Jeremy Scott’s Cartoon Savannah
Jeremy Scott’s first collection for Adidas, released earlier this year, was a glittery-gold selection of irresistibly cut (wearable) harem pants, sequins, sporty fringed tanks and coveted winged hightops. His next installment abandons his black-gold-and-silver, Studio 54 color palette for a hue explosion and elongation of the tribal streetwear trend pioneered by MIA and Cassette Playa. Leopard-spotted sweatshirts, global mapped bodycon dresses and “tribal mask”-printed, exposed-pocket track suits all make appearances in this eminently watchable video collaboration with the video director Nabil. Appropriately, The Very Best, Esau Mwamwaya, MIA and Santigold soundtrack the trampoliney splashing around his collection apparently demands.
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posted on Aug 31, 2009 in STYLE VIDEO, Uncategorized tags Adidas, Esau Mwamwaya, Jeremy Scott, MIA, Radioclit, Santigold, Santogold, The Very Best
Premiere: The Very Best f. MIA, “Rain Dance” MP3
- story Peter Macia
FADER #52 cover The Very Best, aka Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit, join with FADER #27 cover and all-around FADER muse MIA for one of the more hectic deep cuts off The Warm Heart of Africa LP, finally available for purchase tomorrow. Samples identified so far: whistles, crickets, handclaps, toads, a rainstick, thunder, actual rain, heavy breathing and either a baby hiccuping or some kind of bird. We’ve been dancing along for about an hour and don’t see any clouds looming but we are sweating something crazy, so that has to count for something. Pre-order the album on iTunes today or go back tomorrow and buy it in real time. And if you want it on vinyl or CD, that will be available on October 6th. Advance copies come with a body sponge. Not true, but it is incredible.
Download: The Very Best f. MIA, “Rain Dance”
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posted on Aug 24, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags electronic/dance, Esau Mwamwaya, MIA, premiere, Radioclit, The Very Best
The Very Best, “Warm Heart of Africa” + “Yalira” MP3
- story Peter Macia
- photo Liz Johnson Artur (F52)
The Very Best putting out “Warm Heart of Africa,” with guest vocals by Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, as the first single off their album is a great bait-and-switch: goofy, chunky radio pop where the rest of the album is majestic and humid electronic anthemics. The b-side of the single, “Yalira,” also from the album, is a lot more representative, so hopefully people like it as much as they seem to like the Koenig joint, because this album is the reason we put The Very Best on the cover 19 months ago, before they were even called The Very Best.
Buy the 7-inch from Green Owl with art from Côte d’Ivoirian artist BP Konan.
Download: The Very Best, “Warm Heart of Africa”
Download: The Very Best, “Yalira”
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posted on Aug 18, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags electronic/dance, Esau Mwamwaya, Radioclit, The Very Best
NYC: African Weekend With Radioclit’s Secousse Party and Rwandan Drummers
- story Matthew Schnipper
This Saturday, London’s Radioclit bring their Secousse party of international dance blasters to New York for the first time, along with performances by current FADER cover star Maluca, Janka Nabay and possibly a special guest who possibly has been on the cover of FADER and possibly knows Radioclit really well. Not Diplo. And after you recover on Sunday, make your way down south from Williamsburg to downtown Brooklyn to see Ingoma Nshya, a group of female drummers from Rwanda, pound it out to benefit Sweet Dreams, Rwanda’s first local ice cream shop. Fliers for both events are after the jump.
FADER TV: The Very Best Come to NYC
- story THE FADER
The last time we saw The Very Best was through a chainlink fence in an alley in Austin, Texas. Despite putting Esau Mwamwaya on the cover of our magazine a year before, we could not part the sea of bouncers until a friend with veto power got us in. This time, when Mwamwaya and Radioclit played a more proper show at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, we had much better access caught up with them for some talk on “The Warm Heart of Africa” (the song, the album, the sentiment) and snagged live video of their seriously ferocious set.
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posted on Jul 21, 2009 in FADER TV, MUSIC CHANNEL, MUSIC INTERVIEWS SHOW tags electronic/dance, Esau Mwamwaya, FADER TV, Radioclit, The Very Best
Freeload: The Very Best f. Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend, “Warm Heart of Africa (Theophilus London Remix)” MP3
- story THE FADER
Consider this the DJ Khaled-style remix for people who veer into weirder lanes than commercial rap. Our man Theophilus London gives himself the leadoff verse on The Very Best’s eponymous new song, with an assist from Ezra of Vampy Weeks, from their upcoming album Warm Heart of Africa. Make this official! Read our feature story on Theophilus from the David Byrne icon issue here.
Download: The Very Best f. Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend, “Warm Heart of Africa (Theophilus London Remix)”
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posted on Jun 25, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags eletronic/dance, Esau Mwamwaya, freeload, hip hop, Radioclit, The Very Best, Theophilus London, Vampire Weekend
MIAMI: It Was Written Tour with Johan Hugo (Radioclit) & Terry Lynn Tonight
- story THE FADER
Johan Hugo of FADER all-time faves Radioclit and Terry Lynn are in the thick of a whirlwind six cities in six days tour in support of their It Was Written EP for Red Stripe. It kicked off last night in DC and continues tonight in Miami before heading to Chicago, Austin, LA and New York City. We’ve got the tour dates and RSVPs for each after the jump along with a behind-the-scenes video, and you can still download the EP at thefader.com/redstripe.
Freeload: Radioclit’s Fu Na Na Na Mix
- story THE FADER
Leave it to Radioclit to expose us to an entire new genre of music, this time in their mix for Corporate Bloggin, which is primarily made up of accordion-based dance music from Cape Verde. Of course, Radioclit being the world travelers they are, they’ve also included epic jams from Uproot Andy, Pitbull, Skepta, Maluca and Wiley. We’re totally going to start name-dropping Raiss Di Funana’s “Nho Fifi” at parties and everyone is going to be really jealous.
Download: Radioclit, Fu Na Na Na Mix
Stream: The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit), “Ntende Uli”
- story THE FADER
Since putting Esau Mwamwaya on the cover of FADER #52, we have made a point of hanging out with him whenever possible. He rolled through The Fort in Texas with Johan and Etienne of Radioclit and then stopped by The Let Out, our weekly show on East Village Radio, a couple months ago to sing some of his hits live and direct (video above). If we had some of that big money, we would just hire him to be the Happy Dude on staff, but we will take his new music as no short consolation. “Ntende Uli” is from The Very Best’s forthcoming fall album on Green Owl, Warm Heart of Africa, and it is a powerful jam. We’re pretty sure Esau will sing it when he plays a handful of tour dates this summer along with, hopefully, a good chunk of Warm Heart. Check the dates and the stream at the link below.
Stream: The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit), “Ntende Uli”
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posted on Jun 17, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags electronic/dance, Esau Mwamwaya, Green Owl, Radioclit, The Very Best
Freeload: Terry Lynn, “Jamaican Girls” (prod Johan of Radioclit) MP3
- story THE FADER
Terry Lynn, responsible for one of the grimiest videos of 2008, has joined up with Johan Hugo of Radioclit/The Very Best to make this new track from the forthcoming free digital EP called It Was Written. The five songs on the EP, presented by Red Stripe Beer, “celebrate the worldwide influence of Jamaican music,” something we have been celebrating at FADER for over 10 years now. You’ll be able to get the full EP on Monday, June 15th, at www.thefader.com/redstripe, but enough with the formalities! This song is way more fun than one might expect from Lynn, who last we saw her, if our memory serves correct, was pointing a giant gun at us in a video. Here’s to finding time in your busy schedule to appreciate your womanhood!
Download: Terry Lynn, “Jamaican Girls” (prod Johan of Radioclit)
