The Free Experience http://www.thefreeexperience.com W.E.B. Du Bois Meets Camp Lo Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:45:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 DOWNTIME BRASIL http://www.thefreeexperience.com/2012/02/downtime-brasil/ http://www.thefreeexperience.com/2012/02/downtime-brasil/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:32:47 +0000 admin http://www.thefreeexperience.com/?p=559

DOWNLOAD :: DOWNTIME BRASIL (DISC 1) & (DISC 2)

After viewing this a year ago, I knew I would put together a Brazil mix and here it is.

Also, long live Loronix. I’ve downloaded at least 7gb of Brazilian music from that site a few years ago and I’m pretty sure it went down due to copyright issues. Personally, the countless people who buy/find first pressings that are never rereleased and upload them to the internet should be seen as digital archivists and the industry should approach them to form a new model and not shut them down. Just my two cents. Enjoy the music.

TRACKLIST (DISC 1)

______Song – Artist

  1. Juntando Coco – Cila Do Coco
  2. Emilio – Timbalada
  3. Samba De Ile – Banda Favela
  4. Ponteio – Sergio Mendes
  5. Domingo 23 – Jorge Ben
  6. Canto de Ossanha – Paulo Bellinati/Mônica Salmaso
  7. Billie Jean/Eleanor Rigby Medley – Caetano Veloso
  8. Contacto com o Mundo Racional – Tim Maia
  9. Braun-Blek-Blu – Dom Um Romao
  10. Na Boca do Sol – Arthur Verocai
  11. Lágrima flor – Miguel Angel
  12. Cidade Vazia – Zimbo Trio
  13. Jorge da Capadócia – Caetano Veloso
  14. Não Tem Nada Não – Marcos Valle
  15. Rebel Rebel – Seu Jorge
  16. Menina Mulher de Pela Preta – Jorge Ben
  17. Refem da Solidao – Milton Banana Trio
  18. Sob O Mar – Jaime Alem & Nair Candia
  19. Conformopolis – Di Melo
  20. 13o. Andar – Liverpool
  21. Macarrao com Linguica e Pimentao – Rita Lee
  22. Tudo o que você podia ser – Lô Borges & Milton Nascimento
  23. Terra de Ninguém – Marinho Castellar & Banda Disritmia

TRACKLIST (DISC 2)

______Song – Artist

  1. Aceito Tudo – Di Melo
  2. Podes Crer, Amizade – Toni Tornado
  3. Casa Forte – Banda Black Rio
  4. Aos Barões – Lô Borges
  5. Katarina, Katarina – Jorge Ben
  6. Escravod de Jo – Dom Um Romao
  7. Pedro Pedreiro – Zélia Barbosa
  8. Apocalipse – José Mauro
  9. Jungle Minias – Banda Favela
  10. Sao Paolo Nights – Jackson Conti (Madlib & Mamao)
  11. Dear Limmertz – Azymuth
  12. Agoniza Mas Não Morre – Nelson Sargento
  13. Boi – Joao Bosco
  14. Slow Hot Wind – Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66
  15. Dedicado a Ela – Arthur Verocai
  16. Paz e Amor – Liverpool
  17. Não Sou De Ferro – Avanço 5
  18. Luiz Wagner Guitarreiro – Jorge Ben
  19. Curtíssima – Módulo 1000
  20. Canto Fundo – Perfume Azul do Sol
  21. Vìo cego – Marcos Valle
  22. Cais – Lô Borges & Milton Nascimento
  23. Eleanor Rigby [Bonus] – Caetano Veloso
  24. It’s a Long Way [Bonus] – Caetano Veloso

Peace

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DOWNLOAD :: FREE JAZZ VOL. 2

Free Jazz 2 is the second installment of a series highlighting Jazz.  This mix is inspired by the Ted Daniel Quintet song, “Sweet Dreams.”  Ted Daniels (1974) played a hybrid of Loft Jazz and Free Jazz (wink wink) but his utilization of space a la Miles Davis provides a sound reminiscent of Sketches of Spain.  I paired songs that compliment “Sweet Dreams” that are soothing and imaginative to help you work or relax.

TRACKLIST

  1. Voyage – Michel Polnareff
  2. Flower Dance – Michel Gonet
  3. Soul Virgo – Cannonball Adderley
  4. Blackstone Legacy – Woody Shaw
  5. Smiling Billy Suite – Heath Brothers
  6. Diana In The Autumn Wind – Gap Mangione
  7. I’m Not an Accident – Miles Davis
  8. Black Narcissus – Joe Henderson
  9. Sweet Dreams – Ted Daniel Quintet
  10. Transcendent Mimesis – Cornell West
  11. The Pan Piper – Miles Davis
  12. The Black Angel – Freddie Hubbard
  13. Goodbye Sweet Pops – Archie Shepp
  14. Nardis – Bob James Trio
  15. A Garden of Peace – Lonnie Liston-Smith
  16. Willow Weep For Me – Julie London
  17. Beautiful Dissonance (Interview) – John Coltrane
  18. My Favorite Things – John Coltrane


ABOUT FREE JAZZ

Free Jazz is a project showcasing the history and beauty of Jazz. It is not titled after the sub genre “Free Jazz” nor is it representative of Ornette Coleman’s album of the same title. The Free Jazz series is a way to shine light on Jazz given it is in the shadows of other genres that have benefitted from contemporary forms of promotion like video, internet, and social networking. The scope of Jazz is far greater than that of Hip-Hop. Well over a half century of music has been created and is collecting dust in people’s record collections. Free Jazz is a way to liberate the archives and repackage one of America’s greatest contributions to the arts.

Enjoy

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DOWNLOAD :: STOKELY SPEECHES

A friend recently asked me if I’d be able to put together audio of the late, great Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael. I simply thought I would organize a few pieces for him but eventually I focused all my attention on packaging the political theories of Ture/Carmichael as if I were to give these to a complete stranger. A few months back, me and a group of friends watched, The Black Power Mixtape, and I was reminded about the logic, precision, and candor of Carmichael. I read “Black Power” back in college but at that time I was enamored with Malcolm and Fanon but the silverlinning of Carmichael is that he embodies the two perfectly. Whereas Fanon’s strength was philosophizing about mental freedom through armed struggle, and Malcolm shinned in strategy and creating a universal human rights platform, Ture inhabited both realms often simultaneously. If one thing is for sure, daring, unapologetic voices are needed to offset the current political conundrum where substantive policy  fails and hypocrisy prevails.

Stokely Speeches Cover 2 Stokely Speeches Cover 3 Stokely Speeches Cover 4 Stokely Speeches Cover

]]> http://www.thefreeexperience.com/2011/12/stokely-speeches/feed/ 0 SIAIRA SHAWN – ICARUS http://www.thefreeexperience.com/2011/10/siaira-shawn-icarus/ http://www.thefreeexperience.com/2011/10/siaira-shawn-icarus/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:55:00 +0000 admin http://www.thefreeexperience.com/?p=527

Icarus(Who is in charge) by siairashawn

Bay Area singer, Siaira Shawn, continues to grow and this Knxwledge assisted track is evident of that. With production like this Siaira will soon be influencing R&B’s wannabe Hip-Hop landscape with endearing and vulnerable lyrics that tell stories and trials instead of instructions for opening champagne bottles.

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Few can present an argument like James Baldwin. His ability to make his story yours is what makes him unique. Whereas Malcolm utilized a sort of pythagorean logic where he could use analogies of foxes and wolves to describe the nature of our democratic system, and Garvey having immediate practical solutions such as leaving this country all together, Baldwin’s knack of focusing on identity, enlightened the oppressed and repudiated white’s hegemonic moral order. He can tell a story stretching hundreds of years in five minutes flat a la John Henrik Clarke but could also orate in a cadence so soothing it is as if he understands the nature of the human soul must be nurtured when presented such harsh circumstances.

Hear Fran Lebowitz’s thoughts on James baldwin at 3:20

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DOWNLOAD :: SHABAZZ PALACES LIVE

Over the past few months, Shabazz Palaces, recorded live studio sessions providing fans a glimpse into how they create music as well as expanding upon their already multifaceted fan experience equip with a mysterious website, groundbreaking videos, art prints, velvet cd covers with gold glitter, and fly ass patches. Below are the live tapings where we get to see how free their music making process is and what I feel is the future of live hip-hop shows. Hip-Hop fans suffer from a lack of improvisation at performances and Shabazz gives you such variation. The 1st video posted and 1st track on the download, “The King’s New Clothes Were Made By His Own Hands,” is a completely new interpretation of their recently released song and is just as good if not better.

I took the liberty of extracting the audio, enhancing the sound quality, and packaging it for you because Shabazz must be spread.

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DOWNLOAD :: FREE JAZZ VOL. 1

Free Jazz is the first installment of a series chronicling the scope, enjoyment, and innovation of Jazz. These mixes will not serve as a proverbial who’s who of the greatest artists or the most identifiable songs (you already have Kind of Blue) but more so the songs overlooked, sampled throughout Hip-Hop, and long lost because folks didn’t have external hard drives to archive their vinyl collections.

TRACKLIST

1. Life has its Trials – Dorothy Ashby
2. Harlem Hendo – Al Hirt
3. Is That the Way – The Message
4. Interview #1 – Charlie Parker
5. Inside You – Eddie Henderson
6. People Make The World Go Round – Freddie Hubbard
7. Interview #2 Charles Mingus
8. Jabali – Catalyst
9. Blues for Brother George Jackson – Archie Shepp
10. Nuclear War – Sun Ra
11. Interview #3 – Keith Jarrett
12. Drums Around The World – Norman Connors
13. Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter – Nina Simone
14. Interview #4 – Nina Simone
15. Brother Where Are You (Mather Herbert Remix) – Oscar Brown Jr.
16. Searching – Roy Ayers
17. Go on and Cry – Les Mccann
18. Interview #5 – Miles Davis
19. Theme For The Eulipions – Rashaan Roland Kirk
20. Nardis – Bill Evans
21. Teardrops in the Rain – Arthur Prysock
22. Beyond the Sun – McCoy Tyner

Enjoy

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DOWNLOAD :: THE BEST OF CAMP LO

I always wanted to put together an ode to one of my favorite groups, Camp Lo. People ask me why I’m so fascinated with Camp Lo and I think the reason is apparent but for those who do not see what I see, I’ll break it down for you.

1. Cultural Constructivism. Camp Lo utilizes a sort of Black referential realism to form their own epistemology. They weave historical figures and Black popular culture to form a hyperreal Black identity; collapsing numerous Black eras into one. They reference Lena Horne, Nat Turner, dashikis, What’s Happening the tv show, and West African names (often in the same verse). This allows Camp Lo to piece together figures, historical events, and popular culture in hodge-podge fashion and make it seem like a set of interconnected ideas. Their lyrics are a Black cultural politics class on acid. In the selection below Sonny Cheeba “Billy Holidays” the “Foxy Browns,” i.e. provides class for young dames. Holiday, an actual figure, and Foxy Brown, a movie character, become interconnected representations of Black female identity. By replacing concepts and situations (that would normally take the average rapper a few bars to explain) with pop cultural and historical references, Camp Lo packs verses with jotted imagery in hyperbolic detail. Entire identities and eras are funneled into one adjective or used as elaborate concepts.

Case Study: Coolie High

Got the bubbly pourin through me at Cleopatra’s casino
Sweetbackin’ Coolie High Jackin, Jitterbugs and little (?)
Dolemite’s outta site Anti-hatahs cats in the city
On the money takin the tri-state under sore savant
Billy Holidayin’ the Foxy Browns with my Harlequinns
Penny he repellin reflected crystals is Hollywood

2. Cultural Malleability. The Lo primarily reference Black culture but also incorporate outside influences into their flow. The French Connection becomes “The Black Connection.” They embody Blaxploitation Post Modernism. Furthermore, their cultural trajectory isn’t monolithic. Whereas Ice Cube once rebelled against the Native Tongue movement for being too Black middle class all while Ice Cube himself was doing a disservice to the Black community for relying on poverty as a marker of Black identity, Camp Lo simply doesn’t care. They are from the Bronx and give praise to the barrio and the boutique; something far more representative in 21st century identity politics than the socio-cultural allegiances of rappers Camp Lo came in the game with. Ahead of their time anyone?

3. Presentation. In a recent interview, rapper/singer Cee-Lo explained that contemporary music is boring because showmanship is long gone. He believes its the performers responsibility to take the listening experience of music one step further through costume and movement. Camp Lo embodies those sentiments. In the midst of gangster rap (1996), Camp Lo set themselves a part from the pack by wearing red leather Reebok high-tops, cowboy hats, fur coats, and round sunglasses. Their presentation personified their slang. Though their live shows do need improvement, Sonny Cheeba raps with a tooth pick in his mouth and obscenely large belt buckle.


4. Reverence for the Meretricious* From Cadillac Allante’s, Martini & Rossi Asti Spumante Champagne, “slime ball jheri curls,” and getting ice rock gritty with a woman named Krystal Karrington, The Lo makes the mundane and tacky seem priceless. They reference items easier to relate too (unless you own a G5) as well as praise the passé; valuing yesterday’s forgotten trends, transporting the listener back to the Ali/Frazier fight where fur coats reigned.

*Meretricious: a. attracting attention in a vulgar manner, b. superficially or garishly attractive

5. Dedication to an Idea. For 15 years Camp Lo has remained loyal to a motiff, an idea. When artists commit to an idea their personal identities aren’t necessary. I have never thought of Geechi Suede or Sonny Cheeba’s personal lives because their characters come off more appealing and grandiose. Kanye West probably can’t decipher when Kanye the artist ends and Kanye the person begins, thus we get temper tantrums. On the contrary, when people hear Luchini, it evokes a feeling not a self serving accomplishment on behalf of the artist. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. I think Camp Lo’s music encapsulates a a wealth of ideas presented in beautifully gaudy packaging.

With your newly acquired analysis, enjoy the music. Diamond Delegates signing off.

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DOWNLOAD :: DOWNTIME 4

If Downtime 2 had an acoustic theme and 3 was more electric, I’d have to say Downtime 4 is obscure. With music from Nigeria to Brazil, genere’s spanning from afro-beat, hip-hop, jazz, house, and more, Downtime 4 is an amalgamation of sounds one wouldn’t normally hear paired together. Peace.

TRACKLIST

1. Massive Attack (Vibeangel Mix 1) – Flying Lotus | 2. Air ft. MF Doom (Geteye Remix) – Dabrye | 3. Blackfire – Madlib | 4. Orere Elejigbo – Lijadu Sisters | 5. No Particular One – Theophilus London | 6. Democ£stico – Marcos Valle | 7. Mother’s Day – Aleke Kanonu | 8. The Gigolo and I – Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band | 9. Original Radio Spot Claudean – Claudean Movie Trailer | 10. No Hook (Ambassadors Theme) Ft. Pete Rock | 11. On Point Remix – Trademark Skydiver x Young Roddy x Curren$y | 12. Stay True – Ghostface Killah | 13. Original Radio Spot Young Blood – Young Blood Movie Trailer | 14. Troptikal (SS) – Mndsgn | 15. Classic ft. Talib Kweliw – MED | 16. Sustas – Mndsgn | 17. Full Moon – Noñameko | 18. Return From The Ashes – John Dankworth | 19. By Your Side (CottonBelly Mix) – Sade | 20. Everybody Loves the Sunshine – Seu Jorge & Almaz | 21. Soundgirl Personal – Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician | 22. Light To Dark – Jesse Boykins III | 23. Return To The Journey -Thundercat | 24. Red Light – Fatima feat. Floating Points

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DOWNLOAD :: BEYONCE feat. ANDRE 3000 – PARTY
He’s back. For now. Produced by Kanye! And Consequence?

 

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