Tag: South Africa
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My Little Kony
Love this video from Invisible Children, it spells out what I’ve been saying for ages is the new politic of online connection – which shines light on the strange apathy of looking the other way. Although I have a few minor reservations about this sort of high profile ‘RED’ style campaigning (transparency and cost of…
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Music Trawl: Here comes the Afrobeats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5dD1cGQYvO8#t=380 (Mono T ft. Navy & Masheleng “Bashanyana” – whose video oddly seems to have been pulled off YouTube?) I’d kind of lost track of south african house and kwaito since the last time but one I was there…I’d heard bits since but it seemed just like normal house from South Africa, and the 1Xtra…
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Merry Creepmas! I’m Dreaming of a Black Black Xmas…
Just back from Egypt and South Africa (hey they put on a revolution just for me! So nice!) but I’ve still been busy in my absence. DJNoNo’s spooktastic Xmas mashup ‘BlacKmas Dub’ went up yesterday as part of the inaugural post for the 13 Days of Creepmas – a Halloween protest against the creeping of…
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Big Brother wants to see you naked
You know those full body scanners in airports that peek under your clothes? Well they now are in the street too, perving at you and your car/van/truck and indeed passing school bus for those security personnel of a Pedobear persuasion…and the AS&E’s Z Backscatter Van™ (ZBV) are seemingly sold to anyone, not just government, who…
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Warm Heart of Africa – iPod version
Finally created a downloadable/iPod version* for my Warm Heart of Africa video/remix. Download, enjoy etc. *it’s .m4v which is basically a .mp4 with Apple’s wanky new suffix added. Dunno why they do this, but if you have probs try renaming it with the .mp4 suffix. A decent player such as VLC should play it, and…
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The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa (fingertrouble remix)
I love this song (incidentally it features Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend) one of my faves from 2009 but it didn’t have that boom – or any boom at all. None of the mixes had a really deep beat or dance production, so here’s my first ever solo remix as fingertrouble, I took the Theophilus…