{"id":33,"date":"2010-12-18T13:09:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T12:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stridenight.com\/?p=33"},"modified":"2013-02-03T13:36:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T12:36:46","slug":"alex-nut-2632011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stridenight.com\/?p=33","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Nut 26\/3\/2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

For our 2nd Stride Night<\/strong> our friend ALEXANDER NUT<\/a><\/strong> is paying us a visit! Prolific Rinse.fm DJ<\/strong> and the man behind Eglo Records<\/a><\/strong> this should be a big night!<\/p>\n

\"Alexander
\nPhoto by Shaun Bloodworth<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The following text by Martin Clark is taken from the rinse.fm website<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been times when I play with all the lights off and take a little lamp\u2026 we pretend that we\u2019re in Plastic People. Haha, that\u2019s true!\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander Nut is one of a kind: the only experimental hip hop DJ on London\u2019s urban radio, Rinse. He plays a global art form on a station devoted to unique local sounds. Yet Alexander and the rest of Rinse are not so different.<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s one thing that ties his Rinse shows together, it\u2019s hip hop. But that\u2019s where simple definitions end. Drawing sounds from New York to Glasgow, Detroit to London, his Mixed Nuts show cuts through geographies, sounds and scenes to find common cause.<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnology, globalization: I\u2019m part of a worldwide community,\u201d he explains. \u201cWe\u2019re all human beings with similar emotions and purpose. I\u2019ve never belonged to one particular group. I\u2019m a child of the universe. And this is how we communicate with everything in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through his weekly Saturday morning show, Alexander goes about the business of communicating with everything in the universe, using the medium of, in the very broadest sense, hip hop. \u201cI need to stay free but remain rooted in hip hop, the culture is really important to me, from its origin to its future. But no way am I playing all that bogus shit they claim is hip hop these days. This music is me, it\u2019s personal. It\u2019s inner and outer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alex\u2019s CD for Rinse imagines every conceivable possibility for hip hop, a remarkable and state-of-the-art collection of places and spaces. In the last year several commentators, including myself, have tried to point out the exciting sonic parallels between, on one hand, the new school hip hop experimentation of Flying Lotus and on the other the post-crunk sound of Rustie and the meta-grime sound of Joker. And while some of such efforts have been greeted with resistance, it\u2019s apparent here that there\u2019s an exciting, creative and gloriously ill-defined dialogue going on.<\/p>\n

The coverage highlighted a shared love of \u201cunstable midrange synths\u201d regardless of tempo, and in that respect this mix excels. Bullion\u2019s \u201cGet Familiar\u201d is grime on LSD. Rustie\u2019s epic 8bit remix of Zomby needs little introduction. And Pinch\u2019s \u201cMotion Sickness\u201d had a working title of \u201cWonky Bleepy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet if that weren\u2019t enough Nut\u2019s mix pushes beyond just gloriously free synths. Simbad\u2019s \u201cSoul Fever,\u201d starts out in a squelchy, 8bit vein but quickly breaks out into a soul sweat. And therein lies the glory of any connections between someone like Flylo and, say, Joker: the door opens to entirely new rooms of possibilities, one where through dialogue both sides gain.<\/p>\n

Once in this world we find Morgan \u201cSpacek\u201d Zarate, Marco Polo\u2019s feminine ATCQ cover or even dubstepper 2562\u2019s Pattie Blingh remix \u2013 soul in the most, blessed out, narcotic sense. Even Joker\u2019s \u201cDigidesign,\u201d a stripped-back grime gem, shows echoes of Miss Elliot and Timbalands pioneering \u201890s R&B canon.<\/p>\n

When you consider how much both Timbaland is considered to owe to UK jungle, in a rhythmic sense alone, and how much grime, the primary foundation for Joker\u2019s sound, does too, you hear Nut\u2019s comment that he\u2019s \u201cpart of a worldwide community\u201d ring true. Even Jamaica gets heard, in the dancehall flavours of Digital Soundboy and Roots Manuva.<\/p>\n

And so it is that once a week, a planet, or a decent chunk of it, comes together to check Nut on Rinse. \u201cI really appreciate everyone who gets in contact, we have regulars in Sweden, Brooklyn, Japan, NZ, Amsterdam, Russia. \u2026 they\u2019re my peoples. I just want them all to zone out with me and go mind travelling to the music. Rinse\u2026 it\u2019s the real deal, you don\u2019t get a more genuine connection to the underground. It\u2019s 100% undiluted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin Clark aka Blackdown
\nLDN Spring 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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