Oh man, I am feeling this Vegas tune.. Vegas is quick to draw for the uplifting, brush-your-teeth-and-eat-your-vegetables, sparkle dust in the production, live-up-clean kind of choruses. But sometimes they switch to some raw, straight-ahead business after the drop, like whoa, what happened! Kind of like this one, actually:
mr vegas fr overmars - raging bull
Actually Ele is kind of the originator of the unrelated positivity chorus paired with disco-inferno bars.. Remember this one?
Danny Scrilla is either a part of or affiliated in some way with the riseandshine camp, I can't remember. They got on my radar from making three really solid mixes of uk funky. Here's a remix he's done of major lazer's hold the line.
I found this culture mix posted up on the massive b site, where I was half-heartedly looking for some events popping off last night. It seemed like saturday was the off-night between some mega arena jams at bb kings on friday and later tonight, so I was a little thrown to see bounty + beenie together on the marquee at Roseland - whoops! It was not to be though, I had a date with the russian vodka room which was kind of cool in its own way, and the line looked a little out of hand anyhow.
The return of...
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It's been a long time coming. Sorry about the lack of action on here. It is
mostly due to time constraints, laziness and moving to Bristol. I have been
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Dutty Artz is dead, long live Dutty Artz!
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In 2008, after DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek had both returned to the US
from Europe to settle in New York, they joined forces to start a record
label and ...
UPROOT! Rupture wrote a book
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Finished copies of my book have arrived! Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century
Music and Digital Culture will be published on August 16 by Farrar, Straus
and Gir...
The best of 2008
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OK, I've put together my end of year round-up for thefader.com. It features
pictures, videos, lots of wise words from Wiley, a polar bear and a Welsh
wom...
Tales from a Disappearing City
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This is a great new podcast/vidcast from DJ Controlled Weirdness aka Neil
Keating. It covers 80s/90s London with a definite slant towards music and
subcult...
Everybody’s Doin’ What?
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As I prepare to teach various classes about ragtime (and its roots), I’ve
returned to Dale Cockrell’s recent book, Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Music,
and Da...