El Canyonazo - "Dubious Bredren" [mp3] Rude bwoys and b-boys unite.
Behold how good and pleasant it is for breathren to dwell in peace and unity. Immigrant musics born of emerging technologies, conceived en route from Boston Bay to Jamaica Plain. Radio frequencies muddied by Caribbean storms. Outernational sounds merge and emerge anew. In order to discourage a global chant, the twin towers of Babylon promote a confusion of tongues, under and around which patios and ebonics connect the margins. Licks borrowed, slang ganked, and steez tiefed. Intertextuality in afro-diasporic post-modern urban electronic audio. Toast and flow.
Gnotes - Love Dust [mp3] Hip-Hop means never having to say I Love You
A monster-mash record-obscura 4 mix from Gnotes, with mpc-style valentines day breakbeats. Listen in on how gNotes hears... ella fitzgerald,charlie parker,children of the congo, nile rogers, bernie williams, outkast, lost dreams, afro dz ak, peter frampton, placid, ladysmith black mombazo, jd dyslexic, lightning hopkins, diplo, the art of the japanese bamboo, tripple double, trouping the colour, timbaland, black watch, when radio was king, pbr, michael jackson, tribal surrealism, eddie cantor, various breaks remain anonymous.
El Canyonazo - Next Episode [mp3] When keeping it real goes wrong in the USA.
After 4 months of international vinyl diggin, supporting indigenous bootleg cultures from Jamaica to Morocco, DJ El Canyonazo returns home to Los Angeles with a hunger for some good ol 'merican boombap. Before we get back to our regularly scheduled programming of progressive, underground, organic hip-hop, it's time to bump that gangsta shit: pac, big, ra, jada, nasir, dp, eazy, etc.
El Canyonazo - OuterGnational [mp3] Intergalatic winds across the seventeen seas.
DJs like Z-Trip, Gnotes and Mixmaster Mike demonstrate unremorseful contempt for national borders, sampling Afro-Cuban jazz, Brazilian bossa nova, West African funk, and Indian Hindustani sitar with reckless abandon. This Po-Mo rupture of the time/space continuum was the scientific breakthrough necessary for Gnawledge hiphop international.
While we play with wormholes, rappers like MC Solaar and the Orishas are reinventing the wheel, finding new paths for flows in foreign tongues. Hiphop is a lot bigger than the dirty south or bicoastal, it's global war and the weapons we use are protools.
El Canyonazo - Funky Middle
[mp3] Getin funky like an ol' batcha collered shirts.
Funky and fast, starting at 110 beats per minute and headed to 135. I dare you not to wiggle to the riddim. Tracks from Double Dee and Steinski, The Go Team, Pete Rock, Q-Tip, Nickodemus, Gregory Isaacs, Cameo, Damian Marley, Cee-lo and more!
El Canyoazo - Valentine's Day [mp3] Te Quiero. Te Adoro. Canciones de amor.
While my well-to-do friends in high school used their parents' credit cards to buy expensive Valentines' Day gifts for their girlfriends, I'd dub a cassette with sexy songs. Without music to dizzy us up, falling in love would take a lot longer.
This mix features music from Fiona Apple, Citizen Cope, Finley Quaye, The Roots, Willie Hutch, Bill Withers, The Black Keys, DAngelo, Charles Wright, Alvin Robinson, Lee Dorsey, Sufjan Stevens, and The Cure. Happy Valentines Day!
El Canyoazo - Podcastoff [mp3] International Hip-Hop Since 1954
Released on Canyon Cody's 22nd birthday, the debut Gnawledge podcast features a guest appearance and freestyle from Gnotes, the premiere of the El Canyonazo remix "Emergency Xxplosives" plus tracks from Brother Ali, Ozomatli, Edan, Soulive, mcenroe, J-Live, Lyrics Born and more.
