The new track from Yellow Beard entitled, “Côte d’Ivoire.” It’s off their upcoming record called Beach Tapes: 67′ – 72′. Promising this album will be a stunner is an understatement. Go! Get!

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As purveyors of original content, we are sort of against blatant site recommendations. Yet now and then one comes along that is so well done, we must sing our praises in copy. 

Please shake hands with The Auteurs. They plan on being somewhere between Netflix’s instant streaming feature and Film Forum. There’s curation, solid selection and a novel Cinematheque feature where you can stream selected “film festivals” for free and then discuss with other people after viewing. Currently, they have a Criterion-curated selection of documentaries, which includes the completely incredible Burden of Dreams.

We recorded this jam at 1214 Hampton as part of a new supergroup called Cancer Sanchez and The Wild Balls. It’s sloppy yet sort of fun. Go Tucson!

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The entire Proyekto Collective is chilling in Tucson, hence no real updates. We deserve a little vacation now and then!

That being said, the upcoming weeks promise to bring some true psychedelic collaborative content.

For today, check out my feature of Steve Rodriguez (the legendary NYC street skater) in this week’s Time Out New York

I made this beat as intertextual conversation with my man Frantz Fanon. 

For Fanon

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On another level, the oral tradition – stories, epics and songs of the people – which formerly were filed away as set pieces are now beginning to change. The storytellers who used to relate inert episodes now bring them alive and introduce into them modifications which are increasingly fundamental. There is a tendency to bring conflicts up to date and to modernise the kinds of struggle which the stories evoke, together with the names of heroes and the types of weapons. The method of allusion is more and more widely used. The formula ‘This all happened long ago’ is substituted by that of ‘What we are going to speak of happened somewhere else, but it might well have happened here today, and it might happen tomorrow’. The example of Algeria is significant in this context. From 1952-3 on, the storytellers, who were before that time stereotyped and tedious to listen to, completely overturned their traditional methods of storytelling and the contents of their tales. Their public, which was formerly scattered, became compact. The epic, with its typified categories, reappeared; it became an authentic form of entertainment which took on once more a cultural value. Colonialism made no mistake when from 1955 on it proceeded to arrest these storytellers systematically.

Glance back (5 years ago today):
The Old Bangers – The Original Three (feat. aquadesiak)

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Look forward!