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Rhythm and Sound is German. Also see my Al Haca information, above. They're German. Ditto Jah Coozi, also mentioned above. Seeed are big in the German scene, and their riddims get some respect outside - from Doctor's Darling (a refix), to (the mighty) Pharoah Riddim, Messer Banzani to a new...

Actually, most major email programs do this - they just don't talk about it. It is also robots/spiders scanning for keywords, not humans reading your mail, so the content isn't necessarily reaching anyone. It may be dodgy, but Yahoo and them all do it too. I like Gmail because it's visually...

yes indeed, Al Haca could be included.. They have a lot more vocals than a lot of dub, and are often more bumpin' rhythm-wise, and the recent live show had RQM Mc-ing over almost all of it, which puts it into weird dubbed out hip-hop territory.. but are definitely closer to dub than most other...

On a more psychedelic, asian/arabic influenced and live tip, I have to big up the French dub High Tone Soundsystem is pretty brilliant. also General Dub, Manutension

well, re: 1 I've been flown from NYC (USA) to Czech Republic, from San Francisco (USA) to Germany, been flown from Berlin-Brussels and shitloads of other intra-europe travel, plus uk-europe travel. 5 european tours so far, plus US gigs in various states. re: 2 reviews in XLR8R, Grooves, a...

do djs count as artists? and internationally known by how many? heh

I've taken the train from Cleveland, OH to Boston, MA, it's a 16 hour ride on the Lakeshore Limited. When I could afford the sleeper car it was great, the cheaper version has a bed fold out from the wall so that there's no floor, it's just a bed enclosed, with a four-foot-wide window running...

Not much more mariachi than they are gypsy, I guess. Or maybe I don't know what you mean by Mariachi? I think of the cats around the Mission in SF, groups of 3 or 4, guitars and maybe 1 horn, mostly very vocal oriented serenades. While the marching band = lots of people including...

There's also the soundtrack to Latcho Drom, which some folks I know (and myself) listen to obsessively. And there's Gogol Bordello, quite popular these days (with frontman Eugene Hutz making it into hollywood as well). and more generally brass bands are rocking the indie/whatever scene in NY...

DJ C, meister of Mashit Records and co-meister of beat research, will headline at The Bunker, reeling out his usual mashit and beat research flavors of wubbity bass, stormin beats, ragga vox and whimsy, and ALSO likely debuting the "boston bounce" sound originated at the already legendary Beat...

A good rule of thumb is, if you have to explain to a crowd of people you mostly don't know why something you said isn't racist you've already lowered the discourse and created a nasty atmosphere. and you should have thought more carefully. and if you can't see why a gaggle of folks saying...

I have a Lady Saw 7" from quite a while ago that has sort of a dubby jungle riddim under it. "Oh Yeah" maybe? or "strange feeling?" I can't remember, and I'm in a library so I can't listen!

Ice T's "Midnight" off the O.G. album - (samples "Black Sabbath" of the self-titled album) and "Rhyme Pays" of the album of that name (samples "War Pigs")

Folks. Mud hut jokes? not funny.

mmmm.. I don't think most people make it "simply a question" of politics. But more like was said above - life's too short. It's mostly a false dichotomy, anyway.. it only works if you mean that the only choice is between politically correct shite and dodgy stuff made with skill. I don't have a...

That was me. yes, I mentioned that track too! and yeah, like you said, lots of of the smoking-reference labels (pro or con) had some good, bouncy choons back then. Look for a cigarette on the label = my first clue for the Breakbeat Science sale bin back in 1996. Prizna made some great...

I have the SOny 500s now, they are a bit smaller, which is good for those of us with erm, smaller heads. (us Ladies, particularly, perhaps?) still pretty loud, nice long curly cord (I hear y'all on needing the length for when you forget to take'em off!). They are much lighter and stay on my...

well, someone's been reading _High Fidelity_! But yeah, I know what you mean. At the same time, a lot of young folk define themselves through music, so it makes sense that at least at that time, you might find it important that your partner also be into that (obv it's not enough for what we...

yeah, Prisoners of Technology, definitely Also check Potential Bad Boy a host of the earlier Trouble on Vinyl albums (before they started sucking).. especially "Danger"

Owen, you just reminded me of the best sci fi short story I ever read, in collection of Russian (or maybe Soviet-era) sci fi. Can't remember the name right now, but it was about an alien hiding out in Russia, who was a sentient plant, masquerading as a dwarf. His description of "the sadism of...