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Per la gioia di tutti gli appassionati di black music sono uscite ultimamente varie ristampe di grandi classici del funk e del reggae; eccovi le foto delle copertine e le informazioni sui vari vinili in questione (clicca per ingrandire):

Lee Perry – I Am The Upsetter – Trojan (ristampa 8 x 7" box set)

Artisti vari – Strange Breaks & Mr Thing – BBE (ristampa 3 x LP)

Artisti vari – New Orleans Funk – Soul Jazz (ristampa 3 x LP)

Artisti vari – Jamaica Funk – Soul Jazz (ristampa 2 x LP)

Sound Dimension – Mojo Rocksteady Beat – Soul Jazz (ristampa 2 x LP)

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James Brown gives you dancing lessons 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVeN0LWYv70

"Ain’t it funky?" James Brown live – Paris 1971 

Novita’ discografiche approvate da THX (clikka sulle anteprime per ingrandire)

not moving – land of nothing

dj balli – pornogolf

the dj producer – drum reclamation

ghostface killa – da battle remix l.p

the art of scratch (one)

dj krush – stepping stones. soundscapes

kool keith – freaks

g & d – the message. universa

clark – turning dragon

burial – ghost hardware

kool keith – diesel truckers instrumentals

burial

letizia renzini – bird listening

aesop rock – none shall pass

amon tobin – kitchen sink remixes

baron zen – remixes (12″)

baron zen – at the mall. the remixes

peanut butter wolf – b-ball zombie war

yesterday new quintet – yesterdays universe

speicher 57

aa vv – the kings of electro

aa vv – return of the d.j. vol III

phonometak laboratories – series 2

percee p – perseverance

dizee rascal – m4ths+english

mad professor – the adventures of a dub sampler (dub me crazy part 7)

your friendly neighborhood…

THX 1138

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JAMES IS NUMBER 1!

Tributo a James Brown.

24 Dicenbre 2007.

Al cinema del CPA prima e dopo il film dello Zio Jo…

THX at the controlz! Only muthafucking VINYL RECORDS! NO CD/MP3 SHIT!!!

Centro Popolare Autogestito Firenze Sud, via Villamagna 27a Firenze, zona piazza Gavinana – aquedotto. Bus: 3, 8, 23, 31, 32, 33

Telefono: 0556580479

http://www.cpafisud.org/ 

Flyer graphix by THX 1138

Ritratto di James Brown: THX (disegnato nel 1994)

OLD SKOOL WILL NEVER DIE! 

immagine tratta da http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funky_drummer 

Sabato sera sono stato in un atelier di artisti e designer a Firenze per il vernissage di inaugurazione della mostra di Francesca "Machisei" Pagni; WJM e Jimmy hanno intrattenuto gli avventori della mostra con una bellissima selezione di dischi soul, funk, krautrock, hip hop e reggae, fra cui "Funky Drummer" di James Brown, nella versione lunga (9 minuti e 13 secondi), secondo la wikipedia James Brown, con il brano "Funky Drummer", detiene il record del disco piu’ campionato in assoluto, infatti migliaia di autori hanno usato e continuano ad usare il Funky Dummer beat nelle loro canzoni (prevalentemente nell’ambito del rap e del drum’n’bass, ma anche in altri contesti).

Se tutto va bene, se non ci saranno i "soliti" guasta feste che remano contro e soprattutto se non mi faranno girare i coglioni ancora prima di iniziare, la notte della vigilia di natale organizzero’ un tributo a James Brown nel primo anniversario della scomparsa di questo intramontabile artista… sperate, sperate che io tanto i dischi del Padrino del Soul me li ascolto anche a casa…

JAMES IS NUMBER 1!
TRIBUTO A JAMES BROWN
24 dicembre 2007 al cinema del CPA Firenze Sud dalle ore 22.00 (prima e dopo la proiezione del film a cura delle Officine Cinematografiche che iniziera alle 22.30 circa) fino a tarda notte. THX at the controlz. SOLO FOTTUTISSIMI DISCHI IN VINILE!!!! NO CD O MERDA MP3!!! ONLY MATHAFUCKIN’ VYNIL RECORDS!!! NO CD OR MP3 SHIT!!!!

James Brown, 3 Maggio 1933 – 25 dicembre 2006: The Hardest Working Man in Show Business, Soul Brother Number One, Mister Dynamite, Minister of The New New Super Heavy Funk, Mr. Please Please Please, The Boss, The Godfather of Soul… R.I.P.

Un bacione a WJM… Sparacchia!

THX 

Funky Drummer audio su youtube (versione 7 minuti e 3 secondi)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br3Dk7m-dRc
 

da http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funky_drummer : 

Uses of the ["Funky Drummer" n.d.r] drum break

The "Funky Drummer" break has been used in literally hundreds of hip hop recordings, including famous tracks by Public Enemy, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, A Tribe Called Quest and Big Daddy Kane. Its use was especially prolific during the 1980s before unlicensed sampling became illegal. Rapper and producer Edan‘s mixtape "Sound of the Funky Drummer" features only tracks which use the "Funky Drummer" beat. Public Enemy, X-Clan, and the Beastie Boys have all merged "Funky Drummer" with the descending guitar riff of the Black Flag song, Rise Above (from the Damaged album).

Many pop recordings outside the hip-hop genre have also sampled the "Funky Drummer" break, including Sinead O’Connor‘s song "I Am Stretched On Your Grave", Amon Tobin‘s "The Sighting" from the album Adventures in Foam, George Michael‘s "Waiting For That Day (You Can’t Always Get What You Want)", Pizzicato Five‘s "Baby Love Child", and Sublime‘s cover of the Grateful Dead‘s "Scarlet Begonias". A variation of the "Funky Drummer" rhythm was used in "Burning Bridges" (the theme song from the film Kelly’s Heroes) by The Mike Curb Congregation, and in Shep Pettibone‘s mix of Madonna‘s "Justify My Love". More recently, Dido has used the sample for her hit single Here With Me.

In some recordings the "Funky Drummer" beat is mechanically slowed
down or sped up. Other recordings do not sample the original recording
of the "Funky Drummer" break, but a re-recording of the same beat by a
studio drummer.

	Clyde Stubblefield (Funky Drummer) Playing "I Got You " . For those that don’t know, he is THE funky drummer (James Brown’s former drummer)… the guy who came up with the Clyde Stubblefield was a guest speaker for a music history class at York University at the end of the ’06 school year. For those that don’t know, he is THE funky drummer (James Brown’s former drummer)… the guy who came up with the most sampled beats in HISTORY and was NEVER given any credit. (more) (less)	From: muziquelle Views: 21,491 Added: 1 year ago
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un dipinto su tela di Francesca Pagni (aka Machisei)

Maison Bio – via aretina 281 50136 firenze 0039 055 650 44 15 maisonbiostudio@libero.it

Time Zone – Wild Style extended – original 12” version
(Original US 12-inch A-Side mix)

Versione originale della facciata A del 12 pollici stampato dall’etichetta Celluloid e mai piu’ ristampato a causa del sample di 4 secondi estratto dal discorso di apertura di Adolf Hitler alle Olimpiadi di Berlino nel 1936: “Hiermit erklare ich die Olympischen Spiele Berlin 1936 neuer Zeitrechnung fur eroffnet” [Con questo dichiaro i Giochi Olimpici di Berlino 1936 l’inaugurazione di una nuova era (zona temporale)].

Time Zone – The Wildstyle Extended (original 12″ version)

Dalle note di copertina della compilation “The Celluloid Years – 12″es and MORE”. Collision Records (cat. N°: CCT 3007-2)

Time Zone – The Wildstyle – Francois Kevorkian & Paul Groucho Smykle RMX (original 12″ version)

The Amen Break, un break della durata di neanche 6 secondi, tratto dalla canzone degli Winstons "Amen Brother", che ha generato intere scene musicali; questo sample e’ stato usato largamente nell’hip hop e nella musica generata con i sampler ed e’ divenuto l’essenza di drum & bass e jungle.

da http://nkhstudio.com/pages/popup_amen.html

Can I Get An Amen? is an audio installation that unfolds a critical perspective of perhaps the most sampled drum beat in the history of recorded music, the Amen Break. It begins with the pop track Amen Brother by 60’s soul band The Winstons, and traces the transformation of their drum solo from its original context as part of a ‘B’ side vinyl single into its use as a key aural ingredient in contemporary cultural expression. The work attempts to bring into scrutiny the techno-utopian notion that ‘information wants to be free’- it questions its effectiveness as a democratizing agent. This as well as other issues are foregrounded through a history of the Amen Break and its peculiar relationship to current copyright law. 

"History of the Amen Break" video (http://www.jahsonic.com/Breaks.html)

Link: Amen break – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

"This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the
"Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a
chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in
early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for
drum-and-bass and jungle music — a six-second clip that spawned
several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison’s 2004 video is a meditation
on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the
history of a remarkable music clip."

QUOTE: "Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it". 

Via http://agentchin.typepad.com/grabbag/2006/03/amen_break.html [Aug 2006]

copertina del 45 giri di Blondie “Heart Of Glass”. Chrysalis, 1978 (ed. italiana)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkxy9akJl2E

Intervista con Madlib

links: 

Video tratti da "Beat konducta vol. 3 & 4" e poster dei film prodotti a Bollywood
http://www.uber.com/beatkonducta  

The Hip-Hop Army That Is Madlib. Di Joshua Alston (articolo da Newsweek, Sept. 6, 2007) 
http://www.stonesthrow.com/madlib/newsweek-sep07.html 

Pagina ufficiale di Madlib sul sito Stones Throw 
http://www.stonesthrow.com/madlib/ 

Japan's Groove Magazine peeks into Egon & J.Rocc's record bags (japanese language)  
http://www.stonesthrow.com/egon/groove.html 

Intervista con Egon (mp3)
http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/fairgame/local-fairgame-621898.mp3