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GP 128: Egypt / Mutamassik / MIA / RajStar / 3Ball / 3/4 Revolution
Had serious problems focusing on music discovery and column-writing in the last 2 days, distracted as I was by a two-year old with bird flu (ok, not really but a two-year old with any flu … read more »
Ghetto Palms 127: Jillionaire / TOK / Poirier / Schlachthofbronx / Swappi / Soca Rave / Exclusives!!
While I was digging into the green revolution in Detroit, the ghetto palms world kept right on spinning, so here is a quick catch-up: about the time NY was getting into Christmas bashment, Brazil set … read more »
GP 126: Collie Buddz /Gyptian / Vybz Kartel / Busy Signal / Wayne Marshall
Omitted from my Ghetto Palms reading list a few weeks back was a coffee table book I got for my birthday called Detroit Disassembled. Built around Andrew Moore’s revelatory photos, it features nuff ghetto palms … read more »
GP 125: Special Guest Selector Tasha Rozez / 2010 in Dub
I wanted to do something special for this first Ghetto Palms of 2011. I’ve been rapping with Tasha “the wickedest lady DJ ‘pon the road” Rozez of Toronto’s Gunz n Rozez soundsystem about doing a … read more »
Ghetto Palms 124: Exclusive Rihanna x Vybz Kartel / MIA / Natalie Storm / Shadetek
When I took a little side trip into book-world last week— drawn into Eden’s alley by the color of ghetto palms under fluorescent lights— I left part of my brain behind, where its been compiling … read more »
Ghetto Palms 123: CHLLNGR / De Tropix / Jahdan / Bunji Garlin / Rita Indiana
I must pass 500 ailanthus trees— commonly known as the humble ghetto palm, which gave this column its name— on the way from my building to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. But the ailanthus has barely had … read more »
Ghetto Palms 122: Chief Boima / Banana Clipz / Champeta!
Several things happened in the Ghetto Archipelago recently that caught my ear/mind. For instance: the University of the West Indies held a conference on cloud computing to float the idea of transforming the whole Caribbean … read more »
Ghetto Palms 121: Wildlife! / Truck Back / Tun Up riddim
Another week, another killer ’90s throwback riddim coming exclusive from another one of my favorite production houses, um, trucks. Another field of heavy deejays touch down on one of the most audacious beats to come … read more »
Ghetto Palms 120: Serani / Future Fambo / Dancehall Again!
Daseca again! Everybody’s favorite makers of gun-drop, Island pop, and dubstop snapped back this week with a new riddim that is decidedly not a hybrid or micro-genre of anything except in the sense that they … read more »
Reheater: Keith Richards and The Wingless Angels of Jamaica
Our ongoing Reheater column from the print edition, in which we revisit and revere old records being reissued, makes its way online with the reissue of Keith Richards’ Wingless Angels project, recorded with Jamaican folk … read more »
