Wrote this on March 2008 on Shemspeed about one of my favorite rappers of all time. Edan aka the Humble Magnificent aka the Rap Beautician just performed super human rap tricks displaying his lyrical gymnastic super phat scratch shtick and modulating vocal synth style fabrics. I don’t even know how to go into describing what …
Wrote this in March 2008 about Directing Shemspeed. Running a Jewish culture site is most annoying when blown away by something non Jewish and not being justifiably able to review it. Salvation came this time in the form of a Aleph Bet poster on the wall of Bleecker’s room. It was shown for a split …
Post from my UK tour in 2008 Dan of, the electronic live hip hop klezmer band dubbed, Emunah invited Y-Love, Jake Break and dj handler to perform at his monthly Psycho Semitic which is a fusion of cultures, faiths and races. It fit well with their Sulha aesthetic and mission. They enthusiastically agreed! The night …
Post from my touring in 2008 We are in Paris now and its amazing! If not for all the photos below. Well, actually I came with Nina and am waiting to meet up with Y-Love and Jake Break, but yea. we just been touring around. We found the famous Las Du Falafel that the celebs …
This was very fun back in 2007! The most insane moment of Jewish music history ever happened that night – Idan Raichel and Diwon are all set to perform at Irving Plaza when Shemspeed’s good friends Matisyahu and Y-Love let us know they are coming through. We suggest that all of them do a song …
Matisyahu, Idan Raichel, Y-love and Diwon LIVE!!! Read More »
Taken from The Jerusalem Post Oct.21.07 By BEN JACOBSON New York’s Erez Safar, 28, is clearly one of the top visionaries of young Jewish cool’s celebrated vanguard. You might have heard of Safar as the electro-ethnic-progressive turntablist DJ Handler, as the honcho of the alternative record label Modular Moods, as the manager of New York’s …
Jewish music’s multimedia mogul reaches out via the Web Read More »
I wrote this piece about a very talented friend of mine in Oct 8, 2007 You know when your friend has a friend that plays music and you go to dinner and eventually music comes up in the conversation and he mentions he finished an album and would love for you to hear it. Well, …
This was a piece I wrote back in Aug 30, 2007 “The Mix Up” begins with the Beastie Boys talking in that classic “We Are in The Studio” style, where before you play any instruments you talk about something random or talk about the fact that you are about to record. For true Beastie Boys, …
This is an interview I did with my boy Mr. Green back in Jul 16, 2007 It’s hard to believe that Shemspeed is Mr. Green’s first interview. After all he has produced tracks that feature C Rayz Waltz, Kosha Dillz and Matisyahu all rhyming together. Well, regardless, it is his first interview and maybe we …
Regina Spektor comes from the New York City antifolk scene, that curious bisection of painfully earnest singer-songwriting and hipster cool. After an unexpected tidal wave of popularity with her eponymous debut album, this—her major label debut—is a weird and kind of cool ground between the ethereal weirdness of Kate Bush and the put-you-to-sleep laziness of, …
