Kurtis Mantronik

Kurtis el Khaleel (Arabic: خليل‎) (b. September 4, 1965, Jamaica), known by the stage name Kurtis Mantronik, is an American hip-hop, electro funk, and dance music artist, DJ, remixer, and producer. Mantronik was the former leader, DJ, and keyboardist of the influential 1980s hip hop and electro-funk group Mantronix. Currently, Mantronik lives in Britain, where he has produced and remixed house and techno music tracks by artists such as Junior Senior, Kylie Minogue, Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, Michael Gray, Victoria Beckham, Liberty X, and Mim.

Mantronik was born in Jamaica to a Syrian father and a Jamaican mother. He emigrated to Canada with his family at age 7, before eventually settling in New York City in 1980 at age 15. It was around this time that his interest in electro music began when he heard "Riot in Lagos" (1980) by Yellow Magic Orchestra's Ryuichi Sakamoto on the radio, inspiring him to experiment with electro music a few years later.

While working as the in-store DJ for Downtown Records in Manhattan, Mantronik met Haitian-born, Brooklyn-based emcee MC Tee (né Touré Embden) in 1984. The duo soon made a demo, and eventually signed with William Socolov's Sleeping Bag Records.

In A “New York Minute” Everything Can Change For Trump And Sanders

Edit WorldNews.com 18 Apr 2016

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingNot only is New York State the future face of the two main political parties, but with 400 delegates at stake in Tuesday’s primary race starring presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, everything can change in a “New York minute.” Indeed, the Empire State is where millions of immigrants suddenly got a new start in life and fortunes made overnight on Wall Street....

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Japan's Ground Self Defense Force and U.S. military members load relief goods onto MV-22 Osprey which arrived in their Takayubaru vice camp in earthquake-hit Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, April 18, 2016. U.S. airlifts were delivering water, bread, ready-to-eat food and other emergency supplies Monday to a remote area of southern Japan stricken by two powerful earthquakes, as local rescuers searched for 10 people still reported missing. (Koji Ueda/AP Photo)

Japan Earthquake Relief Effort Grows As U.S. Pitches In

Edit WorldNews.com 18 Apr 2016

Relief efforts continue in southern Japan following back-to-back strong earthquakes that killed at least 42 people last week and left the country in shambles, the Belfast Telegraph reported Monday.The U.S. military will join rescuers as they redouble efforts for 10 missing people on the southern island of Kyushu, where many area were cut off by landslides and road and bridge damage ... The U.S....

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Donald Trump attends the Hank's Yanks 1st Annual Golf Classic at Trump Golf Links on Monday, July 6, 2015, in New York.

'Elite Overproduction' That Doomed Roman Republic Seen As Threat To U.S. Democracy

Edit WorldNews.com 18 Apr 2016

There are parallels between America’s current political situation and the conditions leading to the collapse of the Roman Republic more than 2,000 years ago, according to an International Business Times commentary published on RawStory.com.Ned Resnikoff, political capital reporter for IBT, writes that the Roman Republic was decaying long before Julius Caesar marched on the city in 49 B.C. and toppled it for good ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....

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Revelers are splashed with water during Myanmar traditional new year Thingyan water Festival

36 killed during Myanmar's water festival

Edit One India 18 Apr 2016

Nay Pyi Taw, April 18. A total of 36 people were killed and 316 injured during Myanmar's Thingyan water festival, the media reported on Monday.During the five-day water festival, 14 people were killed and 235 injured in accidents while 17 deaths ... ....

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British Airways Airbus A321-231 (G-EUXD), Berlin Tegel Airport, Berlin, Germany

British Airways flight hits UFO during landing at Heathrow

Edit Ars Technica 18 Apr 2016

(credit. British Airways). Police at London's Heathrow Airport are investigating a possible drone collision with a British Airways jet while the airliner was landing ... Any damage done to the aircraft was apparently superficial ... Read 2 remaining paragraphs . Comments ....

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50 best love songs of the 1980s

Edit The Daily Telegraph 15 Apr 2015

We pick out the tender top 50 songs of the Eighties, including records by Barry White, George Michael, Sade and Chaka Khan. Clockwise. Stevie Wonder, Sade, Barry White and George Michael all recorded great love songs in the Eighties  ... 5.38PM BST 15 Apr 2015. Comments ... Killer line ... Sims, a classically trained pianist, teamed up with electro-funk producer Kurtis Mantronik and kept her vocals relatively restrained for a ballad ... Sade ... 1 ... 2 ... ....

DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist to Tour With Afrika Bambaataa’s Records

Edit Rollingstone 16 Jun 2014

Hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa's records are the most important in the history of the genre; the patient zero whose breadth of genres influenced, knowingly or not, every subsequent DJ and hip-hop producer ... 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ... "I would consider Bambaataa to be one of the three biggest musical influences in my life, along with Grandmaster Flash and Kurtis Mantronik," Shadow tells Rolling Stone ... Dj Shadow's Endtroducing... ....

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