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In the era of branded lifestyle packaging, still sometimes something happens which makes us question our ideas of who makes/listens to what, what that means, how this informs the construction of social identity, whose values are projected by which aesthetic, and which “genres” are assigned to...

http://soundcloud.com/djzhao/20min-rhythm-force-spring-2012 DRUMS, DRUMS, MORE DRUMS, AND BASS.

what ever his achievements in other fields, this Pinker dude's views on War and Civilization are either paid propaganda efforts, or simple and clear drooling idiocy. the almost 100% bullshit content is apparent from the stink of the title of his new book alone, but Pinker seems to be taken...

AFRO-TECH▼KUDURO▼ZULU-HOUSE▼UKFUNKY▼CUMBIA-BASS▼HIPLIFE▼KWAITO ▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼▼ NGOMA is the positive side of globalization, celebrating the sweetest and toughest dance music from Africa and beyond, bringing both irresistible classic killer grooves and the latest...

i'm sure most here are already aware of these latest developments, but just in case: 1. first we have the last week passing of the National Defense Authorization Act (which, we'll see, but something tells me ain't gon get vetoed): 2. then we have which follows reports from 2008 and...

Badehaus is a new club with wicked sound inside the RAW/Cassiopeia complex, and it will become both our Temple to Timeless Rhythm Heritage as well as Afro-Bass Spaceport, to which the Mothership will come and take us to the most terrifying and beautiful depths of the known and unknown universe...

http://soundcloud.com/rebootfm/ngoma11-northern-tropikal DOWNLOAD SINGLE TRACK ABOVE OR: Multi-Upload DOWNLOAD SEPARATE TRACKS: Multi-Upload ___________________________________________________ Today a re-newed attention and devotion to percussion is appearing on the many different shores of...

DJINGOBHA! les rythmes tropical… *SoulJazzAfroFunkBrazilLatinZoukElectrolatinodiscoTropicalBass dj Zhao + dj Marcel am 5.11.11 | 22 Uhr @ Bohnengold | Reichenbergerstr. 153 | berlin-kreuzberg

did you all see this article? - Let's end the myths of Britain's imperial past i hope the Dissensus response will not be like the one to Black Athena: "everyone knows this already", ("everyone" must meaning blogger friends because there is only too much evidence in the real world to the...

The first in a series of Sonic Lectures takes place at Centrum (Reuterstr 8, Berlin 12053) this Sunday (23rd October 2011), starting at 7pm. Entitled Ancient Futurism, the lecture is by ehnomusicologist DJ Zhao. He plans to explore the many connections and continuities between pre-modern...

10 - 4AM / Wed. 19 Bohnengold - Reichenbergerstr. 153 Kreuzberg tropicfusion + ngoma presents: NGOMA SOUND To this new and improved location, rolling with us for the first time: MC from the Congo Kovo M22, with live percussion - timeless rhythm and bass! DJ ZHAO (ngoma) MC KOVO M22 (7...

NGOMA 9 focuses on North Africa and the Middle East: on the other side of the Sahara, African rhythms become more angular, colder; and the tones deeper, ominously darker, in what we in the west call “minor keys”. Mostly comprising of killer classics from several different eras and regions...

what happened to that thread? i'll start another, if we find the first, we can move my post to it and delete this one. anyhow: when it is 11PM in Berlin, and the protagonists, pursued by bad people, dive into a nightclub, where the dj is very seriously working the knobs on his mixer, and the...

final day of THE ICAS SUITE Les Siestes Electroniques present AFRIKA IS THE FUTURE Saturday 10.9. / 21.00 / 7 € MONARCH Skalitzer Straße 134 10999 Berlin DJ Zhao (Ngoma Soundsystem) http://soundcloud.com/djzhao Secousse Sound System (Etienne Tron & Mo) http://soundcloud.com/secousse Jess &...

surprised there is no thread on here (unless search fail on my part which wouldn't be the first time heh) about this post-bastardization post-mashup bastard post-"genre". looking back of course it makes sense: outside of some party-hiphop tracks and rare left field disco cuts, US and Euro...

Umlilo means fire in Zulu, and this mix takes us back to the Dirty South for a scorching ride through raw township sound. Exchanging smooth for ruff, Umlilo focuses on the connection between ghetto Rap and current Electro, between modern SA House and its Kwaito roots. Futurism in Africa never...

who is up for hanging out a bit on Sunday with a Berliner first time in London? and if you have a place for me to crash for one night we can get SLAMMNED! :D and let me know if you want to come down to Guanabara the night before (Saturday) i'll guest list you.

the MZUKA (Swahili word meaning "spirit") of motherland musical traditions will guide us on this night, as we celebrate timeless African and Afro-diasporic bass and rhythm. ______________________________________ DJ Zhao [Ngoma Soundsystem] DJ Kokoro [Neo-Tokyo Bass/B.A.S.S.] TowerblockRockerz...

just after the Shangaan show at Rich Mix, which ends at 10:30. what the fuck? after an ecstatic 2 hours it'll be just "OK everyone time to go home!" but luckily i'll be serving up more booming contemporary African, Asian, and Latin music over at this Brazilian club. (was told the crowd is...

Thursday, 30 June 2011 / 21:00 Tshetsha Boys Nozinja (aka Zinja) Nkata Mawawe, BBC Tiyselani DJ Spoko DJ Zhao DJ Pete