Tag: African-American culture
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You can do it funk or do it disco
Not posted about The Coup in a while, a much missed political hip hop group, and worth repeating or reposting because the message is so sharp and still current…and I love this video by Tim O’Brien for ‘5 Million Ways To Kill A CEO’.
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Apache and the birth of hip hop
Good excerpt from Sample This! a documentary charting the history behind Incredible Bongo Band’s Apache. It might seem strange to only focus on one record, but there aren’t many record in hip hop as fundamental and used and abused as Apache (and important to founding at least 3 of the 4 elements and the invention…
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DJ Yamin – Funk for the Folks mix
Stumbled over this mix via a friend posting about another one of his mixes, and liking the mix of NOLA, politics, funk, breaks and beats. Good stuff.
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Pre-C #1 – Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA)
I’m going to Coachella in the US (Indio, near Palm Springs – desert! 40 degrees! I am going to die!) in April, as mentioned on the podcast…so as Coachella approaches I’ve been checking out the lineup – especially the acts I don’t know. I’ll be dropping some of the ones I like on here and…
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Motown Meltdown once, twice, twice, twice…
I have to say I don’t cover the artier/experimental side of mashups and cutup culture as much as I’d like to, but here’s definitely one release to make up for that – the second volume of Motown Meltdown. I loved the first volume ever since I heard it via Vicki People Like Us’s Do or…