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!

That’s my Thesis. Come to the New School on Friday to hear me talk about it.

Okay Africa recently did a profile on yours truly.

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!

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.

Our talk at the Together festival was recorded and is now available online!

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!

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:

This discussion will investigate the significance of the “post-geographic” music and events that reach beyond traditional borders, both within Boston and at large. At the heart of this topic: Social implications of global cross-genre experimentation: Who benefits from cultural re-contextualization and how? We see this discussion as a counterpoint to Simon Reynolds’ article, “Xenomania: Nothing is Foreign in an Internet Age.” Speakers: Ghislain Poirier of Ninja Tune and Bounce le Gros Montreal, Chief Boima of Dutty Artz, DJ Ripley, Max Pearl of Cluster Mag, Jesse Kaminsky of WMBR’s The Intercontinental.

Moderator: Wayne Marshall

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!