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as i said before, "favela architecture -- improvised, informal, ramshackle, perilous -- is as interesting as the music or maybe moreso." So i hope Scruggs keeps squinting at Rio's cityspace this summer. The future may be a violent tangle but even that tangle will have its bloom. Urbanist Jorge Mario Jauregui maintains a useful list of Rio favela architecture articles in a variety of languages.
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good news: the computer is back (sort of) and functional (mostly). so here's some re-uppage, as per yr requests. Enjoy. Play loud, share, proselytize, mix, rewind:
would you care to share something else which falls under the "extremely beautiful" category?
a strong candidate:
A classic jam for hiphop heads & funk cratediggers, especially after The Fugees sampled its intro... Cymande probably isn't so well known outside of that world, so hopefully their Black London funk/jazz 'Nyah-Rock' is new to many:
Dove comes from their self-titled 1972 LP, reissued as LP and CD. I found an original-pressing Cymande album in Istanbul among stacks of italo-disco and 80s Turkish pop. Didn't cost very much.
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then someone slotted mbira-player Stella Chiwesi in the "hauntingly beautiful" category. not asking for a re-post, just saying I really enjoy this one. For a more electronic-ified African sound in the "hauntingly beautiful" category, I suggest the Uthando Luphelili dub mix of Madosini's Nozimanga.
When i see "dub mix" of roots African music, i think 'Bill Laswell' and cringe a little -- years ago someone in The Wire described some 'world' music wilting under "the homogenizing influence of Laswell's dub bass" -- but whoever did this mix really nailed it. The music breathes, its strange Xhosa beauty intact. I've upped Madosini before but the tipoff came from Benn Loxo Du Taccu. Hypnotic was his adjective.
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you had a roll deep track up that i've since lost, can't remember the riddim but it was wiley, it was tough and in his own words 'straight off the lappy..'
i think you're thinking of -
I didn't post this one (whatsup T-Woc) but linked to an early radio rip of it. U Aint Real, from Da 2nd Phaze. Here's what I wrote about 2nd Phaze da first time around. Wiley manifests his genius by giving a whole new movement and rhythm to the bassline in this one.
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those programme tracks you up'd way back when. re-up those please. the computer i d/led those to crashed since. and i think one of the two might work great on this comp im making for someone... that keak da sneak 'oh girl' song would be awesome too. sorry for being all 'gimme gimme'
the Programme is temporarily missing. we're good for mr Keak though:
The entry that contains this mp3 is one of my personal favorites: "The Chortze Republic lies in a small, steep enclave to the south-west of the porn sites, adjoining the frontier with Microsoft. It is inhabited by semi-nomadic surfers, who do their best to preserve their traditions linked to agrarian rites and shamanism. As elsewhere in the Internet, the men sometimes practice downloading, but they are above all kaichi, specialists in epic poems and songs of praise." (continue)
scruggs () (URL) - юли 29 2006
thx for the kind words. could use them after last night -- head's been in a little bit of a daze after my first baile. 2000 kids x 60 feet of speakers x 500 bailes x 30 years of history = me standing in a corner scribbling things in a notepad trying (vainly vainly) to make some sense of it (to me at least, it made perfect sense to everyone on the dancefloor) and trying (with much more success) not to offend any of the (likely) heavily-armed banditos running the show.- - - - - - - -
Joe c90 () (URL) - юли 31 2006
The two Programme mp3s were:- - - - - - - -
derek - август 1 2006
Cymande- - - - - - - -