EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Tinny - Zingolo (Doorly Remix)
Glass and a Half Full Records (populated by the good people behind this) is a new project supporting the campaign celebrating Cadbury Dairy Milk’s recent fair-trade certification. “Zingolo” features Ghanaian MC Tinny and Paul Epworth (Florence & The Machine, Friendly Fires) and its profits fund educational programs in cocoa growing communities in Ghana—where Cadbury’s been sourcing cocoa for 101 years. Below, check the Doorly remix—a big Afro-beat banger that gets nasty at the two-minute mark, and help the cause by purchasing the original here.
Sounds like: M.I.A., Major Lazer
DOWNLOAD: Gang Gang Dance - Bebey (DJ /rupture And Matt Shadetek Remix)
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(Photo: Josh Wildman)
Who better to tighten Gang Gang's baggy global drum tendencies than DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek, Dutty Artz' resident beat dilligents? Their remix of "Bebey" stems from a new mix CD, Solar Life Raft, out November 11th through The Agriculture, which, and here we're just guessing from the title and this song, will contain loads of floaty, incandescent rhythms colliding with other crazily headspinning sounds. Looking forward to taking a dip in that swamp.
Gang Gang Dance - Bebey (DJ /rupture And Matt Shadetek Remix)
Previously:
Gang Gang Dance - Princes (feat. Tinchy Stryder)
Gang Gang Dance - House Jam (XXXchange Remix)
Gang Gang Dance's RCRD LBL Page
DOWNLOAD: DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid - Azadi (The New Complexity) feat. Sussan Deyhim
(Photo: Ami Mills)
This is weird. Never expect less from Spooky! It's giving us flashbacks of when we backpacked through Nicaragua, landing in an Israeli-owned café with silk pillows on the floor and hash milkshakes on the menu. We could have sworn this cut was blasting the three days we spent huddled in a hammock there. But, that was a year ago. And Spooky's new manifesto, The Secret Song featuring fellow genrebusters like Thurston Moore, The Jungle Brothers, The Coup, and Rob Swift, doesn't drop 'til October. Perhaps it was all an out-of-body future-forward experience. On too many levels, that's really the only thing that makes sense.
DJ Spooky - Azadi (The New Complexity) (feat. Sussan Deyhim)
Previously:
DJ Spooky - Galactic Funk (Tau Ceti Mix)
DOWNLOAD: Rainbow Arabia - Holiday In Congo (Mexicans With Guns Remix) + Harlem Sunrise
Posted Jul 30, 2009 11:55 AM by Kev Kharas
Tags: world, club, experimental, electronic, dubstep, calypso
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There are a few people on the internet who insist - or imply - that Animal Collective, Gang Gang Dance and Vampire Weekend are racist. Or rather that their appropriations of 'world music' are racist - that styles like gamelan, high-life and afro-beat are better left alone by Western musicians. The people that say that are idiots and Rainbow Arabia know it, the married LA duo absorbing influences from all over the world and re-organising them into sick, synesthetic warp-outs of organ parp and hallucinogenic rhythm blister that fly in the face of received notions of 'world music' and 'tasteful' and 'taste'. New 7-track mini-album Kabukimono is out now, featuring remixes from Ghosts On Tape and Brenmar, and it's the sound of Jools Holland shitting himself.
Sounds like: Skream, Omar Souleyman, Blondie
Rainbow Arabia - Holiday in Congo (Mexicans with Guns Remix)
Rainbow Arabia - Harlem Sunrise
Previously:
Rainbow Arabia - Omar K (Max Justus Remix)
Rainbow Arabia - See no Hear no
Rainbow Arabia - I know I see I love I go
Rainbow Arabia's RCRD LBL Page
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Amadou & Mariam - Sabali (Paul Epworth Remix)
Already slobbered over by Kanye and deemed the 15th best track of 2008 by the brains over at Pitchfork, Amadou & Mariam's "Sabali" is every bit the electro-pop miracle they say. The song features prominently on the internationally-acclaimed duo's now stateside Welcome to Mali full-length and for just 24 hours RCRD LBL's got an exclusive download of Paul Epworth's remix, a somehow dreamier take that jetpacks the key arpeggios and Mariam's soulful (and AutoTuned!) vocal turns even further into the future.
Amadou & Mariam - Sabali (Paul Epworth Remix)
Amadou & Mariam's RCRD LBL Page
DOWNLOAD: Extra Golden - Anyango
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Extra Golden is, above all other considerations, a force for good. Good feelings, good music, good times. The group represents the unlikely collision of D.C. scenesters and Kenyan musicians, and it's truly a pleasure to unveil this track from their new record Thank You Very Quickly. "Anyango" is a good distillation of the sounds and ideas that have gone into making this music: bluesy slide guitar, "96 Tears" organ slop, drums and percussion tripping over each other to form an itinerant shuffle. Extra credit challenge: think about something that makes you mad, listen to this song, reconsider.
Sounds Like: Birigwa, El Guincho, Lemonade
DOWNLOAD: Filastine - Fitnah (feat. Jessika Skeletalia Kenney)
The press release and biography for Barcelona-based producer Filastine reads like a pitch for a Current TV travel show: "You might have caught him at a club in London, on a junk raft floating down the Mississippi, at Shambhala festival in British Columbia, at a tiny breakcore party in Osaka, or in front of forty thousand at the Boulevards festival in Casablanca." Rather unsurprising then that dude isn't just peddling some stock dance rhythms for satin-shirted masses, instead working a bass-driven brew of breaks, blasts, and globally-culled melodies, exemplified here on "Fitnah" from his new album Dirty Bomb (out in February through DJ /rupture's Soot label.) After a collage of Theremin whine and handclaps, the tune brings itself to its feet with Whack-A-Mole percussion hits and coarse synth throb, vocalist Jessika Skeletalia Kenney laying Middle Eastern smoke over it all. In days when songs like "Arab Money" get dissected for their supposed intentions, it's nice to hear some globally adventurous music that isn't trying to be anything other than itself.
Sounds like: El Guincho, DJ /Rupture, DJ Signify
Filastine - Fitnah (feat. Jessika Skeletalia Kenney)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Rainbow Arabia - I Know I See I Love I Go
With the names Danny and Tiffany Preston and the outfits of extras for Men At Works' "Land Down Under" video, you would not look at Rainbow Arabia and expect the music to sound like it's coming straight off a Diplo Baile Funk mix tape. On their debut EP, The Basta, Rainbow Arabia buck expectations and create a M.I.A. in Paul Simon's Rhythm of the Saints kind of record. It's hard to tell if they're "serious" or playing rainbow warrior dress up, but at the end of the day, who really gives a crap. This is music for an Amazon dance party and even if you just want your party to get as sweaty and wild as the Brazilian rain forest, "I Know I See I Love I Go," is a fine place to start. If you want the chance to actually get all up ons some sweaty, gyrating fools, the duo will be on tour with Gangi and later Gang Gang Dance through October and November, so check the dates here, grab the tunes and get the rhythm.
Sounds Like: M.I.A., Duchess Says, Diplo, Gang Gang Dance, These Are Powers
Download: Rainbow Arabia - I Know I See I Love I Go
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