FEATURE: Esau Mwamwaya (The Very Best)
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Read Sarah Bentley’s cover story on Malawi-via-London singer Esau Mwamwaya from FADER Number 52 after the jump, and pick up a few of his newest songs with Radioclit as The Very Best.
FADER 52: BLK JKS Feature
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Read Edwin “Stats” Houghton’s cover story on South African dub-metalers BLK JKS from FADER Number 52, and stay up on the band’s global adventures at the BLK JKS blog. You might find some very interesting announcements there very soon.
FADER TV: BLK JKS at FADER 52 Release Party
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Last Friday at The Knitting Factory we hosted, along with Bass Ale, a party celebrating the release of our Africa issue. Featuring the sweet sounds of DJs Eddie Stats and DJ/Rupture floating down on us from that weird upper level that looks like those raised indoor tracks that we had to run around in high school, as well as a surprisingly bass heavy set from Brooklyn’s own High Places followed by the US debut of South Africa’s BLK JKS. We did the jam band dance along with everyone else—we see you dude in multi-colored beanie! Check out BLK JKS’ performance of “Lakeside” from our party up above and check out a select few pictures from the event after the jump.
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posted on Mar 11, 2008 in EVENT FADER SHOW tags BLK JKS, EVENTS-FADER, F52, FADER TV-EVENTS-FADER, High Places
Q+A: Worship Worthy
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For the past year or so, the women of Worship Worthy have been clearing out a corner of the streetwear blogosphere, creating a site that is entirely by-the-ladies-for-the-ladies. Operating under the pseudonyms Saint Agnes, Mary Madaglene and Santa Maria, the trinity is comprised of two fashion designers (Jennifer Wannarachue and Gabriela Lardizabal) and marketing exec Grace Santa Maria. Between them they transmit pearls of sartorial wisdom over the internet—as well as art tidbits and event news—via what’s commonly known as the “Daily Bread.” Undoubtedly the centerpiece of it all is the “Hail Mary” list, a roll call of accomplished New York ladies handpicked by the committee of three. Down at their Williamsburg offices, Saint Agnes and Mary Madaglene gave the good word. Read the interview after the jump.
Video/Gen F: Buraka Som Sistema, “Sound of Kuduro”
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While putting together our Africa issue, the dudes in Buraka Som Sistema hooked us up with some footage shot of them in Angola with kuduro wizard DJ Znobia. The video was unedited and only kind of watchable, but it looks like they were holding out on us because “Sound of Kuduro” looks suspiciously familiar. In it you can see BSS with Znobia, as well as MIA (who they toured with) and others, but really it’s all about the local dudes taking break-dancing to the next level. Read John McDonnell’s Gen F from FADER 52 after the jump and don’t try these moves unless you got health insurance.
Audio: The FADER Issue 52 Podcast
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For our very special Africa issue we put together a mix of some of the songs and artists that inspired us to put the whole thing together—that means you get jams from cover stars BLK JKS and Esau Mwamwaya as well as songs from Tartit and Group Doueh and Buraka Som Sistema and more.
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Check the tracklist after jump.
GEN F: Sweat.X
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If you haven’t picked up our Africa issue, you should and you should then read about Soweto, South Africa-based Sweat.X, the duo of Spoek Mathambo and Markus Wormstrom, who’ve been jamming up their MySpace with crazy hyperspeed party mixes for the better part of a year now. They’re currently on tour in Europe, so if you’re there, make sure to put on the polka dot Zubaz and check them out. For the rest of you, hit more to read Jace Clayton’s Gen F from the issue, go download some of those mixes and hit up Discobelle for an exclusive track.
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.
The FADER Issue 52 Free Download
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For the 52nd issue of The FADER we flexed our journalistic muscles to find out what was happening with music in Africa right now—from Ghanaian hiplife to the South African Kwaito scene, to our cover features on Malawian singer/Radioclit protégé/current East London resident Esau Mwamwaya, and BLK JKS, a South African dub-metal-ska-everything quartet that we should all probably keep our eyes on in 2008. In addition, we have more of what you’d expect from the FADER, including profiles on underwater drum circle jammers High Places and a glimpse at bassline mega star in the making T2, among like a million other real exciting styles and musics and GOOD LOOKS.
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