Z-Trip
Whether it’s in Vegas, Kuwait or your XBox, Zach Sciacca is serious about rocking the party. Better known as DJ Z-Trip, this early progenitor of mashup mixes has been rated as one of the best living DJs: a fact that becomes even more interesting after a quick glance at his career trajectory.
Once the resident DJ at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, Continue Reading…
Every festival has certain acts whose popularity and acclaim are foregone conclusions, but here at Fujirock.com we enjoy forecasting the dark horses that go on to be fest highlights. It’s one of my favorite parts of the pre-fest prep: predicting the surprise hits, the acts that no one knows upon arrival but no one forgets after they blow off the roof in front of a throng of first-time viewers. So here, I’d like to start the predictions with one of my own: introducing British beatbox badass Beardyman.
This is a pretty fantastic remix. I liked the song better when I heard it without the video on MySpace, but the video is pretty great too. I can’t figure if this newscast is real or not. At any rate, it just proves what grandma always said: white people sure are funny!
Public Enemy front man Chuck D is one of the featured interviewees in a new TV documentary Freedom Songs: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement now airing on America’s public television station, PBS. The above YouTube clip seems to be some sort of rough cut of the Chuck D interview used in the doc, though it’s hard to be completely sure. Slightly confusing, the documentary also appears to be for sale under a slightly different name, Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement on amazon.com.
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Public Enemy may have had their cultural moment 15-20 years ago, but they’ve continued releasing incendiary and fiercely independent music every 1-3 years ever since. Listening to some of the tracks off of their 2007 album How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul makes me really question why the hell no one has heard this music (myself included, up until now). I don’t recall reading about this record, seeing it on any year-end lists, or any of that. Maybe the entire album isn’t brilliant, but if Weezer (bet you never thought you’d see this comparison) can release a record in 2008 with two brilliant songs and a bunch of crap and see their 1.5-decade long popularity maintained, why not PE? The single Harder Than You Think is a particularly potent track, with its triumphant/apocalyptic sounding horn section and classic Chuck D/Flava Flav revolutionary poet/clown interplay.
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