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Garlic instead of riot
Corynne Elliott aka Speech Debelle, winner of the Mercury Prize (2009), just released her second, musically thoroughly exciting album. "Freedom of Speech" is full of intelligent wordplay-flows....
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Talking Sex in Ghana
Wo liegt die Grenze des guten Geschmacks? Die Rap-Combo Fokn Bois (Wanlov the Kubolor und M3nsa) nehmen kein Blatt vor den Mund. Ihre Texte sind kontrovers und drehen sich meist um das eine: Sex. Dabei...
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Soundtrack to a catastrophic world
On this Vinyl, artists, musicians, scientists, composers, a radio astronomer and a field linguist take catastrophe as their point of departure and reveal the importance of sound and auditory perception...
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«Crazy Energy» in Trans-Atlantic Soca
Things have been shaking in soca: From road-running superstar Machel Montano collaborating with hitmaking DJ Diplo to the genre-pushing success of Bunji Garlin’s «Differentology», the genre is going...
View ArticleFie Video Clips from Europe
Was ist Europa? Mitä on Eurooppa? Cos’è l’Europa? L’Europe c’est quoi? What is Europe? This is a good and confusing question. I actually have no idea anymore, so I started digging into popular music...
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Gaelic Psalms: A Transforming Tradition
In its series Future Academics Norient presents theses in musicology, ethnomusicology or popular music studies to promote young academics. The Gaelic psalm-singing to be presented below by PhD student...
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Dhaka’s Electronic Music Scene (part1/3)
Dhaka is the Detroit of Bangladesh. But before the city produced its own independent scene, british bengalis layed the ground for one of the most influential music styles in the 90s: Asian Underground....
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About the relation of football and grime
Football and grime are two different worlds. But actually they have a lot in common. On the occasion of European Championship the grime artists Riko Dan, MC Discarda und DJ Karnage will host a live...
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Soundtrack of the Townships: Gqom
Some call it a hybrid of breakbeat and house, some call it «apocalyptic riot music». But for the producers from the townships of Durban, South Africa, Gqom is more than a clubmusic style. Rudeboyz....
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