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I understand this concern. My own soul is not restored by public "macro" political activism, so I don't do that. I thin it can be effective. the problem is, people who focus on eth big picture are equally likely to be totally out of touch with the realities on the ground. Even worse, the...

If you are one of the people who just wants to discuss the music merits without the other stuff, you will never be fully happy with this forum (which is of course, fine), because if you understand "political" to mean "having social meanings" or "be embedded in a context that gives it multiple...

yeah I dunno, reaction vary, but are usually pointless and boring. Either quizzing me as to why I don't (more europeans do this), or giving me an unutterably boring recital of why they DO (americans do that more). But many of the brits I worked with just eyed me with suspicion, got really...

people who become incapable of socializing normally with me because I don't drink alcohol.

There's a big goofy reggae scene where you really need to go is this awesome bar called Wakata in Prague 7, holesovice (I think). they do all kinds of music, serve snacks and tea and lots of drinks. Foosball in the back (table football or whatever you call it). Kind of a dready, skater vibe in...

it is stripped down, but it works so well somehow! nothing extra, but plenty of implied swing. I wouldn't say the vocal is a wailing diva, it's a pretty low-fi sounding swing/blues sample of a woman singing "come on now", no melisma, no wailing... and there is also a 1930s swing clarinet solo...

It's pretty funny that I'm posting on this at all, since generally I hate house music, or come from hating house music (and now kinda feeling the "blog house" crunchy breaky thing that Starkey et al do so well). but here are two tracks I do love Cajmere remix of DaJae's U Got Me Up. more like...

I get you, but you've lost the distinction Sufi was making in the question. Activism is when it works.

worked for the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers marched + organized protests on various issues supported folks who worked on abortion/planned parenthood clinic defense (front line of only sustained US terrorist campaign in the past 20 years. but i wasn't out in front myself at the...

It may not be your scene, but I think the parties that Drop The Lime and Mathhead do at Savalas are pretty entertaining

appropriation in itself isn't a bad thing -or maybe you can call it appropriation when it's bad and inspiration/sampling/reference when it's good but it's the execution that matters, not the ownership neither is having critical politics in itself a bad thing. what matters if it's done well...

this is the problem I have in the US - at least the east coast. Many dance-oriented night scenes are competitive. People who are insecure about their dancing don't dance. This leads to less fun parties than ones where everyone is just into the music and not trying to 'keep up' with the good...

cheers!

yeah, sorry I missed this. I woulda chimed in that tons of hyphy is at this speed. Frontline - Take That E-40 - Flamboastin' San Quinn - Dumb Turf Talk - Do the Robot also Ghislain Poirier has a slew of tunes at around 105 maybe there should be a companion mix.. or part 2?

I agree that the power issues in the world are worth taking into account, both in terms of colonial/imperial attitudes and in terms of who's got the money The way a lot of folks outside Jamaica discuss the lyrics and artists is problematic, but that doesn't outweigh the real problems for anyone...

some of that "freedom" is freedom to die in the street because you don't have a job though. there are trade-offs in these systems. for every story of mobility, there are lots of stories of suffering and death due to homelessness, joblessness, lack of health insurance, etc. and it's not merit...

I think there's loads of good parties in the Bay Area, but dunno about "techno and house" check spaz.org for the warehouse party scene, also 5lowershop.org (second site hasn't been updated but they post at spaz too).. the techno will be hard and there will usually be breakcore, dubstep and...

It wasn't so long ago that many people DID use nigger to describe unfavorable things. It wasn't so long ago that it was perfectly accepted, socially, for white people to use "nigger" constantly in a derogatory way. it's stupid to pretend that your own history or current use of a word is some...

only if your life does not in any way intersect with the actions of other people, surely

that may be true. But fat =/= being abused. it sounds like you're saying fat kids should be taken from their families and 're-educated' or something. or parents of fat kids don't love them. also "getting kids away" usually means putting them in foster care. the stats there in re: abuse are...