Tag: Egypt
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Homebound Kid – Not So World Famous album
It’s finally here! The first Homebound Kid album by departure and butterfly boy on Lemon Hed Records called ‘Not So World Famous’ – and it’s great. If you like William Maranci’s Meat Mountain or the Avalanches you’ll love Homebound Kid and their plunderphonic album of blends – less ‘mashup’ or bastard pop and more experimental…
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RC 288: Milk and Honey (and other scaphic desires)
The Soviets are Coming! And the Beat it uses you, Comrade! Novichoka Can (or bottle, or milk and honey). Too soon? Here is an international disco and funk episode, mostly from the former Soviet region and Eastern Europe (Uzbekistani cosmic disco anyone? Latvian funk? Try it you might like it!) but also from Spain, Italy…
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Conscientious Objectors: Hitch and Rushdie discuss religion and censorship
A timely and prophetic discussion from 5 years ago between Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie. Again as now it was just before the UK election, discussions about cartoons in newspapers – then Jyllands Posten, now Charlie Hebdo, the whole #NotAllMuslims No True Scotsman fallacy, rise of China, Hitch predicts the mess in an Orthodox-powered Russia,…