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a selected webnography of technofied tetris nerdcore discourse — nikeswooshguy (7 months ago) The video is not sped up. The pieces are falling fast but it’s “Absolute Plus” on Death Mode. His reponses are quick, but not inhuman. merzoug88 (4 months ago) Looks like Jumpstyle BlahBohogun (2 months ago) wow i wish i could type […]
Read More →Thanks to Gabriel from Heatwave (and happy earthday, y’all!) for bringing my attn to yet another iteration of the Zunguzung meme. This time around, Damian Marley and Gwen Stefani add their names to the long list of meme carriers. I’m not really feeling the track (which maybe goes without saying), but I like the way […]
Read More →I’ll be dropping some mashy potatoes alongside DJ BC and Lenlow at their biweekly Mash Ave gig over at the Indo in Union Square.
Read More →Mashit Records relaunches this month as a netlabel, complete with a blog, and DJ C has been tearing it up over there. He promises podcasts, mashups (of the week), remixes, and all sorts of goodies as they go, including no doubt plenty more Mashit Seratonin. My favorite post so far is Jake’s coverage of yet […]
Read More →DJ Flack and I will be moving our Beat Research labs over to the Milky Way in Jamaica Plain to rock the house with DJ Lone Wolf at his recently inaugurated Todo Mundo night. TODO MUNDO Week 0: Lone Wolf hosts Beat Researchers DJ Flack and Wayne&Wax ! Thursday Sept 13, 10pm 403-405 Centre St., […]
Read More →Redd Man to Wayne :: Sep 11 (1 day ago) Horse, Want you to check this out when you get a chance…this is a sound system of some of my breddren, and one did an excellent dubs-only mix of some of T&T’s reggae/culture artistes: http://dancehallreggae.com/forum/showthread.php?t=127303 Easy, Danish yes iyah, straight fiyah mp3 >> here (& […]
Read More →Not surprisingly, Timbaland is back in the news — and in the courts — again facing charges of outsourcing the orient unauthorized sampling. This time he’s being sued, for the second time, over the use of elements from the Egyptian composition “Khosara” (most famously recorded by Abdel-Halim Hafez back in the 50s) for Jay-Z’s “Big […]
Read More →I tagged a “raï-ggaeton” video over at my linkythinky a while back. A bit o’ chutney-ton, too. Both seemed interesting to me as rather explicit examples of the localization of global pop (and rton in partic), if not terribly compelling as specific things &, yeah, rather steeped in the odor of novelty. That’s not the […]
Read More →This Friday night, here in Cambridge (on the banks of the Charles no less), techno legend Juan Atkins will make the music move the people c/o a new effort in town called 12 Inches of Pleasure. This is very exciting for those of us who like our four-on-the-floor as much as our funky-drummer. I’m quite […]
Read More →The Frikstailers first came to my attn via DJ Ripley and Stu FatPlanet, both of whom seemed to admire their “fidget groove” (thx, stu!). I too was instantly enamored with their glitched-up, tech-housey (blog-housey?), syncopated dance traxx. They helped me to imagine Argentina in a different way, hearing Córdoba as another outpost of the EDM […]
Read More →The NYT published a long profile on Rick Rubin yesterday. It’s a innaresting piece and Rubin’s a helluva producer, executive producer, A&R man, and new-age exec — but he’s not gonna save the music industry. DJ Nate (via s/fj), on the other hand, provides a good glimpse at the new non music industry. On his […]
Read More →Sorry for the silence here of late. It’s been crunchtime for fall semester, which I’m v excited about. What’s more, I thought I’d leave the “Diamonds from Sierra Leone” post up for a while in the hope of getting more feedback for me and Boima both. (Thanks to Lamin for sharing his thoughts & the […]
Read More →As per usual (as of this summer), I’ll be holding down residential duties at Beat Research alongside DJ Flack. Here’s our smashing line-up for the month of August. Come and join the experimental party! Aug 6 :: 5dots Craig Davis (aka 5dots) began making music because it seemed like a good idea. Early experimental noise […]
Read More →Reppin’ Salone (Sierra Leone), Wisconsin (Milwaukee and Madison!), and the Bay Area, DJ Boima holds down a whirled music dance party in San Fran, moving the massive with a mix of (pan-)African and (pan-)American pop / hip-hop / club / etc. Readers of this here blog might have noticed his name in a flurry of […]
Read More →Even in the middle (or, at this point, toward the end) of some well-needed Beach Research, I’m happy to note that several dear interlocutors have been continuing the conversations here — and taking them in interesting directions. E.g., Raquel Rivera weighs in on “No Te Veo” herself, making reference to the vivrant discussion about it […]
Read More →so things will be quiet here for a week or two if you’re bored, check the blogroll, or better yet — go outside ! peace
Read More →As per usual, I’ll be at the Enormous Room tonight pursuing a little low-end theory, aka Beat Research. My dear colleague, DJ Flack will not be there, however, as the good doctor is taking in some well-earned r&r on the heels of his trip to Australia — — indeed, a product of that there trip […]
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