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OKAPI: World PREMIERE

Written by boomarm. Posted on February 7, 2012. Filed under boomarm. No comments.

I have been a long time fan of the work of Italian Turntablist / Sampler / Sound Artist Filippo Paolini AKA - OKAPI. My first run in with his rich blend of glitchy micro sampled classical music, and superb orchestral moodiness was on his 2005 full length "Wheres The Beef". (Recommended!)

OKAPI is a maestro of the sample. Twisting hundreds of tiny sounds into a dense and emotive fabric, rich with as much left-field avant leanings as micro techno head nods. We dig..! Heady but also for the heads.

The good folks at the ILLEGAL ART Label have asked us to participate in the release of OKAPI's new opus OPERA RIPARATA. The music will be released in a staggered simulcast of 3-5 song batches once a week for the next several weeks via various online music hubs.

Boomarm Nation is stoked to present to you the 4th instalation of OKAPi's OPERA RIPARATA.

LIVE 2/1 LIVE

Written by boomarm. Posted on January 31, 2012. Filed under family, gulls, PDX. No comments.

New Gulls Remix…

Written by boomarm. Posted on January 22, 2012. Filed under boomarm. No comments.

A new Gulls remix is featured on the new EP by Jon Kwest. Out now worldwide on Think 2wice Records.

Jon Kwest - "Stabbin Cabin" ((Gulls REMIX)) by Gulls

Check out the whole EP its a bangin excursion into the Moombahton realm...
Jon Kwest - The Last Don EP by Think 2wice

Balani in ’12

Written by boomarm. Posted on January 8, 2012. Filed under propers!. Tagged africa, Mali, REALNESS. No comments.

Balani Show. Heed these words.

Realness.>>>>

Kaba Blon.

A Doc.

Box Dream

Written by boomarm. Posted on January 3, 2012. Filed under boomarm. Tagged Comp, gulls, PDX, studio geordie. No comments.

Gulls - "Box Dream Serenader"

Here's a new choon. It appears on the NEW Studio Geordie compilation. WHich features of a grip of my PDX peoples!

(OUT NOW), get it here>>> FREE DWNLD<<<<<<

http://www.mediafire.com/?45l3d87y45x2en2

OUT NOW: Mdou Moctar – “Talhoutine”

Written by boomarm. Posted on November 29, 2011. Filed under boomarm. No comments.

Boomarm Nation and Sahel Sounds went in on this newest release. We are STOKED to bring to the high-fi, Mdou Moctar's AutoTune anthem "Tahoultine" b/w the Gulls remix. As heard originally on Music From Saharan Cellphones, and the remix companion, Music FOR Saharan Cellphones. Newly mastered for the vinyl systems, limited to 500 copies. Get it!

Mdou Moctar is a Tuareg guitarist from Niger, but his anthem "Tahoultine" is unlike anything from the desert -- a spaced out Autotuned jam, one of the first of its kind, immensely popular on the unofficial mp3 network across West Africa. Collected by Christopher Kirkley from cellphone memory cards in 2009 and featured on the
cassette/LP "Music From Saharan Cellphones", Mdou's track is one of the highlights of the compilation.