Articles by Prasad Bidaye
Moodyman
Silence In The Silent Secret Garden
PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2019
The latest Moodymann disc opens with a two-and-a-half minute orchestration of deconstructed jazz drums, a jerky clavinet line and synth-str...
Minstrels, Slaves and the Rebirth of Hip-hop's Soul
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
This past June, I attended Hip-hop Is Dead! (or Is It?), an "editorial art exhibition" curated by Danilo McDowell-McCallum, aka Equinox 199...
Church on the Dance Floor
The Loft, Paradise Garage and Body & Soul
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Sometimes the excitement over the contemporary dance scene resembles the confusion of Babel an explosion that has the languages of house,...
A Guy Called Gerald Says Shut Up and Dance
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Drum & bass is dead. Sure, it still gets played at raves, but it no longer has the vital force of what it had five years ago when many of...
Roni Size Is Expressive and Aggressive
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Three years after turning the world on to their distinctive combination of sharp melodies and breakbeat assault, Reprazent's concept remain...
King Britt & Sylk 130
Synth Appeal
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Sometimes it feels like the 80s are a bigger phenomenon today than they were when we lived them. Aside from the usual proliferation of ret...
Asian Dub Foundation
The Community of Sound
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Asian Dub Foundation's Dr. Aniruddha Das is waiting for his order at a curry take-out in Norwich, England. The bass player's stomach must b...
Rahzel
Kickin' It In School
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Since the days of the Fat Boys and Doug E. Fresh, the art of beat-boxing has survived on that principle of simple expression first coined b...
