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    British Legion Poppies

    ...perhaps followed up with a screening of Costa-Gavras' "Etat de Siege" (State of Siege), as relevant today as it was in 1973. That made me think of the whole ConocoPhillips oil vs indigenous peoples of Ecuador issue. Anybody following this? Btw, did anyone read the article about the missing...
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    Ngoma _01

    Yes please! Where do I sign up? :D
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    kano last night

    That's a good piece, thanks.
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    Underwater Dancehall

    Sadly, no, my visits to your wonderful city are few and far between, but maybe someday I'll be in NYC for carnival. I've heard that it's mad in the very best way.
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    Underwater Dancehall

    Never been to Berlin, sadly, but there's a Berlin-based bunch who do all flavors of Antillean music, called Mash Up or Mash It Crew (or some variation on the theme), saw them do their stuff in Austria some time ago and they did some serious pan-Caribbean beat juggling. I remember the flyer...
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    Ngoma _01

    This looks great zhao, I really wish you the best with this. If I were in Berlin, this is a party I wouldn't miss! International Booty Bass (c) all the way. Hope it goes super well, and maybe "the road" can include Mexico too.
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    Contemporary South African music

    Zhao says it all, really, and much more eloquently than I could. IMHO if there is any way out of the staleness of most Western (house) music it is things like this, echoes that make their way back to us after they've been refracted through the prism of another reality. This is the stuff to...
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    Contemporary South African music

    FUCKING HELL is this awesome!
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    Underwater Dancehall

    For Gavin: Café Trinidad and Mr Lee G. This makes complete sense to me now that you mention it. I'd definitely like to see more soca/dubstep cross-pollination! Last Bug (Kevin Martin) gig I went to he dropped two or three heavyweight soca bits which nearly took some heads off, but it wasn't a...
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    Underwater Dancehall

    From what I've gathered you live in NYC, right? Lucky you, because you probably have the highest concentration of roti shops and steel pan orchestras outside T&T! Ali's Roti Shop on Fulton Street in Brooklyn is just awesome, go there very, very hungry for a late afternoon snack and sample all...
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    Underwater Dancehall

    Gavin OTM about soca (taken from an old thread) Chutney soca / soca chutney (=popular music of the Indo-Caribbean community of Trinidad and Tobago.) JanuaryinGermany is OTM about bhangra (Punjabi/Sikh/North Indian) and indentured servants in the West Indies (who mainly came from Bihar, Uttar...
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    Parliament-Funkadelic

    Any love for those Brides of Funkenstein albums?
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    Underwater Dancehall

    I just meant it in a general way, that's all. Apologies for not having caught the gist of your remark but it's terribly difficult to get nuances or tone across on a message board without recurring to smilies! Unrelated, but this makes me think of some German-speaking MCs I know that can do...
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    Underwater Dancehall

    But of all de special talents dat we Trinis possess, Is de way we talk dat ranks us among de best. Classic bit of rhyming text on Trini speakhere. Maybe if calypso, soca, chutney and all the rest were as well-known as Jamaican music it might not sound so odd.
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    Underwater Dancehall

    Trinidadians speak English tho'.
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    Contemporary South African music

    You back yet, mr sloane? How'd it go?
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    Roiling football blather

    Right, thanks. Thought so.
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    Impact of smoking ban on clubs

    Thanks for that link w_v This really made me shudder: It took New Yorkers years to adapt to their smoking ban, by which time many people had finally quit smoking but the nightlife had changed character and become far more conservative. Sounds like a terrible blow to proper clubbing - a half...
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    Burial "Untrue"

    Cheers for the article - it almost makes me wish every musician would be like Burial. Passionate, bullshit-free and all about the music - tunes that are deep as fuck. Can't wait for the album to drop.
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    Roiling football blather

    What, nobody's said anything on Jol's exit from Spurs yet? Would love to hear some takes on this. Almost everyone will agree that the Spurs board have been incredibly arrogant and stupid during this whole affair, and have chosen the worst possible moment to fire all round nice guy Jol. No? I...
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