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It seems natural that babies are such common symbols for the renewal and growth promised by a new year, but for Becca&me a baby is an especially appropriate symbol for the new year, since this year — indeed, this month! — will bring us an actual baby of our own. I’ve been waiting to make […]
Read More →A tale of several videos :: again about the wonderful work that music does, the vitality of digital (youth) culture, the persistence of realtime, peer2peer creativity and sociability, & the obvious shortcomings of corporate hackery u kno the first, no doubt — The maker of many a best of 2007 list, Dude Nem’s “Watch My […]
Read More →in the xmas diggin spirit, /jace offers up some fine aguinaldos y villancicos // including a couple MIDI files ! // & so i couldn’t resist spending part of my xmas tuesday morning doing this — w&w, “refried pasteles” [audio:http://wayneandwax.com/music/refried-pasteles.mp3] i can imagine a number of other ways to make mashed pasteles, and it’s begging […]
Read More →“Drink a Rum” = a Trini Xmas favorite. Composed by his highness Lord Kitchener, but also given various chutney soca parang upgrades, among other countless variations and personalizations. Another Trini Xmas fave, with even more personal/family/local versions — plus more broadly diffused throughout the (Anglo-)Caribbean — is the rum/fruit cake often referred to as black […]
Read More →Happy solstice, happy shoveling ! It’s hard to believe that winter’s only now finally here — in the technical sense — considering that we’ve already gotten more snow dumped on us here in Boston in the last week or so than we had during the entire season last year. I mean, fa Chrissakes, I can’t […]
Read More →In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was […]
Read More →the things you learn (or imagine) from search terms — now how’s that fit into this year’s google zeitgeist?
Read More →This Friday — here in Cambridge, Mass — the Thunderdudes are bringing none other than Detroit ghettotech luminary DJ Assault to move the (m)asses @ the Greek American Political Club — I have to admit that I’m pretty excited ’bout that, since I find ghettotech, ghetto house, juke, etc. — various hardcore post-house/techno booty beats […]
Read More →definitely feeling DJ Nate‘s waltzy juke ballad, “May Be Sum Day” — dude nem’s music industry continues unabated
Read More →found the following in my sitemeter this morning — can anyone explain this line of research?
Read More →Tonight at the E Room :: Brandeis Beats ! As my blogger-DJ-applied side attests, I like to combine the hands-on production of music with an approach that grounds any such creative engagement in historical study and an appreciation for music’s social and cultural contexts. This semester, my first term at Brandeis University, has been no […]
Read More →seen & heard from the rafters — mostly rave anthems, crunk hits, & arena rock staples & during “the celtics dancers” big routine, something like (if) a girltalk tittybar mixtape && the celts were introduced, BIG as could be to the over-the-top epic strains of “lux aeterna” (e.g.) !! (which always reminds me of this, […]
Read More →Sorry for the relative silence here, dear reader. Extra-bloggical events have been conspiring against any sort of postage — never mind the kind of post-Rio debriefing I’ve been planning to get up here. Among other things: the aforementioned dead laptop, the intense march to the end of the semester, too much travel, including a lovely […]
Read More →I’m muito muito feliz to report that although my drive done died, I was able to retrieve my lost Rio pics with the assistance of a very handy program called Klix. & so, I’m able to offer up after all some impressionistic (i.e., blurry ;) shots of the picturesque favela of Vidigal, a warm, welcoming […]
Read More →While I’m busy reassembling my laptop&life, ‘low me to point u to some niice mixes of recent vintage — >> Gregzinho, who will be rocking the Beat Research labs this coming Monday, brings some Rio heat for his contribution to the blogariddims series, “A Seleção do Gringo,” which offers a personal(ized), self-consciously “outsider,” but well-informed […]
Read More →I was hoping to have quite a post to share with you, as I just returned from a wonderful weekend in Rio. It was gonna be a downright aquarela da favela, complete with some really lovely pics of Vidigal at twilight. (I spent most of Sunday hanging with some kind favelados there.) The sad, sad […]
Read More →I think a lot of the critical hoo-ha that followed in the wake of SF/J’s miscegenationist broadside could have been averted had we all paid closer attention to the Monkees. Take the following clip, discussed by fellow Riddim Methodist Pacey Foster way back when, in which Charlie Smalls demos the difference between white and black […]
Read More →when i say that ghislain poirier is one of my favorite global ghettotechies®, i think i mean that unsardonically, but i’m not sure where that leaves us ghislain’s music, however, usually leaves me grinning if not spinning keep it blazin, g —
Read More →got a quick request for any of you graphical guys or gals out there — I need help converting some simple sketches of rhythmic patterns into Adobe Illustrator format (ie, eps). If you’re an expert Illustrator®, I imagine this would take all of 15 minutes to do. I can’t pay for your services (unless you’re […]
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