SCHAKKERHART

  Ha! You back! Get the newsletter! Don’t watch this one if anyone in your family tree ever knew someone who dreamed about having a epileptic seizure. The video to Rye Ryes Bang is out, directed by M.I.A. hersizzelf. The beat is still a Blaqstarr work. i stopped feeling the song for the moment but [...]

Here you have it, the first and very official Schakkerhart Mix! Schakkerhart put together a lil best of from all the tracks we posted in 2009, most of it also mentioned in the column I wright over at Raveline magazine. We start with DJ Class and Kanye West, give you Chesus & Rodski from Wales, [...]

Dirty House is an electro house variation with a latin house influence, lots of vocals and (if you believe the english wiki) “much more commercial in its appeal” than e house. Garage and Grime are other influences. Sounds good, hm? If you cut out the commercial thing, at least. If we talk about rap I’m [...]

Rye Rye has a new song out, featuring some M.I.A. lyrics and a drum driven BlaqStarr beat. Her debut is set to appear on may the 5th on  M.I.A.s label N.E.E.T. Since her two collaborators on this track are here starting line-up, this is what it gon sound like.   Rye Rye ft. M.I.A. – Bang [...]

மாதங்கி ‘மாயா’ அருள்பிரகாசம், better known by her stage name M.I.A., launched her own clothing line. Her brand is called Extended Merch, designed by Miss M.I.A. herself and Okley Leslie and delivers shirts, bodysuits, hoodies and leggings to your girlfriend. The designs are inspired by M.I.A.s album covers. It’s supposed to be buy-able here, but i [...]

I dont know if y’all is watchin The Wire. I promised myself to do that one day but for real, watchin the english version on the net was too i-dont-understand-a-damn-thang for me. I’ll try again with a good audio system attached. Anyways, M.I.A. took Homie DJ Blaqstarr and Tom Waits “Way Down In The Whole” [...]

kuduro is one hell of a musical style. african techno (ignorant description?^^) is killin it anyway. i just featured this one in raveline magazine: got get Buraka Som Sistema – Black Diamond, buraka som sistema are pretty much hyped by journalists at the moment. the genre, kuduro, is bouncin in lissabon and thats where buraka [...]