Month: May 2013
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Charles Ramsey
I watched the news about the Cleveland kidnapping but almost immediately the remix videos started, which I ignored as it’s getting so much that everything gets auto-tuned and the results are less than good – the race to be FIRST! everyone forgets the TUNE, or originality. This is the exception, ‘Dead Giveaway’ by Schmoyoho is…
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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)…
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Have you thought about utopia
Love this fan video for Jackson & His Computer Band’s ‘Utopia’ (the vocals are apparently partly from his mother!). He’s rumoured to be working on a new album aftee 2005’s ‘Smash’
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RC 239: Afro-Arab Part One – Cellphones & Icecream
Recently I’ve been checking out what has been called Electro Chaabi (or Cha’abi/Shaaby/Cha3by/mahragan aka ‘festival music’), the new-ish underground hiphop/pop music in Egypt, which led me back to the show I planned after going to Egypt and South Africa in 2011. In fact this music wasn’t new to me, it was all over Egypt blasting…
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Are We Not Men? Devo Documentary
I really want to see this documentary on Devo – part funded by Kickstarter. Devo are a band that really hasn’t had it’s due, nor has the influence really been that understood – especially from the political side. Glad this documentary covers as much the politics of the era from Kent State onwards, as I…