Live: DJ/Rupture, Maluca, Matt Shadetek & Jahdan Blakkamoore, Sonido Martines at One Step Beyond

Though lacking a cameo from Jason Voorhees, every DJ killed it (wokka wokka) at our One Step Beyond series this past Friday the 13th. FADER friends DJ/Rupture, Matt Shadetek and Jahdan Blakkamoore, Maluca and Sonido Martines took turns hijacking the makeshift dance floor at the planetarium. Whether you were way up front or sneaking into the Mammals of North America exhibit, Sonido Martines’ twisted cumbia was inescapable and Maluca’s insane party starting helped more than a few audience members get real loose. By the time Shadetek and Blakkamoore took the stage, half the audience were trading dance moves under space lights. The other half wandered the museum’s halls, indulging their grade school selves by finding out who weighed 69 pounds on Mars as DJ/Rupture closed out the night.

-Text and photo by TJ Kosinski

Contest: Win Tickets to This Friday’s Edition of One Step Beyond

You already know the lineup (if not, it’s on the flyer up above) and you’ve hopefully already purchased your ticket (if not, there’s still a few left here), but now is the time to throw caution to the wind and try to win your way in. Hit us in the comments and let us know why you want to go and will pick a few lucky winners. As usual, remember to use an actual email address so we can find you to let you know if you won.

NYC: One Step Beyond Featuring DJ/Rupture, Matt Shadetek and Jahdan Blakkamoore, Maluca and Sonido Martines

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.

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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)

Ghetto Palms 71: Jahdan / Geko Jones / Exclusives

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.

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NYC: Ghetto Palms at Santos Party House

You read it on our site and probably have an entire playlist in your iTunes dedicated to Ghetto Palms mixes, and now the column/mix series is coming to life this Thursday, September 17 at Santos Party House. Ghetto Palms columnist and regular (like every issue regular) FADER contributor Eddie “Stats” Houghton will be joined by DJ Rekha, Uproot Andy, Geko Jones and a live set from Jahdan Blakkamoore and Matt Shadetek for a night of jams. It’s only 10 bucks, but if the recession has you down, skip dinner and read through all the Ghetto Palms archives here.

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Jahdan Blakkamoore, Bazooka Shot Mixtape

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

Jahdan Blakkamoore, “Never Gonna Stop” MP3

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”

Ghetto Palms: Jahdan Blakkamoore / 77Klash

It’s been a long, long time coming…but y’all knew a Klash was gon’ come. Or more accurately a Klash and Jahdan, because it would be criminal to overlook Klash’s partner in crime, he of the coffee in a thermos-like niceness on the singjay stylings. Friends of the column and spiritual godfathers of 2000Tone, 77Klash and J. Blakkamoore have been podcasted, refixed, Dutty Artzed, Gen F’d up and namechecked, but the two most prolific and influential Ghetto Palmists on my home planet of Brooklyn have yet to get a palm of their own. And that is all going to come to a clashing halt right now.

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Freeload: Jahdan Blakkamoore f. 77Klash, “Best I Ever Had freestyle” MP3

When we heard Jahdan Blakkamoore 77Klash! freestyle Radiohead’s “Climbing the Walls” over Drake’s “Best I Ever Had” our brain had a minor malfunction because that many awesome polar sounds/words in a short space makes our shit feel like one of those Dairy Queen brownie batter Blizzards. Blizzard-like in his own way and just as much on the tongues of young summer lovers, Blakkamoore’s name has been criss-crossing town from rooftops bumping Major Lazer to cellars of New York’s tropical parties. While we’re waiting for more, including his Buzzrock Warrior album slated to drop mid-September and the upcoming Bazooka Shot Mixtape, we’ve been listening to anything that we can can get our sweaty palms on including our very own Ghetto Palm mix.



Download: Jahdan Blakkamoore f. 77Klash, “Best I Ever Had freestyle”

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