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RA.897 IG Culture

RA Podcast

Resident Advisor

Music

4.6 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Broken beat, or bruk, is intrinsically collaborative. Its London originators often recorded together, taking inspiration from jazz, hip-hop, deep house, drum & bass and Afrobeat. Because the genre was born of fusion, it brought together heads from all corners of the music spectrum—sound system purists to junglists to Latin Nuyorican aficionados—who each resonated with bruk's complex rhythms in their own ways. Ian Grant, AKA IG Culture, is an early pioneer of bruk, and his story underlines the style's synergetic nature. Starting out as an MC, he struck fame in the early '90s as one half of Dodge City Productions but quickly grew disillusioned with the major label business. After immersing himself in early George Duke records, Fela Kuti, Fuji music, The Headhunters and the like, he started experimenting in the studio. The jazz inspiration, plus his roots in reggae and background in hip-hop and acid jazz, led to his now-seminal, late '90s productions as New Sector Movements—widely considered as the starting point in bruk history. Since then, Grant has kept building infrastructure for the hybrid sound. Alongside Bugz in the Attic, Phil Asher, Dego of 4hero, Demus and Orin Walters, he cofounded the legendary CoOp party, which became a meeting place for diverse musical minds and enabled bruk to keep evolving. Grant remains deeply committed to co-creating, as seen by the Selectors Assemble artist collective he runs with Alex Phountzi (the two are also known as NameBrandSound), his releases with Psykhomantus as Shall I Bruk It, his Afrofuturist take on bruk as Likwid Continual Space Motion and various other projects. On his RA Podcast, the veteran artist presents a forward-thinking portrayal of bruk, adjacent styles that were directly inspired by it and other global club cuts. There are cerebral, jazzy cuts from his CoOp label, Nigerian cruise music, percussive UK garage, 2-step swing, dancehall dub and much more. This is Grant's world, where rhythmic and swung beats reign supreme. @ig-culture Read more at https://ra.co/podcast/897

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0:00.0

Yo, what's up? This is Kusko, Big Up's IG culture in the mix on Resident Advisor,

0:05.0

and big love and respect always to First Word and Court Presents. I don't want to say I've seen you around looking at me down.

0:31.6

I've seen you around Looking at me girl

0:41.3

Looking at me boy

0:44.3

Can't you sustain

0:48.3

Just looking away

0:50.3

Or am I that attractive to you

0:53.3

The way you follow me around is my head,

0:57.0

but I don't know what you see

1:00.0

See The

1:13.6

The shamelessly falling in love with me again

1:36.3

you won't stop until I'm drooling over you Side to side'll pay me in your mind

2:05.6

drool and too bright all the time

2:09.6

The way you'll pay me in your mind

2:13.6

drooling to quiet all the time When I'm on my own, when I'm on my own, when I'm on my own, when I'm on my own, when I'm on my own, when I'm on my own, when I'm on my own, when I'm on my own, when I'm home When I'm home

3:08.3

When I'm home

3:10.3

When I'm home

3:13.3

When I'm in my home

3:17.3

When I'm

3:19.3

When I'm

3:21.3

When I'm

3:22.3

When I'm When I'm When I'm Well, good. Well, When, Wynum, Wynom

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