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:D A fuckin classic.

Have you checked out the earlier Radian stuff that is not on Thrill Jockey? They have an EP and an LP on Austrian labels (Charizma/Rhiz and Mego IIRC), so total 3 LPs + 1 EP. Nemeth and Brandlmayer also appear on a release with Dafeldecker/Siewert called Die Instabilität der Symmetrie (The...

Total agreement with your statement about the best of African music not (often) reaching the West, and about compilations not being a representative selection of anything, ever. That the best stuff goes unrecorded is also a fact of life. But sadly unless you are able to open your own channels...

Black Cabaret was quite good, except I could never figure out if the vinyl was meant to be played at 33 or 45 or something in between.

I would guess that Lucky Dube and Alpha Blondy are/were the two biggest names in African reggae. IMHO most African roots reggae is not up to scratch with the JA stuff, being mainly inspired by the Marley/Tosh roots rock reggae crossover ting rather than the truly mad soundboard excursions, so...

Also anti-gay sentiments or a reaction against disco's sense of hedonist abandon in general. This makes so much sense. Scott Asheton's drumming is phenomenal: pile-driving but at the same time there is a such a strong Motown soul influenced swing to it.

If I may speak MHO from my self-imposed exile and musical cold turkey of sorts... Leaving stacks, piles, boxes, mail pouches and shopping bags full of unlistened-to records, discs, cassettes (not to mention the towers of unread books) in the flat --many of which I know I will never give even a...

Try emailing Mr. van der Kuy at michiel@rygar.nl

My thoughts are with my London peeps and all Dissensus UK crew today. Hope you and yours are well. Maximum respect to all emergency and medical personnel from a fellow paramedic. Be strong, and serve the people. Love, rc

Hmm. Love in a black dimension (the two tracks you mention plus maybe "Moai Message" are semi-good) is about the only listenable Jestofunk output, the other stuff is way too smooth house/lite-jazz for my taste. I think you may be overstating the 'band' aspect, it is basically 3 Italian...

Beat Club? Sandy Anderson? Fingers Inc.? Some audio would be helpful.

Not to mention sino-Grime! IMHO most 'oriental' sounding tunes are actually closer to Middle Eastern than Asian music, tho'. An aside: I've always been intrigued by the number of roots reggae producers with Oriental sounding names: the Hookim brothers, Michael Chin, Geoffrey Chung, George...

...but don't listen to me. I think the Bee Gee's "Subway" sounds way cooler at 33, too.

This shit is cool.

More illumination courtesy of W&W. I think the Scientist-as-a-sonic-genius angle is given increased credibility, and that comment about Junjo being a bankroller and a mover and shaker (i.e. a producer in the JA sense of the word) with no musical talent is no less revealing. I must finally get...

Thank you Logan. This looks great.

Deutsch ist Scheisse. Click on the link, scroll down to the end of the page and click the "free" button (next to the "premium" button). It then takes you to another page (scroll down again). If you look carefully there is a 70-second countdown until the actual link to the mp3 appears in bold...

Re.: an African record. Obviously Fela and anything Afrika 70/Afrobeat-related (Tony Allen, Lekan Animashaun...) would be way too easy. So here's one that might be good. There was a Nigerian (Ibo) band who had a few successes recording for EMI Nigeria between 1970-1973, (roughly around the time...

Sorry I can't help you, but whatever it is, Sufi, it's wicked. It certainly sounds like Ethio-jazz, so I'd second your guess. The last twenty seconds (a new track?) sounded very promising and left me wishing you'd ripped the whole tape! Tough one to ID though -- an instrumental off a mid-90s...

Some thoughts re: early Indian influences. I'd assume these were stronger in places with a larger population of immigrants from the Indian subcontinent, e.g. Trinidad and Tobago, Guadeloupe. I lack knowledge, but I would wager that most 'Indian-sounding' roots reggae from Jamaica is more a...