NYC: One Step Beyond Featuring DJ/Rupture, Matt Shadetek and Jahdan Blakkamoore, Maluca and Sonido Martines
- story THE FADER
Not sure about anyone else, but we’re going to be spending this Friday the 13th (the rarest of days) at the Museum of Natural History for the next installment of One Step Beyond. This time featuring FADER mega favorites DJ/Rupture, Matt Shadetek and Jahdan Blakkamoore, Maluca and Sonido Martines. Insert appropriate joke about dancing near the moon here, and then go buy your tickets before they sell out right here.
-
posted on Nov 9, 2009 in EVENTS, MUSIC tags dj/rupture, Dutty Artz, Jahdan Blakkamoore, Mad Decent, Maluca, Matt Shadetek, One Step Beyond, OSB, Sonido Martines
Lee Perry’s “Blackboard Jungle”: From Dub to Dubstep
Obviously the root sound of dubstep is um, dub, but this video documents legend Lee “Scratch” Perry’s transition into making actual dubstep and does a good job of showing how the genres/cultures inform each other without explicitly saying so… at least until the end when it promos Perry’s new track with FADER fave Jahdan Blakkamoore and Subatomic Soundsystem. Worth watching for great footage of Jahdan performing at Terminal 5 with Major Lazer, a brief interview with Rusko on the topic, and a very, very serious Jamaican gyal narrating. (via Dutty Artz)
-
posted on Oct 28, 2009 in ART+CULTURE VIDEO tags caribbean, dubstep, Dutty Artz, Jahdan Blakkamoore, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Rusko, Subatomic Soundsystem
Sabo & Cassady, “Kuff Kumbia” MP3 & Que Bajo/Release Party Tonight (NYC)
Hey Nueva York, tonight is not only the latest installment of the contemporary Latin extravaganza that is Que Bajo, it is the release party for Sabo’s new release on venerable Bersa Discos. Concordantly, they’re offering this shimmy of a dancehall-sampling cumbia to get you in the mood, simmering with accordion shuffle and a little cross-the-island patois vibes. Que Bajo gets it in, and tonight they’ve got guest DJs Sabo and Disco Shawn (Bersa Discos) and residents Uproot Andy and Geko Jones, so crank your internal radiator and dress to sweat cause shit is getting tropically basslike tonight. Flyer/info after the jump.
Download: Sabo & Cassady, “Kuff Kumbia”
-
posted on Oct 15, 2009 in EVENTS, MP3 / STREAMS, OTHER tags Cassady, cumbia, Disco Shawn, Dutty Artz, Geko Jones, Que Bajo, Sabo, Uproot Andy
La Yegros, “Trocitos” MP3
We’ve been waiting for the La Yegros since we saw her destroy NY Tropical a few months back… and at last, the Trocitos De Madera EP landed in our inbox. Her voice is amazing: somehow she conveys a raw urgency while sounding completely relaxed and conversational. Maybe it’s world-weariness? The lyrics are about a girl who cries out “little pieces of wood” in the jungle, so that could do it. “Trocitos”’s cumbia swang was produced by King Coya, who also co-composed the amazing-looking waterworld dance performance Fuerza Bruta, so obviously this is on another fantastical level, but on the EP it also gets treatments by dj/rupture, Matt Shadetek, El Remolon (he of ZZK blood) and Marcelo Fabian. So anyway, when are we all moving to Buenos Aires?
Download: La Yegros, “Trocitos”
-
posted on Sep 16, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags cumbia, dj/rupture, Dutty Artz, El Remolon, King Coya, La Yegros, Marcelo Fabian, Matt Shadetek
Ghetto Palms 71: Jahdan / Geko Jones / Exclusives
- story Eddie "Stats" Houghton
- photo Jason Nocito (F61)
I envisioned this week as Ghetto Palms vs. Que Bajo round two, but instead, guest selector Geko Jones put on his Dutty Artz borsalino and dipped into his drives upon hard drives of unreleased Jahdan white labels and dubplates. By the time he brought in Noble Society producer Fuego Campo for another level of exclusive they had assembled a blakk-catalog so thick it left my own recent JD column looking like the church-floor on Palm Monday.
The Let Out: Maga Bo
- story THE FADER
This week on the Let Out, the FADER’s weekly East Village Radio show, Dutty Artz’s Brazil-based cohort Maga Bo is going to come through for an hour of… actually we couldn’t tell you. We have a feeling there will be a lot of deep bass and a bunch of songs we will immediately love but be completely unfamiliar with. Totally related: Since we grabbed it yesterday, we have been all about this mix by Dutty Artz cohort Lamin Fofana, which, when paired with Maga Bo’s set tonight is the perfect way to prepare yourself for NY Tropical #9, featuring Ripley, Matt Shadetek, Rihannon, the aforementioned Lamin Fofana and the also aforementioned Maga Bo. Look at all those connections we made. Synergy is back! Listen live to the Let Out this and every Friday from 6-8 pm on East Village Radio
-
posted on Aug 21, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Dutty Artz, East Village Radio, Lamin Fofana, Maga Bo, NY Tropical, The Let Out
Jahdan Blakkamoore, Bazooka Shot Mixtape
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
We’d like to think that if this was 2004, people would be going nuts and spending actual dollars on this mix like it was Piracy Funds Terrorism (did people spend money on that?). It doesn’t have the same balls to the wall range, but it does have balls to the wall bass and dancehall experimenters taking the Busy Signal route and voicing over just about anything the Dutty Artz crew can think of. Jahdan Blakkamoore doesn’t get quite as weird as Busy on any of these tracks, but he does get on a couple well known instrumentals (and Joker’s “Digidesign”) as well as a bunch of songs with laser noises. Less heavy than his upcoming Buzzrock Warior, but the perfect way to ride out the rest of your Summer.
Download: Jahdan Blakkamoore Bazooka Shot Mixtape
-
posted on Aug 18, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC tags Busy Signal, dancehall, Dutty Artz, hip hop, Jahdan Blakkamoore, Joker
Taliesin, “Heavy Sick Mixtape” MP3
The Dutty Artz fellas rack up the global airline miles more than most DJs—seems like DJ/Rupture is always jetting off to Mexico to perform with the dude from the Ex or mixing records in far flung locales, while Matt Shadetek delves into the netherlands of his studio to finish up more Jahdan Blakkamore stuff for fall. And DA affiliate Taliesin just sent us a dispatch from Eastern Europe, where he’s on a DJ tour but still has the grindtime to crank out three rather banging mixtapes in as many weeks. “Heavy Sick,” the latest, was made especially for a new Budapest-based bass blog called Ghetto Bazaar and feels crazy exuberant for its illegal levels of low-end and spastically happy vocals on most tracks—a Dionysian party-zone of sub-levels, shout to your fave maenad Tracklist after the jump, and feel free to read Taliesin’s thoughts on the tape if you are fluent in Hungarian.
Download: Taliesin, “Heavy Sick” Mixtape
-
posted on Jul 13, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC tags caribbean, dj/rupture, Dutty Artz, electronic/dance, Matt Shadetek, Taliesin
Jahdan Blakkamoore, “Never Gonna Stop” MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
- photo Jason Nocito
It’s cool how Jahdan Blakkamoore is able to make boastful songs without you even noticing just by virtue of how smooth his voice sounds. Not that we have anything against lyrics that are entirely about how awesome an artist hopes to be in the near future, we just don’t need to be smacked in the face with it. “Never Gonna Stop” is from Bazooka Shot, the mixtape that will lead up to Jahdan’s Buzzrock Warrior LP, his bananas futuristic bass dancehall shit that has recently been addressed in our magazine and on Ghetto Palms.
Download:Jahdan Blakkamoore, “Never Gonna Stop”
Taliesin, “DefinatelyMaybe Mix” MP3
- story Erin Hansen
Halfway through Taliesin’s PDXinDub mixtape, Trina starts up like a well-oiled engine on a bubbling dupstep synth If you see a fly bitch, holler don’t trip, break her off a few dollars, take her on a few trips—a fair glimpse into what Taliesin’s recent party excursion into Serbia must have been like. We’re guessing a dubstep-y sauna in a seedy discotheque? Download below or you can wait for what he terms, “a global gobbledicunk/tropical bass mix” slated to drop later this month.
Download: Taliesin, DefinatelyMaybe Mix
