Tag: Omar Souleyman
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RC 363: Swinging Songs For Mashup Lovers
The return of the mashups, now re-integrated back into polite society and the podcast, now mixed live with non-mashups a merry sort of chaos (no-one mixes music like this!). This is the second ‘Towelcast’ – originally streamed live from The Disco Bathroom. If you watched the stream (well the bits that haven’t been trimmed or…
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RC 240: Mexican Monkey 40th Birthday Party!
It was my 40th birthday a few weeks ago and I’ve just about recovered. There was alcohol, there were cards, there were long beards, thou shalt always BBQ, the cake was not a lie, there was mexican monkeys – wait, what? Well maybe not Mexican Monkeys, the new track from Daft Punk. Well not that…
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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…