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zSHARE – dj_green_lantern-we_need_barack_feat._mavado_and_barack_obama.mp3 mavado makes a dubplate for obama :: big chune!! (tags: dancehall reggae dubplate mavado obama election08 US mp3) MASALA: A Statement About Kuduro: An Angolan Point of View interesting thoughts about kuduro (and its circulation abroad) from an angolan perspective (tags: kuduro angola africa europe DJ worldmusic tech internet blogpost) Kuduro de […]
Read More →Dave Stelfox on ‘white reggae’, once reviled, but now taking off around the world | Urban | guardian.co.uk Music “Once reviled, ‘white reggae’ is now taking off all over the world – even in Jamaica. But is it any more than a pale imitation of the real thing? Dave Stelfox investigates” (tags: global reggae race […]
Read More →rap represented in mathematical charts and graphs half math, half amazing (tags: hip-hop humor visualization charts awesome) Democracy in Dakar : Nomadic Wax documentary re: hip-hop (and democracy) in senegal (tags: hip-hop documentary senegal africa activism politics) We’re not racist, but … – In Depth – theage.com.au re: racism in contemporary australia (tags: race racism […]
Read More →BEAMS in Concert 8 p.m. Slosberg Music Center The Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio presents new work by grad and undergrad composers from Brandeis and Brown University. The program includes installation and dj pieces from classic tape/instrument compositions to interactive performances. My own contribution: “Nico Concreto (0-3 Months)”
Read More →@ Beat Research, Monday, April 21 >> Refusenik just got back from Buenos Aires, Argentina where he had been living for the past several months. He brought down his killer collection of dance cuts which drove the people crazy when he played at all the clubs and parties, but now he is bringing back a […]
Read More →@ Beat Research, Monday, April 14 >> Balkan Beats w/ DJ Gaetano Fabri Based in Belgium and Paris, DJ Gaetano Fabri will be stopping by BR as part of his world tour. He is known for mixing dancefloor beats with the traditional music from the Tzigane or ’Gypsy’ culture. The sounds of East European brass […]
Read More →African music meets China – Assiko and coupe decale | Museke Coupé Décalé Chinois?!?! (via boima) (tags: africa china ivorycoast coupedecale video blogpost) YouTube – Unreported World: Jamaica: Guns, Votes and Money Part 1 of 3 british documentary on the garissons/gullyside inna kingston (via tomas) (tags: jamaica kingston video youtube documentary violence police politricks) videyoga […]
Read More →Last week I gave a guest lecture in a “Global Pop” class at MIT. The professor, Patricia Tang, asked me to come in and do my thing where I show how various genres cohere depending on tempo and rhythmic pattern. It’s a shtick I’ve had going for years, using Ableton (or, previously, FruityLoops) to make […]
Read More →“Globalists” Seek Peripheral Sounds – norient.com – independent network for local and global soundscapes new english translation of camilo rocha’s globalistas article (by me, after tweaks by andre albert of google’s machine translation) (tags: worldmusic global ghettotech DJ journalism poco US MTL brazil cumbia tech) Full List of Stuff Educated Black People Like « Stuff […]
Read More →Recently I brought two authors to campus to share their work with my class — that’s the only connection between the two otherwise disparate topics in the title of this post. (Hope I didn’t alarm anyone by implying improbable causal relationships.) … 1. The “hip-hop Japanthropology” was c/o Ian Condry, a professor at MIT who […]
Read More →Tomorrow (Monday) night @ Beat Research, we’re happy to host Boston’s mashup maestro, DJ BC — BC’s been cooking up mashed potatoes for years now, garnering international notoriety with such concept albums as the Beastles, Glassbreaks, Wu-Orleans, and other improbable partners. Although the heyday of the mashup has seemingly passed, with the idea still ubiquitous […]
Read More →W&W is happy to host another loving nod to Tim Haslett. Namely, the two-hour radio show Brian Coleman did on March 24, prior to our Beat Research tribute. A description and tracklist, from Brian, follows — WZBC “School Beats Tim Haslett Tribute” :: 24 March 2008 [audio:http://wayneandwax.com/wp/audio/coleman-ZBC-haslett-trib.mp3] Back To The Old School and School Beats […]
Read More →I have to admit, when I first heard MIA sing “slang tang” during the opening salvo on Arular, I found it an awfully clever gesture. And I liked it. A lot. I appreciated the allusion to a classic riddim and the winking rearticulation to describe how the gyal’s (s)language — London calling / speak the […]
Read More →muzikmix.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) :: http://www.myspace.com/deejayrasputin “a new 45 min DJ Rasputin mixset with the latest selection of trubaci, chalga, albanian pop, türkish rhythms and gypsy frenzy!” (via blentwell) (tags: mix turkey albania gypsy balkan europea) dj_nron_the_collaborator.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) new mix from comrade n-ron: wide-ranging electro bizniz (tags: mix hip-hop dubstep electro electronic orientalism) videyoga ::
Read More →A couple posts ago I shared some new videos c/o Maga Bo and Ghislain Poirier — two of the transnational bass proponents profiled in Camilo Rocha’s “globalistas” article. It goes without saying that I’m a supporter of what both Bo and Ghis are up to. In partic, I dig their cross-border collaborations, their distinctive […]
Read More →Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) PALAOA – Livestream streaming sound from the antarctic ocean (via bldblg) (tags: audio science sound soundscape nature antarctica) Canyon Cody el canyonazo, studying music in grenada via fulbright, promises to live-blog the making of an al-andulus inspired album, w/ such collaborators as gnotes, over the month […]
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Read More →!! Tonight at Beat Research !! two top-notch worldly/whirledly DJs: Maga Bo and Chief Boima — neither of whom should be a stranger to readers of this bloggg As described here last year, Boima embodies global flows, reppin Sierra Leone via Wisconsin and the Bay Area. His Diamonds for Sierra Leone mix offers up his […]
Read More →MC GRINGO- BLOG – – – LIVE FROM RIO DE JANEIRO mc gringo has a blog! (h/t masala) (tags: funkcarioca blog rio brazil germany) … [update: for some reason, several other del.icio.us.ly tagged items didn’t appear a few days ago, so here are a few that i’m “push” publishing] … Phonautogram – Thomas Edison – […]
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