TAG: World

Oct19

J-Boogie’s Dubtronic Science – Undercover (Review)

J-Boogie's Dubtronic Science

Undercover

Released by OM Records


My familiarity with J-Boogie comes from the various remix and edit work he has done in the past (including one he made for Vieux Farka Touré's "Fafa" from 2009) as well as his collaboration with fan favorites People Under the Stairs, Quantic and his Combo Barbaro, Bay Area compadres Zion I, Goapele and Raashan Ahmad spanning multiple projects, personal and by others. By no means an exhaustive list, J-Boogie’s talent is undeniable and his knowledge of mixing, sampling, and creating great-sounding gems continues to this day. J-Boogie’s extensive network ...
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Oct20

Music Video: Flying Lotus, “Kill Your Co-Workers” (Video)

On the last note, this video made its way around the net about two days ago, saw it but I’ve been sick lately and I forgot to post it. So like you know you’ve imagined a day like this happen, I imagined a bit less murder and more apocalypse. If you can figure out animation stuff and what not you can also download the files and make your own thing. “Kill Your Co-Workers” is off of Flying Lotus’ 7-song Pattern+Grid World.

Flying Lotus – Kill Your Co-Workers from beeple on Vimeo.

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Feb27

Black Man’s Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti (Review)

Various Artists

Black Man's Cry: The Inspiration of Fela Kuti

Released by Now-Again Records


To begin describing the epic importance of Fela Kuti is to write a doctoral thesis on the history of African music from before his birth to the present day. To understand the impact the music of a person such as Fela is to consider the history of struggle, prejudice, racism, and political disenfranchisement as an understandable whole.  In the music of Fela Kuti, we see these positive undercurrents of political awakening, consciousness, activism, empowerment and liberation.  These values are what make the messages embedded in the work of Fela ...
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Jan13

The Whitefield Brothers – Earthology (Review)

The Whitefield Brothers

Earthology

Released by Now-Again Records


Boasting an illustrious roster of artists ranging from Edan, Quantic, MED & Percee P (on the very fitting “Reverse”), The Whitefield Brothers (previously known as the Poets of Rhythm) have engineered a masterpiece of mutated psychedelic funk through their sophomore effort Earthology.
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