Atropolis - Atropolis CD (Dutty Artz)
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It makes sense that a lifelong New Yorker has created an album that encompasses the best of a number of musical influences the city has to offer. By age 16 Adam was deep into sounds from Mali, Nigeria, the Balkans, the Caribbean, and South America and living in the melting pot meant that all those musical communities were nearby. Years later, Patridge has created a fresh-to-death amalgamation of nueva cumbia, dubstep, moombahton, Afro-Colombian house, and kuduro, catching the ears of studied future world music professionals, Dutty Artz label heads Jace "DJ/Rupture" Clayton and Matt Shadetek. More..
ATROPOLIS INTERVIEW By MARTYN PEPPERELL
A born and bred New Yorker with mixed bloodlines drawn from Cyprus, Scotland, Germany and Aotearoa (the Maori name for New Zealand), under his Atropolis alias, Adam Partridge constructs and DJ’s what he dubs “nueva cumbia,” a modernised off-shoot of cumbia, that most storied of Afro/Columbian hybrid musical styles - a genre some say is rooted in the days of African slave ships, Spanish colonization and the resulting cultural interplay. More...
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