Nishimoto has written features for Wax Poetics, Paste, Venus and Prefixmag.com, liner notes for Tuff City funk reissues, and more than his allowable share of forgetable book reports. When he’s not DJing weddings, working on his footwork, balancing budgets, shaking hands or kissing babies, you can catch the kid blahgging at sintalentos. He also detests bios and lists. Wait a second…
Features
Thursday, February 16 2006
Future Funk Soldier: Looking Back on Jay Dee by Looking Forward
Though many of his production techniques had been innovated by other producers, Dilla arranged them in a new fashion and took them to a logical extreme. In a sense, he helped bridge hip-hop's transition from Pete Rock, Prince Paul and Premier to Pharrell and Timbaland.
Tuesday, October 4 2005
There Is None Higher
Snap your fingers and clap your hands and say, 'Run-DMC is the King of All Bands!' Reissue of the group's first four lets new jacks catch up while old timers reflect.
Thursday, July 28 2005
Tuesdays with Annie
Her story is readymade fable, but she's just plain ol' Annie.
Friday, April 8 2005
Danced Myself Right on to the Stage: Born to Boogie: the DVD and CD
Born to Boogie, Marc Bolan and T.Rex's famed concert film, is finally receiving a proper reissue. To get to the heart of this project, PopMatters spoke with key figures close to both Marc and the DVD/CD: legendary producer Tony Visconti; reissue director Mark Allen; reissue producer Mark Roberts; and Rolan Bolan, Marc's son.
Friday, April 8 2005
Danced Myself Right on to the Stage: Born to Boogie: the DVD and CD
Born to Boogie, Marc Bolan and T.Rex's famed concert film, is finally receiving a proper reissue. To get to the heart of this project, PopMatters spoke with key figures close to both Marc and the DVD/CD: legendary producer Tony Visconti; reissue director Mark Allen; reissue producer Mark Roberts; and Rolan Bolan, Marc's son.
Columns
Monday, November 3 2008
Electoral Relaxation: The Myth of the Hip-Hop Achilles Heel
Either Obama's "hip-hop candidacy" makes him appeal to a heretofore disaffected and/or untapped voting bloc, thereby legitimizing his claim as a candidate of hope and change; or this unwelcome connection to a controversial art is a liability.
Monday, August 11 2008
Back in the Day
Heat and beats make for a good combination. No surprise then that most of my memorable experiences related to hip-hop happened during the summer.
Thursday, June 5 2008
Yes We Can Can
The recent "censure" of The Boondocks demonstrates the difficulty art faces in raising a critical converation in a corporate setting. Considering hip-hop's deep embedding into corporate culture, how can radical change happen?
Tuesday, April 1 2008
It Ain't No Joke
Hip-hop, like most other arts, intentionally pays humor less mind because, hey, it's not supposed to be taken seriously! But seriously.
Tuesday, February 5 2008
Burning Down the House
A pack and purge process got Nishimoto to thinking about Jay Electronica, who may be the M.I.A. that hip-hop has been waiting for.
Reviews
Friday, July 20 2007
La Jetee / Sans Soleil (1962)
The persistence and permutation of memory (or the truth about cats, blondes, Hitchcock, video games, and the post-apocalypse) -- what more would you expect from Chris Marker's entry into the Criterion Collection?
Thursday, July 19 2007
Practical Research Methods for Media and Cultural Studies by Máire Messenger Davies and Nick Mo
I majored in history, but failed math: strongly agree, strongly disagree, or I don't remember. If you chose the first option, continue reading.
Thursday, July 12 2007
The Electric Prunes: Release of an Oath
It took a village to raise the Electric Prunes to both its highest and lowest.
Friday, May 18 2007
Betty Davis: Betty Davis / They Say I'm Different
Funk's first feminist Betty Davis resurfaces.
