WMC Track: Donk Boys ‘Kaav’ (Jan Driver Remix) | Beatportal
WMC Track: Donk Boys ‘Kaav’ (Jan Driver Remix)

Tribal drums are definitely the loop de jour for techno at the moment, with minimal and techno producers seemingly sucking the funky elements out of house like parasites, after the juicy bits.

With minimal techno having been built upon an anodyne bed of bleeps and squeeks, house music’s sexy bongo rhythms (particularly Chicago house) sound appealing.

And it’s exciting when the two are combined, like with this Jan Driver Remix of Donk Boys ‘Kaav’.

I hope this is a big track at the upcoming WMC, because it totally rocks.

ROOTS&FUTURE12: Ron Carroll | SOUL CLAP - House. Techno. Dance. Music. DJs. Boston.
ROOTS&FUTURE12: Ron Carroll

So the first time I heard “Walking Down The Street (The N Song)” was when Mr. Carroll himself dropped it poolside at last year’s WMC. After that, I basically obsessively searched for it for like 6 months and could not find it anywhere, so at some point late last year I gave up/forgot about it all together. Then boom, all of a sudden I noticed a Count & Sinden remix charted on these guys myspace page (which you can listen to on this blog) and was reminded of how psyched I had been when I heard first heard that signature line and couldn’t get it out of my head. A little interweb research later and bang, you’re looking at the official video.

But the story doesn’t end here (and you know that we would never just post a video on Soul Clap without at least a little context for it). More surprising to me than finding the track was who had charted it. J.O.T.S. make and play “electro” music (the international misnomer for hipster’s current dance party music of choice) and Ron Carroll has made his name in the world of soulful Chicago house music. In fact, RC is one of my favorite house vocalists and a solid producer and songwriter to boot. So before this track blows up (which it will, because it’s already been licensed to 3 labels (including international cheesy disco house rulers Hed Kandi and Sinden & The Count played their version on Essential Mix last month) I think it’s important to give all the kids a little history lesson, Soul Clap style.

Ron Carroll My Prayer Vinyl

Ron Carroll - My Prayer (H&F Underground Dub) [Af-Ryth-Mix Sounds 0001 - 1993]
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This was the first release on Chicago’s Af-Ryth-Mix Sounds, which was one of many labels M&Ded by 90’s Chicago house stalwart Clubhouse Entertainment. Af-Ryth-Mix only had twelve release and all of them were at least partially produced or remixed by Hula (except ARM-0007) who was also one of the members of The Outhere Brothers of ’90s dance hit “Boom Boom Boom” fame. This particular record happens to be Ron Carroll’s first and with six mixes to choose from it covers a wide range of early ’90s house styles. From the Original Mix’s uplifting Gospel workout, to the NYC vibed King Street Mix (can’t figure out who did this, maybe something to do with the label of the same name), to Ron Trent’s chopped up Detroit house sounding Hymn Mix and finally to this here dub version. H&F would be none other than Hula & K. Fingers, who along with future grammy winner Maurice Joshua and fellow Outhere Brother Martell formed acid house supergroup Da Posse in the late ’80s. The two also had a grip of house remixes for Jive from ‘90-’94 and Fingers aka Craig Simpkins was a member of successful deep house team Blak Beat Niks. I know, I’ve been babbling, and call me a nerd, but all these connections are what make up the roots of the music we hear today.

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DJ Amazing Clay is one of the top baile funk dj’s with more than 20 years of dj’ing experience under his belt. Apparently he plays five parties/week! He’s about to release his album “Baile Funk Masters (#4)” this week on one of the premier labels dealing with baile funk, Man Recordings. As a promo, we bring you a 30 min mix that showcases his style two exclusive tracks that’s bound to get the party started.

DJ Classicz haunts ‘Talez’ - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety
DJ Classicz haunts ‘Talez’
Film puts urban spin on classic horror
By TATIANA SIEGEL
Davis Entertainment’s urban genre label, DJ Classicz, is developing the urban horror project “Shady Talez” for Paramount Pictures.

John Davis and Dallas Jackson are producing. Chris Lighty and Mona Scott of Violator, a Gotham-based record label and management company, will exec produce.

Project features three stories penned by Jackson and Marlon Chapman that pay hip-hop homage to classic horror films.

“We intend to marry each of the stories with a hot director from the musicvideo and/or film world along with Violator’s hip-hop talent roster,” Jackson said.

DJ Classicz was formed a year ago by Fox-based producer Davis (”I, Robot,” “Norbit”) and scribe-producer Jackson, who is also exec producing “Halls of Fame” with Ludacris for Nickelodeon’s teen network the N.

Violator’s Lighty last teamed with Paramount when he produced the studio’s 50 Cent vehicle “Get Rich or Die Tryin’.”

Baltimore Citypaper.com NOISE…Just a Load of Noise
The Club Beat with DJ Excel
By Al Shipley

“It’s funny that I’m not in Baltimore right now,” DJ Excel says over the phone from his current Denton, Md., home across the Chesapeake Bay. His label, Bmore Original, is just now picking up steam. At 32, he has spent the last couple years slowly getting back into the Baltimore club and hip-hop scene he grew up in, after taking a lengthy break to focus on fatherhood and a different career path in the mortgage business.

“Most people don’t know that I’m a single father, and my daughter comes first,” Excel says. “And that’s actually why I left the scene, to take care of her, because it’s just me and her.”

“Bmore Original was an idea that I had with a buddy of mine John who passed away,” DJ Excel explains. “He and I had a rap group back in the day, and we came up with the concept and never did anything with it. And when I came back out, two or three years ago, I decided to go ahead and use that name and bring it back out.”

Since then, Bmore Original has helped lead the charge of Baltimore club mp3 stores, using digital distribution to reach the local genre’s rapidly growing international fanbase. So far, the label’s releases are download-only, including DJ Excel’s own new club music album, The Friday Nite Bounce. But with help from local hip-hop label Street Legal, Excel is prepping Bmore Original’s first vinyl releases to drop in March, including a few 12-inch singles from Friday Nite Bounce.

New Baltimore club is only a small part of DJ Excel’s recent ventures, however. He’s still producing hip-hop, including several tracks on Minlus McCracken’s recent Rock And A Hardplace and E Major’s upcoming Majority Rules, as well as club-tinged tracks featuring Bossman and Mullyman. And Bmore Original’s roster now includes the Michigan rap group the Lyricists and Baltimore hip-hop institution Sonny Brown, for whom Excel organized a recent benefit concert. The label’s site also streams Bmore Original Radio, which regularly features guest artists and hosts, and on Ning.com, the web site that hosts personalized social networks, Excel created My-Club-Space for Baltimore club fans, DJs, and producers to network through.

With all this activity, Excel says, the Bmore Original site is getting attention practically everywhere but home. “Right now we’re getting a lot of hits from France,” he says. “We get hits from Australia. I think the least number of hits we get are in Baltimore, but we get love from all around.”

Although his first love was hip-hop, DJ Excel’s long history in club stretches back over a decade when he bought stacks of vinyl at Inner City Records, and released his own club single on Unruly Records in 1995. And even on Friday Nite Bounce, Excel’s tracks reflect club music’s early roots in breakbeat house more than any current permutation of the genre, which he says comes from his own nostalgia for that era.

Astronomers Is Search Of Earth-like Planets In Goldilock’s Zone - Space Scan
Astronomers is search of Earth-like planets in Goldilock’s zone
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For centuries, men have wondered whether we are alone in this universe or there are other living beings similar to us in the giant cosmos. While science fictions have delved into the world of extra-terrestrials, but astronomers are yet to discover anything close to it. In a new study presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston, astronomers say that they are optimist about finding a large number of earth-like planets in our Milky Way galaxy and even in galaxies in the vicinity of Milky Way. The evidence of the existence of a large number of Sun-like stars with discs of cosmic dust around them suggests existence of a large number of planetary systems. The cosmic dusts are rocky debris, the by-products of planets formed by collision and merging of giant rocks.

NASA’s Kepler mission due to be launched next year is expected to bring news about the undiscovered worlds. The precondition for the existence of life lies in the earth-like planets lying at the right distance from its parent star so that its surface is not too hot or too cold to support liquid water, the zone astronomer’s call the ‘Goldilock’s zone’.

Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes: Part I « The Mustard Seed
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes: Part I
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Cross-posted from Double Consciousness.

I just finished watching a great documentary by Byron Hurt called Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes on the PBS show [I]ndependent Lens. I just want the film to speak for itself and quote a few people interviewed in it.

One thing the film makes clear is that it just doesn’t blame hip-hop for being misogynistic or sexist and it just doesn’t blame Black men but instead points out the great prevailing misogyny in American culture. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson states:

When you think about American society, the notion of violent masculinity is at the heart of American identity. The preoccupation with Jesse James and the outlaw, the rebel, much of that is associated in the American mindset, the collective imagination of the nation, with the expansion of the frontier. In the history of American social imagination, the violent man using the gun to defend his family, his kip and kin, becomes a suitable metaphor for the notion of manhood.

Rapper Chuck D puts it best during the movie when he speaks on white supremacy and confronting it:

The dominant image of black masculinity in hip-hop is the fact that somebody can be confrontational but confrontational with the wrong cat. It’s like they’re not ever confrontational with the cats that will claim I’ll wipe your whole neighborhood out, because it’s almost like they’re trained not to even see them. It’s like, my beef is with this cat right here that looks just like me. The rise of the culture of black animosity is something that adds to the street credibility factor. It’s like almost to the point where 2Pac and Biggie were used as martyrs for this new endorsement of black animosity.

And more from Chuck D:

Black death has been pimped by corporations. Young people think that the street credibility is the gig that will ride them to some profitability in life.

Black manhood, by the structures and powers that be, the corporations, they’ve found a way that they think they can put soul in a bottle. If they can put soul in a bottle, then they could put manhood in a bottle. And then show the bottle in advertising. And we’ll follow the crumbs to the big bad wolf.

Hip-Hop Author Discusses Asians in America | The Cornell Daily Sun
Hip-Hop Author Discusses Asians in America
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February 18, 2008 - 12:00am
By Elizabeth Manapsal

Jeff Chang, keynote speaker at this year’s East Coast Asian-American Student Union conference, sat down to talk with The Sun about issues pertinent to forming Asian-American identities.

Chang’s long and storied career includes time spent as a labor and student organizer, an Indie label record mogul and most notably as an author chronicling the rise of the hip-hop movement and its political implications. Chang, whose works include Can’t Stop, Don’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation and Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop, spoke about the current issues facing Asian-Americans as they try to carve out their own identities along with the class warfare taking place at universities.

The Sun: Many people perceive Asians as no longer a minority in the United States, yet you don’t see a lot of Asian politicians. There is often a stereotype that Asians are indifferent to the social injustices around them. Do you find this to be true in your experiences?

Jeff Chang: More people are involved than we’re lead to believe. Studies show that this generation is more into volunteerism, activism and working for social justice than any other previous generation, which counters the notion that only people from the ’60s and ’70s cared about change. For years, I’ve been saying apathy is a lie. The problem now is that politicians treat [Asians] like we’re an emerging community. We need to push them out of their comfort zone and have them treat us like an insurgent group . . . We’re managed very well. The current stereotype is that Asians all get along together and play nice in the sandbox. But we need to push people who are in power into realizing that we have our own demands.

The Sun: What obstacles to empowerment do Asian-American youths face today?

JC: There’s this perception that Asian students have it all together. It’s the modern minority myth. Two decades ago people were not educated about who we are. From our point of view, this is a people’s struggle for justice. We need to give attention to who we are and where we need to go.

The Sun: What makes the struggle for Asian-American identity different from other cultures? Conversely, what unifies all of the cultures together?

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CZR and Alex Peace-This is House Music
This is House Music
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Album: This is House Music
Year: 2005
Genre: House
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Soulful San Francisco House Sessions Volume XIV
DJ Theo’s Deep Disco Funky Soulful Vocal San Francisco House Sessions Mix Podcast

What’s up everyone, here is Volume XIV of Soulful San Francisco House Sessions. Thank You to Everyone who keeps supporting house music, and all the people downloading around the world from ITunes, you keep me inspired! Love Theo!

Here’s the Playlist:

1) “Got To Feel It” - Vigo/Vicari jr./raw
2) “Release” - Kid Massive (Beatchuggers Horn Remix)
3) “Always” - Sunny Larican (Ben Tom’s Bay Side Mix)
4) “You Found A Way” - Tortured Soul (Fred Everything Dub)
5) “I Can Tell” - Sterling Ensemble (Original Vocal Mix)
6) “Blaze” - Cafe Soul All Stars (Roots Instrumental)
7) “Steppin’ Out” - Deep Swing (Marathon Mix)
8) “Funky Sensation” - Soul Avengerz (Dirty Funk Vox Mix)
9) “Follow The Groove” - Magik Johnson feat. Sandy Mill ( Ian Pooley Mix)
10) “Citrus District” - Southern California Players feat. Myka 9

Peace!