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Check out the man called Diplo in his LargeUp x Rockers NYC t-shirt at a Notting Hill Carnival afterparty in London. Have you seen our LargeUp TV episode with the mind behind Major Lazer shot in Kingston, Jamaica?
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Headed to London for Notting Hill Carnival this weekend? You’ll find no shortage of entertainment to choose from, that’s for sure. Every year, Time Out London puts together a super-comprehensive guide to the parade and attendant festivities, and this time they’ve produced a handy carnival map with the locations of 37 participating sound systems, as well as nearby Tube stops and party-hosting pubs:
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De Tropix, a collaborative project between DJ/producer/vocalist Damon Bowen (a/k/a Instinct) and vocalist Cherry B (hype chick/backup singer/choreographer for M.I.A.) caught our attention three years ago with their scorching, dancehall-inflected U.K. club banger “Adeyhey.” While the duo dropped a few more brap-worthy tunes we loved just as much, as quickly as they had seduced our ears, the Anglo-Vincy duo (Cherry B hails from St. Vincent, while Damon is a U.K. native of Vincy extraction) disappeared back into the ether.
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Words by Jesse Serwer—
Today marks the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence, a milestone being celebrated in various ways not just across Jamaica, but across all of the diaspora capitals, and around the world. One of the many events celebrating the milestone is the world premiere of One People, a public-sourced documentary (meaning regular people, as well as some professionals, were asked to film and submit their own footage in the spirit of inclusiveness) premised around the simple question (as asked to Jamaicans and “friends of Jamaica locally and oversea), “What does Jamaica mean to you?”
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Words by Jesse Serwer—
With all due respect to Mitt Romney’s foot and mouth, the Caribbean, in the form of the Jamaican track team, is the central storyline at the London Olympics kicking off tonight. So it’s only right that London 2012 have a summer anthem with some Caribbean flavor. The funky house of “London Town” by Who Jax, a side project of the diverse crew behind Orange Hill Productions, isn’t the sort of thing we usually run over here but listen closely, and you’ll hear samples from Trini calypsonian Lord Kitchener’s “London Is The Place For Me.” Watch the video for “London Town” below, and get up to date on the Orange Hill camp in this interview with OHP’s Ras Kwame and Jnr. Tubby.
