With real hip hops fans getting excited about the Juice Crew announcing a London show on Monday 9th April, 2012, I thought now would be a good time to post this classic hip hop video.
Check out this who’s who of hip hop royalty!
I still haven’t managed to get to one, but a week tonight is the first Deviation session of 2012. It will be held for the first time at Concrete on Shoreditch High Street, and guests for the night include Tawiah, Hyperdub’s Ikonika, MC Judah, and, hosting, Benji B.
For a taste of what to expect, check out this show on Red Bull Music Academy Radio, live from City Hall in Barcelona.
Land of rolling hills and rolling beats, New Zealand has put itself on the music map over the past few years, with world class productions that have travelled as far as their people. Trailblazing the way, Fat Freddy’s Drop brought dubby soundscapes to crowds across Europe, and heralded in a generation of New Zealand musicians.
BBE is one of the labels that brought the music of NZ to the world. A little over two years ago Auckland based Julien Dyne released ‘Pins & Digits’, supported by the BBC’s Gilles Peterson & Benji B, it kicked off a round of Middle Earth releases with Ladi6, Lady Daisey, Electric Wire Hustle and Benny Tones all joining the family. Round two is now in full swing with Julien’s new album ‘Glimpse’.
Check out this special celebratory mix for Laid Back, selected by TJ-KiD (The True Jazzchild), DJ Vadim and Julien Dyne:
Check out the video below that gives an exclusive behind the scenes look at the making of Shafiq Husayn’s forthcmoing album, Making The LooP.
While writing this post, I also discovered this interview from The Revivalist: ‘The Divine Science and Words of Wisdom with Shafiq Husayn’. It’s been online for a while, but definitely deserves a read.
Shafiq was also the producer who first introduced me to the girl, her name is Miss Fatima…
Shortly after posting about Baba Brinkman‘s Rap Guide To Evolution at TEDxSMU, I noticed that Liverpool artist Robyn Woolston’s tweet about an independently organised TEDxMerseyside on Saturday 4th February.
You can buy tickets here.
“TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is call TEDxMerseyside, where x=independently organized TED event. At our TEDxMerseyside event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.
The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organised.”
Check out Dusk favourite Akala’s recent contribution to the project:
As some of you know, for the last few months I’ve been working on relaunching the Southport Weekender website. It finally went live at the end of December, and its immediate success has been quite overwhelming. Helped by the event’s 17,000 strong email subscribers, we are averaging over one million hits per month. I’m adding daily content, including news stories, tracks of the day, interviews, reviews and exclusive mixes from past and future guests at the event.
Although there is some complimentary crossover between the site and this blog, I still intend to keep all things Dusk alive – covering and exploring deep, rare and beautiful music… same as it ever was!
One of the first posts I made on this blog was an edit of a Georgia Anne Muldrow track, produced by 2Tall (who now goes under the name Om Unit). Since then, she’s given birth, produced for Erykah, and is about to drop a new album produced by Madlib. This track is a teaser, and Georgia explains more below.
“It’s about seeds and children, about contemplating the future. It’s also a diss record to Monsanto… produced by the Beat Konducta Sensei: Madlib. This album brought out a whole lot of characters outta me. Most of them are on the fierce side of the fence – (laughs) – it’s raw. The brother Madlib’s production is really great, and it inspired the concepts that i already hold near and dear within to find new contexts.
I feel that somehow we’re living in the midst of a cosmic drama right under our noses, above our heads, in our neighborhoods, and certainly on the inside too. We just tapped into those energies, and got to building! Someothaship strives to lend voice to all that as best we can, and i’m no exception.”
After my last post about Moodymann’s collaboration with Nikki-O, I tried to find out more about the featured vocalist. In 2005, Mahogani Music pressed limited numbers of a self-titled Nikki-O EP that was sold exclusively at gigs. You can find the Discogs listing for the release here, and there are a handful of copies for sale for around £25.
The EP was privately repressed the following year, again in limited quantities, and apparently will never be given a full release. It’s a slept on piece of the Mahogani back catalogue: classic KDJ production with a looped disco samples underpinning panned vocals on ‘Give U Something More’ and delicious poetry floating over deep jazz keys on ‘Flowers In My Bed’.
Nikki-O uses the alias ‘Sky Covington’ and hosts a weekly jam night at Harbor House in downtown Detroit with guest players including Ibrahim Jones on bass and Alex White on drums.
I’m also digging this mix from Fiat Lux that features ‘I’m Watching U’ from the previously mentioned EP.
Last week the Patchwork Pirates – founders of the Earnest Endeavours show on NTS Live – uploaded their last show of 2011 to Mixcloud. Special guest on the show was Gilles Peterson, and he dropped some disco classics as only he knows how.
The once reclusive Moodymann continues to step into the spotlight with this brand new video of his forthcoming single, ‘Come 2 Me’. Co-produced by Andrés, whose Pharoah Sanders-sampling ‘Be Free Baby‘ went down a treat at the SuncéBeat 2 reunion party, ‘Come 2 Me’ features the freeki Nikki O on vocals.
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