Part 5: Melbourne – Endless Perspectives from Digitaldoes on Vimeo.
Sometimes you just need a little bit of luck…. After a 30 hour journey DOES and Strictua touched ground in a land down under. After initially losing the main laptop, luck proved to be on their side when the laptop was found and dropped off at the door of their exquisite residence. Infused with energy after waking up in summer temperatures, they had no trouble getting ready for a day out on the town and some serious site seeing. A meeting with Zvi Belling, architect of the ‘End-to-End Offices’, and a glance at the construction site, designated location for the Endless Perspectives show, quickly made apparent that plans had to be revised and changed dramatically. A bit of a shocker at first, but a great way to realise that it really all is just a matter of perspective: what at first sight appeared to be a hurdle turned out to bring about a new opportunity!
ENDLESS PERSPECTIVES
ONE NIGHT ONLY POP-UP EXHIBITION BY DOES
345 Glebe Pt Rd, Glebe
Sydney City, Australia
Wednesday 10 April, 6 – 9 pm
During early 2008 whilst listening to J Dilla’s Ruff Draft LP in a haze of lingering smoke and half-drained longnecks, the idea for a concept mixtape dedicated to the life and works of the late great J Dilla began to formulate over the remaining hours of the evening. Over the remaining months Sydney-siders The Igloo and DJ D*Phy teamed up to create The Ruff Craft Mixtape; a concept release doubling as a tribute and ode to one of the worlds most talented and respected hip hop producers hailing from Detroit: The late great James Dewitt Yancey, AKA Jay Dilla. Often dubbed as “your favourite producers favourite producer”, Jay Dee has crafted beats for the likes of A Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde, Common, Busta Rhymes, De La Soul and Slum Village to name a few, along with countless remixes, solo productions and unreleased beat tapes.
The Ruff Craft Mixtape is comprised entirely of the finest hand picked Dilla instrumentals from start to finish, with The Igloo handling mic duties and cuts interlaced by D*Phy over seamless beat mixes. Both artists aim to deliver originality and diversity over Jay Dee’s smooth soundscapes, paying tribute in tracks such as ‘Ode to Dilla’ and to the city of Sydney in ‘Celebrations’. Throughout the mixtape there is plenty of mentions of keeping an art-form pure and staying true to the roots of the music. “Some fucking rappers only kick what’s real/ life’s cheap/ I don’t need to sell out Dill” is a statement of keeping projects like The Ruff Craft Mixtape to an acclaimed underground audience as much as possible.
The Ruff Craft Mixtape was originally made exclusively available as a limited edition release of 100 hand-numbered audio-cassette tapes, staying true to the definition of a ‘mix tape’ as well as representing the work ethic and analogue preferences of J Dilla’s production techniques and grimy sounds. The A side featured all the tracks mixed and blended together over 45 minutes, with all the instrumentals left to shine for themselves on the B side.
Now almost half a decade later, the project has been released in digital format for those that missed out on cassettes and for purveyors of Dilla’s music.
R.I.P Jay Dee.
Sydney locals Centa Left recently dropped their new clip ‘Chloroform’. Fans of raw raps and well crafted beats can expect good things from this crew with more releases around the corner. Stay updated via their Facebook page here.
We all want more, what separates us is those that are willing to give it all up to get there.
An inquisitive impulse propels the engine for this new collection of work by Takie. Intrigued by the notion that no matter how well you know someone, how much time you spend with them and how familiar they are – you can never accurately predict how they will behave. We are bound by chemistry and desire to delve deeply into and unwrap the psyche of those closest to us – to understand why they do what they do. The only way to build these layers of perception is to first let go of the energies we harbor from the past. Shedding the weight of ingrained burdens to lighten the load for what is to come.
‘More Is Never Enough’ – Takie from Chris Loutfy on Vimeo.
Facebook event here. Check out more of Takie’s work here as well as her interview over at Acclaim Magazine!
“For the third episode of H?SHTAG$ — our web series chronicling Internet-based music — we turn our attention to the 808 drums and Enya loving, Internet-born micro-culture referred to as “Cloud Rap.” Featured artists include Main Attrakionz, Flatbush Zombies, SpaceGhostPurrp, Robb Banks and London’s Piff Gang.”
Check out the first few episodes that we covered here.
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