‘Cuts of Culture 2 – The Podcasts’: Week 3b

Week 3 of the Cuts of Culture 2 Podcasts sees us take in music from Japan, America and Belgium in one fell swoop. This week’s video comes courtesy of the mighty Studio Rarekwai gang and features US producer and Japan resident Quietstorm alongside Japanese MC Twiggy, while the audio is from none other than US born, Belgium based Lamont, a member of the TTR extended family.

Studio Rarekwai Showcase: DJ Quietstorm feat Twiggy – Be Quiet
This week’s video comes courtesy of the archives at Studio Rarekwai. If you’re not familiar with their work, which includes the excellent documentary ‘Scratching the Surface’ and book/DVD ‘Rack Gacki’, then head over to rarekwai.com, because these guys do some seriously amazing work. Not only have they documented the various facets of Japan’s hip hop scene (which is how we came to meet, they were responsible for hooking us up with DJ Baku originally) they’ve also worked with the cream of UK hip hop and are currently working on new projects which take in new musical and visual horizons.
And so with so much quality work under their belt it was only right we asked them to get involved on this, and while their original contributions to the project were 3 videos, we’ve kept what we think is by far the best one – the original music video for DJ Quietstorm’s track ‘Be Quiet’ featuring Japanese MC Twiggy. This track is taken from Quietstorm’s second LP, ‘Soramiro’. Quietstorm is a long time member of the Living Legends crew from California (home to such rap luminaries as Murs and The Grouch) who relocated to Tokyo over ten years and has since established himself firmly in the Japanese hip hop scene. We chose the video for this track not only because the track itself is great, but also because we think it’s quite a fitting video for the project. We won’t say no more though and let you check it for yourselves.
For more info on Quietstorm check the following wikipedia page and look for his releases on Amazon and similar online sites.
The file is 49mb, .m4v format – best viewed in Quicktime and on iTunes and iPods.

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