Day 3 . . . DJ Doblegota

Granada's got a strong hip-hop scene, bifurcated between the Fiddy fans and fundamentalist underground heads. Both crowds seem content to lurk around the mid-90s, the backpackers headbobbin to grimy New York boom-bap, while the other half continues to ask me to play "Insane in the Brain", "Gangsta's Paradise", and "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems" when I'm DJing up en la 'teca.



Doblegota is of the former, a certified citizen of true-school hip-hop, born in Pamplona, currently residing in Granada. His apt looks just like the typical bedroom producer mess of vinyl and Japanese electronics you'd see in Behind the Beat. We performed with Doble a few weeks back at a concert for International Women's Day -- I'm on the MPC on the right, Doble on the 1200s and K (from Cuatro Esquinas) on the mic rapping the instrumental from my 12" (carried from California) of Immortal Technique's "Industrial Revolution". (ed. note: the beats sounds almost identical to its predecessor "Cake" from Pete Rock's 2001 album Petestrumentals. But the-breaks.com doesn't give the sample for either, and almost nobody has mentioned this on the shminternet. And while we're on the topic of internet poverty, why hasn't anyone typed out the lyrics to Edan + Mr. Lif's "Making Planets"??? "



When he came over today, Sean and I were chopping up a song by Rabih Abou-Khalil, an 'ud player from Beirut who's lived in Germany since leaving Lebanon in 1978 during the Civil War.



I ripped (using WireTap Pro) the audio the above YouTube interview with Abou-Khalil, imported his words into Serato and let Doble do his thing over our beat:



Doble y Rabih - Shifting Rhythms