Jiro Dreams of Sushi: In Chicago April 6th

Since many of you have forgotten that this blog exists (myself included), I am also assuming that you forgot it was about food, in addition to music.  Well here is some food to remind you.  On the menu today: Sushi, stoic old people, and stoic old people who are really good at making sushi.  I am talking of course about the recently released documentary on the world foremost sushi master and 3 star Michelin chef Sukiyabashi Jiro.  Buzz about this movie has been fomenting since its premier at some big festival I don't particularly care to be accurate about mentioning.  But the reviews are great, so great that every time I even see a headline referring to this movie, I get hungry.  Premiering in Chicago April 6th.  More info at Sushimovie.com

At Long Last: The Kon Edits

"A world pre-premier..., A world-world-world premier-premier-premier" - Anonymous

This guy... This fucking guy... He gets the master tapes for these pristine, timeless, near perfect songs, and then somehow someway makes them different, more modern, dare I say... better? Thats what Giles Peterson dared to insinuate when he first dropped this new batch of edits from Boston DJ and crate digger Kon on his acclaimed show BBC Radio 1 over a year ago.  I forget whether he was referring to Kon's rework of Chic's "Good Times" or Cerrone's classic disco tune "Hooked On You", or maybe it was George Benson's "Give Me the Night" I don't remember they were all that amazing.
Since then the tracks remained unreleased. Only a few choice DJ's around the world have been given full copies of the songs.  But now, they are slowly starting to trickle out. There have been a few to come out so far (Staying Alive, Sunlight, and maybe one more I'm forgetting about).  The latest is released tomorrow. It is an edit of Sylvester's "Mighty Real" and the Light Touch Band's "Chicago", and its Hot.  With a capital "H".  Just check out this tight music video...

P.S. Also look for collaborations of his w/ Boston based the Whiskey Barrons, under the guise of Nite Time

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Rich Medina and Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's Get Angry

The Kiss, oil on canvas, 2011

To support and articulate the extrodinary political struggles of common peoples across the world, painter Tatyana Fazlalizadeh has teamed up with East Coast man selektah Rich Medina for a new project.  The product is "Get Angry" which is a zip file of a special politically themed mix from Medina along with pdfs of Fazlalizadeh's paintings. More information can be found at Fazlalizadeh's blog


Tracklist:

Public Enemy - Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos
Syl Johnson - Concrete Reservation
Bilal - Robots
Mos Def - War
Dorothy Ashby - Soul Vibrations
Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Syl Johnson - Is It Because I'm Black?
El Michels Affair - Heaven & Hell
Common - The Corner
BDP - 30 Cops Or More
Fred Wesley & The JBs - Damn Right I'm Somebody
J Dilla - Fuck The Police
Marijata - No Condition Is Permanent
Aquil - For The People
Gang Starr - Words Manifest
Charlie Dark & Roger Robinson - Prayer For Angry Young Men
Miguel Atwood Ferguson - Stakes Is High featuring Posdnous & Talib Kweli