info | wed nites. 7-8pm on wfmu 91.1 fm. nyc area
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Today, poet & text-based artist Caroline Bergvall will stop by the show! She’s in from London to read at MoMA’s Hell. Bergvall’s audiotexts are musical, uncanny, and downright compelling.
In addition to reading some of her works and presenting some sounds, she’ll chat with Rupture about plurilinguality. About face. About figs. About pets.
Today, on-air performance by artist-performer Kalup Linzy!
Linzy, a recent recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, will
be performing some songs and discussing his playful use of altered
voices & bodies, his relationship to the great voices of gospel and
soul, and more.
Tonight, a special DJ set by Nick Catchdubs!
Yung Catch: DJ, designer, blogger, writer… according to all reliable sources, Catchdubs never sleeps. Tonite he arrives fresh from touring the States with his new label Fool’s Gold, co-founded with Quebois scratchmaster turned Kayne West DJ, A-trak. Catch is focused & ahead of the curve - I don’t know what to expect from his record crate but I expect it’ll be great.
Today, FILASTINE comes to MuddUP! radio with a special short live set. He’ll also chat with Rupture about the intersection btwn sound & politics and share audio his from cassette / field recording / whoknowswhere archive. Filastine (& Rupture) are playing at this event in NYC on Friday.
Filastine creates music and live sets that bend genre, charting a new sonic map by synchronizing mutated hiphop with other street rhythms and international obscura.
On the Sept 26th show, DJ Rupture will host a live session by Dave Q & JuaKali, the resident DJ & MC of NYC’s pioneering Dub War club nights. Trinidad-born JuaKali adds his vocals to a variety of projects spanning dub, dubstep, and world music. Dave Q was one of the first stateside DJs to break the UK-based dubstep sound, and his party is now North America’s biggest, with a label in works.
Expect exclusive international dubplates & their signature blend of Manhattan bass weight.
On the Wednesday, August 29th show, DJ Rupture will host a special live bilingual interview with Argentinian producer/DJ Sonido Martines (on his first trip to the US!), discussing las cumbias rebajadas (pitched-down cumbias) and other unexpected mutations of cumbia in South America, as well as the contemporary electronic scene in Buenos Aires.
Las Rebajadas Van A Brooklin, the mix Martines put together for an earlier MuddUp! show, is available for download at WordtheCat.
On Wednesday, August 8th, DJ Rupture will host a special guest DJ set by Heatwave, one of London’s finest bashment crews. Expect hot reggae & Carribean sounds with a UK twist!
Heatwave will also chat with Rupture about the latest developments in London bass culture, the concept behind their upcoming ‘England Story’ compilation for Soul Jazz, and the evolutionary power of dancehall poptimism.
In addition to hosting a popular club night that mixes dancehall with MCs from London’s hiphop & grime scenes, Heatwave embellishes their sound with the Punchline remix label, and their Mas Fuego nights helped pioneer the reggaeton sound over there. Go here to download tons of free Heatwave mixes.
Today’s show features a special Mudd Up! exclusive mix of cumbias rebajadas by Sonido Martines! He explains “es una seleccion muy variada de cumbias rebajadas de diferentes estilos, muchas clasicas y otras q he rebajado yo de algunos viejos vinilos colombianos. q lo disfrutes!” (It’s a varied selection of cumbias rebajas across several different styles, a lot of classic rebajadas and a few that i pitched-down myself from old Colombia records. enjoy it!”) If you like what DJ Screw did to hiphop, then you need to check what the rebajadas do to cumbia… same approach, only three decades earlier!!
Sonido is an Argentinean DJ specializing in urban styles and tropical music. In his mixes, Argentinean and Colombian Cumbia meet Vallenato and Chicha, Dub hits upon electronic music, and Hip Hop gets married to Latin American street rhythms.
For background on cumbias rebajadas, check out this informative Austin Chronicle article on Celso Pina.
Rupture will also be spinning exclusively Latin American tunes on the show. A few weeks from now, they’ll have a live on-air chat so that Sonido can better explain what’s going on in the world of cumbia these days.
Sasha Frere-Jones, pop music critic for the New Yorker & former member of the band Ui, will visit with DJ Rupture on today’s edition of Mudd Up!. Sasha will be bringing some special records for the airwaves, and will chat about album craft in the era of MP3 blogs, the complex pleasures of rap music, and what that stack of old On U Sound LPs are doing on his turntable.
(we googled him, and this oracular triptych emerged. Sasha? Neil? Frere? Diamond?)
so this my first July 4th in the US in a long time. And i’ll spent it alone, in an air-conditioned control room, hunched over a panel of electronic equipment, in front of two computers and more microphones, talking out loud to nobody in particular, bringing you the
MUDD UP DISSIDENT BAR-B-QUE SPECIAL!!!!!!
Of course I don’t know any dissidents. I’m making it all up. But today’s show will be focused around NEW HEAT, and/or MUSIC TO MAKE NEW NEIGHBORS, and i’ll try to keep things bumping so that you can tune in and turn it up to enable proper bump & grind at yr bar-b-que party. Grilled asparagus & the freshest of tunes for everybody
