02/OCT Bar Eleven, Nottingham
04/OCT Africa Centre, Glasgow
07/OCT Rich Mix, London
09/OCT Kefaya, London
10/OCT Take Five, Bristol
and a sweet intimate night to round off the trip:
11/OCT Magic Gardens
UK in October / ClubJersey Mix
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MUTANT 2 – D’n’B Legacy
In the late 1940s and 1950s the first wave of Afro-Caribbean immigrants, many of them ex-servicemen who fought, bled, and watched their friends die during WW2 for the UK, landed with their families in London. During that first winter bricks were thrown into their windows (often in bags containing shit), their homes were attacked, and there were regular assaults on their children. When the situation got really bad, they tore up bed sheets to use as bandages, used kitchen knives and broken furniture as weapons, to defend their homes and loves ones. But when these loyal colonial subjects fought back they became the primary criminals in the eyes of the police: regularly mistreated, unjustly punished, and even framed for crimes they did not commit. This is the kind of injustice and abuse faced by black people in England ever since, all the way to today’s discrimination and structural economic inequality.
FUSION 5 – هلاك / Apocalypse
neocolonialism. exploitation. corporate greed. systemic oppression. global warming. over population. rising oceans. resource depletion. military conflict. economic collapse. mass extinction. hurricanes. famine. disease. hunger. war. annihilation.
01 Amina Alaoui & Jon Balke – Itimad X L-Wiz – Smogged
02 Ora Sittner & Youval Micenmacher – Dror Iqra X Scuba – Sleepa
03 23 Skidoo – G-2 Contemplation X Marc Ashken – Roots Dyed Dark (Skream Remix)
04 Kambarkan Folk Ensemble – Jygach Ooz Komuz X Dj Distance – Nomad
05 Sarah Webster – A Lesson Twice Learned / Drum Talk X Pinch & Loefah – Broken
06 JilJilala – Unknown X JuJu – Iroko
07 Fawzy Al-Aiedy – Milad X Toasty – Like Sun
08 Hossam Ramzy & Phil Thornton – Immortal Egypt X dj quest & eskimo – Speakers Corner (Instrumental Death Edit)
09 Unknown – Arab Flute X Zen Militia – Pull of Guilt (Scuba Remix)
10 Unknown – Morocco Belly Dance X Substep Infrabass Monotonium
11 Guem – Royal Dance X Shed – Panamax Remix
12 Unknown – African Tribal Drums X Unkown – UK Grime
13 Reda Darwish – Raqset El Banat X Headhunter – Drop The Waste
14 Remko Scha – Machine Guitars Slam X Skream – Backwards
15 Andy Moor – Uganda Fly X Loefah – Fire Elements
16 Sir Richard Bishop – Blood Stained Sands X Tunnidge – Face Melt
17 Sijano Vodjani – Dedication X King Midas Sound – Earth a kill ya
Sonic Liberation Front
Made this for ultra cool international / art / architecture / concept / urbanism / fashion / music / design organization Platoon: United rhythms towards a borderless future: African House and European Acid, Hungarian Folk and Korean Pop, Cumbia Electro and Arabic Techno, Avant Jazz and Street Bass – international beats for dance floors and head space – against prejudice and xenophobia. DOWNLOAD: mediafire
a paper on music and racism
musicology article from Black Music Research Journal published by Columbia University, detailing the inherent contradictions and dynamics within 2 post-war British youth cultures centered around Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American music — the Skinhead movement and the Northern Soul experience.
Voices of Hate, Sounds of Hybridity: Black Music and the Complexities of Racism (PDF: 1MB)
probably nothing mind shattering and even if none of it is news to you, still some interesting first person accounts of what went on in London and other places in the 60s and 70s, perhaps giving us insight into the political dimension of music and its consumption in our own time.
Feiruz-Grime Mash-Up project by Wadada
Earlier this year, in the true spirit of Ngoma FUSION series, Wadada from Jahtari made this short mix.
We have all (i know i have) wished for the impossible: that some of the golden music from the past can be re-recorded in a contemporary studio, and perhaps with some of today’s bass music sickness. Mixes like this are surely the next best thing.
Feiruz – Fayek wala nasy / Kromestar – Renegade 2
Feiruz – Ya garatal wadi
Feiruz – Intahena / Rustie – Tempered
Feiruz – Q’atab Tu Ilayki / 16 Bar Rally Instrumental – Bless Beats
Feiruz – Shalhat Al Harir / DOK – KO
Feiruz – Sakana Al Leyl / Joker – Output 1-2
Feiruz – Lubnan El Akhdar / Geeneus – Dark Boy
Feiruz – Alou El Ida / Wiley – 4 shots
Feiruz – Ana Endi Hanin / Rustie – Response
Feiruz – Lachou El Haki / Wiley – Eskimo
Feiruz – Bhebbak Ma Baaref / Two Fingers – What you know
Feiruz – Yammi Ma Ba’arif / Quarta 330 – Sunset Dub
