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MySpace.com – Wally Badarou – FR – Other – www.myspace.com/wallybadarou parisian-beninian keyboardist who made some amazing worldy music with sly&robbie in the early 80s (see Funky Nassau comp); recorded some pretty out there multitracked solo synth stuff too (as collected here, in medley form) (tags: myspace worldmusic reggae musician paris benin africa) Harvard Proposal to […]
Read More →Permit me a little meta-blogging. I’ve never had the time or the stamina to blog everyday, despite that nearly everyday I come across things of interest on the interwebs. I tag them, share them, email them around, etc., but I don’t always get around to blogging them. This is rarely an editorial decision. As much […]
Read More →YouTube – Ernie and Bert go BRUTAL another fun, simple sesame street remix (h/t wordthecat) (tags: remix sesamestreet video youtube humor music hardcore drumming) Anthology Recordings accding to ethan z: “Anthology is an all-digital reissues label. They strike deals with artists who’ve retained copyright to their works, or had rights revert to them, and digitize […]
Read More →[::. TECNO RUMBA .::] – Descargas MP3 gratis, Videos variados, Imágenes para Hi5, Juegos, Programas, y más! media-rich spanish-lang social networking site: mucha merengue, reggaeton, remixes, etc. (via unfashionably late) (tags: p2p spanish media mp3s music merengue reggaeton remix) Slavoj Zizek – “Welcome to the Desert of the Real” Zizek’s classic Matrix(/Baudrillard)-quoting post-9/11 essay :: […]
Read More →YouTube – RDC Mugen: Homer Simpson Vs. Predator Warrior bizarre mortal kombat-style face-off between homer and predator (tags: videogames predator thesimpsons humor youtube) WikipediaVision (beta) mashup tracking, in real time, anonymous edits to wikipedia via google maps (tags: mashup google web2.0 wikipedia visualization map webapp) Getting to roots of Mexican rock – CULTURE MIX – […]
Read More →Mark Dery: Have you ever felt, as one of the few blacks writing SF, the pressure to write science fiction deeply inscribed with the politics of black nationalism? Samuel R. Delany: The answer there depends on what your question means. If you mean: Do I feel that, deep within my work, I’ve situated material that […]
Read More →Sound Taste: Friday Omega Carolina Gonzalez on merengue de la calle, aka mambo (tags: merengue DR blogpost mambo) Merengue de Calle AKA Mambo: The Sound of the Dominican Underground « GAY SOVIET TRON Y’ALL on merengue de calle, aka street merengue, aka mambo: “The tracks are stripped-down merengue rhythms (most sound right off a Casio’s […]
Read More →A Dem primary that counts in Massachusetts? Featuring the most, yes, inspiring candidate for president I’ve ever had the hope to behold? Count me in. Count my vote. Count em up. Let’s gO! Just adding my voice to the chorus. A chorus which is increasingly musical. I’ve already pointed to some Obamaton, to that Yes […]
Read More →It’s hard to keep up with dancehall’s now ting from farin, which is why I’m both grateful to and surprised by the way some London brethren keep up on things. Of course, London’s a very Jamaican place at this point, but so’s Boston, in certain corners, and I guess I just gotta get out more. […]
Read More →Yesterday marked two weeks since Nico came into the world. Two long, tiring, challenging, and absolutely delightful weeks. I’m in love. Feel no compulsion to post (or prohibition against) a comment that begins with some variation of “Awwwww.” I just wanted to share a few more pics of our dear, dear girl.
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