{"id":7940,"date":"2014-02-12T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=7940"},"modified":"2015-01-07T13:17:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:17:30","slug":"jampacked-pico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=7940","title":{"rendered":"Jampacked Pic\u00f3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pic\u00f3 Picante is always a nice nice time, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/580701995339631\/\">this Friday<\/a> they&#8217;ve really stacked the decks &#8212; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/580701995339631\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/wp\/images\/pico-vday-2014.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nAll these DJs are stellar and longtime friends &#038; colleagues, and among other things, Jubilee has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixpakrecords.com\/releases\/pull-ova\/\">poppin new EP out on Mixpak Records<\/a>, and Dev\/Null just posted a helluva <a href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=6201\">2 hour session devoted to atmospheric jungle<\/a> from &#8217;94-95 (which clearly presaged so much drum&#8217;n&#8217;bass that would follow) &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/134079264&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_artwork=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m especially happy to welcome BBrave to town as he&#8217;s the only one I&#8217;ve yet to meet IRL. <\/p>\n<p>I suspect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2012\/10\/04\/personal-history-benjamin-lebrave\/\">Benjamin &#8220;BBrave&#8221; Lebrave<\/a> needs no introduction here at W&#038;W, but for those who don&#8217;t know, Benjamin is the force behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akwaabamusic.com\/\">Akwaaba Music<\/a>, an independent label devoted to African music of the post-Fruityloops era, or as he puts it &#8220;syncopated music made on computers all across the African continent.&#8221; Carefully and lovingly curated by Benjamin, a champion for genres and artists from West to East Africa, South to North, Akwaaba has served since 2008 as a crucial international platform for emerging artists, including acts as varied as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akwaabamusic.com\/just-a-band-82\/\">Just a Band<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akwaabamusic.com\/artists\/fokn-bois\/fokn-bois-jesus-is-coming\/\">FOKN Bois<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Akwaaba&#8217;s latest offering is a blistering rap album, <em>Burkin B\u00e2<\/em>, from Burkina Faso&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akwaabamusic.com\/news\/joey-le-soldat-burkin-ba\/\">Joey Le Soldat<\/a>, who pushes social critique with wicked flow over jagged electronic soundbeds that recall the Bug&#8217;s distorted dancehall. The lead single boasts an arresting video too; should slay in London or anywhere grime resounds &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HD-kDO3pRaY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiny.cc\/bbrave\">BBrave&#8217;s DJ sets<\/a> are more focused on dance music per se, as opposed to head nodding beats, pivoting around hiplife, azonto, kuduro, afrohouse, tarraxinha, coup\u00e9 d\u00e9cal\u00e9, zouglou, and the like. Here&#8217;s 8+ hours if you&#8217;d like a taste ;) <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/381305&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t miss Benjamin&#8217;s most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefader.com\/category\/columns\/lungu-lungu\/\">column in the <em>Fader<\/em><\/a>, a Q&#038;A + mixtape c\/o kindred spirit, none other than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2014\/02\/06\/interview-african-hip-hop-jumanne-afro-cosmic-club-2\/\">&#8220;Mr. African Hip-Hop&#8221; Thomas &#8220;Jumanne&#8221; Gesthuizen<\/a>, which also includes a gracious s\/o to this here humble blog. Thanks, Bbrave &#8212; we look forward to finally welcoming you to town!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pic\u00f3 Picante is always a nice nice time, but this Friday they&#8217;ve really stacked the decks &#8212; All these DJs are stellar and longtime friends &#038; colleagues, and among other things, Jubilee has a poppin new EP out on Mixpak Records, and Dev\/Null just posted a helluva 2 hour session devoted to atmospheric jungle from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[413,133,406,404,160,12],"class_list":["post-7940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-africa","tag-boston","tag-dance","tag-hip-hop","tag-jungle","tag-mixx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7940"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7994,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7940\/revisions\/7994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}