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Esperanza Spalding: Chamber Music Society

mediumkid — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:00:05 +0000

Not that I really needed pursuading before but this is further proof of why if you’re in London on November 13th you should check out Ms. Spalding’s performance at the London Jazz Festival

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The PSM: Secret Garden Party

mediumkid — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:00:20 +0000

Remember Pauli, the G-Shock wearing drummer from The Gorillaz Soundsystem who I met at Streetfest? I got sent a link to a documentary about his goings on at The Secret Garden Party and it’s pretty cool. With dope beats and crazy dancing paired with a no-shirt & braces combo that is pretty damn dope – thenublack salutes you Pauli (and Rohan for some beautifully shot footage).

Shot at the Secret Garden Party, The PSM follows Pauli Stan-McKenzie, a drummer for the Gorrilaz Sound System, as he prepares to headline the festival. Filmed with a Canon 7D, the audience is able to get right amongst the action as Pauli performs on stage in front of 26,000 fans.

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Superinternational x Theophilus London

mediumkid — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:00:36 +0000

The folks at Superinternational caught up with one of my favourite artists, Theophilus London while he was in Miami, check out the interview:

Theophilus London Interview from SUPERINTERNATIONAL on Vimeo.

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#nowplaying: Diggy’s Monthly Mix vol 1

mediumkid — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:20:34 +0000

I’m currently listening to a compilation from illustrator Ron Ackins. I’m always interested in the music artists listen to while they create…I’d actually been thinking about putting together a mix of the music visual artists listen to so he’s one step ahead of me, lol.

Enjoy

(click the image to download)

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inspired by: Michael Jackson

mediumkid — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:00:57 +0000

Between now and this time last year I’ve heard my fair share of MJ remixes (even a Soca one) most of which I’ve really loved…I don’t think as a musician that I’d dare put out and MJ remix compilation that wasn’t the best. I’m sure I’ve probably posted each of these mixes on the blog at one point in time, but here for your aural pleasure are my favorites.

Smooth Jazz Criminal

Jazz re:freshed

The King x The President

Rich Medina

I’m The DJ He’s The King

DJ Jazzy Jeff

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Gorillaz Sound System

mediumkid — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:00:43 +0000

I attended Street Fest a couple of weeks ago and it was pretty damn good. It was a mix of street art, fashion, music and food. Wale Adeyemi’s B Side was there, as well as Adidas Originals who had a really cool competition on to customise your own kicks.

I bumped into Kwabena of Kayobi Clothing and we got chatting about each other’s brands, what was going on with thenublack show (which I STILL haven’t spoken about on here yet!)…dude is a hustler – I know a lot of people went away rocking their ‘Make Fufu not War’ tees that day.

While we were chatting a couple of guys from the Gorillaz Soundsystem passed by and we got chatting to Pauli K (the drummer) who’s a cool dude with a VERY NICE watch. He sent me over this video a couple of days ago and I love it! Their energy is dope – look out for more from Pauli K on thenublack.

Gorillaz Sound System from Rohan Blair-Mangat on Vimeo.

StreetFest 2010 from Rohan Blair-Mangat on Vimeo.

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thenublack ♥s The Beautiful Game

mediumkid — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:00:19 +0000

Football fever is in air folks, only a few more days to go until thenublack goes on the ultimate man search, lol jk. No but honestly, being held in South Africa you know the atmosphere is going to be ridiculous! I had a little browse on YouTube for some of my favourite football videos:

Back in the day when I was obsessed with Ronaldo and all things Brazil…

I saw parts of this advert at work everyday before I got a chance to see the whole thing in full

In 2008, Jozy was the youngest player to score for Team USA. Since then, he’s been signed to Hull and was also on board with Wyclef’s Yele Haiti raising funds for their country.

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Spread Love: Brooklynati comes to Favela Chic

mediumkid — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:20:55 +0000

I’m happy to say that my ‘list of musicians I’d like to see in concert’ is decreasing. Between now and 2009 I’ve been priveleged to see a number of artists who I’d say are my ultimate favourite (Q-Tip, Eric Benet, Maxwell, Chrisette Michelle, Jay Electronica)…and now Tanya Morgan.

There’s truly no stopping Amelia of PMOI…on Sunday she put on ‘Second Hand Sureshots’ and the magnificent ‘A Suite for Ma Dukes’ and then the following Wednesday managed to pull of a lastminute.com performance from Tanya Morgan and Spec Boogie!

Having caught Spec performing at Deviation last week, I thought I’d go and catch him with his homies TM. I’m not sure what the ratio of people that knew of Tanya Morgan’s music to those who didn’t, and despite trying to take some snapshots, I was pretty much 95% occupied with nodding my head to their songs….THEY PLAYED VON PEA’S FOREIGN EXCHANGE JOINT (which I’d heard millions of times before I’d actually cottoned on to TM) Sarah Love was also in the house on the decks (she’s gorgeous!).

Randomly met up with one of my peeps who I got to come along with me (he missed the performance though as he had work the next day). I’ll be sure to send him over some copies of TM and Spec Boogie’s music. Also spotted Mangaliso Asi – the dope emcee who tore it up at Jay Electronica’s gig.

I think working in the news has made my star-struckness levels go down quite a bit, plus all three guys seemed really down to earth…something I should be glad about because I got get a snap of both Don Will and Von Pea rocking the MouthOff app ala their So Damn Down video.

They came, they rapped, they danced (“oh my god he’s a REALLY good dancer” giggled one of the ladies beside me and Spec got his boogie on, lol), and left the crowd wanting more.

Looking forward to Jazz:refreshed next week! See you guys there if you’re around…

G x

check out the rest of the photos

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Operation A-Team

mediumkid — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:37:27 +0000

Don’t be fooled…I’m not about to do a write-up about the new A-Team movie (um….who is the Mr.T guy?!) Anyways…a good friend of mine has made it to the finals of the Eric Roberson remix contest and so I’m asking you lovely people to cast your votes – for Ahmed R (you COULD vote for someone else but I think you’ll agree from listening to his track that it’s a winner).

Check out the other tracks and get VOTING!!

Ahmed’s music page

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Bang + Boogie

mediumkid — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:30:47 +0000

This is probably the most music posts I’ve done in one week (of current music anyway). What with the Jonas Brothers tour being cancelled, Beyonce not releasing a single in the last 2 days and my favourite artists releasing albums this week….it seems like good music is here to stay!

Another offering from the Tanya Morgan/Lessondary Crew, Bang + Boogie featuring a girl with a houndstooth clad donk and a cameo appearance from non other than Principal Grand (Che be schoolin them kids SON, lol). More humorous/refreshing hip hop videos like this please!

TANYA MORGAN – BANG + BOOGIE from AAC FILMS on Vimeo.

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