Search results for: “African”
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Ubuntu (Water into Wine) and Sick to D(eat)h
UBUNTU (Water Into Wine) by Sage Francis I was late getting round to listening to Sage Francis’s last mixtape Sick to D(eat)h released the end of last year, but given the new album is around the corner I thought I should. And I was struck by the song Ubuntu (Water into Wine) because not only…
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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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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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And the first most wonderfully annoying yet catchy and strange song of 2010 goes to…
..Die Antwoord. Like if 2 Unlimited or CnC Music Factory grew up as redneck Zef-rap Afrikaaners, played their gameboys, baile funk/carioca, old skool electro and Eminem rather too much, met a strange funsized blonde, met a 24 year old progeria suffering DJ, wearing clothes with an obvious Keith Haring influence then recorded a funny hiphop…
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Oh! How it hurts In the wardrobe of my soul in the section labelled “shirts”
I’ve been on a Viv Stanshall kick (again) recently because a kind listener (reader? what is the collection noun for podcast and blog listeners? poggers? pistener? err..anyway thank you Julian it made it through the snow!) sent me some Viv rarities as a result of the ‘Viv and Neil’ podcast I did last year inc…