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wowflower “balloons” (Street Corner Music)
“While preparing for my radio show about a year ago, I put a kite out to the kids that I was looking for some heat to play. This kid sent me a 20 second clip of a work in progress. Read more »
Various Artists “Sweet As Broken Dates: Lost Somali Tapes from the Horn of Africa” (Ostinato)
via Ostinato: In 1988, on the eve of a two decade civil war, Somalia’s authoritarian ruler Siad Barre launched punishing air strikes on the north of the country, known today as Somaliland, in response to agitations for independence. The bombing Read more »
Gemini “Imagine A Nation” (1997, Another Day)
via AD: As one of Chicago’s most mysterious and revered characters, the story of Gemini aka Spencer Kincy has become something of a myth in recent years. Blazing a trail throughout the 90’s by prolifically releasing over 200 tracks from Read more »
Low Jack vs. Time Cow “Glacial Dancehall 2” (Bokeh Versions)
via Bokeh Versions: Glacial Dancehall returns – a two-headed excursion of versions, samples + sirens chopped and screwed into oblivion by Time Cow and Low Jack. Tasked with following Jay Glass Dubs’ first screwtape Glacial Dancehall (of March 2016), each Read more »
dBridge & Kabuki “New Forms Season 1” (Exit Records)
via Boomkat: dBridge alloys with German D&B producer Kabuki for a super slick and taut set including smart input from Cooly G, Addison Groove, V.I.V.E.K. and Stray. In duo they step off with the future gangster swagger of Lose Yourself, Read more »