TAG: Mulatu Astatke

Dec22

A Decade of Mochilla (Part Two) Mixed by Coleman (Video & MP3)

Below are B+’s words regarding this mix.  This is definitely a great mix that helps showcase Mochilla’s deep body of work.  Music from DJ Shadow, Jackson Conti, Suite for Ma Dukes, King Britt, Quantic, J. Rocc, Nobody, DJ Nuts and more. Enjoy and Happy Holidays.

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The response to the first part of this mix has been incredible.   Thank you for all the support, retweeting, and reposting.  Mochilla loves the love.   Part two here today for download is stepping the game up and to quote Coleman, “I wanted this mix to slap everyone in the face and get them to pay attention.”   It is purely rhetorical of course, our version of a slap in the face is the caress of boss nova, the thump of cubia or the heat stopping wind sucking gaps of great syncopation.  This mix has all of that.

Remember of course these are 20 minute teasers for the full mixes coming in 2011.

Just a quick note on the photo that we used on the cover – I snapped this one at the great “La Marcha” way back in 2001.   It was taken in the Zocalo in Mexico City and Maldita Vecindad were performing in solidarity with the EZLN.   The kid on his friend’s shoulders with the El Che shirt embodies all that we wanted Mochilla to be way back in ‘01 – engaged, excited, energetic and happy. Our brother and design guru Keith Tamashiro flipped it into our first logo and Stephen Serato has reflipped it into our 10 year mix cover.

This will warm your ears, brighten your heart and remind you of the strength of good music.  Download, hit play and you know – turn it up…

Thanks for all your support and happy holidays,

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Jul09

Cut Chemist “Adidas to Addis” (MP3)

Cut Chemist has a new mix album and a new steez. The CD, Sound of the Police, is a mix inspired by the sounds of Africa and South America, recorded live during a rehersal for Mochilla’s ‘Timeless’ concert series opening for Ethiopian legend Mulatu Astatke. The steez is that instead of the typical two turntable set-up, Cut has developed his own system of mixing records using one turntable and a loop pedal. Pretty sneaky sis.

“Adidas to Addis” is an original track taken from the mix. Consider it a taste of Cut’s original full-length that will be dropping we hope by the end of the year.

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May27

VTech and Mochilla Present – Mulatu Astatke Slide Show (Video)

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“Ene Alantchi Alnorem (I Can’t Live Without You)”

It is sometimes easy to forget that Timeless is the brainchild of two photographers and a promoter.  But for those lucky enough to see the shows live, there was always photographs there to remind you.  For Verocai, we had an amazing slide show of a recent trip to the North East of Brasil, Suite for Ma Dukes was presented complete with a tough look at Dilla’s Detroit and of course Mulatu’s show was resplendent with a slide show of Ethiopian photographs.

In 2004, Miles Cleret of Soundway Records, Will “Quantic” Holland and B+ spent three weeks in Ethiopia. The plan was to meet Mulatu and dig for records. B+ shot some 120 rolls of …

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May04

Suite for Ma Dukes – Untitled/Fantastic (Georgia Anne Muldrow Remix) (Video & MP3)

Remixing Suite for Ma Dukes is a brave undertaking.  Several producers and MCs at first accepted and then declined the job.  In the end though, the right person came along.  And that’s none other than Georgia Anne Muldrow.  Just in time for Mother’s Day too.  This project began as an homage to one mother’s love (Ma Dukes) and has now been remixed by another (Georgia Anne Muldrow) with her son Nokware in her lap.  Two incredible women, one amazing track.  Remixed.

Georgia who has done production for Erykah Badu, Mos Def, and partner Dudley Perkins.  She is an amazing person to watch at work.  She seemed so comfortable with the music.  She insisted that she didn’t want to chop the song but …

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Apr15

Mulatu Astatke – Mulatu Steps Ahead (Review)

Mulatu Astatke

Mulatu Steps Ahead

Released by Strut


One of Africa’s great bandleaders and the father of Ethio-jazz, Mulatu Astatke, released his first new solo album since the 1980s, Mulatu Steps Ahead. In the late 1960s and early '70s, Astatke was one of the driving forces behind the transformation of the Ethiopian music scene. Astatke, the only vibraphonist on the swinging Addis scene, mixed local sounds and traditional Ethiopian folk melodies with the jazz, funk, Latin music, and psychedelia he'd picked up during his time at music schools in the U.S. and Britain to make something new. He remained little-known outside his home country until the successful Ethiopiques album series came out, and he was featured on the soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch’s Broken Flowers.

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