djinji brown

every now and then i come accross somebody who just blows away my mind. djinji brown is one of those people. a criminally slept on artist, son of jazz great marion brown, producer engineer, overall musician who grew up in the bronx. just to name a few who he's worked with: pete rock and c.l. smooth, a tribe called quest, the seven head label, etc, etc.

just google the guy!

anyway in this day and age of myspace, yutubery and bloggery, whoever has a proper website, well, you just know they are serious. or maybe its just us music nerds? dunno...

explore: www.djinjibrown.com

the point is since the guy has black and spanish blood runnin through his veins, havin a really open mind towards music - and here i mean every genre - who makes heavily latin and afro influenced just plain beatiful soul music, you just know it was worth getting out of bed for one more day...

i just love it when you listen to somebody's creation and you feel they put all their heart and soul into it.
ok enough of the cheesy positivity spillage.

even though his work is rather obscure, meaning no torrent and rapidshare 15 seconds around here, check his site as he has quite a few tracks up for streaming. abeuleita's dance - a song inspired by his grandmother, who sports the front sleve of the 12" and Djinji had this to say about: "... well, if you've never seen a Latin Grandmummy dance, then you ain't seen nothing! I mean for real, it is incredible! I had the pleasure of escorting Celia Cruz on stage once and, althought she couldn't really move her knees, she was shaking her hips like she's really doing it" - is gonna be in my next mix.

K'naan - The Dustyfoot Philosopher

Usually I don't tell to people that I'm into music. Even thought most of the time I have headphones on, if somebody asks me it's mostly, well, I listen to hiphop and I already know, that even if there is a slight scrap of idea in the others head, it's not what I think about. So mostly its, ah Yo! Yo! (and I feel the pain inside), sometimes its Yeah, Yeah (and I feel the pain inside) or worst comes to worst they ask about somebody or start to tell me something vaguely rap related something (and.... I feel the pain inside).

Anyway this is hiphop. I could go on and on about the voice of the underprivilidged, about how this is something worth culturally, as in pop culturally... this is 21st century, post colonialism, at the middle of culture colonialism, what do you do when "popular music" gets political, it's real, as in reality - as in art reflacting on reality; what makes somebody's creativity's product a work of art, but just read the bellow, watch the video, google it, if you feel you wudn't mind getting a bit more of this stuff, whatever, you know what i mean... I hope more than one of you will think its not a completely worthless idea sacrificing 120 minutes of your life on this stuff...

I'm a spit these verses cause I feel annoyed, and I'm not gonna quit till I fill the void, if I rhyme about home and got descriptive, I'd make Fifty Cent look like Limp Biskit, it's true, and don't make me rhyme about you, I'm from where the kids is addicted to glue, get ready, he got a good grip on the machete, make rappers say they do it for love like R-Kelly, it's HARD, harder than Harlem and Compton intertwined, harder than harboring Bin Laden and rewind, "to that earlier part when I was kinda like" we begin our day by the way of the gun, rocket propelled grenades blow you away if you front, we got no police ambulances or fire fighters, we start riots by burning car tires, they looting, and everybody starting shooting... So what's hardcore? Really, are you hardcore?Hmm. So what's hardcore? Really, are you hardcore? Hmm.

K'naan, What's Hardcore ?







K'naan on the net

some stuff i've been feelin lately

yeah, this means about ten plays a day... each... those who know me, know what i'm talking about! I hear ya, "yeah, yeah great song, but please can we switch it up, just a bit?!" well.... no way!

Tabi Bonney: Beat Rock

Santo Gold: L.E.S. Artistes

get the mp3 from rcrd lbl

and M.I.A. and Spank Rock together? can it get any better than that? performing Galang live (the quality is a bit shady, but its worth it)




and yes, i know the "new" M.I.A. LP is not really new anymore (about a half year is like old school these days), but it's a beast of an LP and I got it, so expect some drums from all around the world in the next mix.

and just so I get back to the friends at the end, the new mix is coming, its coming...