like the moon
Monday night at Beat Research was a lot of fun. Folks and friends came out in force, from veteran DJs to Tim’s family, & the vibes were real nice. Special thanks to Brian Coleman for rallying the people and bringing his deep crates of tunes he knew Tim loved. & Props to all the other […]
Read More →Tomorrow I’m participating in a symposium convened by the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. I’m humbled and excited to be a part of the conversation. Check the lineup — Thursday, March 27th 12noon – 2:00 pm Smut/Slackness in Caribbean Music Carolyn Cooper University of the West Indies Shannon Dudley University of […]
Read More →still totally delighted by nico’s sudden smiles, coos and gurgles aside from our silly faces, the most consistent smilemaker = this mobile (thx, mom!), esp the cat so focused ! so expressiv !
Read More →The number of testimonials still rolling in — and rolling along — make it clear how many of us were touched by Tim. This past weekend, DJ Duo and Carlos B of the QE2 crew dedicated their longstanding, all-night Saturday/Sunday show to the man. (Hopefully they recorded it and can share it soon.) Here’s how […]
Read More →Topical Ointment: WAR FEARY “…the juxtaposition of this [GW Bush action figure] kind of mimesis with Hamas children’s TV propaganda and its anti-semitism seemed an unconvincing ideological symmetry…” (tags: critique academic theory language mimesis war blogpost) Hakim Bey and Ontological Anarchy archive of bey’s writings (h/t katie h) (tags: theory philosophy culture politics art activism […]
Read More →Why I Don’t Like StuffWhitePeopleLike | Views | TheRoot.com gary dauphin — “Usually, even jokey talk about whiteness has a whiff of danger to it, but SWPL is likely the safest, most affable racial satire ever, a loving high-five between friends passing as critique.” (tags: race critique whiteness internet) Duke Vin, Count Suckle & the […]
Read More →@ Beat Research, Thursday, April 3 >> Our ol fren DJ /rupture will be in town and, along w/ DJ Flack, we’ll be throwing down, low-key style: cumbia, dub, loping hip-hop beats, and other treats. Should be a vibes. … Thursday, April 3 @ Enormous Room 567 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 9pm to 1am, 21 […]
Read More →@ Beat Research, Monday, April 7 >> DJ BC is Boston’s premier mashup mastermind, having brought the world The Beastles, Glass Breaks, and other mashy delights. His latest, Strictly Mixed and Mashed, remixes local faves Big D and the Kids Table with a hefty dose of Boston Jerk acapellas and other sonic goodies. Recently, BC […]
Read More →Mavado’s New Video « ComPromise christina xu on mavado’s new video, but more important: on the way VP has embraced web2.0 by linking the video to the most watched instances of img-based uploads of the track :: nu music industry? (tags: dancehall reggae industry youtube video web2.0 blogpost) The Rub :: Mixes the rub’s impressive, […]
Read More →Dr Pepper Sabrosura Radio Ad Dr. Pepper propels its latest campaign con cumbiaton! :: “Treat your taste buds to Dr Pepper while you indulge in our latest radio ad featuring the best Cumbia to a Reggaetón beat you´ve ever heard!” :: i think calle 13’s got em beat on that count, tho (tags: cumbia reggaeton […]
Read More →My ol fren Derrick Ashong continues to grain traction with his impromptu, utterly eloquent explanation of why he supports Obama. The latest to shine some light: the Grey Lady. Pull quote — Mr. Ashong, with an audience of more than a million so far, thinks he knows what made the difference for him. “My ears, […]
Read More →Join Flack & I & Brian Coleman & friends as we pay tribute to the too too soon departed local music man, Tim Haslett, “one of the unsung heroes of the Boston scene,” former buyer for Other Music’s Hahvid Sq branch, Twisted Villager, true champion of underground music, rap-techno-electro lover (oh and house too), and […]
Read More →Last week my phone got put through the ringer — the rinse cycle, to be precise — and it was pronounced dead on retrieval. So it goes. Today I got a new phone, about which I’m excited, but I’m sorry to say that I lost all of my contacts from the old one. It saddens […]
Read More →Zizek brings to N.Y. its infectious Buenos Aires cumbia beats carolina gonzalez hypes the zzk tour’s NYC stop :: my favorite, perplexing bit — “You don’t hear this music mix anywhere in New York,” said Héctor Arce Espasa, 25, a visual arts student and Zizek fan. “It’s super globalized.” (tags: cumbia argentina buenosaires newyork latin […]
Read More →As I linkthinked yesterday, YouTube’s most viewed (all time) page is a hard to find but rather interesting thing. For one, nearly all the videos are musically-mediated in some way (aside from the laughing baby). Most of the videos are, disappointingly, commercial productions that you could as easily catch on MTVH1, though there are a […]
Read More →THE HARD DATA: ENTER THE CUMBIA PHENOMENON “The next step was obvious, neo-cumbia started being exported to the US where it was welcomed by cosmopolitan hipsters, always in search of the newest third-world dance beat, last season it was the Brazilian Favela Funk, now it’s cumbia!” (tags: cumbia narrative blogpost cosmopolitanism hipster globalghettotech funkcarioca) YouTube […]
Read More →In Kevin’s post about the fall of Audiomaxxx, he links to the video for Mr.Vegas’s “Tek Weh Yuself.” What most struck me while watching it was not the awesome dancing (tho it is awesome) but the setting: an unfinished brick-and-mortar mansion seemingly in the middle of nowhere — For those familiar with the Jamaican landscape, […]
Read More →Under the Musical Spell of the Sonidero; Mexican D.J.’s Relay Messages, on Dance Floor and to the Homeland – New York Times on the NYC-mexico sonidero circuit — cumbia shoutouts as greeting cards ! (tags: nyt newyork mexico cumbia soundsystem sonidero transnationalism latinamerica) From VOICES: The Sonideros of Mexican Youth Dances abstract & photos of […]
Read More →The “Amen Break” and Golden Proportion hmmm. this is clever and fun, but it’s also a classic example of analysis with no regard for cultural value or use. it makes no sense to consider the amen break as a whole, since most simply sample a measure (or less). it’s the timbre that’s golden. (tags: breaks […]
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