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a short piece by emma baulch (who recently published a book on the subject) about popular music in contemporary bali, esp alternative, metal, and reggae :: "Although dominated by covers of Bob Marley songs, the Bali reggae scene is much less about the struggle for Rastafarian liberation than about creating a Caribbean atmosphere and promoting Bali as a beach culture. … Perhaps the emerging genres of music also represent to Balinese youth their contribution to shaping globalisasi. Through reggae, Balinese musicians are gaining the power to play a part in economic growth, ensuring that they too get a piece of the mass tourism pie. After half a century of being anthropologically romanticised, young Balinese are discovering their souls in 'death metal', one of Western music's most esoteric underclass products. Via alternative music, Balinese youth are asserting a demand to enjoy capitalism's fantasy land free of the shackles of cultural preservation."
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two of boston's nimblest DJs (mister rourke & axel foley) worked for many hours/months to put together this dexterous, delicious longform tagteam collabo, which sounds far more concerned with form and texture than, as is more typical of such outings, overindulgent scratch wankery :: who said turntablism is dead?
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robert henke (aka monolake) offers a brief history of electronic music performance
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a master of mastering reflects on the art & science (via dutty/rupture)
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the latest in maga bo's deeeeep curatorial series on brazilian music finds sao paolo's jimmy luv offering up a set of homegrown brazilian dancehall
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