It’s always a good time for this one. Check the video below, Live From London, 2003…

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…via The Smoking Section.

Cynthia Oliver/COCo Dance Theatre’s Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso takes calypso in and out of the carnival context and layers it with mythology, hertory, and dance. Six women from the Caribbean diaspora explore “rupture,” or break, and discover a shared Caribbean identity across geographical, cultural and aesthetic borders. Through vibrant movement, sound and text, the performers negotiate their individual identities and cut through calypso’s melodious innuendo to reveal its political subversive truth-telling and rawness then delivers it in raucous and downright unrespectable levels….

The shows last performance is tonight. For more info and to purchase tickets, click here: Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso.

With the Carnival season wrapping it up, now is the perfect time for a film like this. I’d really love to see something similar for the goings on here in NYC, and in other regions. Check out the info below…

Grammy Award winner Don Letts tells the incredible story of Europe’s biggest street party – the Notting Hill Carnival. Wonderful interviews, unseen archive and an amazing soundtrack combine to chart the history of this celebration of multicultural London!

Starting out in 1959 as a response to the worst racial violence the streets of London has ever seen, Carnival began when over a hundred Caribbean Londoners came together, using music and dance in a show of harmony. Half a century later and this multicultural celebration of diversity attracts over a million people to London every year!

A balanced mix of reality and history, the film captivates young and old, black and white, with unseen archive, an amazing soundtrack and wonderful interviews with Sir Trevor McDonald, Paul Simonon of The Clash, Miquita Oliver, Norman Jay and Jazzie B.

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For more info on the film, check Seen’s article, the film’s offical site or watch online at Electric Sky TV.

Since I posted the audio for this one not too long ago, it’s only right that I bring you the video. Check it out below…

Image via Pascal Kerouche on Flickr. Video via RapRadar.

If you follow Usain Bolt then its no surprise that the track star likes to dance. Bolt put out a challenge for the best dancers to come up with some moves, make a video and he will judge. The winner gets to fly out to London and join him for his July 24th competition (if you win this competition cause of my post you me a ticket).

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Check for more details at loveathletics09.co.uk

The Heatwave released the “Early Warming Mixtape”. The mix builds up with a good summer vibe to it.

This is a mix I originally started work on back in April or May when we had our first burst of summery weather in London, hence the Early Warming name.

It was meant to be a spring thing but then the weather got shit again and I thought there needed to be some more sunshine before I put it out…

Anyway it’s 45 minutes of summertime, good vibes dancehall and laidback one drop reggae, perfect for winding along to in your car, in the park or wherever really.

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I thought I would switch things up and post something with a little UK flavor to it. Plus its got my man Sizzla on it - you can never go wrong that way.

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Kardi recently sat down with DJ Semtex over in the UK to discuss the hip-hop scene over there…check it out below…

HipHop Mastermind is where I put your favourite rapper on the spot about a subject they should know about.

Kardinal Offishall is always back on forth from the UK, so I put him to the test, to see how much he really knows about the UK scene. It’s pretty funny.

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I thought I would post something a little different today, one of the big tunes in the UK right now is Party Hard by Donaeo. He’s got a couple of different styles that influence his music, from his mix heritage he brings both African and Caribbean styles to the table, and since he’s a UK native he also has the Garage influence. Party Hard, definitely shows off his Guyanese side. Check it out…

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and the remix..

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