had a very nice chat w/ Geoff @ Postopolis today, covering lots of ground around music, migration, urban identity, spaces of possibility. although my favorite part was after the Q&A (which eventually turned to my impressions of NYC as a site for musical activity) when i went downstairs with Jess & some other staff and … Continue reading POST POSTOPOLIS
stay tuned: my radio show, Mudd Up! (one name fits all), will be Wednesdays, 7-8pm, starting in June. ive already got a bunch of INCREDIBLE guests (musical & otherwise) lined up but it’ll take a few days b4 i can sort who’s-on-when… i think i’m talking at a thing at harvard next saturday on Free … Continue reading WED. 7PM
Wiley! (at length) Skream! (1hr with Gilles Peterson) Binyavanga Wainaina! (on, among other things, Negroponte’s 100-dollar laptops “for the whole brown world”, Binyavanga first muddied up here.) When free American maize turned up in Kenyan schools in 1984, thanks to Bob Geldof and USA for Africa, it arrived in gunny bags and presented itself at … Continue reading FREE MAIZE
Nine gigs in ten days mean much delicious realtime & a certain healthy neglect of the Matrix aka Mr + Mrs Internet. This trip began with Mexican riches (edible) in Sunset Park followed by a car service ride where my Ecuadorian driver introduced me, musically, to Polibio Mayorga. He lent me the disc, I will … Continue reading POLIBIO MAYORGA, MAESTRO
hi-rez footage of an entire Najat Aatabou concert! from a Flash-y site, sorry. (Track 4 is the one the Chemical Brothers sample, previously muddied in my Berber post here.) & what you missed if you weren’t in Olympia this weekend:
“Don’t ask me about any of these Berber cassettes,” said Rachid’s asssitant at Nassiphone (BCN’s best shop for Maghrebi sound) as he hefted a milkcrate from behind the counter. “I know as much as you do.” Meaning: very little. the cover of this cassette depicts Mr Tamount seated, a capoed & fretted banjo loose in … Continue reading ATLAS IMPRESSIONISTIK
Late November Gregory Whitehead visited New York City’s New School to participate in a panel on “Radio Communities: The Other Side of the Electronic Divide.†(i confused the schedule & arrived long after he’d ended… Although i got there in time to see a man praise community radio using powerpointed Smiling African Children tourist snapshots … Continue reading MOTHER RADIO CAUTIONARY
twitter * instagram * facebook * newsletter BIO “You won’t find another musician as agile and reckless as DJ /rupture.†— Mary Ann Hobbes, BBC1 DJ Rupture is a bass visionary from New York City, known for adventurous sets that integrate music from the global South into the latest developments in club culture. Buy his … Continue reading DJ /rupture
twitter * instagram * facebook * newsletter BIO Jace Clayton lives and works in New York City. Clayton uses an interdisciplinary approach to focus on how sound, memory, and public space interact, with an emphasis on low-income communities and the global South. A rigorous conceptual framework grounds each project it moves across areas as diverse … Continue reading Jace Clayton
In today’s news, a French rap crew has sampled me with great results. Listen to La Route es Longue. V-System do a wholesale chop on the synth/bass/beat of ‘DJ Rupture- Dem Nuh Know Me’. I’ve been calling the RIAA to see if they can dial-in some sort of long-range missile attack, or at least get … Continue reading RUPTURE SAMPLERS & DJ DRAMA DRAMA