Search results for: “African”
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2009 in music
No not a list post as I’ve railed against before; just a review of the year. You can add random numbers to it if you want, especially if you want it to make less sense. Feel free to then argue the results bitterly in the comments, across twitter and thus the national press who now…
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Who will be big in 2010? BBC’s Sound of 2010 hits the meh barrier (again)
Heard a bunch of the BBC’s Sound of 2010 on Music Week and on the wesbite, apparently ‘165 UK-based tastemakers’ worryingly, and my instant responses: The only ones I liked were The Drums who have been getting airplay already, Two Door Cinema Club cos of the Vamps influence (ditto Stornaway cos I’m a big fan…
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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…
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Pictures from Ethiopia & South Africa
Some of you will know I’ve just come back from a 2 week trip to Ethiopia and South Africa – certainly the cold wet weather has been a shock now I’m back in England. While I was there I visited Addis Ababa, Bahir Dar, Lake Tana & the island monasteries by boat, the mouth of…
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Sounds Familiar?
From Nigeria 1966: to London via Malawi, 2009: Victor Uwaifo and The Very Best aka Radioclit and Esau Mwamwaya (someone I’ve played on Radio Clash WAY back) will definitely be accompanying me on my iPod to Ethiopia and South Africa – I’m going on the 1st of November flying into Addis Abbaba, then going to…