Dance Away Your Origin: Nídia

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Dance Away Your Origin: Nídia

There has always been a compulsive instinct to locate music geographically. But didn't it stand for a world without borders? The new album of the club music producer Nídia could decolonize music with hyperactive, hybrid and bass-heavy sounds.

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Sound: Aam Taateel

Sounds of Pakistan: The D/A Method

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Sounds of Pakistan: The D/A Method

The progressive rock band The D/A Method has been described as a unique addition to the Pakistani music landscape. With Gali Films and its director Kamal Khan, they recently published a video clip of the song «The Desert Journey». An interview.

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Design: Ali Sayah
Sound: Ali Sayah

Femua Festival: «Our Place Is Here!»

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Femua Festival: «Our Place Is Here!»

The FEMUA festival in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, boasts around 100,000 spectators. Today it's an important springboard for artists who are starting out, from hip hop to zouglou. A report from a gathering that strives for conduit of union and social cohesion.

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Quote: Tiken Jah Fakoly
Sound: Aam Taateel

Karima 2G: A Racist Antidote

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Karima 2G: A Racist Antidote

With her video «Orangutan» Italian artist and activist Karima 2G responded on racist comments of Italian politicians in the context of the election of Italy's first black government minister Cécile Kyenge in 2013.

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Quote: Karima 2G
Sound: Karima 2G
Remix: Aam Taateel

Loneliness in the Mix

Norient Snap by Ali Sayah
Loneliness in the Mix

Ukrainian electronic artist Zavoloka produced an experimental sound piece accompanied by selected speech fragments from Olimpia Splendid, Ali Gul Pir, Ethiopian Records, and others who expressed their thoughts on the subject of loneliness.

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Design: Ali Sayah
Sound: Ali Sayah

Directed by Forty-Five Directors

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Directed by Forty-Five Directors

In 2013 Curitiba-based electropop band Bonde do Rolê released their music video «Picolé». A video celebrating the popsicle and directed by forty-five directors. Our author asks: How is this possible?

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Design: Basma Bader
Sound: Basma Bader

«Dick, Pussy, and Ass for Everyone»

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«Dick, Pussy, and Ass for Everyone»

Dancing women at a pool party, mens with guns and barbecued sausages. An attempt of understanding the music video «Pau, Perereca e cu - PPC» by the Brazil musicians Harmonia do Sampler.

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Black MIDI: Notes Like Bullets

There is a ysterious beauty in waching millions of colorfu bars falling down the screen.
Black MIDI: Notes Like Bullets

An average pop song counts around one thousand notes, while a typical Black MIDI track is several millions. Black MIDI composers – called «Blackers» – try to challenge computers, ears, and eyes with enormous numbers of super-short and dense notes.

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Sound: Aam Taateel
Remix: Aam Taateel

Overthrust: Exotismus im Death Metal

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Overthrust: Exotismus im Death Metal

Die botswanische Death Metal-Band Overthrust tourte 2016 durch Deutschland. Sie trafen auf offene Ohren, aber auch geschlossene Weltbilder. War es der Kunst-Kontext des Theaters, der den Exotismus-Faktor offenbarte?

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Sound: Aam Taateel

Facing Racism and Sensationalism

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Facing Racism and Sensationalism

Hamed Sinno is the lead singer of the Lebanese alternative rock band Mashrou' Leila. In this podcast he talks about belonging, identity, and representation. And about what does it mean to make music as a Lebanese artist in a global context.

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Sound: Aam Taateel

Sampling Stories Vol. 8: Dubokaj

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Sampling Stories Vol. 8: Dubokaj

Digging samples in the tracks of Daniel Jakob led me to two interesting potentials of the production method: sampling as a hidden means of producing tracks and sampling of ambient sounds as cultural signifiers.

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Design: Uno Design
Remix: Annafruit