His music is the next, somewhat illogical step in the evolution from funk to kwaito to house, and the younger kids are there to verify its progressive merit. His politics are not hackneyed, radical slogans used to sell records or grab headlines, they are real, and South Africans of a certain age would not let him get away with anything less. Everyone hear something in his songs that they can relate to, wether is the sharp lyrics or the hectic sounds, and is thrown off balance by the other. [THE FADER]
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
SPOEK MATHAMBO
His music is the next, somewhat illogical step in the evolution from funk to kwaito to house, and the younger kids are there to verify its progressive merit. His politics are not hackneyed, radical slogans used to sell records or grab headlines, they are real, and South Africans of a certain age would not let him get away with anything less. Everyone hear something in his songs that they can relate to, wether is the sharp lyrics or the hectic sounds, and is thrown off balance by the other. [THE FADER]
Monday, 30 August 2010
DJ GANT-MAN
Gant Garrard was introduced to mixing in the early 80's by his older brother and learned how to count beats and blend records at the young age of 5. At age 10 he was ready to share his talent with the world and began mixing on a college radio station in Chicago where he mixed from 1989 through 1997. At age 15 in 1995, Gant-Man produced his first EP for Dance Mania, becoming known in Chicago as the Youngest Professional DJ and is attributed to being one of the main key innovators of Ghetto Juke House.
Saturday, 28 August 2010
A SHAMAN I AM
This body overflows with sweat, drips the foam of desire at the crotch. A shudder
shakes the body over till it lies motionless from exhaustion, losing the elements of
existence in eternal time.
This body overflows with sweat, not to be cooled off by the breeze of the night
nor by the smiles of a child, nor by the impossible dream of the imagination from
which the body has never been absent nor ever escaped.
This body overflows with sweat; its foam drips from the vessel of extension, from
the swelling of the balloon of the soul. Its impossible dream tumbles to the ground,
but the body remains upright in the face of the death of one moment after the other
until the time has come for the body to die.
[A Body, by Rifqi Badawi,1995]
Friday, 27 August 2010
DJ RUPTURE presents...
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Monday, 23 August 2010
SHED
Saturday, 21 August 2010
BODY MECHANIC
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
SAY NO MORE
Monday, 16 August 2010
BRODINSKI
I’m doing a rap mixtape, just for myself, just so I can say, at this time, I listened to this music. I don’t care what people think. I just do it for me. [...] In Canada and US, hip-hop is big. Half of the tracks I put on my blog, everybody knows. In Europe, it’s like nobody cares about hip-hop music. [BRODINSKI]
Thursday, 12 August 2010
NEW ORLEAN'S BOUNCE
Στο δεύτερο μισό της δεκαετίας του εβδομήντα η ζύμωση της αφροαμερικανικής μουσικής με την Καραϊβική και την Λατινική επιρροή, μαζί τον ηλεκτρονικό ήχο της Ευρώπης (Kraftwerk), προετοίμασε το έδαφος για το μεγάλο κύμα νεωτερισμών της δεκαετίας του ογδόντα. Μια σειρά από street bass υποκουλτούρες εμφανίστηκαν σχεδόν ταυτόχρονα σε πολλές αμερικανικές πολιτείες, με κάποια κοινά χαρακτηριστικά: τους γυμνούς ήχους και το μπάσο των μηχανών της Roland, τα αφρικανικά τύμπανα (ζωντανά και αργότερα σαμπλαρισμένα), την επεξεργασία της φωνής με τις τεχνικές του cut-up, scratch και vocoder, και την rap καταγγελία.
Το Miami Bass, το Go-Go στην Washington, και το Bounce στη Νέα Ορλεάνη είναι τέτοιες περιπτώσεις τοπικών μουσικών σκηνών που επιβίωσαν στη σκιά των μεγάλων γιγάντων (hiphop και r’n’b). Στη συνέχεια, ένα δεύτερο κύμα ηλεκτρονικού νεωτερισμού στο Detroit και το Chicago δημιούργησε περαιτέρω street bass υβρίδια, που επίσης έμειναν στην αφάνεια (Detroit Ghettotech, Chicago Ghetto House, Booty Bass, Juke, Crunk, Baltimore Club).
[link1] [DJ KARO Disaster Prone Mix, 2010]
Ο Dj Karo από τη Νέα Ορλεάνη δημιουργεί ένα ρυθμικό πλέγμα σωμάτων και φωνών που ακούγεται πολύ ενδιαφέρον στην παρούσα φάση κορεσμού της bass σκηνής.
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
BALTIMORE CLAP
Sunday, 8 August 2010
CIAFRICA
Friday, 6 August 2010
OCTOBER
Weird noises made by broken equipment, old movies and found sounds I guess. My sound can be obscure, un-nerving and very dark to some but I just like creating tension and keeping everything a bit subdued, sparse and giving it its own texture. I like to give each sound its own place so you could feel like you can reach out and touch it. It’s almost an impossible question to answer but my biggest influences are probably: Bernard Herrmann, King Tubby and Sonic Youth. [OCTOBER]
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
DJ MEK
Most of the old school u.k. rap mixes doing the rounds seem to focus on the ‘britcore’ style (angry raps/ noisy loops/ frantic scratching). I’ve included a few of those jams, but i tried to focus more on the midtempo steppers for this one. All of these tunes will be familiar to brit-rap diehards but were largely ignored outside of the u.k., which is a shame because some of them were way ahead of the curve. [MEKSTRAVISION]