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Back in October I went to see a Q&A with Amp Fiddler at Amsterdam Dance Event. He talked about introducing J Dilla to the MPC, and played some OG files he received from Dilla decades ago: deconstructing Dilla beats for the—shamelessly small—crowd of 30-ish people. And by way of the iconic Slum Village tracks “Players”, “The Look Of Love” & “Fall In Love”, Amp gave a Dilla for dummies crash course on why his beats sound so musical, warm and full of soul. This new video by Vox made me think of that lecture: J Dilla Beats 101. The video is a 10-minute introduction on how J Dilla humanized the MPC3000. It’s a basic yet good watch on how he didn’t quantize his beats, insights on sampling Gap Mangione, Giorgio Moroder & The Escorts, and extending samples, using track examples such as “E=MC2”, “Fall In Love”, “Lazer Gunne Funke” & The Pharcyde’s “Runnin'”. As drum machine pioneer Roger Linn puts it in the original MPC3000 manual: “(…) In this light,...

Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things examines the many flavors of minimalism by taking the audience inside the lives of minimalists from all walks of life—families, entrepreneurs, architects, artists, journalists, scientists, and even a former Wall Street broker—all of whom are striving to live a meaningful life with less.

*El memorable debate entre Foucault y Chomsky* El encuentro entre dos figuras emblemáticas de la intelectualidad actual en la Universidad de Amsterdam, allá por 1971, dentro del International Philosophers Project. En los apenas 13 minutos de grabación que hemos encontrado, podemos observar lo mejor y lo peor de cada uno de los autores: En Foucault vemos el perfecto análisis de la violencia ejercida por instituciones aparentemente neutrales como la universidad o la familia, pero también la tendencia al inmovilismo propia del relativismo postmoderno que es incapaz de dar alternativas a la sociedad que critica. *El histórico debate Chomsky-Foucault* En Chomsky es de agradecer la llamada a la acción de uno de uno de esos raros intelectuales que no solo critica desde su torre de marfil sino que se convierte en activista social, pero también queda en evidencia la debilidad epistemológica de una visión idealista que parte de conceptos como “naturaleza humana”. El de...

Utilizing vinyl borrowed exclusively from Afrika Bambaataa's historic and genre-defining record collection, DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist's acclaimed Renegades Of Rhythm set touches down in Oakland, California in this professionally-documented film experience. You're there in the audience as the two DJ's unravel the evolution of Hip-Hop music and culture, using the same artifacts that helped create it. "Not just any records- the MASTER OF RECORDS' records."

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