Q2.24
I am sure to have missed a few things.
Tracks:
Masta Ace: Staurday Nite Live [L.A. Jay Mix]
Danny Paul Grody + Rich Douthit: Last Light
Madlib + Black Thought + Your Old Droog: REEKYOD
Rachika Nayar: Memory As Minatures
Mark McGuire: Radio Flyer
Nas: It Ain't Hard To Tell [Remix]
IDRA: What You Thouhgt That Day
Codename John: Warned
Nas: Nasty
Nas: Define My Name
Units: High Pressure Days
Ambassadors: Ain't Got The Love (Of One Girl On My Mind)
Bassque Dub Foundation: Walls Of Dub
Carlton Livingston: 100 Weight
Colloboh: Zero Day
Common + Pete Rock: Wise Up
Giant Panda: With It
Metamatics: Vanishing Point
Stray: Pushed
Ben Bondy: Hum
Nueen: The Now Liminal
Mike Slott: Letting Go
Miris: Streams Of Activity
IDRA: Remembering Me
Jon Fay: Untitled 2
Fuubutsushi: Nora Nora
Fuubutsushi: Tenel Ka (First Crush)
Dubamine: Mosquito Dub
Albums:
Sawako: Sounds [12k]
Playlists:
Podcasts:
Young Echo [via: personal archives]
Radio:
Places:
Reads:
Photographers:
Film + TV:
RIP:
Sawako: I am happy to have had the opportunity to see Sawako several years ago at Grand Ferry Park in Brooklyn, Kenneth Kirschner, although from a separate performance, sums up the experience of seeing her perform live:
”In trying to explain her work to others, I always fall back on a story from her New York days. She was playing an outdoor concert in one of the old community gardens in the East Village – amidst traffic, noise, talking, the city’s endless sonic chaos. And never for a second was a single sound out of place. Every car horn, every obnoxious passerby’s loud conversation, every plane flying overhead – it was as if she controlled them all, as if the scattered fragments of the city’s soundscape were her very own instrument, each a seamless, perfect, intentional part of her unfolding composition. With Sawako there was no inside or outside, no nature or artifice, no music or non-music. There was only the world. Her tiny universe.”
A remembrance from The Wire.
Sawako talks Sound.Mister Cee: I first came across Mister Cee from his radio show with Mr. Magic on WNYC on Thursday nights, The Best Of Both Worlds, in the mid 90s, which lead me to other underground radio shows such as New York Live with Riz and Mayhem and eventually Stretch & Bobbito. As time went I came to understand more Mister Cee’s role and impact on the hip hop community, pushing and representing the culture until his last days.
His tribute to Guru still gets play on occasion.Steve Albini