#42: Little Ghetto Boy

1 The Roots Intro/There's Something Goin' On
2 Kojak Soulful
3 Mighty Bop Life Is a Gamble
4 Unsung Heroes One We Made Earlier
5 Louise Vertigo La Femme Fin de Siecle
6 Ifir Osmosis
7 Spearhead Plenty O' Nothing
8 Donnie Hathaway Little Ghetto Boy
9 Avatars of Dub Sexelevatormusic
10 Slide Five Streamline
11 Sweetback feat. Bahamadia Au Natural (Roots rmx)
12 Pete Rock feat. Loose Ends Take Your Time
13 Corrina Joseph Wanna Get Down
14 Mama Oliver East West (Kruder and Dorfmeister rmx)
15 Esthero Superheroes

emitido a 30 Outubro e 3 Novembro

Coffee Breakz #31-40

#31: DJ Battles

#32: Jungle Ragga

#33: Posto de escuta (H.Latency)

#34: Soul Divas & James Brown

#35: Dope Trax

#36: Propercast 1

#37: 1, 2... Mic Check

#38: Sabores do Brasil

#39: Café Europa

#40: Tantra Remixed

#41: Noite Cigana

1 Kal Mozzarella
2 DJ Eastender Kai Cu tutii
3 Koçani Orkestar Siki Siki Baba
4 Fanfare Ciocarlia Alili
5 Beltuner No Comment
6 Romashka Zaznobilla
7 Balkan Beat Box Adir Adirim
8 Taraf de Haïdouks Go East
9 DJ Click vs. Rona Kartner Of Of Of
10 Fanfare Ciocarlia Godzila
11 Kal Dvojka
12 Les Nubians Makeda

emitido a 23 e 27 Outubro

Nuit Tsigane: Gypsy Night at Le Divan du Monde (Gaetano Fabri Remixes)

Crammed Discs



Saving for winter is one of Mother Nature's oldest lessons, but unlike nature, the music industry does little to accommodate releases for enjoyable consumption outside the Christmas fever. And when it comes to world music, the procedure is a lot like allowing an elephant in a china store. If it weren't for a couple labels, namely Luaka Bop and Crammed Discs, sorting out traditional music from around the world would be like stepping on rocks and expecting them to produce wine.

Fortunately, things are slowly changing – world music is no longer an island (by its definition, it should never have been), and the clubbing factor is pushing the envelope for a wider acclaim. This compilation "Nuit Tsigane: Gypsy Night at le Divan du Monde", as remixed by Gaetano Fabri, is a clever take on Balkan music to, well, sort of debalkanize it. Emir Kusturica's work as a director and a musician is, of course, a good help.

But there's a lot of fun in transgression. When you do so, you're more likely to get the most cake...or a bigger bite of the poison apple. Either way, it's always worth every sweet drop. The recipe here is simple: add dance floor vibe to an already messy equation. Let's start by slicing out two cuts by the most obvious ensemble in "Nuit Tsigane": Fanfare Ciocãrlia, a brass band from eastern Romania.

The first one, "Alili", has the eye-opening potential of two cans of Red Bull, but it's with the couch-inducing "Godzila" that you can almost smell the dirt on the dancers' feet. Another inevitable highlight in the record has to be "Go East", performed by Taraf De Kaïdouks and revised by Gaetano Fabri. On this one, the legitimate heirs of the Romanian "laurati" gypsies play a valuable tribute to "tradition" – a word immortalized and, above all, praised in Norman Jewison's movie "Fiddler on the Roof".

The most reliable guarantee when purchasing "Nuit Tsigane" is that you will never fall asleep at the wheel. The only down-side is that, because of its schizophrenic and attention-grabbing qualities, you really should never drive and play this record at the same time. Apart from that there's nothing much to add, except that this is one good example of how tradition and avant-garde can work hand in glove.

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The Warheads - Tantra Remixed

Water Music Records



According to Encyclopedia Britannica, tantra refers to "any of numerous texts dealing with the esoteric practices of some Hindu, Buddhist, and Jaina sects". Now imagine all that remixed and put together on CD. Unless you are a Mossad affiliate, you're going to love this stuff. For most of you readers, this may be the first time that Far East comes to the dance floor or your iPod. So pay close attention to what "Tantra Remixed" has to offer.

"Boxed Ram" and "India" are good warm-ups, but the real fun starts after the third track, a cut appropriately named "JB Dub", featuring a serpentine-like female voice and nice memorabilia from Indian shores. Two songs later, there comes "Funk N Gandhi", a track Mahatma himself would probably dance to, with its incantatory chants and lounge-like tedium.

The first half of the record is like a long, contemplative yawn that haunts you on a Sunday afternoon. But then, "What Did She Say" defiantly sets the tone for a more uptempo second half, of which "The Star Raga" is the most high-caloric number. The glitter remains on "Border Crossing", which sounds like a true-life rollercoaster even if it doesn't even reach the one-minute mark.

To prove that Baghdad and New York (or Bombay and San Francisco for that matter) are not that far apart, "Mechanical Means" puts a metallic, sharpened piece in the beautiful mantra work. And the disclaimer goes like "this sound is not produced by mechanical means, instead it originates as a stream of electrons in a vacuum tube". How clever is that, huh?

Anyone familiar with Tehran-based Ghazal collective will notice the Persian roots in "Tantra Remixed". But while the kamancheh (a traditional Iranian fiddle), the sitar, and the tabla (a percussive instrument from Northern India) put Ghazal's music in a regional shell, this record let in all manners of occidental infusion.

Someday a work like this will be the plat du jour in any record store. Until then, consider yourself blessed with such a musical journey.

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