Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Afrikan Sciences - FACT Mix 477

Tracklist:
Afrikan Sciences- Reactionary Distractions
Two Thousand +1 Air Rhythm 2
Beat Spacek – Go Away
Afrikan Sciences- precious time
Georgia- Spirit House
Afrikan Sciences-Random events
“. “. Togetherness
Mitchmax
Why you think
Lan Sake
Old Shady Grady and the Neighborhood Characters-interlude
KMFH – Westside Kooth
Afrikan Sciences-Black Future Month
AYBEE- Human not Brand
Afrikan Sciences -Batala
Mark Force- Smoke It
Shokazulu – Sour Grapes
Rick Wilhite -all about you
Cosmic Rays- The Second Stop Is Jupiter
Via

Bvdub - RA449 Mix

So this crossroads in your life in China that you mentioned?

Well yes, there's the whole "my life of 14 years" thing. I've been teaching for 16 years, with the last 14 being in China (with a couple years in the middle being back in the States, and coming back and forth). I have an admittedly very love-hate relationship with China (but who doesn't with any place, I guess), but the one thing I've always loved, and the only thing that's really kept me here, is my job as a university English professor. I rule my class with an iron fist and am undoubtedly the strictest, often cruelest, and most terrifying teacher in all of China, foreign or Chinese, but there is nothing I wouldn't do for my students, and they know it. I love them like my own family—even if only a fraction of them love me back in the same way. But that's the life of a teacher.
So to all of a sudden be told by the government that they weren't going to renew my visa anymore, and that it was "time for me to go home" was one of the most saddening, crushing, angering and frankly insulting things I could ever imagine—not to mention confusing, as last year I was awarded the title of the best foreign teacher in all of China by the same government that was now telling me my services would no longer be needed.

Download/Interview

Bombino - Live @ Sonar, Siena, Italy (2/14)

Just got a ticket to see him in March at Howler

20.SV - The Great Sonic Wave

Hundreds of micro-samples of iron and steel objects were recorded, processed, cut, split and edited in multiple ways to form The Great Sonic Wave
Vocals/Voice FX recorded in The Haven Vault, Hoboken, NJ USA
(2012 - 2013) by Alan Dubin
Sounds sculpted and recorded in Tripoli - El Mina, Lebanon
(2008 - 2012) by Osman Arabi

I’ve featured the extreme work of Lebanese sound artist 20.SV before but I was delighted when the chance arose to feature him again. Named after the radiation-poisoning threshold beyond which humans cannot survive for longer than seven days, 20.SV is a master of bleak, austere and clinical electronic sound manipulation who has found an ideal sparring partner in vocalist Alan Dubin. For the uninitiated, Dubin fronted arguably the most harrowing band ever to exist, Khanate (also featuring Stephen O’Malley of SunnO)))), and is capable of issuing the kind of vocal techniques not otherwise heard outside extreme horror movies or amid the night terrors suffered by withdrawing drug addicts. On The Great Sonic Wave, Dubin vocalises at his most restrained, issuing clammy whispers, screeched orders and croaked entreaties. His singular voice, combined with 20.SV’s progressive, insectile, ambient industrial electronica, makes for a thrillingly tense, disturbing listen that builds in waves of unstoppable horror. Just superb.

- John Doran

Monday, 5 January 2015

Phil Battiekh - El Battiekhawya meets Islam Chipsy in the Diaspora of Sha3besque Rhythm (Sha3byton #6)

Track List:
1. Islam Chipsy live @ 100Copies Music Festival
2. مكس غندي - Ghandy & Amr 7a7a
3. ??? - ???
4. ??? - DJ Ezzayyed
5. Islam Chipsy live in France
6. Tra3byton - Phil Battiekh (using Hamou Husseins Loop)
7. A3kes Ah At7aresh La - Sadat w Fifty
8. ???
9. Mo7bat - Al Madfa3geya
10. Yala Ya Shbab - Ghandy + Al Madfa3geya
More from Phil HERE and I'd like to thank him for pointing me in the direction of a downloadable motherlode of electro chaabi HERE. Translate the page into English and search amongst those tagged 'festivals peoples'