Cut chemist dj shadow afrika bambaataa biography

  • Renegades Of Rhythm is national tour featuring DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist playing Afrika Bambaataa's record collection as a tribute to the original architect of.
  • Inside you'll find exclusive texts by DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist and Afrika Bambaataa detailing the history of the Zulu Nation, the history of Hip Hop DJ-ing and.
  • DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist's show this Tuesday at The Roxy in Prague was a tribute to Afrika Bambaataa, a man they claim influenced them.

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    So this one is going to have relatively little to do with Prague as a city, but I saw a concert earlier this week that was so unique and unexpected that it deserves a post. bära with me, my inner audiophile will come out strong here.

    A rough and only moderately informed history: A lot of people don’t realize that hip hop started more with DJs than it did with rappers. In the 1970s, DJs at New York City block parties started performing with two turntables at once, using two copies of a record to continuously repeat a “breakbeat” for dancing, or the music in between the vocals (this would usher in the use of sampling in modern hip hop). At the same time, they’d throw out improvised lyrics to the rhythm in a style that emulated Jamaican toasting. This acted more or less in the same way that a caller operates during square dance performances, but the practice eventually evolved into rapping. One of these original DJs was Kevin Donovan, aka Afrika Bambaataa.

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    DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist to Tour With Afrika Bambaataa’s Records

    Hip-hop pionjär Afrika Bambaataa‘s records are the most important in the history of the genre; the patient zero whose breadth of genres influenced, knowingly or not, every subsequent DJ and hip-hop producer. While Cornell University continues to digitally archive Bambaataa’s 40,000+ record collection, DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist will embark on a five-week tour this fall using records strictly culled from Bambaataa’s collection.

    500 Greatest Songs of All Time: Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force’s “Planet Rock”

    “I would consider Bambaataa to be one of the three biggest musical influences in my life, along with Grandmaster Flash and Kurtis Mantronik,” Shadow tells Rolling Stone. “He was a DJ with a vision and a sense of purpose, with a desire for social change. He wanted to use the music to help foster a revolution, and the reverberations of this concept are

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    DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist Spin Afrika Bambaataa’s Genre-Making Vinyl Collection

    Deep into their September 4th set at New York’s Irving Plaza, as DJ Shadow bent over his spread of turntables, cueing the next sequence of beats, his partner in spin, Cut Chemist, gingerly lifted a piece of 12-inch vinyl from one of his decks and held it aloft, like a round, black equivalent of the Ten Commandments. He had, in fact, just played a religious object: an original demo pressing of “Looking for the Perfect Beat,” the hallowed flipside of “Planet Rock,” the 1982 hip-hop breakthrough single by Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force.

    Like everything else that went under the needle during Shadow and Chemist’s propulsive 90-minute spree of old-school breakbeats and frenetic scratches, the disc came from Bambaataa’s fabled 42,000-piece record collection. That house of wax is part of an even bigger archive that Bambaataa, now 57, donated in