake ups.  Expect a few tracks to start leaking out into the internet and a new mix from me next week.

    Until then, grab a copy

    itunes, boomkat, amazon, turntable lab, etc

    1. Knight Magic – El Baile de la Cumbia
    2. Rita Indiana – Los Poderes (Kingdom remix)
    3. Matt Shadetek & Lamin Fofana – Sunshine City
    4. La Ola Criminal – Sin Gas
    5. Maga Bo – Analys D’Amour (instrumental)
    6. DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek – Sunset B35
    7. DJ Orion – The Undertow (instrumental)
    8. KG – I’m Feeling Funky
    9. Nguzunguzu – El Bebe Ambiente (new mix + master)
    10. DJ /rupture, Matt Shadetek, & Chief Boima – Elegy for Mr Peach (Rupture mix)
    11. Lido Pimienta – La Minga (Sonora remix)
    12. Matt Shadetek – This Is Love

    P.S. You can receive info like this and other exciting DA news irregularly in your inbox by signing up for the DA mailer on the upper right of your screen. Check the rest of the news from this months mailer here.

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    My latest essay, on the slowed-down tempos of screw + its influence on contemporary bands, has been published in this month’s Frieze and is available online. It begins with DJ Screw and ends with interview observations from Romanian programmer Paul Nasca, responsible for the Bieber stretch algorithm.

    Ten years ago this month, one of the great, lazy American geniuses died, at the age of 29, from drinking too much cough syrup. His name was Robert Earl Davis Jr., and I believe he stole the technique that made him famous from the Mexicans. . .

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    Chief Boima held down the dopest African night in San Francisco at Little Boabab. Now that he has relocated to NYC there’s talk of a new African music night in collaboration with Lamin Fofana…… until then, you’ll have to settle for rare guest appearances at parties like Old Money Massive’s Van Setima at Panda this Thursday in NYC.

    You know that feeling, when you don’t hear much from your favorite artists for a while, but you know its not caus they fell off, but caus they’re cooking some next-level shit. That’s how it is for Boima right now- but just hold tight, CAUS THE INTERNET CAN WAIT for B. That’s how ahead our mans game is. Some people are “right on the zeitgeist,”  but Boima is zeitgeist producing. Africa is the future, and you’d be stupid not to try and grab a glimpse on Thursday.

    If you don’t know about Old Money this is a good place to start.
    AFRICAN KIDS! by Old Money

    Ok. I’m in a flood-the-market mode right now.

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    Fader just upped my Luísa Maita “Lero Lero” remix. You can grab it here.

    “The song stays sweet, he just kicks it along, quadrupling the drums, sneaking in garage bass wobble. You think it’s one thing then it reverbs out, guitars aren’t guitars anymore, chimes rain in and you burned the broccoli. We suck at cooking, she’s good at singing, he’s good at beats.”

    Luísa performs tonight at SOB’s in Manhattan. You can’t sleep on voices this gorgeous.

    & this Monday’s radio show is streamable:

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    Luisa Mata Lero Lero 0:00:00 (MP3 |

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    Chris Brown Deuces remix ft Drake Kanye TI Fabolous and (especially) Andre 3000 0:03:49 (MP3 |

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    Oneotrix Point Never Emil Cioran Rifts 0:09:37 (MP3 |

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    Natalie Storm & Redlight Bang Bang 0:12:37 (MP3 |

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    Sleigh Bells Tell ‘Em (Kingdom remix) 0:15:28 (MP3 |

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    Eskmo Trudge Willow Grail 0:19:06 (MP3 |

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    Uncle Murda & Jadakiss1 They Don’t Know Me 0:23:27 (MP3 |

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    Forest Swords Glory Gongs Dagger Paths 0:27:26 (MP3 |

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    Kanye West Monster ft. Rick Ross Jay-Z and especially Nicki Minaj Of Light 0:32:26 (MP3 |

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    Chants With You Onlooker Layered Music 0:38:44 (MP3 |

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    Kumbia Queers Te Quiero Un Chingo La Gran Estafa del Tropipunk 0:44:31 (MP3 |

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    Ceci Bastida & Julieta Venegas La Sofi Rita Indiana cover 0:47:19 (MP3 |

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    Forest Swords Miarches Dagger Paths 0:50:02 (MP3 |

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    Kayhan Kalhor & Erdal Erzincan Part I The Wind

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    http://chaos985.com/minecraftmap/ h/t ADRIAN (btw guest post from Liturgy’s drummer Greg Fox on minecraft coming soon)

    I played a sprawling illegal party last night in São Paulo called Voodoo HOP. The promoter warned me that middle class people in SP just dont listen to hip-hop and that I would have to avoid it for the night (I havn’t heard rap anywhere here except at a brothel where the bartender/dj was playing a bunch of DJ Quick along with Funk and international club hits).  Maybe disco and (american) funk he suggested, like it was just some fallback that all djs have up their sleeve. So I spent last week torrenting in directions I haven’t normally fucked with- finally grabbed the rest of the nightslugs catalog, a bunch of funky, some older house, and a lot of gorgeous dark post-dubstep(BUT DONT TELL KODE09) FACT approved late night jams.

    Safe to say I wrecked my first ableton performance- then I got bored and played the Beamer Benz or Bentley Inst running half time with different juke over it until all the hands in the air people stopped whistling, then we had a private listening party for the new nettle. Walking home through downtown SP at 7:30 AM is apocalyptic. Zombies from the night still following you with empty eyes while secretaries try not to notice how much blood the man slouched over in the doorway next to their building has dried across his face and chest.

    Now that I have a grip of New/Old mp3s from Anthony Rother to Aslope I’m going to post some of my favorite jawns- most of which have been out for months or years or decades.

    This first one from VRONSKY couldn’t be fresher though-  flipping new GirlUnit with UGK.

    VR()NSKY – DIAMOND SHOWSTOPPA (320)

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    Radio tonight! WFMU 91.1fm 7-8pm EST. I don’t actually DJ during my WFMU slot. But sometimes I do on other people’s: check this 20minute mix I just dropped on Tom Ravenscroft’s BBC show.

    Then mark yr calendar-devices and alert yr social networks: next Monday, November 8th, I’ll be joined by guests Julianne Escobedo Shepherd and Dapwell (“the funniest Das Racist”). Brilliant writer and editor Julianne will be discussing her taste in current DANCE MUSIC & divas via special selection of tunes. As for Dapwell – call him the skeptic. Gonna be good! The October show with Victor and Himanshu of Das Racist was real nice…

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