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T.V. Eye: June 15-21
From www.pitchfork.com at 15/06/09 05:54 PM. 0 comments.
Live music on T.V. this week:
Monday, June 15:
CBS: Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Camera Obscura
NBC: Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien: Spinal Tap
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Common, Doves (rerun)
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: The Roots (house band)
FUSE: No. 1 Countdown: Bonnaroo All-Stars
FUSE: Fuse Fest: Bonnaroo 2008
Tuesday, June 16:
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: The Roots (house band)
Wednesday, June 17:
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Street Sweeper Social Club, the Roots (house band)
Thursday, June 18:
NBC: Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien: The Dead Weather
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Phoenix
CBS: Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Metric
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Peaches
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: The Roots (house band)
Friday, June 19:
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: The Ting Tings
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: The Sounds
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: The Roots (house band)
Saturday, June 20:
FUSE: Fuse Fest: Bonnaroo 2009
PBS: Austin City Limits: Bettye Lavette, Pinetop Perkins (rerun)
Peaches News:
Scene and heard: Swedish bass | John McDonnell
From www.guardian.co.uk at 09/06/09 12:12 PM. 0 comments.
Innovative sampling, hot dancers and dubious lyrical content â€' what's not to like?
Last week, in a 50-minute mix by up-and-coming south Londoner Bok Bok, I heard a re-edit of a track by Swedish bass outfit Basutbudet. Swedish bass pretty much came and went in 2007, and it's a shame it never caught on. It began when rapper/producer Marcus Price, influenced by Detroit-based ghettotech artists like Mr De, DJ Assault and DJ Godfather, began making songs under the pseudonym Basutbudet.
Ghettotech took Miami bass's sexually explicit hooks, turned them XXX-rated, and then underpinned them with rapid, crudely made thundering 808 and 909 beats. The result was a techno analogue of Chicago's ghetto house sound.
Basutbudet appropriated this distinctive genre to produce Swedish bass â€' which retained plenty of the original feel of ghettotech, while still sounding refreshingly new, as noted by Bok Bok. "On the one hand, it sounds quite authentic â€' they've really got the electrofunk synths down. On the other hand, it's definitely got its own vibe â€' lots of off-time samples being triggered gives it this looser, DIY feel that isn't really a defining part of the Detroit sound at all."
Price is something of a musical nomad â€' his career began as a rapper called Mackan in tawdry hip-hop outfit Fattaru (which translates as "Ya get me?"), and he has more recently been dallying with grime, dubstep and skweee. It's no surprise, then, to hear myriad...