Hi everybody! I’ve been away for a LONG, LONG time…sorry about that.
Anyway, I just picked up this new Cocoa Tea 7″ called “Barack Obama”, and it’s pretty adorable. To be honest, I am kind of really tired of the Obama sales bonanza that I see going on in my demographic–I mean, I love the guy and fully intend to vote for him, but when I walk into Urban Outfitters (my first mistake) and see no fewer than FOUR different Barack Obama t-shirt designs for sale, I shudder a little bit.
NEVERTHELESS, I thought this nifty Obama-themed steppers joint from dancehall legend Cocoa Tea was cute as hell. Enjoy.
This McCain attack ad equating Obama with Britney Spears and Paris Hiltion is hilarious!
First of all, I don’t know about Paris, but Britney was a Bush supporter. Is the ad trying to say Obama is a stupid blond bimbo like the one who voted for Bush before? Wow!
Second, the ad is practically an endorsement of Obama. I mean they’re saying he’s the most popular guy in the world and then questioning whether he’s ready to lead. It’s quite obvious from the images in the ad that he’s already leading.
The one infuriating part of the ad is the claim that Obama will increase our dependence on foreign oil. That’s a classic Republican attack machine lie.
Right now we could increase the fuel efficiency of our cars to 43 miles a gallon, and if we increased the fuel efficiency of our cars to 43 miles a gallon then we would have to import zero oil from the middle east. That is something that we could do right now.
Some of you may have noticed I’ve been using Twitter to micro-blog during my mini-tour, but in case you missed that, here’s a recap of my tour in the form of a tweet log.
with added commentary
09:38 AM July 18
DJ C tour kicks off tonight @ the Enormous Room in Cambridge @ Pan Am w. Baltimoroder (Heartthrob)
11:31 AM July 18
On the bus having a chat with a woman who migrated from Jamaica in ‘68 about mili’s “my boy lollypop.”
06:46 PM July 18
Ah! Central square in the summer! Its good to be back.
Now with outdoor sidewalk seating at restaurants and bars! Talk with pan-handlers while sucking down some muscles in white wine garlic broth.
03:46 AM July 19 Enormous room is my fave club/lounge/bar in the world. Good peoples! Big up to baltimoroder for hosting and rockin’ the house.
04:54 PM July 19
Watching outdoor roller derby in providence.
Providence Vs. New Hampshire in NH’s first battle. Providence won. The main downtown plaza has an outdoor roller rink!
08:37 PM July 19
Most diverse crowd ever! Providence, RI.
infants to elderly, every color, gay and straight, poor and rich; literally, this was one of the largest cross sections of society I’ve every seen mingling together at the same event. This all while listening to bands/DJs and sipping on micro-brew beers.
10:05 AM July 20
The Water’s on Fire! Party in the tunnel at Indie Arts Fest in Providence went off last night. Good sweaty fun!
I had a great time-slot at the fest, spinning in the tunnel just as the last Indie Arts Fest. band came off the main stage at one end of the tunnel, and the WaterFire fest. was kicking into high gear at the other. This made for a full tunnel of folks ready to get down, and that we did.
I’m getting ready to head out to Baltimore tomorrow for a visit with my man Gregzinho (of Beat Diaspora fame) before my gig in Silver Spring, MD on Friday night. I normally couldn’t be around B’more without ruminating on that city’s club music which has been such an influence.
Now I won’t be able to be there without thinking of B’more’s club queen, DJ K-Swift. She died Monday after a swimming pool accident and the Baltimore club scene is reeling. She’s been a mainstay in the the scene since the early days, and for the past 10 years had been spreading the B’more gospel as a high profile radio personality on Baltimore’s Q92 station.
As a female DJ, K-Swift was rare in the male-dominated scene she loved. She took club music’s raw and raunchy attitude by the horns and worked it. In honor of her life, I’ve made this little remix using an acapella from one her Club Queen albums. Club on, queen!
For the past few years DJ Flack has been teaching a companion course to the weekly party, also called Beat Research. This year he worked with his advanced Beat Research students to put together a compilation of some of their best work and the outcome is a free CD and download album entitled The Petri Disc Vol. 1.
One of my favorite tracks on the comp is DJ Fraze One’s “Dub” remix of Rick Ross’ Everyday I’m Hustlin’:
More summer vibes comin’ atcha! This one’s a dubstep-centric mix I cooked up featuring big tunes by a bunch of friends (big up y’all!) as well as a few folks who’s paths I hope to cross one of these days.
Check below for more info about the artists involved, including our pals from way down south (Caracas Venezuela), Cardopusher and Pacheko who’ve put together a slammin’ little album that we’ll be releasing here at Mashit in the coming months. Stay tuned…
A few months ago I wandered over to Sonotheque to check out Zizek’s first-ever Chicago performance. The rag-tag crew of Argentina-based sonic alchemists threw down beats the likes of which that sound-system had never before been asked to reproduce. The swaggering shuffle of electronic cumbia with huge bass forced all of the few people in the place to sway and eventually dance their faces off. By the end of the show, members of the crew had formed an impromptu acoustic cumbia jam with traditional drums, percussion, melodica, and vocals. It was a crying shame that there weren’t more people in the house to experience and partake in one of the best dance parties of the year.
Zizek is dedicated to the creation of endless tropical nights of dancing utilizing the emerging sounds of Cumbia, Hip Hop, Dancehall, Reggaetón, Bastard Pop, Mashups and more. The goal however is to give these styles, ideas and rhythms an Argentine touch, with the aim of putting Buenos Aires on the map of the global music scene.
The star of Zizek has been Cumbia, a Latin American sound born from the fusion of old and new worlds in Colombia. Zizek is adapting cumbia’s distinctive rhythm to make it relevant to a new generation of Latin Americans and it´s artists have created a few genres of their own, like cumbia beat, cumbiastep, and cumbia hop. Zizek´s producers are bringing out contrasting takes on a genre that already has a massive following and it is exploding faster than it ever would have up until now.
Following up their much hyped SXSW appearance, the revolving Zizek crew will be in the USA, Canada and Mexico again this July for a coast to coast summer blowout tour. DJ Villa Diamante and Bersa Discos Oro11 together with ZZK Records newest artists Fauna and Chancha Vía Circuíto will be bringing the new sound of Argentina to North America this time around.
The tour will feature DJ Sets and Performances by:
Villa Diamante
B.A.´s “it DJ” and Zizek Resident, specializes in mashing up Argentine & Latin American flavor with Northern Hemisphere Hip Hop, Grime, Electro, & Pop.
Fauna
Fauna´s “Tropitronica” sound blends Latin elements with electronic beats and the duo includes live hip-hop/ragga vocals to round out their upbeat, sonically innovative productions.
Chancha Vía Circuíto
Chancha is one of the hottest names in the new cumbia scene. His productions have caught the eye of international beat hunters and his tracks have been featured heavily on mixtapes by Diplo, Maga Bo and more.
Oro11
Co -owner of S.F.´s Bersa Discos, Oro11 lived in Buenos Aires for 3 years where he developed a taste for intensifying and modernizing cumbia villera through harder dancehall and Baltimore club beats.
Tour Dates:
07.10.08 (LAMC) @ SOBs - New York City, New York w/ Toy Selectah
07.11.08 @ Club Lambi - Montreal, Canada
07.12.08 (Ritmo y Color Festival) @ Brigantine Room - Toronto, Ontario
07.14.08 @ TBA
07.15.08 @ TBA - Detroit, Michigan
07.16.08 @ Sonotheque - Chicago, IL
07.17.08 @ TBA - Cleveland, Ohio
07.18.08 @ TBA
07.19.08 @ SOBs - New York City, New York
07.22.08 @ Nectar – Seattle, Washington
07.23.08 @ Berbati’s Pan – Portland, Oregon
07.24.08 @ Mezzanine -San Francisco, CA w/ Bersa Discos & Drop the Lime
07.25.08 @ TBA - Los Angeles, CA
07.26.08 @ Getty Museum - Los Angeles, California
07.31.08 @ Pasaguero - Mexico City, Mexico w/ Las Kumbia Queers
DJ C @ Beat Research in Cambridge, Mon. along-side DJ Prezdivka, DJ Flack, and Wayne&Wax. Come holiday dance-party w. us! http://bit.ly/br12Twitter ->2008/12/28
Hello Boston! Bassic party rocked 2nite! Big up to Jam2, Dabu, Damien, Flack, Ripley, C3, and everyone else who was in the house! Twitter ->2008/12/28
DJ C in Boston @ BASSIC, Sat. MASSIVE BASSLINE PRESSURE @ Goodlife Bar
28 Kingston St, Downtown Boston: http://bit.ly/bassicTwitter ->2008/12/23
Hi everybody! I’ve been away for a LONG, LONG time…sorry about that.
First of all, I don’t know about Paris, but Britney was a Bush supporter. Is the ad trying to say Obama is a stupid blond bimbo like the one who voted for Bush before? Wow!
I’m getting ready to head out to Baltimore tomorrow for a visit with my man Gregzinho (of 
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