Andy… what!?! We already posted the Los Rakas remix of Gyptian’s Hold Yuh, but Uproot Andy had to go ahead and make this thing bang even harder! My new favorite of my new favorite (although I just heard Ricky Blaze’s vocal version and it go too!) Premiered two weeks ago on Eddie Stats’ Ghetto Palms …
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Global GhettoEuroClub
In the early 2000′s I lived in Madrid, and during that time I made many trips to the local giant music chain, becoming very familiar with the Ibiza style club compilations that remix every popular song of the year in strange uniform sounding euro club tunes. This month, I’ve gotten a taste for what tunes …
Lusophone(ction)
I’ve made it no secret my love for Lusophone music, especially from Africa and the diaspora. Watch this great video at the Red Bull Music Video Archive for a brief rundown. The compilation Comfusões is like a physical manifestation of the dreams in that video. It was put together by Maurício Pacheco and Outhere Records, …
Mexican Rave Cave
I’ve been waiting for this for time. Toy Selectah’s just hit us with his crazy brand of Mexcican fire power in one neat package of Raverton Bangingness. 15 of his remixes smashing up loads of jams from A Milli to My Moon My Man. It’s bloody awesome, the kind of music you’d hear after an …
Frisco to Wisco
(Image from the Marquette Tribune) You don’t really notice idiosyncrasies in the places you grow up until you leave and come back. I grew up in Milwaukee (yes it is Algonquin for “the good land.”) I spent the holidays there this past week. Beer is big, sausages are big, Polka is big… kind of. We …
Dance til’ the Day Comes
(Rubens: Woman of Apocalypse) People say that 2012 will be a year of transformation. Scientists are trying to create Black Holes to answer some questions about where we come from that have the potential to send us back there. We’ve created monster hurricanes that have shown the worst in our own humanity and our leaders’. …
Guacharaca Migration: Uproot Andy
The Homie Uproot Andy just released a mixtape. I’ve been really feelin’ his remixes of Afro Columbian tunes, and when we met up in NY, he put me on to some real dope original Afro Colombian folk tracks. The mix is called Guacharaca Migration. He told me that the instrument Guacharaca (what you here as …
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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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