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Heatwave - An England Story

74 minutes of bass nationalism (the only acceptable kind) based on flux, transatlantic fashion, immigrants into insiders, MCs, and hot beats no border can contain.

“We felt, and still feel, that one of the best ways in which British MCs can really fashion their own identity was and is to draw on the unique relationship that the UK has with the Caribbean.”

LL Cool DJ´s Discobelle mix - "various electronic beats laced with violent rap music from the bay area and beyond."

i heart hyphy and/or synthetic bass music! Luke Vibert & 50 knocking together, so unexpectedly right. Yay Area w/ a lil tb6 love for good measure.

Spooky´s Party Package vol. 1. No, not that DJ Spooky. We´re talking London's young DJ Spooky producing nasty street beats with Slew Dem crew.

Grime-faced r&b refixes, Wiley edits, etc. Party Package because beats like these are made to be flipped by a DJ or MC. maybe less suitable 4 home listening?

I´m using one of Slew Dem Spooky's tunes on my next mixtape, he's cool. The piece is mainly a piano note and a gunshot. Hits you likes a Fluxus fist.

shout to Matt Shadetek for the tip-off. when Pale Fire hits jaws gonna drop.

a whole bunch of great DJs & musicians are playing London TONITE, friday. Filastine (whose new 12" EP is out today here and everywhere else on monday), Heatwave DJs, MazaJ, & more, plus a badass bellydance crew that Fila sez aren't cheesy/cabaret.

to get in you need to put your name on a list.

"a night of underground Arabist beats"

Here's a Grime track called Dub released on a Grime label by a Dubstep producer called Skream. All clear?

Mr Keaz aka Skream - Dub (Southside)

I'm too lazy busy to post my upcoming tour dates right now. my MurdochSpace page lists dates & towns. Roughly: Switzerland, Austria, and Italy. Most with Filastine, one with the Wordsound crew and Kid606, etc. We will be chilling in Milan for a few days -- drop a line if you have recommendations.

and yes, on saturday December 2nd Andy Moor (The Ex, Touch & Go) and I will be playing a midnite show upstairs at Tonic, NEW YORK CITY. Guitar and turntables like you never heard b4. Plus some Cheikha Djenia if we are lucky. I havent played NYC in 2 years, and Andy & I have never done a duo set in North America, so the night should will be special. see you there.

and yes, on Nov 3 i'll be in Toronto with mr Knifehandchop and friends. DeGrassi Junior High is CANADIAN, they tell me. Who knew!?

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I've been talking too much about music, i'm sorry. What about the men dressed like police officers? This city is filled with them -- why aren't we talking about them!?

and the V.I.P.s? Batman? If I make too much sense, feel free to slap me. Lil Murders knows what I'm talkin' about. Gubble Gubble.

• hourlong mix in the Extremely Beautiful category: Dr Auratheft combining qawwali and flamenco. I'm not so into qawwali, but everything here is real nice, very powerful flamenco too... Auratheft's writeup touches on the fusion's relation to post-European and heterodox Islamic identity.

Doabi Gypies - Auratheft mix
      audio here

• SKREAM! 2 hours of freshly Rinsed pirate radio from one of the most formidable producers out there right now. of those 2 hours, nearly all the best tunes are his. it´s scary.

• great feedback and thoughts in response to my grime/dubstep piece over at dubstep forum. always cool to see the discussion extend.

...& speaking of badman Ghis, vowel-averse BlkMrkt just upped some Poirier refixes at the bottom of this post.

"If this isnt a hipster posting," he self-editorializes, "I dont know what is."

&  dont forget: the bounce is buyable. all proceeds go towards more bounce.   five comments | ¶

 Now streaming: the Sick Girls radio show. they say : "lots of charming technical problems, great tunes, silly talk and two brilliant performances by our beloved guests mc passion, mc divine, dj maxximus and dj /rupture."

the radio people describe it as (according to GoogleTranslate): "post office-colonial Dekonstruktionsdebatten.... educating measures against the hegemony of the eurocentric white-male-middleclass-4/4 of clock."  ////  informal future booty

MUDD UP has MOVED!!!!

I've finally managed to get the blog redesign up and running.

So, this is the last post at this URL. MUDD UP HAS MOVED!!!!

from here on in, check: www.negrophonic.com/

please update your bookmarks, RSS readers, blogrolls, and all that type of stuff.

Mudd Up! @ Negrophonic.com is here to stay... first post on the new spot has mp3s from The Ex and a tasty Mavado refix. lots more to come now that i'm done spending 'blog time' wrestling with CSS & HTML.

ongoing thanks for reading and contributing and keeping the mudd hott!

besos a tod@s.

ok. see you there.

ALMOST THERE

LIL RUPT RADIO 2NITE

hey New Yorkers &/or mp3-stream people, I'll be dropping by The Fader's Let Out show on East Village Radio show hosted by Yung Catch tonite. Show runs 6-8pm EST, i'll bring a bit o' wax for the latter half. the radio comes via easy internet streaming for worldwide crossfader-abuse-lovers.

and a good look for after the show with Andy tomorrow night, is hop on the J/M and head to Trouble & Bass in south Williamsburg, the party everybody keeps telling me is bananas puree.

SEE YOU SATURDAY

this saturday new york. please help spread the word!

andy is a magician with that guitar

+ i just realized how easy it is to incorporate youtube into mudd bogs: you just drop it in.  ive been looking around there. the lake is deep, the night is long.

so an appropriate piece to begin with is, of course and apparently, a Nass El Ghiwane - Bollywood remix joining footage of Indian dancers on a moving train (Lars Von Trier thief!) to a classic NeG tune whose beautifully poetic title translates as "Where are you taking me, brother?".

INDIGENOUS HOUSE & THE SLUM RUNWAY

• "now my head is full of hows" -- A Third Way.

• House, it has been noted, is a feeling. In the spirit of the below links i offer an indigenous beat experience:

       Boston area rave fragment, mixed by M-Dee. 1994. 13 min.

Somebody gave me this tape at a party where Benny Blanco was DJing, Benny who was always a nice person to buy records from. The cassette advertised a Primary rave. Mixtape as impressionistic scene souvenir.

• a Commie Curmudgeon examines global music and poverty chic, touchstoning that excellent Orlando Patternson piece.

• on a related note "whilst in the expanding global slum survival at subsistence level is increasingly the only option, in the West the celebration of the creativity and ingenuity of the slum dweller is becoming fashionable." -- Dezeuze, The Art of Precariousness. Precarity, art, ethics.

CITYMINE(D) & GAUDEAMUS

heavy & clever spam attacks have forced me to turn on 'comment moderation'. i'm finishing up a site redesign, switching to WordPress from Pivot. if there's any functionality you wanna see, drop a line. the new MuddUp! might go live before:

• this Thursday I'll be DJing at CityMine(d)'s Micronomics Fest in Brussels. 3€!

Decentered in Barcelona, Brussels, and London, CityMine(d) is a group of forward-thinking urbanists "focusing on issues of citizenship, democracy and urban regeneration." Who also know how to get down in style!

I haven't 'celebrated Thanksgiving in seven years, and this Thurs will be no exception. But Hans promises "exotic catering"!

• this Friday'll be speaking and performing at the Gaudeamus Live Electronics Festival in Amsterdam.

details here. Radian, etc. In the afternoon, Spanish sound artist Francisco López will speak on his work, then i'll give a critical reaction. ("I BOUGHT YOUR CD AND IT WAS BORING! THE ONE WITH THE METAL RIFF! TELL ME ABOUT BIG RAINFOREST BUGS! LET ME BLINDFOLD YOU AND PLAY MY MUSIC REAL LOUD, FRANCO!")

HARDCORE IRIE

Nialler9 ups Skream + Warrior Queen.

post + mp3 here

this large large tune is # 1 one worldwide hit in an alternate universe where Emperor Haile Selassie successfully beat off the invading Italian fascists in their immaculately tailored suits, then followed them home to conquer Italy, buy designer shoes, learn the use of pomade and the pleasures of Western women, eventually believing in his own divinity and annexing all of continental Europe to Ethiopia, where Skream now competes against Mavado and Nelly Furtado in the annual Eurovision contest, the capital of Imperial Europe having long since been relocated Dire Dawa, "place of remedy" in Amharic, the empire's official -- but unenforced -- language. Ras Tafari values tolerance.

        Warrior Queen, in the meantime, just wants to chat about sex.

DA CAPO CAPER, or Joanna Newsom and The Whites

How is it that the notion of a CD containing "The Best Music of 2006" would be preposterous while the idea of book collecting "The Best Music Writing of 2006" is readily accepted?

Is it due to qualitative differences between music and writing? Does authority swoop down in the gap separating (source) art and (secondary) reportage? Is writing about music easier to rate than music itself? What rhetorical techniques does music journalism employ to gain understanding -- or at least the appearance of semiotic control -- over sound?

For example: imagine if dance, rather than writing, was considered the main mode of music criticism! Rhythm, response, realtime -- bodies on the line, first-person present, no third-person with its anonymous voice of authority. And it's true, watching a good dancer can help you understand the music, how it operates and inhabits us.

Back to the best. When do we use 'the best' as a primary category of anything cultural?

-What type of music do you listen to?
- The best.
- "The Best"?!

Best Music of 2006, the album. Such as CD, mass-marketed as the Best Music of 2006, is more or less unthinkable. Such a book exists. (I know because I'm in it-- included as a commentor on Wayne Marshall's piece).


You wouldn't buy a "Best Music 2006" CD for at least 2 reasons. First: because you probably wouldn't like most of the music on it. Music fans divide up the world of sound by genre, geography, scene, sound, and so on -- only after everything else has been whittled down do 'best' considerations i.e. 'this band is better than that band' enter into it. 'Best' is -- at best! -- a secondary category of music appreciation.

The second reason you wouldn't buy such as CD is slightly more subtle -- the lack of discernment that it implies. People who claim they like "good music" usually don't, oddly enough.This is why I silently groan whenever a stranger finds out that I DJ and then say "you're a DJ, that's so great! I LOVE music!"

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And yet you might buy that book. The reasons cited above for not buying such a CD don't translate. What is different? An anthology of 'Best Music Writing' makes sense, somehow. How?


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