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What happens when Salome MC, one of the first female Iranian rappers meets bilingual MC Shing02 from Hawaii, Honolulu? Watch the video documentary from the 1+1 project on the production of the collaborative track «Passenger».

Another track from the 1+1 recording week in Lomé, Togo. Furthermore Benjamin LeBrave, founder of the Akwaaba record label in Accra, talked to 1+1 featured artist Yao Bobby about state pressure and his way to keep on standing straight.

In Botswana, heavy metal is a subversive form of self-expression, especially if the fans are female. The South African photographer Paul Shiakallis captured the metal «queens» in their homes. Norient spoke to him about his experiences with the Marok.

In the context of the new recording project 1+1 by Norient and Sound Development, one of the first female Iranian rappers Salome MC and multilingual rapper Shing02 worked together in Honolulu for one week.

In their 2014 music video «#Kholo BC» Karachi-based rapper and comedian Ali Gul Pir and rapper and singer/songwriter Adil Omar criticize the Pakistani government for banning the video-sharing site YouTube.

Auch 40 Jahre nach dem Ende der Kulturrevolution ist die chinesische Popkultur voll von Mao Zedong und im chinesischen Internet bekommt die damals etablierte Propagandamusik neuen Aufwind. Eine Suche nach neuen Helden.

Present day South African artists like Nozinja and Okmalumkoolkat let time and cultures collide, and in mixing languages, slangs, dances and rituals they create new homes. Commentary on the recent music video «Allblackblackcat» by the latter.

In the past decade, culture was longing for the nostalgic and authentic. The new Internet underground celebrates the contrary: hi-tech, artificiality and kitsch. Is it a critique of capitalism or a capitulation to it? Both and neither, says our author.