tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75015982012-01-06T17:53:31.964-08:00linkthink re: hip-hop, reggae, the US, jamaica, and anything else wayne wants to wax onwayne&waxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05320768422428588508noreply@blogger.comBlogger3161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501598.post-1160381740586450072006-10-09T17:00:00.000-07:002006-10-09T13:29:52.126-07:00

not to cambridge. to wayneandwax.com.so, my dear dear readers'n'referrers, plz update your links and follow me over this-a-way >>let's keep the conversation going. shit, let's take it up a notch.see you after the jump.peace,wayneps -- new feeds, too: rdf rss rss2 atom -- but do poke around.

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in pursuing the chacalonero thread further, i've been in conversation with joshua tucker, an ethnomusicologist at UT-austin (and the guy previously in my shoes), who knows a thing or two about music in peru.clearing up some of my questions about sr. chacalon jr. -- that link, btw, dates "perreo chacalonero" to at least feb/05! -- as well as about chicha more generally (the music, that is),

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as some attentive, clicky readers might have noticed in my last post about the exploding latin american youtubosphere, i finished by asking how to say "omg!" in spanish, pointing to yet another video that leads to dozens of videos. that one, however, goes well beyond the "yasuri yamileths" out there, demonstrating -- with well-known cartoon and kids-show characters no less (para niños!?!) -- the

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^^that's the latest latin american viral video (or the latest that i'm hopelessly late to). actually, it's but the tip of the iceberg. raquel sent me the link, which i took at first to be some sort of underground reggaeton video (which it sort of is). despite its cartoonishness, the production was low-fi enough and the performance serious enough -- and the location oh-so ghetto credful -- that it

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check out chavez, who's got another book for ya, speaking to time: TIME: Do your feelings about Bush reflect your feelings toward America in general?CHAVEZ: No. I revere America as the nation of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King and Mark Twain--who was a great anti-imperialist, who opposed U.S. adventurism in the Spanish-American War.TIME: You often speak of the link between U.S. foreign policy

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lovely US cellular field, where chevy trucks drive into the outfield at least twice a gamei think i like jordan davis's "non-poetry" (like t.s. eliot's) about as much as his poetry (like t.s. eliot's -- except for the bad stuff about jews), which is to say, often quite a bit. (when dwelled upon, those seem like small words of praise, but i feel them stronger than hyperbole.) recently, jordan's

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chicagoans! i'm playing my first local party this weekend, saturday night, at a secret spot somewhere around downtown (TBA). headlining is none other than my riddim methodist colleague, kid kameleon, and joining us on the bill are such loco locals (and regionals) as curtis chip, ipaghost, wesley clay, and the no ma'am kru (i.e.). should be a vibes. par for the dance, i plan to play some slyly

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mass bay from american airmr.murk brings back his egyptronix mix for the first of his podcasts.which reminds me that dr.auratheft has some excellent new mixes up, including a bellydance diaspora special and some great latin/caribbean stuff via family history.which reminds me as well that, in case you haven't been following along (and, really, why not?), the blogariddims series -- hourlong mixes

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how hot is the new tego album? well, i'll tell you in some detail soon (via the phx), but suffice to say it's hot enough that someone stole my car radio to get a copy.* i'll say at this point, though, that i totally agree with the choice of "los maté" -- with its chipmunk'd ranchera chorus (e.g.) and filtered dembow -- as the lead single. and i like the use of mariachi men in the video to bring

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becca's and charlie's class has begun. par for the course, she and the other instructors will be keeping a blog as they go, attempting to document the successes and missteps and nitty-grit and whatnot of offering harvard's first course open to the public. the first and second lecture videos are already up, as is becca's first post, or two or three. [i do disclaim!: in that first post-class post,

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did you remember to 'never forget' today?just checking.

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two of my favorite academics and family members, becca and charlie nesson, are teaching a course together this fall. charlie at the law school, and becca at the extension school -- in second life, no less! it proves to be something special, examining (and making) arguments not in the court of law, but in the court of public opinion, and exploring the role of media technologies to facilitate and

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more literally than metaphorically, but there's always plenty of the latter too, knamean.still, i've finally reached the windy windy and am steady settling into my lil apt in the vibrant barrio of humboldt park. if the mango-con-chili we had at this weekend's "fiesta boricua" was any indication, this is a place with mucho sabor. i look forward to more. be right back with mo' wax very soon. sorry

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sorry for the relative silence, y'all. it's that time of year. more soon, for sure..

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been meaning to write about calle 13 for a while now (^^that's them^^), and mi amiga raquel rivera just gave me a reason to finally do so. these days you can find raquel blogging at herspace, but she's also opened up a blogspot to bring her thoughts to the wider web.raquel's latest post regards a song/video by calle 13 called "la jirafa" (the giraffe). she recently wrote me about the track: "The

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"I know little about the affairs of Turkey, but I am sure that I know something about barberries and chest nuts of which I have collected a store this fall. "When I go to see my neighbor he will formally communicate to me the latest news from Turkey, which he read in yesterday's Mail -- how Turkey by this time looks determined, & Lord Palmerston -- Why, I would rather talk of the bran, which,

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not to repeat repeat myself, but: angryarab, leninology, juancole -- read 'em.see also, billmon, who's been pretty on-the-money, e.g., this pessimistic but probable prediction. hell in a handbasket, folks. hell in a handbasket.also, k-punk offers a reading like only k-punk can.continued props to mazen kerbaj for putting a very human face on an all too frequently dehumanized lebanon.thx to jace

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^^via kerblog, which = "mazen kerbaj's blog. beirut + free improvised music + comics + bombs + drawings" (via [via])iraqi music -- info and mpfrees, nuff maqam (which was my #1 name-for-a-boy a few years ago, i might add), and don't miss the featured artist pagemore from eden on fast chatmatt of idol thoughts offers up the lastest blogariddimcastbut i've mostly been rockin' gold teeth thief part

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the continuing destruction of lebanon and its people (especially children) surpasses my understanding and leaves me wanting for words to express my outrage, my sadness, my despair (and from a distance, yes). how can anyone possibly countenance such shameful action as israel continues to pursue? how can anyone possibly "spin" these despicable acts as if they constitute self-defense? the mind

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who knew that this bit of spampoetry would be such a prescient plea?

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what were we talking about again? oh yeah: music.while the world soldiers smolders on, we'll be offering some alternately chill beats and riddimic heat this thursday, the 27th, as i bid my monthly night over at river gods farewell. you see, as they say, i've got some bad news and some good news.the bad news, as some may have heard, is that the boston jerk (aka, yours truly) will be leaving boston

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don't mistake the photo above for this week's time. it's from 1982. i mean, really, can you imagine the MSM publishing such an anti-semitic appropriately indicting title today? i sure can't.as my last post suggested, i'm getting really sick and tired of all the tacit (and not so tacit) complicity with israel's unchecked, unjustifiable aggression. i've noticed that the increasingly disappointing

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boingboing linked to a photoshopped googlearth img that shows -- in red -- "How Far into Israel Can Hezbollah Reach":so i google image searched 'lebanon' and found a map that shows -- in white -- "How Far into Lebanon Can Israel Reach":

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tomorrow, monday the 17th, Aa (that's 'BIG A little a') are driving up from BK to join me (that's w&w) and flack at beat research. looking forward to playing a beat-centric crowd, Aa percussionist and energytic blogga john chiasm says they'll be bringing their "most IDMmy jam ever!" -- not to mention their own lighting show and special beAat reseAarch CD-Rs ("with a mix of various stuffs from the

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it's official: this blog has gone all chacarron, all the time. check out this live "merengue tipico" version. (thx for the tip, alberto!)and thanks to the anonymous commenter who pointed me to yet another cover, this time by a dutch radio DJ whose colleague apparently heard the original in curacao:Mijn collega Dave kwam terug van Curaçao met een zeer geestig aanstekelijk liedje, chacaron. Na twee

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since "chacarron" remains stuck in my head and continues to amuse friends, i've been trying to learn more about this mysterious macarena-of-the-internets. for one thing, led astray by wikipedia (you don't say?), i think i jumped the gun in identifying "chacarron" as the creation of a satirical mexican band named el mudo. indeed, the video identifies the artist as "andy's val gourmet" - a

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el mudo, "chacarron"pardon -- pero estoy un poco atrasado en esta canción.i know i heard this song some time ago, but it wasn't until recently that i gleefully rediscovered it. here's how it happened. i got a couple CDs of "reggaeton dominicano" and "bachaton de reggaeton" from deb pacini-hernandez, a colleague with whom - alongside raquel rivera - i've been working on a lil' reggaeton project (

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blogariddims 'bout to launch! get ready for transatlantic aural adventures.laptop for rastafari (thx tomas !)ebog on whether (or not) to go gully or gospelon a more solipsistic tip:i have to admit -- i'm oddly tickled that tj maxx'o'lantern remains my "most viewed" photo at flickr, all serges aside. (now there's a good way to mess with the ratings.)andtomorrow marks 2 years (!) since i picked

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madison skyline, dancing, from lake mendotawhile we're talking electronic music history, don't miss the vintage "educational film" banananutrament pointed me to.whattaya joe, indeed? despite its quick'n'dirty character, that jimi-TI mash i mashed a minute ago caught some listeners' ears, even prompting requests for a higher-quality version (good lookin'..). in an age of serato and such, how could

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[Update (31 March 2010): This post, originally published in June of 2006, was "reset" to "draft" status on 29 March 2010 because of a spurious DMCA takedown notification. I am republishing it now, having removed what I believe to be the offending material: namely, a couple links to DJ mixes which may or may not contain infringements of copyrighted materials -- not that anyone made it clear to me

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been on the road (see above), thus the lack of blogginess.back today and offering up - tonight! - a live sequel to last year's boston mashacre over at mashave (see below). whereas the previous preferred pop this year's edition will look to the lesser-known and lefter-field: undie hip-hop, classic cambridge bellydance, punk'n'ska, and tonebursts of various sorts. coming soon to an mp3 mix near you

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remember that observation i made last summer with regard to the snares in reggaeton?well, i've put together a thing or two since then that help explain where this remarkable, distinctive practice of switching snares every several measures or so has its beginnings: puerto rico in the early 90s, of course, i.e., during the dembow era, when underground referred to raggamuffin flows over sample-based

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"what good are roots if you can't take them with you?" - gertrude stein, from paris (in geertz)speaking of which, my misspelling of minkya! the other day was still a good enough rendering for my friend marco to point out that it's actually an italian exclamation (of mild, funny vulgarity), which makes a lot more sense than, say, romany-carny, seeing as my dad's mom's folks came to cambridge via

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we really adore our "buddha box" --///but we wish it played fewer minor-key loops. (we're fairly trad/hippy ambient over here. give us a tambura or a shruti box and leave us alone.) this thing's cool, tho, no doubt.so, is it true that eno and monolake bought, like, 8000 each? ///why not just lots and lots of batteries?///and is it true that there's a little buddha inside this thing?is it true

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ethan z with an update re: one laptop per childnew world notes, a second life blog: whoa, whoa, and whoa againuniversity of chicago :: theories of media :: keywords glossarysteve feld's got a label (thx, daphne!)minkya! - molto 80s videos via youtube (thx, sneakmove!)speaking of "minkya" (which, oddly enough, i heard my father exclaim on several occasions), you need to check out the entry for "

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maga bo represents brazil, soundly it will surprise few that a mix labeled "DNA Brasileira Jamaicana: Jamaica inna Brazil e Brasil no Jamaica" is right up our alley here at w&w -- indeed, substitute "hip-hop" for "brazil" there and you've practically got the title to the dissertation; note that said mix contains a strong hip-hop presence -- como você diz 'inextricable' no português?good cause:

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since when did def jux get into the spam game?

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kabir sen (yes, that sen), a fellow cantabridgian rapper/producer, has a new album out. it's his third, and he's been getting some nice press on it, if in unlikely spots (for rappers, not cantabridgians). it's been a while since the collaboration actually went down, but i produced a track on the album, "get it right," which some might recognize as employing the "sexy jesus" riddim (which, if you

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http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Philip_Glass (featured article !)more minimal: philip sherburne offers a maximal masterful historinterventionimperialism as a solution to capitalist crisisMADhours: spend localrif riffs: that /jace has quite an imazighenationthe sound of real bubbling

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tonight, the 25th, we'll be celebrating (at least) a double b-day at river gods. it's my brother's birthday at midnight, the 26th, and mine the following day, the 27th. (i'm a year and 364 days older.) having had such close birthdays all our lives - rumor has it we would have shared the same day had he not been "taken out" a day early so the doctor could go on vacation (though i may have made

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allow me to use the power of this humble blog to amplify the sage words - as posted to the SEM list - of eminent ethnomusicologist jeff todd titon (whose worlds of music i used as a textbook - and playfully sampled - in the first intro to music of the world course i ever did teach) ::English as a national languageRecently there has been some serious talk in Congress about declaring English the

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of course, the answer to both is YES !

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must. feed. internet.: so i posted some purple haze punch over at da methoddr_auratheft has put together some new mixhibits - in blog form to boot ! - including a fine bit o' mirror-mirror exotica.one of w&w's favorite local ahtists, jason chase, recently remixed repainted a switchbox in davis square with one of his vibrant, classic popcorn-box designshow to make a bench: tips from clay ward,

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one day of remarkable respite, and now rain again. but as sasha says, let it pour. plenty sunny days ahead. more important, we at w&w could use some less-than-enticing weather to help us stay inside and writewritewrite. ..top of that, we like the way this gloomy weather seems commensurate with the foggy bottom beats we've been listening to.a week ago, driving from boston to middletown through

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-- a vignette of sloppy stills from i am cuba ..heavy-handed agitprop, but beautiful, moving all the while. the sympathies come easy: working people, poor people, students, revolutionaries. the bad guys are bad guys: united fruit, asshole tourists, corrupt officials, imperialists.well worth watching, even if you got shit to write, stuff to grade, people to see.

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tonight at the enormous room: hear lots of music we produced this semester as an attempt get a hands-on grasp on some of the styles we studied. i'll be mixing'n'mashing my way through as many "production projects" as i can. we'll also have some DJ sets courtesy of a few dextrous DJ/students - i've heard rumblings about a screwed-psy-trance / chipmunk-ragga-rap mini-set, but don't quote me on that

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special for the gifshow (about which, see more here), the blogosphere's favorite meta-mp3blogger and grandgiffordizerer, the ingooglable dr.893 (actually he's up to #2), created an absolutely epic piece: yahmobmeancompetitorlet it load, scroll slow, and watch the gifs mutate and morph into no less than a cascading michaelmcdonald megamix of olympian proportions!///elsewhere (in brooklyn, natch),

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last night during electro-class, local wiki-wiz sam klein (semi-pictured above) gave us a great overview of how one participates in wikipedia. he showed us the ins and outs of edits and discussions and talked about some of the conventions of the form, which will be helpful as we attempt to add to the growing body of knowledge on electronic music at wikipedia. (ahem, what's your cyberstrategy?) it

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the following is the concluding paragraph from a letter i'm supposed to sign and send back:Your execution of this agreement will constitute an exclusive grant to the publisher of a complete release of all publishing and proprietary rights in and to your contribution in book form and in electronic and other nonbook formats and in all languages throughout the world, and for the original and all

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these images have been blocked.these poems have not !(choose the RIAA !!)

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NYC gente:i'll be giving a "dembow demo" at hunter college this friday, may 5, as part of a symposium called, "a closer look at reggaeton," sponsored by the center for puerto rican studies and moderated by raquel rivera.despite the title of the thing, i plan to focus more on listening than looking. specifically, i'll discuss and demonstrate (and DJ!) the dembow riddim: what it is (and how it's

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as gawkers ethics-bound journalists continue to scrutinize kaavya viswanathan's novel for instances of so-called plagiarism, more and more keep turning up. although the harvard crimson - who "broke" the story (hook, line, and sinker) - argues that the latest revelations, including passages resembling the work of salman rushdie, "raise fresh questions about the originality of Viswanathan’s novel,"

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"The EMP conference was interesting; I'd never been, and most of my suspicions about the prospects of hanging out with ambitiously academic rock critics as they discussed the music that embarrassed them were confirmed. (smile)"- via myspace message from a former classmate and ambitiously rock academic critic

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timothy burke has posted a post on plagiarism, remixing, and originality..most striking is the problem of talking across media, which may share many characteristics but also have fundamental differences in form and affect and meaning. transposing the different discourses describing and deriving from them is bound to produce confusion, despite suggestive metaphors. i'm not really sure the same

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"in a strange way they're more permanent then the buildings themselves. cafe aventura is gone, dread lady is still here."- via email from a current student and longtime cantabridgian

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just posted a couple standaloners to the riddim method: one is a bit from my segment of our lemon-red mix; another was inspired by a post by the mighty woebot.if you haven't downloaded the lemon-red mix yet, go get that thang. i mean, i'm saying: april's almost over, mang.and if you're in the cambridge area tonight, come on out to river gods (the people's choice!) for this month's edition of

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there's more flarf where that came from, over at jordan's.who himself writes poems.like this one.

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dem = tourists?jamaicanjokes.comjust when you thought all the outrage!TM had subsided, time magazine - that mainstream rag of mainstream rags - recently published a scathing indictment of jamaica's anti-gay problem. although i've gone on the record again and again about how i wish jamaica would "walk good" on this issue, i have to admit that the author of this forceful piece seems to miss the

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either the graf above was a lot easier to parse than i thought, or jordan davis is a mean decoding mofo. or both!despite jordan's astute analysis, i still think it's interesting that the same bloke who threw up that, er, throw up would reference such a decidedly non-hip-hop world. it's a joke, yes, but a fairly 'inside' joke, or at least so i assumed. given that one has to walk along some train

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see kevin's letter over at charlie's blog. sad but not surprising. how do we move forward amid such entrenchment? kevin's sig suggests an answer: "Be the change you wish to see in the world" -we're in your corner, kevin. keep being a beacon.

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april is the cruelest month, breedinglilacs out of the dead land, mixingmemory and desire, stirringdull roots with spring rain.-t.s. eliot

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talib kweli (who has a blog?!) offers a poignant, handwritten eulogy for jay dee. perhaps not surprising, kweli crams words into a blog like he crams words into a bar.which reminds me that d nice not only been bloggin', dude's vloggin' now too!daddy yankee on bhangra:"I love the Indian culture. I like the Punjabi sounds. I love the Bhangra genre. I consider India very rich in culture, rich in

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ben (of ben&jerry's fame) offers a delicious illustration of how we can put our mouths where our money is...

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pace reanimates the castles! and,jesse kriss, the wiz who gave us the history of sampling visualization, presents: visual scratch. (as with sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! - just imagine the possibilities.)

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ki mantle hood, dr. bi-musicality himself, in the UCLA gamelan roomlast saturday i "gave" a paper at the semi-annual meeting of the new england chapter of the society for ethnomusicology (that's NECSEM, for the uninitiated). the paper proposed an embrace of digital music technologies as providing new pedagogical and publishing possibilities to add to our scholarly toolkit. readers of this blog -

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got a piece in this week's phoenix reviewing a new studio one reissue series from cambridge's heartbeat records and considering the legacy of coxsone dodd's indomitable imprint.although the discs are perhaps pitched more for the masses than the selectors out there (read: more classics than rarities), everyone should own a copy of killer instrumentals. y'ear?you can read/hear more about the series

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the surreal trifeplaying hard ball with the nat'l pastime (via ripley)move over matis: passover album of 5766 (ft. killah priest!!?)guinness: it gives you power - dub power! (via play the records)luny tunes: from preppy prep cooks to reggaeton's master chefs

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so i was pretty psyched to participate in this.

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uptown storyguess who's back?christ, what an assholemurder tone pon jahtari (and check the tapes dem!)wicked good guide to boston english

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"you wasn't there jammys" . . . "you never mix none of them tracks there" . . . "is I mix everything" . . . "you know-seh you're lying" . . . "you gonna do me something?" . . . "who wan' rob a dead man?" . . . "greensleeves a 'rob a dead man' thing" . . .*///the scientist saga continues...exhibit A and B: "jammy's lies" backstory via the west indian times:West Indian Times Exclusive!!Dub

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NC was cool. good peoples, good vibes. thanks again to darren and TJ and everyone else who made us feel welcome. over at the new science experience page, you can hear DJ C's thursday performance at the local 506 as well as a set i played sunday night on one duran's and yugen's show on WXYC. (apparently, my set at the 506 didn't make it to tape - but what can you do? glitch happens.) playing the

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i've finally succumbed. come find me in the matrix.

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dj dr.C pon the lecture-demoDJ C gave a rockin' presentation to my electro class last week, showing us the innards of his gregory isaacs refix and putting down a knob-twistin' mini-mix.this week dr.C and i will be travelling together down to north cackalacky - no offense - to represent some of our boston-baked bouncement. we'll be playing tomorrow night (thursday, march 23) at the local 506 in

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while the talk of minstrelsy continues (and reminds me to get downloading), i thought i should return to a point to which i alluded a couple days ago.in a post last week, i hinted at something called moron whiteness. this is not a technical term. it's just a way of saying that even some well-meaning 'white folk' (and there i go along with them), stop far too short of actually moving past the

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it's now been three years since the US invaded iraq. back in the spring of 2003, i watched the countdown to war and the bombs over baghdad from my living room in kingston. it was an odd remove for a bloodclaat american like myself. so it came as a true comfort one evening, as becca and i cooked up some curry chickpeas - one of our many bastardized creative jamaican recipes - to hear a heavy

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boom sha-lock-lock top o' the marnin' to yaall this talk of minstrelsy, coinciding with the holiday and such, reminds me of one of the first successful forms of ethnic drag in hip-hop: irishness. given the high proportion of irish performers among the original blackface minstrels, not to mention the whole "blacks of europe" rep, it seems rather appropriate that irishness would so well serve house

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what's black and white and white all over?a couple weeks ago some friends showed me a piece in the weekly dig thinking i would find it interesting, which i did (mildly), and thinking i might sympathize with the dig's perspective, which i did not (pretty strongly). my friends thought i might agree with the dig--if i may so venture--because the piece seemed to be assailing an irresponsible

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allow me to share some recent quasi-experiments in quasi-art/quasi-copyfight, interspersed with what i hope are illuminating quotations from the introduction of michael taussig's still stimulating mimesis and alterity (1993), a study which takes "the mimetic faculty" as its subject--or as Taussig calls it, "the nature that culture uses to create second nature, the faculty to copy, imitate, make

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who knew cartoon cats would be so newsworthy all a sudden?so much to say, so little time.look, i'm not going to go making up any sort of excuses. but, f'real, y'all really should have seen it coming.wait a minute. what am i talking about again? oh yeah: i've been busy. too busy--if you can believe it--to blog. (though i have found some time to leave lengthy comments on other blogs.)i've also been

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photo by pantagrapheri'll be waxing and wayning in new york citay** this wednesday (3/1) at the knitting factory, old office. mainly, i'll be rapping, which, for those of you who know me more through my blogging, sort of sounds like my blogging but faster and more rhythmic.the bill is more of a sanger-sangwriter thang, but on the interesting side of that divide. the mastermind behind it all is me

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paul dailey demonstrates on the decksin our electro class this past tuesday, paul dailey gave a detailed demonstration of how he approaches his craft as a techno DJ. his suggestive mini-set had to be limited due to the class's time restrictions as well as the fact that he had a gig in providence later that night.but tonight--(wicked wicked) thursday, 2/23--paul will get a chance to stretch out a

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sorry i won't be able to join the arty party in NL this week. among other good reasons for having to stay stateside, i've got jury duty tomorrow--in lowell of all places.still, i was fortunate enough to make it up to MTL this past weekend to catch a special beat-research- / boston-bounce-bolstered incarnation of bounce le gros, the mongrel monthly thrown by upnorth beatsmith ghislain poirier--who

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when i put together my crunk genealogy mix, i wanted to keep it short and sweet. of course, i could have included many, many more tracks that sample/version the kraftwerk and bambaataa creations that so swiftly spread the electro/bass/crunk meme 'round the planet--not to mention the hundreds of tracks (including plenty of 3:2 clave salsa, son, calypso, and reggaeton) that share the same

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a couple (free!) hapnins tonight for all you loco locals:1) cory doctorow of boingboing fame will be talking (or is it blalking?) at hahvid:Set Top Cop: Hollywood's Secret War on Your Living Room *Wednesday, Feb. 15, 6pm*Emerson Hall 105, Harvard College2) and later, wayne&wax of wayne&wax fame (that's me!) will be freeing his inner DJ:Free the DJ! (w/ David Day / sQuar3 productions)*Wednesday,

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i'm deeply saddened to hear that jay dee (a/k/a j dilla, a/k/a james yancey)--a hip-hop producer's hip-hop producer, an unbeatable beatsmith, and a longtime personal favorite of mine--passed away this past friday at the all too early age of 32. dang. dilla was much too fantastic to go so soon.the man was a truly innovative and influential producer, but despite wide acclaim on the part of heads

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it may be an unintentional web too-point-oh sort of thing, but this spamtastic fake-blog does a boston-accent better than friggin' mahk wahlberg. pissah!we are all brack people. WTF?move over, MIA. (which honda you more fonda?)this is a record. (scantastic!) back on the ethno tip: the mighty anthony mccann has put together quite a collection of visual culture links, in case--as he suggests to us

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below are excerpts from recent conversations on the SEM list, some of which i thought might be of interest to a broader readership:///responding to a thread about the role ethnomusicologists play in mediating "exotic" musics for (american) audiences, michael birenbaum quintero offered the following thoughtful comments: It often seems like a lot of our practical impact in the public sphere is

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i was alarmed to find this morning--while hoping to do a routine search for a song title--that reggae-riddims.com, long the most comprehensive (& free, online, & searchable) database for reggae recordings and their various metadata, is no longer there. the domain name is expired, "pending renewal or deletion." i (used to?) use the site frequently for tracking down original versions, covers and

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pamelia kurstin plucks notes from the etherthe first lecture from my electronic music class is up and available for viewing. because we're still technically in "shopping period" (registration ends on feb 5), the video is viewable by anyone with the bandwidth to handle it. check it out on the course's video page. i should note that the structure of my lecture is somewhat different than usual. in

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don't be buggin' me, blog: can't you see i'm trying to work here?[the following is a quick response to a recent promo we received here at w&w]killing sound (rephlex) is a new(?) release by razor x productions, co-produced by kevin martin (a/k/a the bug, etc.) and rootsman, and featuring a number of the big, bugged-out, hardcore, electronic dancehall anthems through which martin has carved himself

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three items of interest for boston-area art nerds contemplatives:1) COLLISIONnine [via jackbackrack]Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, CambridgeJan 28 - Feb 12 2006, weekends 12-6pmOpening Fri Jan 27 6-9pmCollision 9 is an experimental art show where artists invent newtechnologies, new art forms, and even new forms of life. Collision Collective is a group of artists from MIT and the Boston

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cross posted to the riddim method | giffordization by 893 next tuesday is the first meeting of my electronic music class at the harvard extension school. this will be the second year i've taught the course, and i'm excited that this year the class can be taken from a distance as well as here in cambridge. i look forward to having some non-local perspectives added to the already rather diverse set

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if only this had been as good as its unwittingly sophisticated title promised//been mired in papers and exams from fc-46. it's been surprising to discover that a remarkably small number of HU undergrads appear to know the difference between affect and effect. (granted, it's a tricky one.) lack of adherence to basic essay structure is another woefully common error. don't get me wrong: i'm no

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i've got a long, linky piece on reggaeton in this week's phoenix. it's my latest take on the subject, and after noticing recently that my "so many snares" post from last summer found itself on a "best music writing" list for 2005 (and one for/by "rockcritics" at that!), i find myself in the strange position of wondering whether this piece in print will live up to the blog-post that preceded it (

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upon hearing the phrase above, plenty of folks would probably imagine guns rather than computer labs, but there is a movement afoot to change all that, beginning in one of the best places to begin if one wants to rehabilitate a society--its prisons. (we'd do well to start there here, too. but maybe JA can serve as a beacon.)hear more about it tomorrow night at harvard law school, when kevin

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no, those aren't the leichers, they're the barrysi've just launched a new project over at the riddim method: it's a sonicultural journey--a field trip across the musical landscape of my wife's grandparents' mid-twentieth-century record collection (which they recently gave me). i hope to make this a series of sorts, a regular kind of thing, so join me for the maiden voyage. it'll be fun to have as

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keep your ears open for prophet benjaminjust got a note from my man danish, a trinidadian selector/music-enthusiast who moved from new orleans to atlanta to san juan in the last year. every now and then danish hits me up with his impressions of the trinidadian or jamaican or wider caribbean music scene. his keen observations often identify emerging trends, as in this missive from last august,

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jace's joyous post reminds me of my favorite joyride chune: tanya stephens's cocksure self-assured instruction-manual for clueless (crazy?) men:tanya stephens, "yuh nuh ready" which reminds me of my favorite example of a male rapper employing a feminist slogan to big-up himself, w/ seemingly no concern for the homoerotic implications:phife dog, "his name is mutty ranks"the track above comes from

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i'm not surprised that scientists are using jamaican dancers to study links between dancing ability and mate quality, though i think the researchers would do well to read up on the history of dance inna the dancehall first. how else to know which dances are supposed to be symmetrical?my main man marvin has not only garnered recognition--and sponsorship!--for his plans to take a team of jamaican

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