Vinyl Archeology: DJ Craze Remembers Miami Bass
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DJ Craze is a record-setting, three-time DMC world champion and is widely accepted as one of the best scratch DJs on Earth. He just dropped a mix for Fabric’s DJ series, Fabriclive, and since MySpace tourdates never lie, is also apparently Kanye’s new DJ, which means he will be even more famous in about three seconds. After the jump, read Craze’s VA from FADER 53 in which he recalls and recounts the very first Miami Bass tracks he heard growing up in MIA. Also, since it’s the internet, we’ve added some multimedia-ness to the whole thing.
Vinyl Archeology: The Synthesizer Sounds of West Africa
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One of the key outside contributors to our Africa issue (get it now) was a good dude named Brian Shimkovitz, who lives in Brooklyn but currently resides at Awesome Tapes From Africa. He was instrumental in helping us with Ghana connects and put together an excellent Vinyl Archeology in which he traces the synthesizer through West African music. Read that after the jump and make sure to check Brian’s next obsession, awesome tapes from Thailand, on the archive for Jace Rupture’s Mudd Up! radio show. PS-Thanks Brian, we owe you a shit ton of (cheap) beers.
