MC Ren - Black Star Line

Where Huey P. Newton? I wish that nigga was here
when the nigga tell the truth they got somethin to fear
The whole system’s fucked, homie that’s wassup!

Despite Obama ain’t shit changed. Still more black men in jail than in college. Still no reparations given for slavery. Still people do have the power to stand up to injustice like they did in the Watts riot.

MC Ren of the legendary NWA is back with a new album Renincarnated. He’s quite faithful to the 1990s sound, but lyrically he’s gone a long way from NWA towards RBG. The title of the song refers to the Back to Africa project of Marcus Garvey back in 1919-1922.

In Helsinki days are getting darker and colder and it seems it’s always raining. Makes you feel out of energy. You gotta fight for your right to party!

DJ Malvado - Puto Mekie

DJ Malvado is a house music producer from Angola and his song Puto Mekie will be featured on Buraka Som Sistema’s Fabriclive 49 mix.

The radical poet, “godfather of rap”, “black Bob Dylan”, in brief legendary Gil Scott-Heron returns. After being absent from the music scene for 15 long years, Scott-Heron is releasing a full length album next February. A first track was released as teaser some days ago and is available for free on his home page.

This guy is right there where we like the spoken word to be: straight on political commentary, no detours.

Read his first interview since stepping out of the dark on BBC.

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It’s Boots from The Coup rhyming to guitar riffs by Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine. Rock and rap fused together into anthems for revolution. And yes, they are… COMMUNIST!

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23.11. Miike Snow
27.11. DJ Ayres
27.11. Zed Bias, Hijak
27.11. DJ Funk
28.11. Barrington Levy
2.12. Fuck Buttons
5.12. Skream
5.12. In Flagranti
8.12. Maskinen
12.12. DJ Vadim
13.12. Mr Vegas
19.12. Roni Size

We got some new dubstep-related stuff you should hear.

Crookers feat. Kelis - No Security

Tell me how long before you drop the bomb
before you turn it up
TURN IT UP
TURN IT UP
TURN IT UP

Just in case you didn’t know. Crookers from Milano team up with Kelis. There are not too many producers from Italy doing stuff like this that I know of. But Crookers seems to be doing it BIG.

Doctor P - Sweet Shop

Doctor P comes from UK and this is one of the dopest new dubstep tunes out there right now. That’s all I know…

HavocNdeeD - Dub Fi Dub

We’ve posted tracks by HavocNdeeD earlier (here and here), and here’s one more solid dubstep track by them. Their new Brown Note EP is out now.

A couple of weeks ago Multitunes went to explore Lisbon - the European import harbour of Angolan kuduro. The home of Buraka Som Sistema - who are conquering the U.S. at the moment.

Too bad we didn’t encounter any kuduro parties that weekend. We heard there’s a club called Luanda that might be worth checking out and got the impression that among whiteys, kuduro is not that popular. Maybe you need to go to the suburbs to find real kuduro action. Maybe next time!

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Cumbiastep. Cherman, Argentinian dj living in Barcelona, takes things to the next level. Dubstep and cumbia meet over a lot of familiar and unfamiliar tracks. Just awesome. I especially recommend the “Marcha Tropical” for a good take on cumbiastep and “Let’s push things forward” in general.

Cumbia Mashup by cherman

Superpuesto by cherman

There’s no excuses my friend
Let’s Push Things Forward
- The Streets

Discovering Cherman was a courtesy of Generation Bass, superb blog (= definitely on my top 5).

Reggae and cumbia mix over electronic beats. Bomba Estéreo (Stereo Bomb) from Bogotá sing about fire, fire, fire. This is music for anyone who wants to see something burn, burn, burn…

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Spotted this on Masala blog. UK funky goes Congo?