Ghetto Palms 75: Flare Riddim / Giants / Ze Bula remix / Baobab
- story Eddie "Stats" Houghton
- photo Debbie Bragg (F38)
A certain operatic feel connects these two new jump up riddims from ZJ Sparks and Ding Dong’s Ravers Clavers crew, respectively. To be specific, Giants is scored to the opening shots of a suspense thriller, the pulsing cello-and-synth foreshadowing the drama that’s about pop off. Flare on the other hand sounds like the climactic point when the violinists in the orchestra pit look they’re trying to saw the necks off their instruments. Maybe someday, when people from this soundsystem generation are old and rich, the New York Philharmonic will be actually be playing these parts while Ding Dong and Chi Ching yell on the mic and make them pull up every five seconds.
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posted on Oct 15, 2009 in GHETTO PALMS tags Beenie Man, caribbean, Chief Boima, Ding Dong, GHETTO PALMS, Mad Decent, Vybz Kartel
Ghetto Palms: Afrostuff / Chief Boima / Descendants United / Akon Redeemed
- story Eddie "Stats" Houghton
For a while now I have been bugging left coast DJ Chief Boima to put together a mix of all the afro-stuff he has been educating me about via email correspondence ever since he cold-called the editorial@thefader.com inbox with a message headed “African remixes from San Francisco” back around the time of the Africa issue. This is the week it all came together and I won’t comment much since the Chief can put things in better context himself (his notes are in italics next to each track), but I will say this: I have had in the back of my mind for years the idea of making a “Black Atlantic” mixtape, connecting dots between the various threads of the African diaspora described in the Paul Gilroy book of the same name and now I can’t because this mix is basically it.
Freeload: Chief Boima’s Afrocan House Mix
- story THE FADER
The recent Township Palms / Kwaito / Pitori House edition of Ghetto Palms is rippling outwards as we always intend these things to, inspiring a new mix of global house by FADER friend Chief Boima, which Stats will now probably reference in the next Ghetto Palms. Ring of fire! To hear Boima’s mix in person, visit The Highlife at Otis Lounge in San Francisco tonight where he’ll be DJing. Tracklist after the jump.
(via Ghetto Bassquake)
Freeload: Chief Boima, “Love In This African Club”
- story THE FADER
Chief Boima dropped this in our inbox this morning asking how one goes about getting a song on the FADER blog. 1. Remix “Love In This Club” because we apparently are posting every version of that song that comes out. 2. Reference coupé decalé because we are steadily trying to hear that too. But we’ve actually seen Boima bouncing around before this, posting on Benn loxo du taccu and putting up Obama mixtapes, so he was already a step ahead.
Download: Chief Boima, “Love In This African Club”
