DJ Mujava – Please Mugwanti (MP3)

DJ Mujava – Please Mugwanti Finally we can burn it of the Internet and bump it outside (or just buy it). Am listening to some more of this Kwaito stuff. Ten years old, it still sounds like some updated, next level house music, with very groovy bass-lines. For once, the vocals don’t bug you, which must [...]

The best Township Funk-remix

Dj Mujava – Township Funk (Skream Remix) Simple but effective rework that gives the track a whole other, big, dubstep, car-system feeling.

Video-preview: Nas & Damian Marley’s Distant Relatives

Video-preview: Nas & Damian Marley’s Distant Relatives Road 2 Zion was a real fine mix between rap and reggae, with Nas laying down his best verse in years, further securing his place as rap’s John Coltrane. Let us hope that this new album they are working on brings out the same level of lyricism, and [...]

RAW FOREVER #1: Straight Outta QB

Let us start with the beat. Before Dr. Dre invented g-funk, he had the last say on that superhard, James Brown-based b-boy boom bap that New York producers like Marley Marl, Kurtis Mantronik, Paul C and The 45 King had defined earlier. This was what the world first knew Dr. Dre for. He took that [...]

PKD on DNA, “to experience anamnesis”

“In other words, Zebra was informing me that the immortality achieved by the early authentic Christians was through DNA or gene pool memory, and that what they told outsiders was a “fish sign, representing Christ,” was in fact a drawing of the DNA molecule. Zebra had already made it clear to me that the early [...]

"Is it you playing the music… or are you getting played?"

DIRECT TV: Detroit’s Underground Resistance

Tim Maia is the best of Brazil

Tim Maia – Eu Amo Voce I dedicate this song to Mariana. The discussion is over now, I assume. Bring me a Jorge Ben song that rivals the naked heart and soul of Eu Amo Voce, and we can talk about it. You can’t find one? Is that so? Really? And why? Because a song [...]

Travelling Through The Minimal Nation #2: FORM FROM MORF

Force Tracks releases the ideal meditative urban music. While ambient, drone, noise is the typical soundtrack for sinking into the void of contemplative nothingness, the dubbed-out tech-house and digital disco that Force Tracks has specialized in means meditation in movement, it means contemplating when moving through squares, stores, parks, crowds in streets, it means the [...]

Travelling Through The Minimal Nation #1: Breakthrough In The Grey Area

Listening to Robert Hood’s Deep Concentration: The Grey Area Mix. I want to thank everyone who has pointed me towards this name in the past. With time you get to the important things in life – whether it be books, movies, or music – and then it all makes sense. I rarely listen to mixes [...]

KRS-ONE – Maximum Strength

Released last year, Maximum Strength sounds much better than what an artist’s 21st album should have the chance of doing. But if you feel hiphop with reggae is played out (I don’t), maybe you should pass on these. KRS-ONE – Beware KRS-ONE – All My Men