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Musik Line: African Dancehall and Hip Hop Minimix
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Sound System Culture / African, Caribbean and Other Music. Tuesday, 15 September 2009. African Dancehall and Hip Hop Minimix. Keep warm in the approaching winter, cure colds, flu, toothache etc., with this bumping and grinding 30-minute minimix of African hip hop and dancehall. It features Nouakchott's 994 Crew (whom I've previously written about here. Senegal), African China. Nigeria), Pupa Bajah da Lyrical Bomber. Sierra Leone), Smod. And the Zotto Boyz. Pee Froiss : Million [Konkerants]. Who cork the ...
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Musik Line: Wall of Sound
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Sound System Culture / African, Caribbean and Other Music. Saturday, 19 September 2009. Berlin's Netaudio Festival kicks off on the 8th of October, bringing with it a wall of sound: a sonic map of the Berlin Wall. Composed of field recordings taken all along its length. I asked J-Lab, musician and techno producer, about the genesis and development of the project, and the live performance, by TRIoon, which will grow from it. Which is a global field recording website. He was really keen, keener than so...
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The Gutterbreakz Archives: March 2008
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The Place Where Shit Used To Happen. THE SINGULAR SOUND OF FORENSICS. Anyone who's been reading this blog for the past couple of years will no doubt be familiar with the name Forensics (aka Krys. Taylor - one of those shady characters who I associate with). Co-host and resident dubstep. He's also well-known to the international crowd through his mp3 and internet. One of the many cd. Sent me over the years was called the " Deadstep. Tempo, resulting in a catatonically. Have you ever seen Krys. His latest ...
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The Gutterbreakz Archives: December 2008
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Musik Line: Ras Kush: Sound of Brooklyn
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Sound System Culture / African, Caribbean and Other Music. Wednesday, 17 March 2010. Ras Kush: Sound of Brooklyn. Ras Kush is one of the foremost ambassadors for the UK dub style in the USA, as a sound man, producer and architect of the Black Redemption. Once you've digested that, as a bonus, you get his recent Wax Treatment session: an intense two hours of dubplate pressure, recorded in Berlin on 28 Feb. 2010. When Sleng Teng lick, I don't think there was any. Like I say, Boops, man, Boops, Sleng Teng, ...
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Musik Line: December 2014
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Sound System Culture / African, Caribbean and Other Music. Saturday, 27 December 2014. Cutting and Running in the Zouglou Nation. A map to this mental landscape eventually arrived when I passed by the aforementioned Harmattan bookshop. And picked up a copy of Coupé-Décalé: Le sens d'un genre musical en Afrique. By Anicet Boka (2013). In the beginning, there was zouglou. Zouglou groups and artists multiplied through the 90s, scaling giddy heights at the end of the decade with Magic System's 1er Gaou.
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Musik Line: Hip Hop in Nouakchott
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Sound System Culture / African, Caribbean and Other Music. Saturday, 11 April 2009. Hip Hop in Nouakchott. From the archives . a snapshot of hip hop in Mauritania, written in 2005. The weekly jam provides an opportunity for a variety of musical goings-on. We saw a performance by a band called Walfadriji, who mix Mbalax. Here's a clip of Sene*Rim. Diogg Jengou is featured on the African Hip Hop and Dancehall Minimix. There's some more info about this tape here. Did indeed take place, in March 2007.).
