THE SHRINE EPK: How we get down

 The Shrine has hosted so many incredible shows and events in out near five years of existence.
Peep the EPK and prepare to have your mind blown...

We Love Music. Period.

The Shrine EPK from Cam Be on Vimeo.

THAI MATIC - LET ME LAND

Rising UK Hip Hop star drops his third mix tape, hot off appearance with Jay Electronica.

AFRO TREAT: FELA IN HIP HOP - THE SAMPLES

LIFTED FROM OKAYPLAYER

Yes, Fela is everywhere these days, you might even say it's a Fela revival, or a Fela-olution. But historically speaking, espesh in the hip-hop world, worshipping Fela is nothing new. Check out this mixtape from NY based producer and DJ Dhundee. Afrotreats traces some of hip-hop's best tracks that sampled Fela over the years, from Jay-Z to Mos Def and many more.


DOWNLOAD: HERE

( Intro taken from Fela's "Music Is The Weapon" )
1. I Will Not Appologize (Featuring Porn & Dice Raw) - The Roots
2. Smithzonian Institute Of Rhyme - Blackalicious
3. Colonial Mentality - Fela Kuti
4. Whatcha Gon' Do F. Timbaland - Missy Elliot
5. Roc Boys (Mike Love's Nigerian Gangster remix ft. Fela Kuti) - Jay-Z
6. Water No Get Enemy - D'Angelo, Femi Kuti & Macy Gray Feat. Roy Hargrove, Nile Rodgers
7. This Is Sad - Fela Ransome Kuti & Nigeria 70
8. Fela - Lukid
9. By Your Side (Cottonbelly's Fola Mix) [Edit] - Sade
10. No Agreement - Res, Tony Allen, Ray Lema, Baaba Maal, Positive Black Soul & Archi
11. Heat - Common
12. Let's Start (Fela Kuti Tribute) - J.Period & K'NAAN
13. Fear Not of Man - Fela Kuti
14. Fear Not of Man - Mos Def
15. Upside Down - Fela Kuti
16. Upside Down - The Daktaris
17. Tears + Sorrow - Common, Me'Shell Ndeg�Ocello & Djelimady Tounkara
18. Shuffering And Shmiling - Fela Kuti
19. Pass That Dutch (PTA MIX) - Missy Elliot
20. MAW Expensive (A Tribute To Fela) - Masters At Work Feat. Wunmi
21. Zombie, Pt. 2 - Roy Hargrove & Money Mark Nile Rodgers
( outro taken from Fela's "Music Is The Weapon" )

DIGGIN' CHICAGO - WINDY CITY CRATES: COMMON X DILLA X TONY ALLEN = HEAT

Dilla lifted the drums from a then one year old Tony Allen cut ('Asiko') for 'Heat', from Common's 2000 album, Like Water For Chocolate. Heat is right, damn! If you don't know the original cut by Allen, do yourself a favor and click the link above. It comes from Tony Allen's 'comeback' Black Voices album from 1999 - a classic in its own right. (Well you know Dilla was always on some real sh*t!)

Classic Common. Classic Hip Hop. Classic Chi-tilla Crates.

KOOL KEITH + HOWLIN' WOLF + Q BERT = JAPAN!?!?

The last installation of (Diggin' Chicago) Windy City Crates featured a post on Howlin' Wolf's classic 'Spoonful'. Well sometimes the digging goes on right in our own house, and in our minds. The internet is great for random connections between seemingly unconnected artists. The Wolf post got me listening to a bunch of blues rock and made me remember a record I bought a long time ago by a group called Natural Calamity. They were a 'Trip Hop' group from Japan formed in the early 90s composed of Shunji Mori and Kuni Sugimoto, plus American singer Stephanie Heasley. 'On The Peach' features remixes from their 1997 album 'Peach Head' and has an ultra rare collaboration between the group and Kool Keith (?!) along with DJ Q Bert! Keith was fresh off the Dr. Octagon record and drops some of his most bizarre, blunted (and funny!), stream of consciousness lyrics. The song lifts Howlin' Wolf's signature "ooh wee" vocal as it lazily bumps over a blues-ed out beat complete with Q Bert scratches.

LISTEN: NATURAL CALAMITY (FEAT. KOOL KEITH) IN THE WEE WEE TIME

(DIGGIN' CHICAGO) WINDY CITY CRATES - HOWLIN WOLF - SPOONFUL (THE OG AND ONE 4 THA BEAT HEADZ)

"I wanna' hear some Howlin' Wolf' says the man. I oblige. No argument there. "Nobody makes this kinda music any more". I know... Damn the man got a voice like a buzz saw. "How does he sing like that"? Wolf was six feet six inches tall, three hundred pounds, probably more. Sounds twice as big. Hell, bigger. Seriously. From The Wolf's 'Howlin Wolf' comes the gigantic 'Spoonful'. So much insanely good music recorded in Chicago, at Chess Records! Even if blues isn't necessarily your thing, this album is essential. Imagine South Michigan avenue when he dropped this gutbucket bomb in 1962! Classic. Chicago. Yes, sir.



Wolf was gettin' hip with the long haired kidz in 1969 and actually ended up bringing the the noise to yet another generation with his fuzzed out re-vamp from his 1969 album 'The Howlin' Wolf Album'. Like Muddy Waters, Wolf recorded his own 'psychedelic' record in 1968, riding the wave of Jimi Hendrix. Purists hated it, so did Wolf. Don't know 'bout the kidz, but the album has a ton of beats that producers and DJs have pilfered over the years. The opening break pretty much gives you the idea. They make Hip Hop with these kind of records, son. Fifty years later, Wolf's 'Spoonful' still weighs a ton.

The Biggest Weekend in CHICAGO

The Shrine now has the BIGGEST weekend in CHICAGO! The Shrine welcomes Chicago party starters Ronda Flowers (The Queen of House) & Teddy Gilmore (Clubnet 360) to the fold, this is only the beginning! Enjoy the photos!

R.I.P. Guru (Gang Starr)

Hip-Hop/Jazz artist Guru (July 17, 1966 – April 19, 2010) passed away last night, but his music still lives on! February 28th, 2010 Guru suffered a cardiac arrest and following surgery, days later fell into a coma. He woke from the coma but died on April 19, 2010 after a long battle with cancer. I expect DJ Timbuck2 & guest DJ; Radamas will show love to Guru's memory and play tonz (of gunz) of Gang Starr tonight!

Do remember on June 2nd, 2010 The Shrine has DJ Premier in the house!



And now some classic Gang Starr videos!




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