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I dunno about airplay in the US, but "Mosh" is #1 on the Hot 5 videos on MTV.com so some people must be seeing it! If you are in the US, you can vote to have it played on MTV's Total Request Live, where it was #1 last week, apparently. Vote as often as you like. Checked the MTV message boards...

Nice one, autonomic (and Eminem, obviously). Black hoodies in booths.. yeah!

...just hope that, whatever he does, Dizzee doesn't end up doing a N*E*R*D by putting out something as disgraceful as Fly or Die just to prove that he's not only a cutting edge producer, but that he can also sound like a three-month old indie band using (watch me!) real instruments... I'm not...

A different take on how "conventional" music influences are already infiltrating grime... Here's an excerpt from a 2003 Hyperdub interview with Wiley. - Why do you use sounds that no one else would use? Exactly, exactly: sounds people would think that're weak, or that's anything. But I just...

Right as in "right-wing", not as "correct", is what I hope you mean? I like the bit about fringe musos, good one! And of course you're right about as popozudas.

@ nick.K Thanks for the tunes. Love me gabba mixtapes!

Nass El Ghiwane & DJ /rupture (in various guises) played the Queen Elisabeth Hall. Here's the program and dates. Oh man. What type of music makes the top 10 (=pop) charts? Until recently, nothing but massively marketed pop product, and the industry and largest markets for pop music were and...

@ echo-friendly OK. With all due respect and good will, It's music made by young males with a low level of education for young males with a low level of education reads like a dismissal to me, something an upper class Brazilian (or music store keeper!) might say of funky do morro. Why not leave...

@ all seekers of chaabi Nass el Ghiwane (who were in London last night with DJ/rupture, incidentially), Lem Chaheb (a.k.a. El Meshaheb, who recorded the 1984 Sahara Elektrik album with German band Dissidenten) and Jil Jilala are exponents of the 1970s crossover style of Moroccan chaabi. A great...

In essence, you dismissed funk carioca as music made by male youths with little education for other male youths with little education. For this and for cultural reasons (language, most Western "world music" buyers can't really relate to the social context, etc.), funk carioca would not be...

Echo-friendly, I admit my comments were misleading if read "straight"/"irony-free" (and it's hard to sound ironic in 12-point computer script or without adding a winking smilie, y'know!). I, too, don't really expect (but would love!) funky do morro to take off (never mind it's the n-th funk...

@ echo-friendly Nice one! If funky do morro gets a rep, you can say you saw it coming way ahead of everyone else... More reports please.

@ mms Followed your directions to the treasure trove and found the John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States recording trip sound documents. Oh my. Thanks for all the links, people. Some incredible music out there.

A visionary, a maverick and a true legend. Thanks for all the music. RIP.

You might want to look up... Ouelele Africafunk 1 + 2 Nigeria 70 Booniay - a compilation of West African funk Club Africa 1 + 2 Ghana Soundz 1 + 2 Bilongo Mandingo Racubah Afro Rock Vol. 1 The Danque - a compilation of West African funk Afrojazzfunk 1 + 2 Those are just the ones I...

@ nonightsweats I respect your judgement. Never mind if everyone around you raves about Caetano Veloso and his music does nothing for you. I have that with Bob Dylan, for example. "Brilliant", "influential", "great songwriter", "unique voice", kudos upon kudos, biographies galore, etc., but he...

All London favelistas... Wednesday 20, 9 PM (free before 10) @ Guanabara (Parker Street Corner of Drury Lane, London WC2B 5PW) SLUM DUNK with Tetine (a.k.a. Eliete Mejorado & Bruno Verner, Resonance FM show hosts - anyone catch their show today?) "Sao Paulo's notorious artists play another...

Thank you, autonomic/WOEBOT. That 12-venue jaunt in one night sounds surreal - was no one with a camera on hand to film it? Here's something else you might want to tune into tomorrow (Tuesday), 1 PM GMT on Resonance FM: "Slum Dunk presented by Eliete Mejorado & Bruno Verner New electronic and...

A great intro is the 2003 Hyperdub interview with maverick DJ Marlboro here. You might also want to check the liner notes of Essay Recordings' Rio Baile Funk Favela Booty Beats compilation, here. Paris club Favela chic have released 2 compilations, Postonove 1 + 2, which also include funk...

Questions, questions To those with The Knowledge: How well has MarkOne's One Way (which I like a lot) gone down with people? In more general terms, how well does Grime translate from stage and radio sets/battles, single tracks on 12"s and EPs to full-length albums available in high-street...