Search results for: “African”
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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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Interesting Chords: The Girl From Ipanema
My dad – who was a jazz guitarist in his spare time – has a phrase ‘interesting chords’, like ‘some of those chords are interesting‘ i.e. unusual. He also has a love of Bossa Nova, and introduced me to the phrase ‘plink plink/cling cling jazz’ – I suspect he must’ve heard the Stan Freberg spoof…
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Summer Pride Disco Mix
I WILL SURVIVE! FREE MY PEOPLE! I wasn’t planning to make a Pride mix this year, but friends asked me to DJ a two hour set at a live disco event and y’all know how much I L-O-V-E D-I-S-C-O! It was on Midsummer’s Night, the night of the Solstice on Saturday, the start of summer,…