hype :: Tasmania

radio :: Dialect-ic playlist 22/04/06

Lieben dank an Ronny, to share his story live on-air - of cycling from Germany to Australia (in 2 and a bit years) with his partner Anke and their three-year old son Bela...

Gypsy Song :: Vlatko Stefanovski [MACEDONIA]
Nichts und Niemand :: Barbara Morgenstern [GERMANY]
Daddy War Nicht Daheim :: Eko & Azra [GERMANY/TURKEY]
Nur die Staerksten Ueberleben :: Strassenkinda [GERMANY]
Ganjafeld :: Spooman feat. Gleis 2 [SWITZERLAND]
Zauerli by an Appenzeller Jodelchor [SWITZERLAND]
Balkea :: Sandy Lopicic Orkestar [BOSNIA/SERBIA/KOSOVO/SLOVENIA/AUSTRIA]
Da Dasige :: Hubert Von Goisern [AUSTRIA]
Deliloy :: Sultan Tunc [GERMANY/TURKEY]
Tabla Solo :: Jalilah [EGYPT]
A Small Intricate Box, Which Contains Old Blue Opium Marzipan :: Muslimgauze [UK]
Uzbeki Westerns :: Curse Ov Dialect [AUSTRALIA]
Rajamalshitan :: Andre Afram Asmar [USA]
Magic Horses :: Doch Gypsy Orchestra [AUSTRALIA]
Olo Chung Chung :: Tenzin Choegyal [TIBET/AUSTRALIA]
Ah Fen's Carrying A Baby :: Labor Exchange Band [CHINA]
Freestyle Aerobics :: Yin Tsang [CHINA]
The Flower of Carnage :: Meiko Kaji [JAPAN]
SOS :: Afrees [ETHIOPIA/GERMANY]
Milk Cow Mantra :: Combat Wombat [AUSTRALIA]

hype :: Hip Hop Revolucion Mexico City

Si estas andando por el DF - This is where it's at! - www.indiegente.org

hype :: Nomadic Sound System

Check out downloads at Nomadic Sound System - the hottest conscious sounds from Los Angeles, Califas and beyond...Nomadic Sound System is where Bocafloja, Olmeca, 2Mex & El Vuh stop over on their travels to record...

hype :: Speak With Music

"I looked at DJing as not just being a profession, but an artform. Not everyone has the ability to craft pieces of art. Maybe they can string pieces together, but I wanted to explore the deeper aspect of the art of DJing, the understanding and skill that goes into it. I needed to find a vehicle through which to express that."

"I want to prove that good music will move you, no matter what your preferred genre," André Manuel told local Cape Town paper Athlone News. "And I hope that through this, the participants will find some enjoyment in sharing in the gems and beauties in my record collection... the gems I've collected over many years. As a DJ, playing it safe is a negative. You have to push people, give them something new to think about. It's important to listen with your ears and not your eyes. Packaging and marketing play a huge role and if you only follow the marketing machine, you'll only be listening with your eyes".

I met André at Container's Village of the Next Wave Festival in Melbourne, where he had curated one of the 43 shipping containers: "Speak With Music challenges the idea of what exactly a DJ's role is. We take the DJ - in this case André Manuel - out of the club setting, into an intimate space where he conducts 50 personal orchestras for 50 perfect strangers. He takes each of the 50 visual personal accounts of the stranger's worlds, and translates them into musical imagery. Through this universal language music André converses intimately with each of his subjects. And each of his 'conversations' were mixed live, and enhanced using cross-overs, effects units and other mixing tools, with his subjects' photographs as his inspiration and stimuli."

Check out the debut release of André's Cape Town-based label Dala Flat: Future Cape by RockArt (pictured above). It combines classic/freestyle jazz with indigenous Cape sounds, and succinct production of subtle electronic beats and rhythms. Stories are told of Nuwestraat, Kleine Jannie forced to kill his farmer boss, about a chilling Ladies Night, celebrations...

Dala Flat seems set to do for southern Africa what Mexico's Nortec Collective achieved for Latin America...

radio :: Dialect-ic playlist 08/04/06

Big ups to guest presenter Morganics and Sinpare (Kenya):

Rong Radio Station :: Benjamin Zephaniah [JAMAICA/UK]
Africa (spoken word) :: Morganics [AUSTRALIA]
More G More Fire :: Morganics feat. Wayahudi Family [AUSTRALIA/TANZANIA]
3 MCs :: Des, Alena & Alma [Broken Hill, AUSTRALIA]
All Points On The Map :: Morganics feat. Sista Native, Wire MC, Brotha Black and Local Knowledge [AUSTRALIA/TONGA]
Getto :: Sinpare [KENYA]
Where Ya From? :: Diafrix [AUSTRALIA]
Jivunye Ukenya :: Sinpare
Social Ills :: Godessa [SOUTH AFRICA]
Aiwa :: Emmanuel Jal & Abdel Gadir Salim [SUDAN]
Jina Langu :: Sinpare
Msimu Kwa Msimu :: X-Plastaz [TANZANIA]
Days Like These :: Combat Wombat feat. Sinpare in-studio freestyle rap [AUSTRALIA/KENYA]
Fahrenheit :: 4:20 [AUSTRALIA/UGANDA/BELIZE]
some mad dancehall tune remixed by Aphex Twin [JAMAICA/UK]
Le Cycle :: Daara J feat. Rokia Traore [SENEGAL/MALI]
More Fire :: Sinpare
The Giraffe :: Vulgargrad [AUSTRALIA]

history :: The New Corroboree

Back in 2001 I spent months researching "Aboriginal Hip Hop". At the time, I could only find a couple of independently released songs, two compilations, and great material unrecorded, captured inside people like Wire MC. In 2002 my research was published as an article in now defunct JUICE magazine. Now in 2006, my 2001 lecturer Tony Mitchell has given the topic a mainstream stage in The Age newspaper. Get the latest issue of Meanjin for the whole story!

The new corroboree
The Age, 1 April 2006

The oral traditions of Aboriginal societies have paved the way for a vibrant hip-hop scene, but the local rappers are not simply mimicking US styles, Tony Mitchell finds. It is also helping preserve indigenous languages...

Hip-hop's connections with traditional Aboriginal culture are perhaps best expressed by MC Wire, who performs a track called, "It's a modern day corroboree" and who told Moses Iten in 2001: "This is my lyrical healing. I can't go and get scarred any more and I can't become a traditional man. I'm a modern day blackfella, this is still Dreamtime for me. Hip-hop is the new clapsticks, hip-hop is the new corroboree"...

Read the full story here.