Very little information around as to exactly how this was put together, but one thing’s for sure, is that the end result quite simply demands your attention. LA based emcee, Dumbfoundead – aka Johnathan Park – fronts an 8 person multinational collective, who with some magic from LA’s interactive media agency, Cain Mosni, have created a unique online jam session that pays homage to Galt MacDermot’s 1966 ‘Coffee Cold’ and Handsome Boy Modeling School’s MacDermot sampling 1999 track, ‘The Truth’. Just another example of how today’s technology, when used in the right hands, can create original and truly inspiring art.
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Dumbfoundead: Jam Session 2.0
8 people, 5 instruments, 4 Continents, 3 languages, 1 song....
February 5th, 2010
We’ve often wondered why there has been so little reference in contemporary music to the classic era of African funk, led with such gusto by the godfather of afrobeat Fela Kuti. Whilst it has taken The Verve some 15 years to release 4 albums, Kuti released some 20+ albums in his ‘71-’76 golden period, with no detriment to quality.
Following the revival of the afrobeat sound in indie, through bands like Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer and Foals, Chicago based producer DJ Mike Love has dusted off the black American blueprint for funk and given us the greatest mash-up since The Grey Album, in the form of ‘Nigerian Gangster’, a similar track for track fusion of a whole Jay-Z album, this time replacing the Beatles experimentation with Fela Kuti’s drive, passion and outrageous funk.
We need say no more, you simply need to head over here and download the album in full. Wigging out is non-negotiable.
For those with their finger firmly on the hip-hop pulse, Kid Cudi is one of the names being thrown around and his new mixtape (presented by creative collective / streetwear label 10 Deep) is set to make shockwaves big enough to send this ‘kid’ (sorry) mainstream. Rocking a similarly off-beat indie hip-hop vibe to fellow underground artists like the Cool Kids and Wale (who features here), Kid Cudi fuses alternative rock and hip-hop with a rhyming style not too disimilar to Kanye, who was in attendance for the mixtape launch and is a big fan.
The raw energy of this mixtape makes it as powerful as 99% of recently released hip-hop on the shelves of your local record store and is quite simply downright better than most of it too, oh yeah, and did we say it’s free? Available as a download from 10 Deep or, for those of you who can’t let go of physical formats, free with a very limited edition tee from the 10 Deep store.
Want to keep tabs on Kid Cudi? Check out the official blog over here. Wanna preview some sounds? Check out the exclusive track below, head over to his MySpace page, or dive right in and download the mixtape.
Listen: Kid Cudi: Cudi Get
Much has been said about this album, released on Monday, not least by some of the bands own disgruntled members, in particular Raekwon and Ghostface Killah, who have been some of it’s most scathing critics
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