That’s my Thesis. Come to the New School on Friday to hear me talk about it.
Musical Violence in Sierra Leone
9 05 2012Comments : 1 Comment »
Tags: Dissensus, Gangsta Rap, New School, politics, Sierra Leone, Thesis, Violence
Categories : Thought
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
Categories : Gigs, Tha Homies, Thought
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
Categories : Gigs, Tha Homies, Thought
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
Categories : Gigs, Thought
We Enjoy Interviewing
7 03 2012
I had a fun little interview session with Mike Corece of Gozamos.com (an online Chicago culture magazine), in the lead up to my gig at Sonic Diaspora this Friday. The transcription is up on their website.
Also, if you prefer to get the live version, I’ll be talking and playing on DJ Still Life’s Worldwide Smash Radio show on East Village Radio tomorrow night, 12 midnite, EST.
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Tags: Chicago, Corece, DJ Still Life, East Village Radio, EVR, Gozamos.com, Sonic Diaspora, World Wide Smash
Categories : Thought
Meet the Afropolitans
10 02 2012
This upcoming Monday, I will be sitting on a panel in New York called “Meet the Afropolitians.” It’s part of a larger global event called Social Media Week, and we’ll talk about representing Africa and collaborating with peers through social media and the Internet.
Check us out on Monday. RSVP early to attend because I’m told it will fill up! If you can’t make it in person, livestream it here!
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Tags: Afropolitans, Social Media Week, Society HAE
Categories : Gigs, Technology, Thought
TURN/RETURN
1 02 2012
DJ Ripley has arrived in NY for good, and she’s throwing a party to celebrate!
February 3rd at Public Assembly.
This will be the first in a series of events trying to bring together revolutionary thought, practice, and music in once space. The Williamsburg version of a Jamaican street dance, perhaps?
Join us! Facebook.
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Tags: Brooklyn, Ripley, TURN/RETURN
Categories : Gigs, Performance Art, Thought
Liberia Dispatches
25 01 2012
I wanted to take a moment to point to a series of dispatches I did around my trip to West Africa this summer for The Cluster Mag, and cross-posted at This is Africa.
My first installment takes a brief glance at the Ghanian scene (which is currently “blowing up” in the U.K.), and then the following two go more in depth about the scene in Liberia, and my own experience in putting together a compilation of Liberian music with Akwaaba music for international distribution.
Read them here: Dispatch #1 Ghana, Dispatch #2 Liberia, Dispatch #3 Liberia
Also check out two radio interviews I did, one with Jake Heller from Colombia’s Journalism school and Klaus Frederking at Radio Globo in Hamburg.
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Tags: Ghana, Jake Heller, Klaus Frederking, Liberia, Radio Globo, The Cluster Mag, this is africa
Categories : Thought
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