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let me start by saying, as explained in a previous post, that artistic longevity isn't neccessarily a positive attribute. I do see the trend you are pointing to. i'm not sure goldie is a good example as one wonders how much impact he has had on the productions, sold bearing his name (can you say...

common artistic problem: how to synchronise my aesthetic judgements about my work with that of its prospective or imagined audience? after all, you will have spent literally months listening to the same 4 or 5 bars before they hit the airwaves, turntables and P2P sites. and that changes your...

I'm really happy when artists don't make enduring careers but rather burn up bright and disappear as fast as they came out of nowhere. the reason is that, while maybe not doing the same thing all their life, artists nevertheless mostly produce but variants of an idiosyncratic style that...

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exactly my point. well, I can't speak about North Africa as I'm not familiar with what music is popular there, apart from salsa enjoying some popularity there. I always attributed that to geopolitics: if a country was non-aligned or "socialist", it's leadership may have pushed towards cuban...

True, but i was talking about genres.

damned. i didn't know about it. where did that take place? why is there no decent on-line directory of music events in london? Dismissals are in the eye of the beholder. that's not what i mean at all. funk carioca is not unpopular with many (most?) brazilians because it's dance music. it's...

Guanabara was really quite packed last night, to my surprise, although I don't understand why as the crowd did not appear to be interested in FC. No, I didn't DISMISS it, i made a factual description. The rest is your imagination. Of course I forgot to mention "as tchutchucas". What about the...

well, i'm going to slam dunk again tonight. if anyone wants to say hello, i'll be the nerdy guy who takes notes in the corner!

I didn't say that there was a correlation between music making ability and educational levels. However, there's a strong connection between one's musical taste and those of ones peers. Since at the same time one tends to end up with similar educational level as one's peer, adding 1 and 1...

that's so funny. the most popular music in brazil, or at least in the parts that i visited (bahia) seems to be Forro (which to my ears sounds like a mix of bavarian folk music, reggae and something undefinable but brazilian) and there was a Forro compilation called "Music for maids and cab...

I agree with this. English is not my native language and while that counts against me if I wanted to make is as a musician, I feel blessed as a consumer because it allowed the childhood-me to imagine wild and beautiful meaning in the texts of my favourite (english language) songs that, when...

i could say that about various genres, but doing this is not a winning strategy if you want to keep your friends. The people who run wednesday nights at guanabara also seem to have a slot down at the Kemia bar. Now that's a place popular mostly with rich yuppies (the kind who was really into...

i went to guanabara's funk carioca night last wednesday and may go again tomorrow. but i must have been the only punter there who wasn't somehow a member of staff or one of their friends. I like that music, but it'll be a while before it's draws a crowd here in London. Alas!

I don't think you will get more than "somebody is catholic if and only if they call themselves catholic" if you take into account the entirety of catholicism, just bear in mind what I have pointed out earlier: that the majority of believers have no idea about what the church bureaucracy would...

Does taking drugs or going to sleep count as a temporary removal of one's body?

No, it's an easy position to hold (again!). And it's also the only one that takes seriously the infinite variety of religious expression. whether you like it or not: there is NO agreement among catholics what it means to be catholic. The same is true for other religions. It is a struggle (or...

young people today ... what ever happened to reading skills? I didn't say "athesism has the answer to everything". I said, it has better answers than religion! xxx

You don't seem to get that I deny this claim. It is nothing more but YOUR description of what the catholic church is/should be. But this description is not accepted by everybody. It is like making a photocopy of a £50 note and then demanding the bank to accept it on the grounds that it is...

no. it's more complicated than that. The number 10 has no biblical necessity: http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/lewis/lewten01.htm#0A0