Tag: africa
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African Disco Electro
We’re no stranger to African electronica, Afrobeat highlife, and African funk on this blog – previously mixed, remixed, played or blogged about William Onyeahbor (RIP), Victor Uwaifo, Benis Cletin, Supermax, Fela and Femi Kuti, Lijadu Sisters and many more. So it’s not a surprise that I’ve been listening to a lot of Nigerian and South…
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Psychodelidisco Afrobeat remix double
Here’s the final two remixes/re-edits I did for the Psychodelidisco mix, and both are afrobeat. First up is psychedelic African electronica from Benis Cletin, his Jungle Magic has some amazing crazy synths and a superstitious vibe but timing wise was all over the place, so I extended it, re-edited it, warped and made it far…
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Do they know it’s Chapmastime?
Oh I LOVE this Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer’s take on THAT song, Band Aid ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas Time’ done live in Brighton last month. Love the altered lyrics about Bono and the end ‘Proceeds of this song will go towards trying to avoid Bob Geldof ever recording that thing again!’. Having gone through…
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Pepe Julian Onziema is my new hero
The Pride recently it’s easy to focus just on the good happy side of the LGBTQ family, but outside the West the situation is far from the party it usually ends up being. I love that John Oliver started like that, then went into describing the mess than the British and US have made in…
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RC 241: Afro-Arab Part Two – Desert Blues
Much delayed upload of the second of the Afro-Arab shows of music mostly from Sahel region, Egypt and Southern Africa. Here we go into the desert and here more of the blues/rock and downtempo songs from the Sahara and other dusty sandy places. (Photo taken in Egypt 2011, in the desert region north of Abu…
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Afro-Arab Part 2 tonight!
If you enjoyed Afro-Arab Part One with music from Africa and the Middle East, then you’ll really enjoy Afro-Arab Part Two, tonight at 9:30pm BST on Radio Clash Live. Subtitled ‘Desert Blues’ it’ll have a more relaxed dusty sandy blues feel than the last show. If the show is shorter than 2 hours (guessing 1-1:30)…