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Fela has been continuously reissued and remastered and rereleased since just after he died. I remember going to suburban big box stores in the nineties and seeing two fela albums combined on one cd for ten dollars. Dance producers have made an endless flow of new re-edits and remixes. A lot of...

I don't read the UK press but couldn't any central bank just buy a bunch of british pounds and print up one note scottish pounds on a one-for-one basis. Several small countries do the same with the US dollar. Unless the central bank in the UK seriously tried to keep any scottish bank from buying...

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Just for the record, she did a commercial for Burger King, but it was for a chicken wrap.

There are stories of discovery.

but she had a good song with method man released April of 1995, that's only 19 years ago now.

Is there some kind of "undo" button to keep this from happening if the vote goes for independence?

Zinc likes the self-titled album from 1997, if I am reading the article correctly.

I think Tricky was too out of his mind on drugs, he just had his producer make all the music on Maxinquaye. Anyway, the terrible horrible very bad listmakers at Rolling Stone gave us this gem of all the music I never want to listen to again from the year Dummy came out...

They still aren't as bad as the ice bucket challenge.

More like the Technocratic State of Iraq and Syria, they are building hospitals, running bread bakeries, fixing bus schedules, opening schools (boys only for now), and their credit rating might be better than Argentina at this point.

I think I read somewhere that the producer Sophie is heavily influenced by K-Pop, or was it aiming for more of a kawaii j-pop? Or maybe its all a smokescreen to get some kind of mysterious aura around the producer. Either way he has a new clip on soundcloud...

My "insider knowledge" tells me that the people selling the flats like to have blonde English women as sales agents. Something about blonde English women getting foreign guys to spend money, lots of it, they are supposedly good at it.

I think the attention of the NYTimes piece has led to more collectors/store owners to want to sell to this guy.

Have you people read about the real estate markets in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Moscow, Rio De Janeiro? Crazy stuff happens, stuff like paying bribes just to get a chance to look at a decent apartment. Weird rules about building new buildings that just increase the cost of living, building on reclaimed...

I could never stand the guy anyway. Those television interviews where he would have a guy write material for him so he could act even crazier than other comedians promoting movies were just sad.

sorta related, i made a short mix of vocal bossa nova tracks after finishing the portuguese tree on duolingo

Its common in tons of architecture dating back thousands of years. Having buildings without separate entrances for rich and poor may be the exception.

Kinda painting with a broad brush, describing a city with eight million people in it, a hub for global capital, by rent in a handful of neighborhoods.

Yamal Peninsula?