Category: Featured
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Beats Over Tweets: Teleseen Talks With Audio Texture on “Passages”
Courtesy of Audio Texture’s James Barrie. Here at Audio Texture, one of our albums of the year, already, is “Passages” from Teleseen on 100% Silk, one of the most inventive, “dance music” albums of 2013, a unique mix of great beats and global sounds submerged in a world of reggae flavours. We were so taken…
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A Tribute to Donald Byrd + More
Velanche’s Playtime 029 From the Velanche.com website: http://www.velanche.com/?powerpress_embed=1126-podcast&powerpress_player=default On the morning of this episode’s recording, I’ve learned on Facebook that Donald Byrd passed away a few days’ prior–Monday, February 4th. This was the Donald Byrd of the 1970′s that I grew up listening to on black radio here in California, the Donald Byrd whose favorites…
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Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser Documentary
Expanding on footage of Monk’s 1967 tour shot by Christian Blackwood, Charlotte Zwering (Gimme Shelter) has created the definitive filmic portrait of the master bop pianist-composer. This captivating DVD digs deeper into the life of the famously eccentric pianist-composer than the Ken Burns’s tepid coffeetable documentary Jazz ever thought to. A few shades different than…
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Dub Gabriel: Raggabass Radical
“Music is always a healer, It doesn’t matter if it is mine or someone else’s. I have a real emotional connection with music and think the first step of making great music is being a fan of others music” — Dub Gabriel An Interview With Dub Gabriel Pushing the boundaries of rock, dub, world and electronic…
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Bill Frisell and Vinicius Cantuária meet on “Lagrimas Mexicanas”
Two legends of guitar come together for an album of ATMOSPHERIC Brazilian-jazz Undoubtedly, Bill Frisell and Vinicius Cantuária’s new album, Lagrimas Mexicanas, epitomizes a union of extraordinary musicians. Frisell’s and Cantuária’s own music have clearly distinctive origins, but with complimentary styles. Through the blending of emotive rhythms and harmonies, and the melding of classic and…
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Bologna’s Blu Travels South America in “Megunica”
Streaming free at LinkTV In “Megunica” four friends take a mind-broadening odyssey through Latin America, with acclaimed public artist Blu. With a penchant for drawing and public art, Blu started painting walls around his native Bologna in 2000. His pieces often cover entire sides of building — most recently the Tate Modern. In the fall…
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Shook Magazine Looks at What Makes Britain Great
In its tenth issue Shook magazine looks at its editors think makes Britain great – the sound systems, the pirate radio stations, the record shops, even its working class clubs in the North. With articles on 25 years of Kiss FM (feat. David Rodigan, Coldcut and Gordon Mack), an exclusive with Milo from the Wild…
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Transnational Dubstep Released on Six Degrees Records
Transnational Dubstep is the first major compilation to document the fusion of dubstep and global roots music. Free Track & Minimix Generation Bass Presents Transnational Dubstep Compilation Promo (Excerpt/Taster Mix) – 1 FEB 2011 by djumb Transnational Dubstep is the first major compilation to document the fusion of dubstep and global roots music. It has…
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Eating Well at M. Wells Diner
A hearty and COMFY afternoon lunch at New York City’s M. Wells Diner It could be one of the many roadside diners in slow, inevitable decay along the less traveled, small town roadways of upstate New York. M. Wells Diner just happens to be in Hunter’s Point, an industrial and rather bleak section of…
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