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It’s past my bedtime and I’ve already done posted for the diem, but
I just saw that the Homie Kevin Martin finally dropped a full-length on Ninja Tune.
Martin, aka The Bug, is one adem homies whose been in the game for a minute and has got more dubstep and ragga in his swerve than most.
I’m still diggin the track Poison Dart that he released way back when.
When being the last time New England leaves were falling.
Warrior Queen kills it ridin the bassed-out futuristic synth-war instigated by The Bug.
I mean, the
Shit is Loud.
¡UP.n.UP!
..to the previous post:
So the Bicycle Film Festival has landed in Boston starting yesterday, the 14th, to Sunday the 17th.
One particular highlight is this screening at 1pm on Saturday:
and later that night they’re having an after party in Allston with Etan and Neptune.
Illy-Vanilly? Quite possibly (have never heard either of their live sets).
The real catalyst for this post though is because of Macaframa, who have been teasing the hell out of everyone with little trailers peppered across the blogosphere.
The homies at H(y)r Collective just did a piece on them.
scope that HERE
(as always, equipped with primo musical landscaping)
and in case you have yet to sample the little visual seasonings by Maca, here are a few:
But please, check the rest of the flock HERE
So simple. So clean.
Cause this hyped for different reasons:
Whose swagger reminds me of:
Black Label Bicycle Club’s ‘07 Bike Kill
Which harks on craftsmanship of a different note:
Result of Condor Cycles‘ collab with Richard James
Whose poise, if nothing else, lends an ear to the world of the Far-Too-Fast:
A pin-up for now is from the new Atmosphere album.
The other day I was on a little get-the-hell-outta-my-mind-and-into-some-new-diversionary-diggs mission, and on track perusing through some musicali at a Borders.
Had no idea Atmosphere had even released a new album (ok, so it got dropped in March).
But the album title was what yanked over the novelty:
When Life Hands You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold.
Feelin that.
Physically gold plated and flowing with an introspective investigation characteristic to Atm, the album is a gracefully cohesive scrapbook. From start to finish it see-saws on Life’s harsh beauty.pain
and LightweightHeavy like
(.)
Filed under: Aural Pleasure, Visual Basics | Tags: mp3, Nicole Willis, The Soul Investigators
I’m trying to see the signs of where the first five chords of this song are directing me, but I just can’t get a grasp of the song they’re bringing me back to.
Maybe it’s just one of those familiar little riffs.
Regardless, this here is Nicole Willis meshing with the Soul Investigators.
Two songs here from her zero-5 album, Keep Reachin’ Up, that I’ve been feeling the past days.
Feeling Free
The Rhodes on No One’s Gonna Leave you is just killin me.
Shit, the Rhodes always kills me.
And the steady un-steadiness of the guitar’s pluck-pluck is so on point for this song.
Feelin’ Free is another one of those jams that opens up in such broad terrain. First time I heard it was just on the edge of my seat “where the hell is this going, cause I’m 30 seconds in and I still don’t have a clue what era this is, what lifeculture this is woven from”. Think that all ties in with the song title, lyrics, and hot crisps of Willis’ voice.
Other songs on Keep Reachin’ Up do the same. The song Holdin’ On is one that comes to mind. And it has a Rhodes solo that just blows it up.
In other news, Sesame Street has recently been taken over by MOP.
Yap that fool!
¡Up’n’Up!
I think it’s a product of popular discourse and the phraseological units in which we employ “inertia”, that I have always had trouble with classical physics’ notion that inertia isn’t a force…cause damn, that shit feels like it keeps me from doing stuff. I guess it’s just me coastin along, sippin root beer and eating Fritos. no new energy/force there…
anyway,
SumTink is back up and runnin, and the ‘we’ will soon to be expanded to a few other clutch music heads. We got a straight up diaspora going on as the people on the site are headin in all sorts of directions – Colorado, Texas, a current/soon-to-be-past heady-tour around the U.S., Boston, South Korea – so we’ll definitely be bumpin into new things along the way. Still trying to see the site as some collective canvas, allowing a place to smatter creative crunk in whatever way we find it or make it: Thought, music, (dys)functional design, photography, architecture, graf, typography, painting, ex. set. terra. It’s for us (as we’ll able to see what the others are getting themselves into) and it’s for you. If the momentum keeps on-and-on, it should pan out to be something interesting/weird (most definitely the latter).
For now, here’s a mixtape I’ve been wanting to post since mid-spring (Get past the second song and the pitch-ditch of that first gig just keeps growing). By the homie Maga Bo, ex-pat’ed down in Rio (can you blame him?), and always coming correct with the bounciful.
Maga Bo, World UP Mix
Much love
Love Much
SumTink
Dubconscious Space-rastas-in-outer-space
This is one of the better DubMixers I’ve come upon in a minute.
Your boi, Dub Boy, dropped this at Spannered.org and it’s a damn fine smattering of old and new.
It’s also the beefiest M Três we’ve dropped on this site, clockin in at 77 min or something wonderous, but hopefully I can lift it up on, and you can enjoy it.
Also of import:
I saw a 5-lb bucket of Fluff the other day.
FIVE POUNDS of FLUFF…
Only here, in this great land.
I was, however, thankful for my perceived freedom yesterday. and my ability to say “Fuck the president” if I want to…
Here’s the track list. It aint short.
* Beenie Man — Pardon (Taxi)
* Lady Saw — Married Man (Taxi)
* Mr Vegas — Lean Wid It (Taxi)
* Sugar Minott — Tune In (Taxi)
* Sugar Minott & Bounty Killer — Tune In (Taxi)
* Taurus & Jimmy Riley — Pull Up Selector (Taxi)
* Shabba Ranks — Respect (Shang)
* Barrington Levy — Murderer (Jah Life)
* Carlton Livingston — 100 lbs of Collie Weed (Jah Life)
* RSD — Murderah (Unreleased)
* Mungo’s Hi Fi ft. Mikey Murka — Back on the Scene (Scotch Bonnet)
* Mungo’s Hi Fi ft. Soom T — Did you Know? (Scotch Bonnet)
* Mungo’s Hi Fi ft. Rock — Inna Dancehall (Scotch Bonnet)
* Mungo’s Hi Fi ft. Brother Culture — Ing (MJ Mix) (Scotch Bonnet)
* Mungo’s Hi Fi ft. Carl Meeks — Higher Level (Scotch Bonnet)
* Mungo’s Hi Fi ft. Top Cat — Herbalist (Scotch Bonnet)
* Junior Delgado — One Blood (Fashion)
* Junior Reid — One Blood (J.R. Productions)
* Junior Delgado — Dub School (Fashion)
* Junior Byles — Fade Away (Jama)
* Disrupt — THC 1138 (Werk)
* King Tubby — Fade Out (Firehouse)
* Disrupt — Riddim Grid (Werk)
* Mikey Dread — Saturday Night Style (Auralux)
* RSD — Prophecy (Angels Egg)
* Luciano — Just Hold On (Charlie’s)
* Chezidek — I Won’t Change (Charlie’s)
* Fantan Mojah — Hold Dem Heads (Charlie’s)
* McPullish — Dub Change I (Charlie’s)
* McPullish — Aerophonic Dub (Charlie’s)
* Henry & Louis ft. Prince Green — Love Like (2 Kings)
* System Error ft. Michael Rose — Time Bomb (Universal Egg)
* VC — Gone (Dig Dis)
* Rootz Underground — Victims of the System (Rootz Underground)
* Dark Angel — Cool & Humble (Boka)
* Mungo’s Hi Fi — I Love Jah (Unreleased)
* Etherealites — El Toro (Roots Garden)
* Nick Fantastic — Kingdom Riddim (Massive B)
* Collie Buddz — Let Me Know (Massive B)
* Chezidek — Call Pon Dem (Massive B)
* Richie Spice — Rooted & Grounded (Star Trail)
* Richie Spice — The Plane Land (VP)
* Richie Spice — Earth A Run Red (Henfield)
* Taurus Riley — She Is Royal (Cannon)
* Disrupt ft. Mikey Murka — Empress (Scotch Bonnet)
* Henry & Louis meet Blue & Red ft. Willie Williams — Plastic World (BSI)
* VC — Deeds Dub (Dig Dis)
* Gussie P — Chill Out Dub (Sip A Cup)
* Steretyp ft. Tikiman — Fling Style (G-Stone)
* Smith & Mighty — Brain Scan (Angel’s Egg)
Filed under: Aural Pleasure, Visual Basics | Tags: Bablee, Bonde Do Role, Chief Boima, Coupé-Décalé, DJ Znobia, Konono #1, Radioclit
Fuck Shit Up w/ Your Booty Bouncin Bump Bump.
That could definitely be used to describe some different current musics of the African Diaspora. Baile Funk, so sure. Jungle/Drum’n’Bass, no question. Hip-Hop/Rap, mos def. Coupé-Décalé? What the shit is that?
Its like the Carnival of Soca, Samba, Baile Funke, Zouk, Kuduro, and Chicago House. Coming out of the Coups, Civil Wars, riots, political and social firestorms, of the last…well, 9 years more or less (the ’99 Coup, the ’02 Fuck-all, the ’04-’07 Explosion, the current oppression by Soro) Coupé-Décalé is Côte d’Ivoire’s up-tempo response that’s being picked up all across the UK, France, and apparently much of Western Europe.
This is a mixer spotting:
Tony Allen v Bonde do Role w/ “Awa Nare Remix”
Usher v. Chief Boima w/ “Love in this African Club”
Bablee w/ “Tout Est Dedans”
Elephant Man v. Chief Boima w/ “Free Your Soul”
Angola’s DJ Znobia w/ “Mono Mono”
Radioclit w/ “Secousse”
and
Konono No. 1 w/ “Paradiso”
Now Bonde do Role can border Baile (if only because they poke fun at it at times), but this is minimized and refixed so as to let the West African underpinnings buoy up. Chief Boima mixes Usher, which ain’t my drinkydrank, but Boima stills kills it. Bablee’s Tout Est Dedans is next with some ridiculous polyrhythmic-ity that apparently is only a 3-minute cut from the tracks 19+min build…I’m loving this cut so Imma have to find that madness.
And then there’s “Free Your Soul”. Which is the jam.
Shit is the JAMMMMM.
And the seamless segue way into Znobia’s Kuduro hitter is…yep.
“Secousse” drops the second-to-last bit, actually weighing more on the Kuduro side, but it makes for a good set-up to Konono #1’s “Paradiso”.
Check the video for some visuals:
Filed under: Aural Pleasure | Tags: 7 Velas, Amandititita, Cumbia, Digitaldubs Sounds System, Reggae
¡Daaaaaaaaaaamn SON!
Haven’t been on this mugg in a minute.
Momentum and inertia are funny things.
Been lots of music flowing in an out of all our vidas in the past few months, but I’m gonna post up one that’s got with me some juice to battle my inertia. I just want to start postin again.
So this is Amanditititia with some pop acid satire, “anarcumbia”. You can deduce what you want about it from that run on the Cumbia namesakers
Amandititita: Viernes de Quincena
It’s shakin out of Mexico City, and I dig. Especially feelin the short little stint at 2:05. The lyrics are kinda small Reggaeton-standard style but the they be smooooth runnin.
Speakin of smooth, check the melodic riddim:
Homies are comin out of Rio and the energy in this video is madd live.
And Funky Buia! Homie is THE HOMIE.
¡BUMBACLOT!
DJ Ramsey cuttin CASSETTE TAPES.
WHAT!!?
Seems like a work in progress, but its still blowin my mind.
And then there are these kids.
9 and 6 year-old Sara and Ryusei.
And look at the beautiful collection they got goin on behind them. Someones’ moms and/or pops provided right!
