Tag: African American music
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BREXIT DISCO DO THE ENGLISH HUSTLE
It says here: “A shining disco symphony for the dark days of Brexit. Features three years worth of total bullshit, set to music. It’s the musical antidote you never imagined, for the crisis you never wanted. ” – which says it all really. Yes, Article 52 presents The Hustle, a disco album about Brexit, and…
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Everybody in the Place
Not sure how long this will be up, but this is a great documentary on youth culture and the rave scene by artist Jeremy Deller. It’s not your usual documentary either, just showing some dancing people in an hanger and then clips of angry news reports – Jeremy is filmed doing a talk to a…
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Sheck Wes
Sometimes you see an artist and you might not be really into their genre and you think ‘wow they have it, gonna be big.’ I mean most of mumble rap and trap has passed me by, well I’ve passed it by, apart from a little early on when it was ‘cloud rap’ and the likes…
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What happened to hip hop?
AMEN! Darryl DMC is correct about hip-hop, it’s bigger than ever but dumber than ever, and the responsibility isn’t there…at all. It’s about money and greed and not your voice. And it does feel like the end of something, that it’s going to crash…or that new voices will come up. So little is being said…
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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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RC 274: Winter Kills
Which podcast do you know mixes Purcell opera, post-rock, pop, indie, electro-pop, dub covers of disco, strange Xtian? blues-folk, soul, electronica, hip-hop, indie, minimal house and more? Radio Clash , that’s what! A very eclectic mix, starting out very upbeat and then going glacially downtempo and reflective at the end, so even the moods contrast.…