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I promised to post about “raveyton” a long time ago, and twice. A recent ghettobassquake post serves as a fine reminder. Noting that reggaeton synths have been “sliding into more Trancedelic wave forms,” Sñr Vamanos acknowledges that “[d]ramatic synths have been there for a while.” Sin duda! Working in an utterly omnivorous genre, reggaeton producers […]
Read More →Speaking of the difference between hip-hop and reggaeton, there’s been a heated discussion over at Raquel’s reggaetonica, redrawing yet again the lines in the sand between the two genres and rehashing lots of tropes about Puerto Rico, blackness, hip-hop, and so on. The debate was initiated by a polemic published last fall by a god […]
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Read More →The Duke U Press catalog for Spring 2009 is already out. Why should you be excited? See pg 1 —
Read More →Beat happening – The National Newspaper jace offers less a review than an extended essay on the sounds, significations, & marketing of a west african / "islamic" hip-hop comp: "Populist, ecumenical, Muslim, fun: Many Lessons is good, right? Yes. … None of this diminishes the fact that the label releasing Many Lessons (Piranha) is using […]
Read More →Today marks the seeding of the fiftieth and final episode of the brilliant Blogariddims series, a near-monthly “podcast” with which many readers of w&w no doubt have some passing acquaintance. Indeed, if you’re omnivorous like me, you’ve likely downloaded every one, each time enticed by the loving, careful, idiosyncratic and refreshingly all-over-the-map episodes from some […]
Read More →I think I’ve finally got my linkthink flow resolved, so there should be a more consistent stream of delishish posts from here on out. For whatever glitchy reason, my recent taggage has gone un(re)published here, so I’m going to paste it in below just to throw all you loyal readers a bone or two. Plz […]
Read More →McCain’s Daddy Yankee Endorsement – The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com 'Daddy Yankee called Mr. McCain “a fighter for the Hispanic community” and “a fighter for the immigration issue.’’ Mr. McCain, who noted that his wife, Cindy, had gone to Central High School, said, “I just want to say thank you, Daddy Yankee.’’ ' :: (thx, […]
Read More →todo mundo » Blog Archive » Is that Lil Twane on the keytar? great post by kevin linking lil wayne to coltrane, miles, george duke and other techno-musical visionaries :: including the great question, "Is not Auto-Tune the wah pedal of today’s Black pop?" :: and, to boot, he inserts his video-supported commentary into recent […]
Read More →Tomgram: Mike Davis, Welcome to the Next Epoch ‘Although the idea of the “Anthropocene” — an Earth epoch defined by the emergence of urban-industrial society as a geological force — has been long debated, stratigraphers have refused to acknowledge compelling evidence for its advent.’ (tags: climate oil energy history essay critique middleeast economics global) Fight […]
Read More →As I linkthunk yesterday, I was gassed to hear (via /rupture) a reggaeton-inflected remix of some Mexican cumbia (video here). I was doubly gassed tho to see it labeled “cumbow,” which I took to mean cumbia + dembow or, perhaps, “with (dem)bow,” as in cum bow, to employ a little Latin, a la the Spanish […]
Read More →it’s a peace scarf Julieta_Venegas_Eres_para_mi(SonideroNacionalCumbowRmx).mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) via /rupture, a mexican cumbia given a reggaeton remix :: i love the term “cumbow” — so apropos! (tags: mexican cumbia remix reggaeton mp3) Comfort food and complaints at a Cairo food stand – Los Angeles Times “…That doesn’t sound bad to Ahmed Ali Mahmoud, who left the […]
Read More →Tito writes: What up Wayne, Hope all is well. Felicidades on 3-2, you don’t look a day over 25. So the other day I was listening to Tony Dize’s new album “La Melodia de la Calle” & one track struck me. The song “Permitame” feat. Yandel, which also happens to be the 1st single off […]
Read More →I’ve been meaning to share my reflections on the smut/slackness symposium I participated in @ Penn for some time now, but, well, you know how the end of the semester can go. Many of the themes that emerged in the panel have been ‘verberating in my head, however — ideas which seem to resonate with […]
Read More →From my Trinidadian spy bredrin inna PR — Marshall to the Wayne, Que hay, brother? (said in a boricua accent…loved how these chaps drop the ‘brother’ in spanglish) I don’t know if it’s just me, but reggaeton game is jus getting jiggier, and a lot of today’s hits have influences from southern bounce (tamo a […]
Read More →Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) PALAOA – Livestream streaming sound from the antarctic ocean (via bldblg) (tags: audio science sound soundscape nature antarctica) Canyon Cody el canyonazo, studying music in grenada via fulbright, promises to live-blog the making of an al-andulus inspired album, w/ such collaborators as gnotes, over the month […]
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 →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 […]
Read More →Oxfamming the whole black world : Binyavanga Wainaina : Mail & Guardian Online “Hello kitty kitty kitty … Would you like an Oxfam biscuit?” (tags: africa development racism humor critique colonialism) BDubs Volume 2 | stainage.com straight outta brussels :: continental dubstep, grime, & bassline, w/ a touch of acid (tags: europe brussels dubstep grime […]
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