We’re DJing to raise money for the new Dutty Artz website at the next Sweat Lodge.
This is my first Brooklyn gig since December so come truuuuuu!
Sweat Lodge Website Fundraiser!
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Tags: Brooklyn, Dutty Artz, Fam, new york, Sweat Lodge, The Cove
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OPEN in Milano
8 05 2012
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Tags: Awesome Tapes From Africa, Chief Boima, Italy, Milano, Open, Triennale, Venus X
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PAN-African New York
24 04 2012
A team of fellow African DJs in New York and I have linked up to try and finally establish a permanent home for people of all backgrounds to enjoy the young, fresh, creative sounds coming out of the African diaspora at large. This Friday at Bamboo in Manhttan’s East Village we present the second edition of a night we’re calling PAN.
This month our guest is my mentor, and major influence on my life and music, DJ Marco owner of San Francisco’s Baobab franchise.
It’s also the official after party for the New York theatrical release of Andrew Dosunmu’s Restless City, the perfect film to accompany the movement we’re trying to support, as well as a day for Sierra Leoneans to celebrate Independence and South Africans to celebrate Freedom.
Let us know your coming on the Facebook Event Page. Hope to see you all there!
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Tags: Africans in New York, Andrew Dosunmu, Bamboo, Bissap Baobab, DJ Marco, DJ Sirak, DJ Xpect, Little Baobab, Manhattan, PAN, Restless City
Categories : Gigs, Tha Homies
Palm Desert Spring Ritualizing
16 04 2012
I’ll be heading down to the Palm Desert this weekend with OkayAfrica to do a takova of the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs. alongside my . Joining me for the weekend are Dutty Artz brethren DJ Rupture and Lamin Fofana, as well as homies Oro 11, and Alex Pasternak.
I will also be looking forward to making the acquaintances of Sinkane and Seun Kuti and the many people chilling on the fringes of the big festival.
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Tags: Ace Hotel, Coachella, Dutty Artz, Lemonade, OkayAfrica, oro 11, Seun Kuti, Sinkane
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Local Bass
11 04 2012Our talk at the Together festival was recorded and is now available online!
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Tags: Boston, ghislain poirier, Global Bass, Jesse Kaminsky, Larisa Mann, Max Pearl, Together Festival, tropical bass, Wayne Marshall
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DC Passion Fruit
11 04 2012
I’m headed to DC this weekend to celebrate with DJ Rat, DJ Mafe, and DJ Bent the one-year anniversary of their Maracuyeah party!
I’ve gotten to meet all three of these amazing people over the past couple of months in DC, Texas, and most recently running into Dutty Artz crew member Bent in Boston at the Together Festival. They’re committed to creating spaces that allow for a mix of people from different backgrounds to come together and dance, and have organized their extended crew in a really impressive way that engages notions of community organizing and social justice and mixes it with music practice in the form of live events and pirate radio! The crew is also involved in organizing something called the DJ Geekout which they’ve taken on the road to places like the annual Allied Media Conference in Detroit.
DC people, come check out the Maracuyeah party, and support these amazing folks in any way or shape you can!
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Tags: Anthology of Booty, D.C., DJ Bent, DJ Geekout, DJ Mafe, DJ Rat, Maracuyeah
Categories : Gigs, Performance Art, Tha Homies, Thought
#Together We Ride
2 04 2012
I’m headed up to Boston again for another double duty. I’ll be DJing one of the best named parties I’ve ever seen, and then speaking with the same crew on a panel all at Boston’s Together Festival. It’s nice to be able to be a part of bridging these gaps between “global bass” practice and the discussion about what it all means. Take note, the conversation will be live-streamed.
Check the Facebook page for the party info, and check the panel info below:
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Tags: Boston, DJ Ripley, Good Life, Hex Beam, Max Pearl, Oxycontinental, Pajaritos, Paneling, Picó Picante, Poirier, Spank Attack, Together Festival, Wayne and Wax, Wayne Marshall
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Wayning and Waxing in Boston
27 03 2012
Gettin on a bus in an hour and heading up to Boston to play Beat Research with the ones and onlies Wayne and Flack. This will be my third appearance at their party. My first time there was one of my inaugural gigs as Chief Boima, and led me down the many paths that have brought me to where I am today.
This trip I am especially excited to participate in Wayne’s class on global hip hop at Brandeis. Once again it will be an inaugural event for me, my first university lecture! Wayne keeps breaking ground for us budding DJ/philosophers. Gotta give props to the visionaries!
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Tags: Beat Research, Boston, Brandeis, DJ Flack, DJing, Lecture, Syllabus, Wayne and Wax, Wayne Marshall
Categories : Gigs, Thought
#Popcon Conversations #Easy
23 03 2012
Homie, neighbor, DJ/Writer colleague, Eddie Stats arranged a meet up and debate between the “big man” in the “global bass” scene, Diplo and myself. While I too feel left wanting more, the conversation we had took a little more than four hours (which had to be boiled down for the four-page transcription.) I have to say though, in the time since the post went up I’ve been noticing debates amongst friends and colleagues, and I love what folks are saying around various web-spaces. So in the spirit of more, that’s exactly what we’re going to do this afternoon…
Join me, and some of my favorite thinkers around these ideas at the EMP Conference at 2:15 at NYU today.
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Tags: Appropriation, Chief Boima, Debates, Diplo, DJ Rekha, eddie stats, EMP, Erin Mcleod, Global Bass, Popcon, tropical bass, Venus X, Wayne Marshall
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#PAN A New New York Fete
23 03 2012
Tonight! Round 2 of the busiest weekend! The Made in Africa x Africology connection grows to include DJ Xpect’s The Exiles crew. Our new party is PAN, a monthly rotating spot from Manhattan’s premier African DJs!
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Tags: Africology, Made in Africa, Manhattan, new york, PAN, The Exiles
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