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Up, Bustle & Out: A Global Sound Journey
An interview with Rupert Mould By John C. Tripp Hailing from Bristol, England, Up, Bustle and Out are producers Rupert Mould and ‘Clandestine Ein’ who met in 1989 while hosting the pirate radio show. ‘For the People’ radio boasted Bristol’s…
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Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra
An audio interview with Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra leader and vocalist Ray Lugo
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Beyond Ipanema
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr8hBm0U1pQ&hl=en&fs=1&] BEYOND IPANEMA is a mash-up of thoughts and ideas about the repeating cycle of discovery of Brazilian music in the world. Through interviews with David Byrne, Devendra Banhart, M.I.A., Os Mutantes, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Zé, Seu Jorge,…
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Exploring the Latin and South Beach Roots of Ursula 1000, and the Scene That Started It All
By John C. Tripp Back in the early ’90s, Miami’s “South Beach” was a place of pleasure, sound and simply groovy times. I would know, because I lived there and I was a regular at Ursula 1000’s parties on Lincoln…
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Yam Who?
Yam, Who, Who?, Jon, Freer “You can get a groove going at any BPM”. Now that they’ve been commissioned for a deluge of legitimate revisions, will they still be rubbing artists up the right way without their permission? Will there…
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Yukihiro Fukutomi
Japan’s Leading Underground Dance Music DJ and Producer Yukihiro Fukutomi Yukihiro Fukutomi started his career as a DJ during the late 80’s, at the dawn of the Japanese dance music scene at clubs like Gold, Zoo and Cave in Tokyo.…
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Future World Funk
Future, World, Funk, Cliffy, Russ, Jones, Soundsystem BY JOHN C. TRIPP Six years ago music industry veterans Russell Jones and DJ Cliffy formed Future World Funk, channeling their enthusian for global rhythms into their own DJ soundsystem: an amalgamation of Asian beats,…
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James Koehnline
James, Koehnline, surrealism, collage, Axiom, Laswell, Calendar, Jubilee, Saints James Koehnline (pronounced KEN-line) is a collage artist whose work has graced many anarchist periodicals & books as well as music CDs; has co-edited a number of books and had his…
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Gilles Peterson Presents Havana Cultura – New Cuba Sound
LISTEN TO THE iTUNES PODCAST PREVIEW OF HAVANA CULTURA, HOSTED BY GILLES PETERSON Gilles Peterson presents Havana Cultura / The project Gilles Peterson: I got the call about a year ago now. A trip to Cuba in September ’08 to…
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