Shook # 7

Novo número da Shook já nas bancas. Leiam o que eles têm a dizer (gosto especialmente da expressão "ciência do ritmo" - vou adoptar!):

With our FUNK FACTORY special covering some of the baddest bands on the planet (Dap-Kings, Breakestra, Whitefield Brothers, Lefties Soul Connection, Cookin’ On 3 Burners & Malcolm Catto of the Heliocentrics) and our focus on PLANET MU, whether we’re cold lampin’ with the original funki dred JAZZIE B or sweating to the tropical rhythms of GWO KA and TUMBELE in Martinique and Guadeloupe, SHOOK #07 goes deep in the science of rhythm. The launch of HOMEGROWN, the first major exhibition of UK hip-hop, is our excuse to go back in time with London Posse, Demon Boyz and many more. We get the DATA REDUCTION from ZOMBY and gOnj@$ufi. MAX ROMEO tells us how he almost burned down the offices of Island Records, HUDSON MOHAWKE talks about making tracks for Rihanna, while Stefan Lakatos remembers learning to play the trimba from MOONDOG. For all you jazz heads, CARL CRAIG, MARCUS BELGRAVE and WENDELL HARRISON give us the rub on the resurrected TRIBE RECORDS project; we get a dose of Ancestral Soul from BODDHI SATTVA; Guilty Simpson, Black Milk, Dilated Peoples, Planet Asia and more salute HEX MURDA; we smoke Cohibas in Cuba with GILLES PETERSON and blaze blunts in LA with GASLAMP KILLER, SAMIYAM, HOUSESHOES & RHETTMATIC. Plus TERENCE BLANCHARD explains all about his difficult choices post-Katrina. Elsewhere, we feature FELA! THE MUSICAL, we surprise NNEKA, find out all about the CANDY MACHINE, travel the world with DREPH, celebrate the release of STILL BILL and raise a toast to 30 years of VAGUE. So shut yourself away this Christmas with a copy of SHOOK and a bottle of brandy, and be a soul adventurer, travelling to places and spaces far and wide in the musical omniverse.

Shook # 6

The Quantic Y Su Combo Barbaro album is dropping soon, and photographer, filmmaker & all-round goood guy B+ generously offered a picture he took while visiting Quantic in Colombia to put on the cover. Check the rest of the photos & the full story inside the mag. In the new issue we speak to Raekwon from the Wu about an album more hotly awaited than the second coming - Only Born 4 Cuban Linx II. Know that the Chef is still on point. We do some ghetto-turismo in Moro de Providencia, the oldest favela in Rio, thanx to French artist JR. We capture the UK’s premier ‘house dance’ crew InDaHouse in full effect. There’s an intvw with one of our favourite producers 9th Wonder and his True School crew. We spk to Rashad Smith (if you don’t know who that is, check the back of your ‘Woo Hah’ 12-inch or CD-single) . The eglo crew represent (Floating Points, Alex Nut & the whole 9 yards).There’s the story behind the 1974 concert in Kinshasa when James Brown, Bill Withers and Celia Cruz lined up alongside Miriam Makeba and Franco – it’s the subject of the new Soul Power film. Also check the story of Rahaan & the Chuck Brothers, the crate diggers outta Chi-city – and while you’re at it you need to download their mixes. Speaking of mixes, we speak to the one like Karizma who has a new album out via R2. We also have an in-depth story about the life and times of Freddie Hubbard, as remembered by Creed Taylor (of CTI and Impulse! fame). We publish a short story by Charlie Dark (‘The God of Road’), we remember French novelist Boris Vian and we speak to Bob James too. There’s also a revamped back section (big up M@ our art director) where we cover anything from Congolese sapeurs to boutique stores in the heart of Hoaxtown. What else? There’s a lot, and our fingers are getting tired so do yourself a favour and seek it out.

Shook Magazine # 5

Há novo número da Shook Magazine nas ruas. Como algumas das melhores coisas da vida, a Shook demora, mas quando aparece vem recheada de coisas boas:

From Hyperdub’s Minister of Information Kode9 to deep disco magus David Mancuso; Brazilian folk artist Calma (whose work graces our cover) to Japanese Godzilla movie posters, we've got that nefarious and deleterious brainfood you need.
Read about the migraine skank and tribal skank on the funky house scene or the knee-drops and floor work of UK jazz dance crews, plus word up on Larry Blackmon of Cameo, Ethio jazz maverick Mulatu Astatke, and Detroit’s i-don’t-give-a-fuck producer Omar S. We feature Sierra Leonean fashion house Aschobi Designs, novelist Gemma Weekes, we tell the story of how hip-hop sampled Marvel comics, and how Adidas exploded on the football terraces of Anfield.
Check out our interviews with Martyn, Harmonic 313, Culoe de Song (from Durban, S.A.), Silkie (from Hammersmith, W6) and the Soca-tinged sounds of Montreal's Ghislain Poirier. Reggae authority David Katz speaks to Ashley Beedle and Horace Andy; in the Lower East Side we catch up with DJs Rich Medina and Bobbito Garcia for an exclusive photo story; and Âme paint the history of electronic music in felt tip pens (no joke), plus lots of your regulars and even more surprises. This issue really is too hot to handle, so buy some oven gloves while you’re at it.