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Category: remix

2011

Tuesday, 2/22/11

Don’t forget the Motor City

Theo Parrish, Detroit-based DJ & producer

Collecting sounds around Detroit

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Live, New York (Brooklyn Yard), 8/23/09

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Live, Paris (Elysee Montmarte), 4/30/10

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Recording, “Soul Control”

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Recording (with Marcellus Pittman), “Equality of Patience”

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langiappe

thoughts on music

Music history as a whole has been drastically misnamed. Jazz is just as rugged as hip-hop is, and hip-hop is just as elegant as classical. These things are present, but the language we’re using to talk about them tends to be outdated, outmoded.

—Theo Parrish (in The Wire, 3/11)

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2010

Thursday, 12/16/10

It’s a remix world.

Gil Scott-Heron, “New York Is Killing Me” (2010), Chris Cunningham remix

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lagniappe

Here’s the original track, followed by a couple more remixes.

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With Nas

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With Mos Def

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musical thoughts

In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the dark times.

—Bertolt Brecht

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Want more of Gil Scott-Heron? Here and here.

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taking a break

I’m going to take a little break (my first since July)—back soon.

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2010

Saturday, 3/13/10

With music like this, who needs drugs?

DJ Spooky, live

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2010

Saturday, 2/27/10

It used to be that music came from a particular place. No more. Whether it’s Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (the Iranian saxophonist who’s lived in Germany, in Japan, and now in New York City [2/18/10]), or Burkina Electric (whose members come from Burkina Faso, from Germany, and from New York City [by way of Austria] [2/22/10]), or this singer, who’s lived (and has homes) in Nigeria and in Germany, much of today’s most intriguing music has its ears and heart and feet on more than one continent.

Nneka, “Heartbeat”

Take 1: recording/video

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Take 2: live, Philadelphia, 2009

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Take 3: J. Period Remix, featuring Talib Kweli

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2010

Monday, 2/22/10

Digital Africa is here . . . —DJ Spooky

Burkina Electric (Mai Lingani, vocals; Wende K. Blass, guitar, vocals; Lukas Ligeti [son of composer Gyorgy Ligeti], electronics, drums; Pyrolator [Kurt Dahlke], electronics), “Sankar Yaare”

Take 1: DJ Spooky Remix

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Take 2: Mapstation Remix

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lagniappe

Marilyn Monroe, DJ Andy Warhol Remix

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