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Next Friday 10.21.11, Matt Shadetek and I, Atropolis, will be holding it down at Public Assembly with an amazing line up: Trouble and Bass will be in the front room, and we will be in the back room with Toy Selectah and Mexican With Guns– these two cats will be rocking their new collaborative project Gun Selectah.

This event is presented by Dutty Artz/ Bond Music Group and Trouble & Bass

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Let’s take things up a level. Let’s get glossy.

The November issue of WIRE magazine has Rupture on the cover lookin’ all grown and sexy.

Congrats! Go buy that shit! They say: “Peter Shapiro meets prolific producer Jace Clayton to hear about post-colonial Bass music, The Shining remade in Dubai and Sufi Plug-Ins.”

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Sound written in stone plastic!

I just shared the memory of my favorite record-hunting find in a piece for MTV Hive, on the occasion of the 4th annual Brooklyn Flea ‘Superstar DJ Record Fair’.

Here’s an excerpt:

…I used my time off in Istanbul to simply wander the streets, ending up in one of those dusty record shops where the entropy is turned up really high. There I rescued a Cymande LP that was being slowly asphyxiated under sleeveless 45s. The Fugees had sampled the Caribbean-British funk band to great effect, now I could, too. But that was a digger find. It’s value was obvious, external; a truly special record is one you create your own value for. Ebay of the heart. I don’t care for mint-condition first-editions (Recording my “Gold Teeth Thief” mix, I accidentally stepped on one of my most valuable records, an original pressing of the Winstons’ single “Amen, Brother”, whose fierce rhythm break has been sampled by precisely nine million drum & bass songs).

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I don’t have a rip of the Houssein LP I discuss later in the article, but here’s a 1-2 of Cymande and the Fugees, plus $400,000 copyright lawsuit backstory.

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don’t be fooled by the latest BS from “washington” – it’s wild, musical, rebellious times in DC! after an amazing weekend with the phenomenal RIPLEY (who i connected with via the great 2011 facebook-moombahton-boobie debate), including a great party, another incredible dj geekout, and the future of music coalition policy summit, the fun continues tonight as MARACUYEAH! hosts PERNETT, live and direct from colombia! made possible by collab with DA fam!

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the future holds even more. saturday is BACKDOOR once again, when the ANTHOLOGY OF BOOTY hoists our flag of revolutionary raunch and compels the people to scrub da ground. we’re fortunate enough to have a lost daughter return this weekend with KIRAN GANDHI bringing live percussionism into the mix.

next thursday myself and MOTHERSHIESTER try something new with an anti-colonial journey via music, dancing, and libations – AFRICA IS NOT A COUNTRY (not to be confused with the rad blog of a similar name) is our latest effort to deconstruct the elision of cairo, accra, dar es salaam, and durban.

and stay tuned for more excitement as other plans continue to evolve.

DC > washington.

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Next Monday, September 10th, I’ll be hosting a very special guest on my WFMU radio show: Venus X of Ghe20 Goth1k! Tune in from 8-9pm to hear Venus discuss shaking up NYC’s party scene with the groundbreaking Ghe2o Goth1k parties, her unique DJ/production approach, and — if we’re lucky — what it’s like schooling Shakira on dance music. I would embed this crazy edit Venus did last week, fusing old skool drum&bass to Islamic chanting, but Soundcloud isn’t happy at the moment, so here’s A$AP Rocky’s Peso — featuring a cameo by Venus. Harlem’s finest takin’ over:

And this Monday night’s radio is now streaming! I was (and remain) under the weather and the music reflects that — soft, strange, a bit dreamy:

Tracklist:

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MORE LIFE – CAPE COAST GHANA 2012
We are currently working on a major major DA WEB OVERHAUL. as you can tell, we have been running this wordpress setup since the beginning. a part of the big re-design will be a new DA webshop /merch table. Inspired by places like Kiosk, and the markets of the world, we will share an increasingly astounding collection of items and ephemera. We will start with the things we have, music on different recording mediums, clothes, hats, stickers, and move into increasingly interesting territories. One-off cassette mixes, pirated architecture thesis’, plant seeds, and platinum pocket compasses are all real possibilities. We are tired of being a “net-label” focused on “tropical music” – we built this zinc-oxide hyperlink hole and we are building its future.

For now it is really simple- http://duttyartz.bigcartel.com/ – with five things for sale because that’s the limit to a free big cartel site. Not that we are not going to put money into this- but we are just starting with what is available to us.

We care about music. We will release music that reflects this care. But we also care about architecture, sci-fi, paintings, obsolete futures, really good food and the best tacos in D.F.

Things will get weird. Stick with us. I’ll be packing all the boxes from our shop in our hq/my living room in Queens and putting in lots of dope extras because we got you like that.

WE REALLY WANT THIS TO WORK- I MEAN THE WHOLE PROJECT THAT IS DUTTY ARTZ- THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING. YOU KNOW US. WE ARN’T FUCKING STOPPING.

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