Today on Mudd Up!, 7-8pm, WFMU, we will be airing an exclusive all-vinyl mix from Los Angeles’ DJ LENGUA! It’s cracking, full of latin crate-digger gifts, visionary cumbia, overdriven Colombian psychedelia, and more. For an intro to Lengua, check his rebajada-style Mota mix or this nice interview… and tune in tonight. In a few weeks … Continue reading RADIO ‘TONGUE’ TONITE
TODAY, STUDIO X, NYC! I’ve been collaborating with Mitch McEwen of Superfront on a series of projects combining architecture, audio, and public space. Things kick off today with a FREE presentation by Mitch, myself, and other Superfront folk at the Studio X space in Manhattan. Mitch is a next-level thinker, directing the interdisciplinary Superfront in … Continue reading SUPERFRONT & STUDIO X
“Eight thousand people dead last year in Mexico, in narco related assaults,” tweets Mariana, “Or so they say. Narco whatever. War all over, and commemorations. This is the year Zompantil: wall of skulls.” Death urges memory and a wall can serve many purposes. Recording fixes slices of life by writing them down, freezing the heartbeat, … Continue reading OLD WORLD, OLD WALLS
A last-minute note to announce: I’m returning to WNYC’s Soundcheck program at 2pm today, for a live performance and interview with host John Schaefer. + + + This Monday, Boston people can catch me doing an “experimental set” at Beat Research, alongside residents Wayne&Wax and DJ Flack. FREE. @ The Enormous Room in Central Square. … Continue reading SOUNDCHECK WNYC & UPCOMING
Timeblind on Avatar vs Nirgendwo in Afrika: Anyway, in case you haven’t seen Avatar, its about a white (American!) dude that goes native and becomes their most awesome leader and achieves an improbable, lo-tech victory (but with soul power! and the animals help them!). Awesome battle sequence ! Good vs. Evil, get it ? In … Continue reading 300 MILLION DOLLAR CONVERSATION
Lucky Dragons’ performances overturn conventions of electronic music with generosity and grace. Today, Monday October 12 7-8pm on WFMU 91.1fm, they will join me to share sounds and discuss the relationship between social and sonic experimentation, Los Angeles, erasing the barriers between performer and audience, and more. Lucky Dragons opened for Thom Yorke’s new band … Continue reading LUCKY DRAGONS FLY TO FMU
mudd revisited (original post was 4 years ago!): we are dealing with the basics here: love and time. “What we missed is not little,” sings Oum Kolthoum. “Whatever I saw before my eyes saw you was a wasted life.” [audio:01 Enta omry.mp3] Oum Kolthoum – Enta Omri (86MB, 59 minutes) A live version of one … Continue reading BIGGER THAN THE BEATLES
Tune in Mudd Up! with DJ Rupture on WFMU 91.1fm tonight at 7PM, as Roberto Ernesto Gyemant aka DJ Beto, the man responsible for putting together those wonderful volumes of 1960s and ’70s “cumbia tropical & calypso funk” from Panama, joins me to talk and share some incredible music. He had a curatorial hand in … Continue reading BETO VIENE HOY!
Yes, it’s true – today is my birthday. I think, technically, I became one year older while flying over the unthinkably large Andes early this morning, on route to Santiago de Chile. Where it is cold and raining… August winters are not my thing. But even on birthdays the blog/(w)internet economy = free free free, … Continue reading FELIZ CUMPLE – BAZOOKA SHOT
On Monday July 6th, Chief Boima will be joining me on the 2nd anniversary of Mudd Up radio on WFMU 91.1 fm — that means 100+ shows (and podcast versions)!! Chief Boima – a ‘real’ African-American – pushes music forward from his Bay Area home base. I’d started hearing his DJ mixes a few years … Continue reading CHIEF FREQUENCIES