Articles by David Dacks

Various

Si Para Usted 2

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2009

Waxing Deep main-man Dan Zacks turned many heads with his Si Para Usted compilation a couple of years ago. Most of the appeal came from the...

Pax Nicholas and the Nettey Family

Na Teef Know De Road Of Teef

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2009

For all those that have the temerity to declare Afro-beat passé comes another reminder that the music of the most populous country i...

Brownout

Aguilas And Cobras

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2009

To the casual observer, Latin funk must seem easy: get a good drummer, load up on percussion and punchy horn riffs, and it's an instant par...

Variant

The Setting Sun

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2009

As soon as I saw the title of the album, I wondered how Echospace main-man Stephen Hitchell was going to conjure up sounds to suit it. His...

Jahdan Blakkamoore Brings It Together

PUBLISHED Sep 26, 2009

"What's really touching me right now is the merging of all musics" says vocalist Jahdan Blakkamoore over the phone from New York. His new a...

Toronto's Rat Drifting Imprint Reveals Early 2010 Release Schedule with Records by Drumheller, the Reveries, the Nightjars

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2009

Toronto, ON's non-idiomatic, experimentally minded Rat Drifting label usually releases records in batches. In past interviews, head Drifter...

Gang Gang Dance

"Bebey" (DJ/Rupture & Matt Shadetek remix)

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2009

Perhaps overshadowed by Animal Collective and Dirty Projectors as Willliamsburg's most popular and critically acclaimed artists of the last...

Eric Copeland

"Al Anon"

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2009

The title suggests an angry and depressed blast of noise emanating from the depths of withdrawl. Eric Copeland, one third of Black Dice, is...