Creativity BUILDS on the PAST

...the WoMaD (WORLD of MOJO and DANCE) celebrations continue here on MojoTV with another video on copyright issues from Globians Film Festival, this one outlining the Creative Commons License...

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can i get an AMEN!!!

...welcome to the wonderful WORLD of MOJO and DANCE here on MojoTV with Can I Get An Amen? , an audio installation that unfolds a critical perspective of perhaps the most sampled drum beats in the history of recorded music, the Amen Break. It begins with the pop track Amen Brother by 60's soul band The Winstons, and traces the transformation of their drum solo from its original context as part of a 'B' side vinyl single into its use as a key aural ingredient in contemporary cultural expression. The work attempts to bring into scrutiny the techno-utopian notion that 'information wants to be free'- it questions its effectiveness as a democratizing agent. This as well as other issues are foregrounded through a history of the Amen Break and its peculiar relationship to current copyright law.

Contact Information: nate@nkhstudio.com, www.nkhstudio.com

Life and Debt - Stephanie Black (2001)

...here on MojoTV it's DUBSTOCK documentary time with this exceptional piece of work by Stephanie Black...

...Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact. http://www.lifeanddebt.org/about.html

DUB Echoes trailer- Bruno Natal(2008)

...ch ch check out this trailer from these crafty brazilians as DUBSTOCK continues here on MojoTV...

...at first, one might think that reggae and dance music don’t have much to do with each other. But that’s a false perception.

The documentary “Dub Echoes” aims to show how this Jamaican invention called dub ended up influencing much of the music we hear today, from electronic music to hip-hop, transforming the studio in a musical instrument and giving way to all of sonic experiments.

“Dub Echoes” was produced by a Brazilian crew, in Kingston (Jamaica), London (UK), NY, Washington, LA (US), Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (Brazil).

Key names, from both reggae and the electronic music world, talk about the birth of this genre, how it helped to change the way we perceive music and how it’s presence can still be felt today.

Just follow the bass lines!