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Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit mixtape

Posted by homoludo on Oct 18 2008 Posted by homoludo on October 18th, 2008 filed in africa, mixtapes, music
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A few from the  new Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit mixtape.  Good mixtape despite detours into Peter Gabriel teritory. Irony seems to be in recession- there was too much, now I’m missing it aready. Good to hear it released on 320kbs – means it can be played out but also means might take a minute to load in you player.

The first track is still loading up

Get it Up (The Very Best Remix)
Esau Mwamwaya, Santogold, M.I.A and Northern Cree
music : Radioclit
[audio:/14 Get It Up.mp3]

Kamphopo
Esau Mwamwaya
music : Architecture In Helsinki ‘Heart it races’
[audio:/01 01 Kamphopo.mp3]

Hide and Seek
Esau Mwamwaya and Teki Latex
music : TTC ‘Batards Sensibles’ -prod Para One
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Tengazako
Esau Mwamwaya
music : M.I.A ‘Paper planes’ (prod : Diplo)
[audio:/03 Tengazako.mp3]

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PCPRadio Killer Circle

Posted by homoludo on Oct 17 2008 Posted by homoludo on October 17th, 2008 filed in africa, house, Irish bands, radio shows, writing
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Not many posts over last week or so as mucusoid like, I keep dropping mucus on the keyboard and can’t find the firefox plug in to fix this.

heralds of change cover

This show from the Saturday before last – starts of with a selection of tunes from amazing Irish/Scottish Heralds of Change- quality tunes with loads bass and crunch. Couldn’t believe I hadn’t heard more. Had the Ooops remix since the start of the summer but hadn’t sussed the celtic connection ’till I realised that Heralds of change(Mike Slott and Hudson Hawke) are on Dublin label All City. I was struck by their in tuneness with Rustie and sure enough they work in a crew with Rustie and others- info here– running a club etc. They are getting lots of attention from the likes of Mary Anne hobbs, Starkey and others and are just finishing a US tour. Lots of their mixes can be found here. Hope to maybe feature some of these guys at an upcoming !Kaboogie gig- am on it. It shouldn’t go unremarked that local talent and a local label are making such  a splash with such quality tunes. It’s really well made – check out the flow and arrangement on Trip fall.

Squelch house in the middle with an great track off the (not so) new Matmos album and  the amazing township riddim by Dj Mujava out of South Africa.

Finishing up with a highspeed grime,dubstep and bassline mix that follows the circle of fifths fact fans.

1.    Hudmo remix – Tweet – Ooops
2.    Heralds of change – Bopgunn
3.    Heralds of change – A muse
4.    Hudmo- Come get it
5.    Heralds of change – Trip fall
6.    Heralds of change -Work that
7.    New Jack hustle – All city anthem

Squelchy housey bit
8.    Matmos  – Mister mouth
9.    DJ Mujava-Township riddim
10.    Dj Pierre – My car
11.    Kid sister – control -  jfk remix
12.    Crytstal castles -Health -Keith remix
13.    crookers- Il broto

Grimey, dubby 4x4y Humvee bit.
14.    Zomby – Mush
15.    Benga and Cottie feat Rubidan Cottie -Night
16.    EJ – UFO
17.    Penis Vs. Vagina- Partyshank
18.    EJ – Temperature feat Sean Paul
19.    Rustie – Spiral Shaped Bacterium
20.    Mc Beezy feat Aorah- Can u Dance?

20 b.Punjabi hit squad- Hai hai – Kingdon refix feat 702
21.    Wizzbit- Poppadoms
22.    Zomby – Float
23.    T Star – Biryani riddim
24.    JME – 96 bars of JME
25.    Dj Q- Dutty wine
26.    Roll Deep feat Flowdan, Riko, Wiley, Scratchy– Babylon burner
27.    Starkey – Kick it
28.    Syntonics – Rock tonight –Bombaman’s remix
29.    Dexplicit –What them a do _refix of movada
30.    Giggs – Ting dem –Word the cat license mashup
31.    Terror danjah/ Durrty Goodz – Reloadz

Hudmo- Ooops remix (oops forgot press record at the start of the show)
[audio:/oops_hudmo.mp3]
PCPRaidio_KillerCircle – full show
[audio:/PCPRaidio_KillerCircle_4__10_08.mp3]

second half of the show here for those who want to cut straight to  Bassey  Duby grimeyness
[audio:/PCPRadio_M_mix.mp3 ]

3Ahd Lil (The Night Horse)

Posted by homoludo on Feb 02 2008 Posted by homoludo on February 2nd, 2008 filed in africa, maroc, video
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Here’s the video for 3Ahd Lil’s (who featured prominently in last weeks Marrocco show) tune mas3oud. Below it are the translated lyrics – Deadpan, hard-hitting, dealing with poverty, rape and terrorism and managing to be funny, very sad while ringing truthfully.

 

In a village around Ifrane, an old man passed on his mule. Attracted by the cries of child, he discovered in the bushes a new-born baby, turned blue by the cold. Its cries frightened the mule, which bucked. With its leg, it crushed the leg of the baby. Thus commences the history of Messaoud the cursed, the man never left alone by misfortune. The days passed, and Messaoud grows up in the hut of the old man and his wife, seldom eating with his hunger. The catastrophes followed one another, until a day of tragedy. Messaoud was only five years old. It was a Monday of festival, and he had awaked very content. Wanting to play with a firecracker, he set fire to the blankets. The two old ones died in the fire!

(Refrain) Why does life go after Messaoud? Why are all the doors closed to him? Why is he marked so much by misfortune? Why him?

Messaoud lands in an orphanage in Meknès. During 5 years, he was hit in the mouth by all those who passed. His face preserved the traces of them. The school? He understood nothing at all there. Until the day when he had enough and ran off. That evening he slept alone in the cold of a waste ground. Ali Boulahya [a bearded man] passed by there. He lured Messaoud behind the dump and hmm… to the hilt!

(Refrain)

Messaoud lived as a tramp until his sixteenth year. The age of the dreams, even if he had a squint and his nose was bent. Complexed with excess, he saw, one day, a fair one hanging laundry on a balcony. She made him a sign and smiled. The poor one lost his means. Each day, he returned to watch for her under the window. One morning, she finally came down. Having an errand to run, she gave him appointment at 9. Messaoud remained to await it, trembling of excitation. At the appointed time, he had hardly time to see her crossing when she was crushed by a bus which passed!

(Refrain)

Messaoud, destroyed, sank in smoking [hashish] and sniffing [glue]. One day, an Islamist saw him, and led him to a rich person’s mosque. He gave him food to eat, taught him to beg/pray and to express himself. Messaoud, proud of his new function, started to direct people. He made the turn of the mosques, rounded up young people and made a little money. Came the day when he was called for the jihad. He took the plane, very glad to meet Bin Laden. Arrived at the camp, someone give him a weapon and another says to him: “Don’t move any more from here, fire on all that moves, your place in paradise is guaranteed.” Messaoud stays on the spot two days. In one moment of carelessness, zdaou! An American gave him a blow on the head. On waking, he was found himself in cell, with a Pakistani, who smiled to him oddly. Messaoud howled of spite: it was another Ali Boulahya!

(Refrain)

Messaoud spent a difficult year, with Ali Boulahya. Misfortune pursued him as the Americans returned him to Morocco. On returning to the country, unemployed and without shelter, he came very close to madness. It was there that he met Mhammed the violonist. With him, he made a match and reaped some denefits. Mhammed entrusted to him that he had a plan “to burn” [herraga, slang for emigrate] to Spain. Messaoud was very glad with the idea to flee this cursed country. Arrived at the border with Ceuta, they slipped into a fish truck. Mhammed drew some [?], Messaoud died refrigerated.
Why Messaoud did he die? Why does misfortune stick to him so much? Why him?

Taken from the arab culture blog Al-Musharaka (d2) المشاركة

There are some more of his excellent tunes at the start of last weeks show. If anybody has any info or more translations let me know. Here’s another tune

[audio:/samia_we_lghalia%20good.mp3]
3awd lil gmakkoko

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In the same show, there were a couple of tunes from Muslimgauze whose titles range from the beautiful, – ‘A Small Intricate Box, which contains Died Blue Opium Marzipan’

to the bracing -‘Fatah Guerrilla, Return of Black September, Hebron Massacre, Vote Hezbollah, United States of Islam and The Rape of Palestine’

Here’s an article about him worth reading.

PCPRadio Maroc 26 Jan 08

Posted by homoludo on Jan 28 2008 Posted by homoludo on January 28th, 2008 filed in africa, maroc, Photography, radio shows
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poster in a shop in Marrakesh

I was over in Marrakesh for a few day over New years. I was a bit daunted by the prospect of standing listening to hours of Enya-like local music at one of the stalls selling best of Maroc Cd’s, when what I wanted was beats and Hip hop. Following my nose through the souk, I had the good fortune to hear some beats coming out of a shoe salesman’s shop. I stood listening for a while and when I made it clear that it wasn’t shoes I was interested in, we got down to listening to some tunes – he watching my face to see what I was nodding along to, then we got down to some bartering. This weeks show is based around the cd’s he sold me. Also some Soot records stuff (featuring some of the same rappers on the cd’s I bought) Muslimgauze and bits and pieces. Thank you shoe salesman!

I particularly like 3Awd Lil’s (the black horse) tunes. It turns out his lyrics are amazing also. I’ll post on him during the week- with some translations and add some links and info to this post.

Tracklisting

1. Imams prayer
2. Muslimgauze – Death of Saint Jarnaii Singh Bindranwale
3. 3awd lil – Fine tout fine
4. Mutamusic – Show 2 show(dj rupture remix)
5. 3awd lil – Samia wi laglia
6. Mutamusix – Imagrints on course
7. 3awd lil- Raw daw
8. Magoa Bo feat Bigg – 3Akel Dr das remix
9. Mutamusic- Babomb
10. Le Micro Brise le Silence -Hakmet_aa_chaabi
11. Aaron Spectre – Botan Rice breaks
12. Maga Bo – Nakhil feat K-Libre Nettle remix
13. Tube jerk –
14. Piste 08 (don’t have title for this one, will try and get some info)
15. Muslimgauze – A Small Intricate Box, which contains Died Blue Opium Marzipan
16. EL Handi I-l’aaàchik
17. Fnaire-Reggaerap
18. Fas city clen – (re. info see above)
19. chahid!!s
20. Djalti – Ya moulate khimare
21. Bigg – Aklia (mkawad remix)
22. Piste – (ibid)
23. Khaled – Adieu

[audio:/PCPRadio_26_01_08_Maroc.mp3]

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