http://www.negrophonic.com dirt, sound, lit Mon, 12 May 2008 22:28:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For his recent Europe tour, Sonido Martines re-booted 2 cumbia mix CDs he was involved with, Las Rebajadas Van A Brooklin and La Sonidera Colombiana. I snagged a few copies for the curious... [Vampiros] they come with color inserts in a slimline case, CD-r w/ color label. (Harlem hiphop mix style) La Sonidera ... http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/sonideros-listen-up/ in addition the 2nd day of Musique Action tonite, a last-minute Rupture solo DJ set will go down in Chartes (Orleans) tomorrow, and I'll rejoin The Ex + Getatchew Saturday in Kortrijk, Belgium. Outside our hotel there's a Turkish restaurant where they're listening to music on the room speakers & simultaneously ... http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/chartres-topper/ a piece I wrote on Toumani Diabete is in the current issue of Freize, a magazine whose cover looks like this: click on the foto for a readable version: http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/diabates-mande-variations/ i had this fantastic new Darkstar tune as hi-rez, so i opted to crunch it down to 100kbps but WOW, this duo (?) does the melancholic-dubstep thing exquisitely. Mining a rich vein: Darkstar - Round Ours buyable here, here, etc. + + + there's a great comp of hiplife out: Black Stars: Ghana's hiplife ... http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/vein-mind/ History is made at Night. blog around the identitity politics "of dancing and musicking" + + + The Ex & Gétatchèw Mèkurya FREE, at Lincoln Center this August. What!?!? WFMU greased these wheels. "The Ex are among the most freeform and inspiring musicians and people we've had the fortune to ... http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/ex-patches-ravepolitik/ Greg on Sublime Frequencies, Diplo, and The Anonymous as Exotic. + + + speaking of anonymizers, here's a lovely 9-minute Berber pop tune released on the Reve d'Orient label's 'real' 3 CD set with no tracklist or artist info on it (in any language). Mudd Unknown - track 1 from Les Maitres de ... http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/known-unknowns/ Three continents in less than a week has left me burning the midnite oil, sipping yerba mate, and falling into deep R.E.M. sleep the moment I sit down in NYC's shuddering metro system. Naturally, the blog suffers. But you can expect a grip of print pieces from me in the near ... http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/no-sleep-more-mate/ in a hotel whose eves are lit with neon on the outskirts of a city on the outskirts of Lyon. Women are boxing each other in slo-motion on the television - who put on the sports channel? anyhowParis this evening! (Soot family + friends in the house! last of the ... http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/paris-evenement/ WE ARE RAIDERS ok, so its probably gonna be at least 8 weeks until this 12" emerges into the world and the (longer) CD version will take even more time, but head to the Dutty Artz myspace to hear "Go Round Payola" & get the full update at DA blog. Short ... http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/go-round-payola/ ...for that Trim grime tune we were talking about recently. As Tim Abdellah enlightened us in his comment, Radioclit sampled a few bars of the Gnawa Diffusion's Bab el-Oued Kingston album to make this beat. Check the original, it's great: Gnawa Diffusion - Gazel Au Fond de la Nuit huge thanks for ... http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/sample-source/