[MP3] The Wild Bunch vs. Soul II Soul – New Years Eve 1987 (Live DJ Mix)

MP3 download: Wild Bunch/Soul II Soul – Wild Bunch Vs Soul II Soul New Years Eve 1987 (Live DJ Mix)

Another re-post from the original Kitchen:

This is f-cking EPIC! For young uns’ benefit, here’s the background story: when The Wild Bunch broke up they became Soul II Soul (with Nellee Hooper joining Jazzie B‘s London crew and helping them produce “Back to Life” and “Keep On Movin'”) and Massive Attack (formed by WB members Daddy G, 3D and maybe Milo too, though not sure about that last one).

Test Pressing has more crucial UK sounds. Check them out HERE.

[via Test Pressing / h/t: Anousheh]

Video: Ryan Leslie – I Know What You Like!

A nice Making Of clip – really well done. Ryan Leslie: making being Ivy League & bougie black, funky in 2009! [via ‘Ye’s blog]

“The equivalent of a tsunami every five months….”

The displaced children of Darfur

While the Tsunami was a horrendous natural disaster that dominated the news headlines during the holidays and beyond and Iraq continues to be a disastrous mistake of man’s own doing, I and many others’ attention was distracted away from the tremendous human suffering that continues largely unabated in the Sudan and other parts of Africa. I’m embarrassed to admit that it wasn’t until I read the editorial “Thousands Died in Africa Yesterday” in Sunday’s New York Times that I was motivated to return to this tragedy on the site.

Here’s one line from the editorial to consider: “In the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is anything but, some 1,000 people die every day of preventable diseases like malaria and diarrhea. That’s the equivalent of a tsunami every five months, in that one country alone.” Will Bush join his stalwart Iraq ally Tony Blair in his call of pushing for more help for troubled African states?

More information and charity links:

“If We Return, We Will Be Killed” – Consolidation of Ethnic Cleansing in Darfur, Sudan

Darfur: A Genocide We Can Stop

Save Darfur

The Darfur Information Center

The Best Way to help provide relief in Western Sudan and Chad

Crisis in Sudan: How You Can Help Those in Need

Previous Different Kitchen posts on the Darfur tragedy:

Darfur 101 and Bush’s not-so-secret voting bloc

What will the world do this time?

“Democracy Is Like Sex….”

The continuing tragedy in Sudan

Rangel stands up over the Sudan tragedy.

But let’s not forget what some have also termed a genocide in Northern Uganda or the atrocities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where an estimated 2.5 million people have been killed in a bloody civil war since 1998.

I just blog about it but how we do get others to shine some light on the places beyond Iraq, Iran, Syria and North Korea in desperate need of help or reform?

The First Ever Post on Different Kitchen!

Here’s a re-publishing of the very first post from the original version of Different Kitchen:

Welcome to my brand new web log. I’ve set this up out of boredom but hope something interesting’ll come out of it for me and for anybody who somehow manages to stumble upon it and reads whatever I end up posting here.

For my friends who have been inundated with the emails I send out periodically about the debacle in Iraq (or even here), I’ll now just add the links here instead and save you some space in your inboxes. Also I hope to put cats up on some cool music and other stuff I came across in my endless surfing on the web so check back as I hope to post at least once a week and maybe more if I can get into a good groove and have enough on my mind or that I’ve come across that’s worth sharing.

In the meantime, I think the Neptunes are dropping their label compilation “Star Trak presents… Clones” with collabos from Kelis, Nas, Busta, Supercat, The Clipse and some other newer artists they’re developing tomorrow so check it out here at their official website.

Also, if you’re open to checking some slightly different sh!t, look into this kid from England named Dizzee Rascal. He’s only 17 (I’ve heard) but he’s mixing UK garage with hip hop beats and rhymes in a way that sounds a lot cooler than you would imagine from that description. For those who liked The Streets (and I was one of them although I had to ignore the ridicuclous “he’s the British Eminem” hype he got in the media because it was totally off point. He was more like a John Cooper Clark figure for the UK’s Post-Raver generation), this is coming from that angle but more urban and less “Loaded” magazine/larger lout/lad-ish in vibe. I swear that more open-minded Hot 97-type heads over here could get into this kid if they had an opportunity to hear it and gave it a chance to sink in. Then again I though Ms. Dynamite had a shot at blowing up here and, so far, she’s sank without a trace (and that wack Nas remix of “Dy-na-mit-ee” I’ve been hearing isn’t helping her any either). Here’s a link to Dizzee’s website though and you can also listen to mp3’s of his newest single on his UK label’s (XL) web site here.

LOL at me actually using the term ‘web log’!