Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Wu Ming 1: The Old New Thing is Newer than Ever
We Europeans know "well enough" -- actually we think we know - - African North-American music (including tiny bits of the Caribbean), but that is a small province, and we explored it only partially. Meanwhile, the great African Brazil takes you by surprise when new rhytms burst out of the modern quilombos, sharp beats swoop down and you find yourself defenseless, they cut like razors, deep bass drones take you from behind, deviant funk melts the soles of your boots. Not to mention what happens when the music of the Diaspora lands back on the old motherland, only to take off again: Afro-beat, Afro-soul, James Brown drawing inspiration from Fela Kuti drawing inspiration from James Brown, Hip-Hop made by Senegalese B-Boys in Paris or Dakar, jazz tunes played with koras on the edge of the desert.
Yeah, "jazz". A word meaning everything and nothing, both loved and rejected, a polisemic storm, micro-explosions under your nails while you're digging the earth to find your roots. Nowadays jazz is "unidentified musical energy". I'm going to use the term in this text 'cause it's practical. By "jazz" I mean all music sharing Afro-American origins and partially or totally based on improvisation.
How many people think they know jazz, and they're wrong? How many guys, among the fans of Black music, associate the word "jazz" with a bourgeois milieu and a set of cozy images? In many cities, jazz is the nostalgic rehash you pretend to listen to in posh clubs. The most important experiment in the past few years was taking jazz into squats and social centres.
In this year of the Lord 2006, a B-Boy or B-Gal from the 'hood (in Bologna or Manila, in La Paz or Nairobi) is unaware of how much the music she loves owes to jazz. She only knows some backwoods, streams and meadows, the mental map of a limited area of music. She'd get so excited if she could feel the rolling of the continental barge under her feet, sail the great seas, cruise the Cape of Good Hope. She would see everything with new eyes, like Bartolomeo Diaz or Vasco de Gama...
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Arca - Entrañas Mix
1 Pérdida
2 Torero
3 Culebra
4 Vicar
5 Cement Garden interlude
6 Baby Doll / ft. Mica Levi
7 Lulled
8 Think of / ft. Mica Levi & Massacooraman
9 Clocked
10 Pargo
11 Turnt / ft. Total Freedom
12 Girasol
13 Fount
14 Sin Rumbo
Artwork by Jesse Kanda www.jessekanda.com
Humbled by the gift of speaking in unison along
Total Freedom @totalfreedom
Mica Levi www.facebook.com/Micachu-10361552241/
Massacooraman @massacooramaan
Video for 'Sin Rumbo' @ youtu.be/hE6OjTiMY3o
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Echo & The Bunnymen - Pop Carnival Sefton Park Liverpool (26/8/82)
I was there that day. My Nan lived in Ferndale Road just near Sefton Park
Something for the Weekend: Gladys Palmer (1921 -1997)
With Julian Cope, Bill Drummond, Paul Simpson, Pete Wylie and more
The Future Is Present Mix
'One trip and you're gone'
Tracklist:
1. Kode9 & The Spaceape ft Ms Haptic - Curious
2. Kode9 & Daddi Gee - Spit (Dub)
3. Kode9 & Spaceape - Black Smoke
4. Kode9 & Daddi Gee - Sign of the Dub
5. Kode9 & Spaceape - Konfusion (Vox)
6. Kode9 & Spaceape - Devil Is A Liar
7. Kode9 - Kingstown (Dub)
8. Kode9 & Spaceape - Quantum (Edit)
9. Kode9 & Spaceape - Addiction
10. Kode9 & Spaceape- Fukkaz
11. Kode9 - Mirage
12. Kode9 & Spaceape - Nine Samurai
13. Kode9 - Black Sun
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Monday, 4 July 2016
Sunday, 3 July 2016
DJ Food - More Volts: The Funky Eno
An hour long trip through the funked-up side of Brian Eno's output since the 70’s. Expect David Bryne, nonsense verse, Talking Heads, The Grid and a whole lot of slap bass.
Tracklist •
Brian Eno - I Fall Up (Virgin)
Brian Eno & Snatch - R.A.F. - (Opal/Virgin)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - Regiment (Virgin)
The Grid - Heartbeat (Brian Eno Squelchy mix) (Virgin)
Brian Eno - More Volts (Editions EG)
Brian Eno - Ali Click (Opal)
Brian Eno - Untitled (Opal/Virgin)
Brian Eno - No One Receiving (Virgin)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - America Is Waiting (Virgin)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - Defiant (Virgin)
Brian Eno - Strong Flashes (Virgin)
Brian Eno - What Actually Happened? (Opal)
Talking Heads - I, Zimbra (Sire / Warner Brothers)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - The Jezebel Spirit (Virgin)
Brian Eno - Fractal Zoom (Opal)
Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless (Sire/Warner Brothers)
Brian Eno - Kurt's Rejoinder (Virgin)
Brian Eno & David Byrne - Help Me Somebody (Virgin)
Cutting Across Media Mixtapes
How Copyright Law Changed Hip Hop: An Interview with Public Enemy's Chuck D and Hank Shocklee
Public Enemy/Bomb Squad/Harry Allen at KRUI (April 1, 2008)Take Me To Your Leader Mix
Tracklist:
1. John Fahey - Poor Boy
2. Sainkho - From Me To You
3. Harold Budd & Clive Wright - The Bells
4. Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith - Macero
5. Santana - Future Primitive
6. Heldon - Perspective
7. KiloWatts - Seed
8. Alan Tew (Bullet) - Helicop (G.B.H.)
9. Baby Huey - Hard Times
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The Cat Piano
Film by The People's Republic of Animation, directed by Eddie White and Ari Gibson.
Poem by Eddie White and narrated by Nick Cave
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