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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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Reggae From the Roots Up: St. Lucia’s Taj Weekes and Adowa
St. Lucian singer-songwriter Taj Weekes makes music that grooves like waves on a beach: seemingly gentle yet insistently powerful. On stage and on albums like the recent A Waterlogged Soul Kitchen (Jatta Records), Weekes and his band Adowa unite a…
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Fort Knox Recordings Reggae Duo “See-I” Get Heavy
Fort Knox Collaborators & Thievery Corporation Vocalists Arthur “Rootz” Steele And Archie “Zeebo” Steele Bring Their Unique Brand Of Reggae On Their Debut Album – Injected With Heavy Doses Of Funk, Soul, Dub And Rock – To The Fort Knox…
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Africa HiTech: Mark Pritchard & Steve Spacek Go to the Source
[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/761471″ height=”200″] Nearly nine years ago Mark Pritchard and Steve Spacek began bonding over their shared passion for the seemingly disparate spheres of bubbling Detroit techno, soul and fierce Jamaican digital dancehall. First came an appearance by Spacek on…
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Briefs: Antibalas ‘Rat Race’, Captain Planet’s “The Ningané EP”, Moombahton Rising, Derek Allen ‘DJA’
Summer of Moombahton Ever since DJ/producer Dave Nada created the tag Moombahton after slowing the Afrojack remix of the Silvio Ecomo & DJ Chuckie song “Moombah” to 108 beats per minute (whose tempo nears that of the reggaeton, thus the…
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Novalima to Release “Karimba” on ESL Music, On Tour This Summer
ESL Music announced it would release the 3rd full-length album of Novalima, titled “Karimba”, on September 13, 2011. This collective based out of Lima Peru brings together Afro-Peruvian roots music with modern electronic, dub, and afro-beat. The founders of Novalima,…
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UK Soul Legend Omar and UK Bass don Zed Bias (aka Maddslinky) Collaborate
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhi8CLnk96M] An infectious summer anthem, “Dancing” is a collaboration between UK soul legend Omar and UK bass music don Zed Bias (aka Maddslinky), due out on Tru Thoughts as a digital single on 27th June, plus an upfront limited 12”…
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Maya Azucena Releases “Cry Love”
Album Release Performance at Highline Ballroom as Part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/17683091″] Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Maya Azucena releases her newest album, Cry Love, on iTunes on June 24th with a special headline performance at New York City’s Highline Ballroom…
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