Catch me this Thursday with Texas’s finest tropical party kings, DJ Orion & King Louis from Peligrosa on their 1st European tour, along with Musicalia residents, Isa GT & Arcade. FREE ENTRY.FREE BBQ! Info here.
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Dubbel Dutch – Afro House Mix
Austin’s excellent Dubbel Dutch has just put together this nice percussive heavy Afro House mix. Perfect for spring listening. Watch out for his new remix of Fatima Al Qadiri coming soon.
Kuduro in the Caribbean Pt.1
YO. RAINSTICK here, transmitting from Bed-Stuy. I first noticed kuduro bubbling up in island sounds in summer 2010 ~ was cruising pirate radio stations and bugged when a Haitian DJ dropped an Angolan classic ~Helder’s “Salé”~ in the midst of the usual kanaval and konpa. I rang the station and a bemused selector told …
MTLiens
Through their collaborations, Face-T and Poirier have been holding down Montreal’s Electro-Caribbean inflected identity for years. This is their newest release, off of Face-T’s album Tuff Like Stone. The Garage-y intro got me hype. Peep the whole album in mini-mix preview form… and download this brain-bending remix by A Tribe Called Red:
Waya Waya – La Tribu EP
Cani & Janice are Waya Waya (Soundcloud) from Mexico’s Aguascalientes. Like so much amazing stuff coming out of Mexico these days, they make beautifully mental tropical dance music – a collidoscope of jacking unrelenting kuduro beats, 3ballish pre-colombian samples and fuck knows what else that makes me want to run off into the jungle and …
Jack 2 Juke – The Movie
From Jack to Juke: 25 Years of Ghetto House from Sonali Aggarwal on Vimeo. Ever since this blog started we’ve been longtime fans of the greatest thing thats ever come out of Chicago – JUKE dammit. Sonali Aggarwal has put together a great film looking at the history of all the Chi-town Ghetto House styles …
Old Money Next Hype
Our friends at OkayAfrica just posted a video of New York’s Old Money chatting about their influences of world wide Ghetto music and how it translates into their sound. Check a few bars from their awesome bass heavy jam ‘Ackee & Saltfish’.
Poirier – Soca Road EP
You can pretty much trust Poirier to deliver the goods. Once again he’s playing to his strengths with a carnival pile up of soca killers. These are going to have you following the next truck you see down the road waving your flag like you forgot its winter. Especially feeling ‘Bring It On’ with vocals …
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love me some Bongo! I didn't know you used to play in a project with him, got any recordings?
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