In case you missed last’s weeks Rhythm Lab Radio, our friend Karen P blessed us with another great segment. She presented her favorite sessions from her live event called Broad Casting.

On this past weekend’s show we had a special segment from our friend, DJ, producer, and tastemaker Karen P from London. She has been putting on an amazing live series called Broad Casting. The Broad Casting event juxtaposes artists and genres in ways you would never think would work. Artists such as Buraka Som Sistema to Tony Allen to Hypnotic Brass Ensemble to Jimi Tenor to Mulatu Astatke have performed.

If there were a mythical creature with a Cinematic Orchestra torso, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble haunches, and a Broken Social Scene head, it would come out something like the Bell Orchestre. Yeah. Sharing a number of ties with the Arcade Fire, they cut their teeth on the Funeral tour in 2005 and released their first album [...]

This is the first show for February, and February is Dilla Month which celebrates the life and career of the producer James Yancey better know as J Dilla. J Dilla unfortunately pass away 3 years ago due to complications to Lupus. So throughout the month we will be playing music by Dilla, remixes by Dilla, tributes to Dilla, and more. On this past week’s show we had music from Chicago’s Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, new music from Matt & Kim and Mr. Scruff plus my man DJ Don Cuco threw down another tight set.

We recently promoted an event in London at Cargo for our friend Karen P. Karen has a show called Broadcasting at Cargo, and it is amazing. She put on a show featuring the legendary Tony Allen(musical director and drummer for Fela Kuti) and the amazing Hypnotic Brass Ensemble this past weekend. For those who couldn’t make it for the trip to London to see this incredible show, Karen has put the show on Red Bull Music Academy Radio for all the world to here this magical collaboration. UK rapper TY and Baaba Maal also joined in with them. You can listen to the performance here.

[ January 29, 2009 7:00 pm to January 30, 2009 1:00 am. ] As part of 2009’s Red Bull Music Academy programme in London, this special edition of ‘Broad Casting’ features a unique collaboration between Tony Allen & The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble as well as some very special guests….