nothing Maluca about this...

I am exposed to a lot of music, not a lot of it makes me glad i was sitting down 'cause if i were listening to it i would have fallen back. Maluca's music did this to me. She is off the GANCHO! (here is where I try to be slick with the description, check it): imagine kerubanda stuck in an elevator with diplo (who's label Maluca is on) and said elevator is stuck between floors. everyone gets agitated, but instead of resorting to fighting, they start making tracks. people that know me know i love merengue tipico as much as i love dance music so this was like the Knicks beating the Lakers for the NBA finals to me. really, Maluca had me going WOW, and thats just off one track on her myspace

Crash and Daze exhibit

Two legends in the world of graffiti, Crash and Daze, have an exhibition starting tomorrow at Adhoc Art (49 Bogart Street Buzzer 22, Unit 1G Brooklyn, NY 11206). Although they have collaborated in the past, each one of these artists has kept their distinct styly. Daze harkens back to old school NYC, with images of trains and the city amongst his letters. Crash's artwork exists in an other world entirely, one created by pop art and cartoon imagery. Should be an interesting show.

A short hip house documentary

This is something someone I follow on Twitter posted (I think it was the dude from crookers, see post at bottom). Whether hip house was created in Chicago or NYC is debatable, what isn't up for debate is that it WAS going to be the next big thing. Certain factors lead to its downfall, not unlike freestyle the sound started to become stale, but the biggest thing that killed hip house IMO was the hip hop community's homophobia. To hip hop, anything associated with house music = gay. So incredible collabos never happened and there was no support on the hip hop end of things (most househeads are also hip hop fans, so the problem was not on them). This myopic thinking never let hip house get off the ground, it's a damn shame.