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Poster by unknown artist.
I found this poster wheat pasted to the side of a wall on the Mississippi st. hill in North PDX.
Category Archives: boomarm
H to the O to the P to the E
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Papa Michigan a.k.a Badingo - "OBAMA"
11 days and counting! And its really been striking me the level of hope and positivity im feeling about all of this. The thought that things could actually take a turn and… heaven forbid start to get better…..! Its really stirring to me the amount of cynicism and American shame that i’ve been walkin around with these past years.. DAMN. Time for a change.
So this leads right in to a very special gift that i received this week .. the kind of gift that comes to you at just the right time. and simply blows your mind in all the right ways.
My dear friends Sam and Lahela just came back from visiting family in Hawaii. After picking them up from the airport the other night, Sam handed me a stack of records and said “here ya go!”
This treasure was on top of the pile..
thank you Sam!
Lets hear it again....TURN THE SPEAKERS UP!!
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Papa Michigan a.k.a Badingo - "OBAMA"
forward this around pals.. lets start a virtual dance party.
XOXO
THE BUG
last week.
PDX had its sleepy brow graced with a very rare appearance by UK dancehall/grime chief THE BUG.
He threw down some great live mixes. Each beat was epic and about 45 seconds long… almost annoyingly so… But for me the abrassion of hearing 50 different beats cut and placed next to each other with very abrupt even unfreindly transitions added to the grime layers. Perfect. I loved it.
…Dude seemed to be really into the fast forward/scatch effect on his mixer….. goofy..
But the bass felt good in me chest.
The Bug live at Rotture PDX #1
The Bug was joined by UK dancehall queen Warrior Queen . The PA was not really as on point as it should have been… thus this part of the set was less enjoyable to me.. nothing worse than vocals that sound like they only comeout the tweeters and live on a different sonic plane than the music..arrgggh. A bit of a let down…
As this track from The Bug’s new ninja tune release, featuring Warrior Queen had been rocking my world for the past several weeks.
The Bug live at Rotture PDX #2
Thanks Michele for the videos and photos…..
Evolutionary Jass…
back from the eastern ports. 10 days up and down the northeast coast proved a challenge and a reward of unexpected encounters.
oh damn… the new Lee Perry!
REPENTANCE
So.. when a co-worker said “yo Jesse have you heard the new Lee Perry record?” I instantly passed judgement. “no, and I don’t know if I plan on it.” Yes I admire the man, the legend, and all of his contributions to music I know and love. a whole.. but I think my real connection to his music stops sometime in the early 80’s. Then when my co-worker proceeded to tell me that the new record was produced by bloody nosed party shark Andrew WK. i think i laughed out loud, more out of bewilderment than any thing else. Every thing i have ever known of that dude pretty much falls under my “no thanks” and “shitttty” categories.. .The thought of these two mixing at all seemed like oil and water. Yet it really peaked a vein of intrigue.
After two listens… I was hooked in and really awe struck by more than any thing, the production of Andrew WK. !#$%^@#!????
FOR REALS
The beats are totally fucked!! And this is what my over-stimulated mind is very hungry for right now. .
beats that are fucking up the lazy sequenced norm that we are beaing assulted with left and right..
Something so messy and dense with tones and hidden scribbles of waves and tones. Yet totally bumpin and committed to the traditional dancehall toasters pace and peppered with new new ideas of dancehall. fuckin shit. Never thought id say this.. But PROPS to ANDREW WK!
The songs are totally akin to the music.. about sex, child abuse, santa claus, end times, jesus, smokin’ sensi.
Lee Perry sounds amazing against this music. his words and heavy… and could have many many meanings to reflect upon over the eye glass of these mad times that keep unraveling in our world..
I’m grateful to hear a man in such a quirky yet very influential place in pop culture make such direct and full-on words at the acts of sexual abuse committed by so many catholic priests…
Messy chaos, out of its element, under a microscope = a sense of strange and familiar elated peace
ODD! good.
Props on a deep level and a shake that ASS level..
JMJ
streetnice. remember summer.
summer has pretty much began its last encore. Im good with that, my northwest blood craves the those fall leaves, and the cold productive nights inside..
ive been absent from blog central this past month…working to much.. riding my bike, and not ( again ok with me..) been in front of the computer screen that much.
Heres to the muggy days spent floating in the water, sweating behind a hot grill, and late night bike rides…
this jam says it all. peace and love in the summer of 08. you could call this one a theme song of sorts…
and then a little self document.. for that ass. that lovely ass. the streets of PDX.
I WISH THIS VIDEO HAD BEEN TAKEN ABOUT 10 MINUTES EARLIER!
BUT THE IDEA IS STILL THERE… ((my portable battery died in the midst of some potential rap magic and a bubbly WHITEFIELD BROS remix……))
4th of july was good this year. tied some speakers and my little homemade sub woofer to an old shopping cart and hit the streets. made the rounds bumpin old cassette mixes, digital goodies, and a delay pedal. Had a good stopover at the NO WAR U.S.O event and mixed up some psychedelic cumbia!
thanks to homeboy on the mic..nate for the video…and sam for helping out with the battery!
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This thursday I leave for tour with the EVOLUTIONARY JASS BAND. A 10 day east coast power jam. stoked! Check the new shirts!.. new record due out early october.. IF YOU ARE READING THIS FROM THE EAST COAST.. CHECK THE TOUR DATES ..!!!HERE!!!.. COME OUT.
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XOXO JMJ
Paul WIG.
..NeW OWL DUDeS..
OWL DUDES * for the feelers* – www.ailimaf.com
Not a peep has been heard from the collaborative bettwix myself and Paul Wig for almost two years… A surprise to us all finds a new banger in the truest sense being released this month FREE to the public by the Barcelona/London based net label www.ailimaf.com. This is a record that sat 90% unfinished for about a year. consists of live recordings of battery powered street jams, studio mashups/experiments, and the usual anything goes if its got soul OD aesthetic.
Its a very searing 14: 29 seconds and stays vital in its urgency and its all out verbal assult and straight-up bangingness .. ((is that a word??)) If anything this recording needed two years of human evolution to catch up to its sonic relevance!
ccccccCHECK IT ++++++++++ (shits free yo!…)–click>>>((((( www.ailimaf.com)))))
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..BOOMARM MEGA MIXX.. vol.1..!
FRESH OF THE MIXING DESK! THE BOOMARM FAMILY MEGA MIX IS HERE!
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“Boomarmin” – BOOMARM SUPER MIX-vol1 by BoomArmNation
WHAT IS IT??— For the jump off celebration of this exploration in blogging as a form of sonic community building. We looked to a local crew of PDX sonic pushers. dropped a folder of cumbia and dancehall flavored loops into there inboxes. And challenged them to make a 40-60 second mix/version inspired or drawn from the loops. The 15 mixes received were spun by myself (JMJ Gigante / Gulls) into a tropical flavored PDX mix. Its a 12 and a half minute ride of serious grooves , bass drops, glitch, and heavy sonic spaces… Mad thanks and props to the participant PDX boomarm family!
THE LOOPS– To give you some context.. here are the loops that each artist recieved as a base for there constructions.
The frist is a loop taken from the song “La Samaria” by Colombia’s Orquestra Nunez- From the fantastic SoundWays compilation
“COLOMBIA! THE GOLDEN AGE OF DISCO FUENTES“.
BOOM CLICK>> CUMBIA LOOP
The second is a Dancehall/Grime inspired riddem from Gigante’s sampler…..
BOOM CLICK>> RIDDIM LOOP
Beyond these…. every thing else you hear is the left to the individual and their version. BAm.!!! Feel this fire..!
TRACK LIST–
1- INTRO (gigante mash)
3- STRATEGY
4- OXYKITTEN
5- DR. DIESEL
7- RBLU
8- ORQUESTRA NUNEZ – GIGANTE REMIX
10- PAUL WIG
11- GULLS
12- ORQUESTRA NUNEZ
13- STUDIO GEORDIE
14- NEGLECT
15-AUDIOCRIP
16- IFSH
17- JIPPEDO
“Boomarmin” – BOOMARM SUPER MIX-vol1 by BoomArmNation
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THIS IS A CALL TO THE WORLD , KNOW THIS… THE UNDERGROUND IN PDX IS ALIVE AND WELL. WE ARE NOT BREAKING RULES, BECAUSE HERE THERE ARE NONE. ITS ALL LOVE AND RHYTHM UP IN HERE. PLEASE LISTEN AND ENJOY.—!
Peace! JMJ
..str8 hot desert heat..
NEGLECT .. aka Joseph Valentino straight outta TUCSON ARIZONA.
DROPPED THIS HEAVY DUB SLOW BURNER INTO MY INBOX A FEW DAYS AGO.
AN OUTTAKE FROM THE BOOMARM REMIX PROJECT #1.
THIS PIECE MOVES AT LENGTH SLOWLY AND QUIETLY THROUGH A WET
STRETCH OF SONIC DESERT PEAKS AND VALLEYS.
I CANT STOP LISTENING TO IT!!
PUT IT IN HEADPHONES AND PEEP THE BASS DROPS.
ITS SIMPLE. BEAUTIFULL. AND FULL OF THOUGHTFULL DUBBING. .
i QUE RICO !
DOWNLOAD THIS AND ENJOY!!——((((( NEGLECT DESERT OUTTAKES )))))