Peep the new video for Souls of Mischief’s Proper Aim, the first single from their excellent new album Montezuma’s Revenge. Keep your eyes peeled for our interview with the group due later this week and for all you rap melancholics you can check the video to the timeless 93 Till Infinity here.
It’s great to hear that Jamie Lidell is releasing a new LP, Compass, this May. The roster of talent he’s drawn on – Beck, Feist and Gonzales – coupled with his ability to surprise, makes this a record that is well worth looking forward to.
Previous career highlights from the musician, who hails from rural Huntingdon (Cambridgeshire, UK), is capable of putting the soul of the 1960s firmly in the now and looks like a maths teacher, include his work with Matthew Herbert on the decadent Goodbye Swingtime, the perfect slice of urban soul that was Multiply and the instantly accessible Jim long-player. Lidell is also a showman, with his live shows being events that stick in the memory. If you haven’t heard of this guy, check him out.
Potential classic banger alert. As We Enter, the Nas and Damian Marley collab, is the lead single from the forthcoming Distant Relatives LP that is set for release this May and has been created to raise money for projects in Africa.
As We Enter samples Mulatu Astatke’s classic 1969 cut Yegelle Tezeta, that was used to brilliant effect in Jim Jarmusch’s bittersweet comedy, Broken Flowers, which followed Bill Murray across the US revisiting his ex-girlfriends. Never a good idea!
Astatke, pictured here with The Baron aka Malcolm Catto (check issue 03 for the low-down) who he worked with on Inspiration Information, is releasing his new solo album Mulatu Steps Ahead on March 29th. Listening to the sampler, Mulatu, even after all these years, is one step ahead of the game.
The Breakin’ Convention; The Seventh Annual International Festival of Hip-Hop Dance Theatre takes place at Sadler’s Wells, 1st May (until 3rd May).
Curated by Jonzi D,the line up for this kinetic event features global talent, including Japanese duo Hilty & Bosch, mad popper Mr Steen; Phax, whose ’animation skills’ have seen him labelled the slowest man on earth, France’s Pro-Phenomenon and Phase T, who reached the semi-finals of Battle of the Year in 2009, and more local b-boy moves from the likes of the Bad Taste Cru, performing Council of the Ordinary, that focuses on a homeless person’s daily experiences of the street and was first performed at the San Francisco Hip Hop Dance Fest in December 2009.
Time to reach for the shell toes and stretch those joints.
Tony Cook, one time drummer to James Brown and electro pioneer, is releasing an anthology, Back to Reality, in 2010. Check out this interview – persevere with it as the intro is a bit DIY – and listen to musical history speak. As it says Pt.1, I’m sure there are going to be more instalments that should make for a revealing interview. Peep the background to the project here; it’s what discovering and making music should be about.
HiphopDX broke some very worrying news earlier today concerning the health of Guru, one of half of the legendary Gang Starr, the Boston born MC went into hospital following a cardiac arrest and is currently in a coma. With his buttery flow, no nonsense lyrics and a swagger that makes Lil Wayne look like Lil Moe Guru is among the beacons of 90s golden era rap and everyone at Bonafide would like to wish him a safe and speedy recovery.
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