Chief Boima x Nike x Fader x FIFA World Cup

Big news from the grapevine, San Francisco Deep House Soldiers global DJ, Chief Boima, has delivered big time in celebration of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.

Local Bay Area heads in the Mission district have witnessed, knowingly or not, Chief Boima massaging the weekend crowds at Lil Baobab – time and place again, the joint for Ghetto Bassquake, Techno rumba beats and global stomping Afro Beat. Boima’s developed a following and it’s quite a sight to behold shoulder-to-shoulder predominantly white tattooed and pierced, purple haired hipsters shake, grind, pant, gulp, laugh and gasp, on the dance floor to Brazillian holler back music. Apparently, Boima couldn’t stay off the radar as Nike Sportswear and Fader Magazine payrolled Chief Boima to represent one of six continents, North America, in making mixtape Vol. 5.

The playlist is trademark all star Boima; Play the podcast MP3 at: http://thefader.cachefly.net/North-America-Mixtape.mp3

Los Rakas, “Abrazame (Uproot Andy Remix)” (United States/Panama/Canada)
Mr. OK, “Poto Mitan” (Canada/Haiti)
M.anifest, “Swing Low” (United States/Ghana)
Tabi Bonney, “Tick… Tick” (United States/Togo)
Toy Selectah, “Half Colombian-Half Mexican Bandit” (Mexico)
Dubbel Dutch, “Throwback” (United States)
Kush Arora, “Humidifier Jammer Club Edit” (United States)
Rita Indiana, “Poderes” (United States/Dominican Republic)
Theophilus London, “Don’t Be Afraid” (United States/Trinidad and Tobago)

Below: Chief Boima, Deep House Soldiers, photo by RACINGMIX

Few continents are as fluid as North America. From the Panama Canal to the Bering Strait, its borders contain a representation of nearly every imaginable personal history, and its residents seem to share their cultures as freely as the jet stream. The music that comes out of this panoply blurs the lines even more, and few grasp this constant flow as well as California’s Chief Boima. As a DJ, producer and writer living in San Francisco, Boima champions the genre-defiant and sonically adventurous with a keen eye, limitless curiosity and sly wit. For this mixtape, even though a majority of the artists live or have lived in the US of A, he’s somehow able to represent as many countries as there are songs, each one bounding back and forth across countries as effortlessly as its creator. Source: http://www.thefader.com/tag/pitch-perfect

Juxtaposing the sultry summer nights audio, the Pitch Perfect mixtape artwork is by Icelandic digital artist, Siggi Eggertsson, famous for his eBoy 8-bit’esque neo-retro colored illustration graphic style, of which I’ve been admiring for years. Below is a snap of all six mixtape covers by Siggi.

All in all, the collaborative forces have created a superb bubble into the sonic and visual landscape of summer 2010. The Ivory Coast should be proud! – RACINGMIX