Mucca Pazza- Safety Fifth (Electric Cowbell Records, 2012) Mucca Pazza are a few-dozen strong group from Chicago, an ensemble that blends a bewildering array of styles (tango, spaghetti western soundtracks, and heavy funk, to name just a few), delivers the…
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Groove Music: The Art And Culture Of The Hip-Hop DJ (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Groove Music is a new volume from Oxford University Press, a treatise on the four decade evolution of hip-hop culture and the record manipulators who have guided that journey. From the sound system parties in The Bronx in the 70s…