23 March 2010 |

Flying Sparks 2009 Review, Part 2: Dubstep

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Here are some of my 2009 highlights of Dubstep music, also often with a “global touch”. For instance, Asian or Global Dubstep by Delhi 2 Dublin, Shandy, Shiva Soundsystem, Ges-E, Sukh Knight, Juttla, Dusk & Blackdown vs. Grievous Angel, wAgAwAgA, Clouds, Geiom, G.Corp, Stenchman, OMFO, … Enjoy! Here the links for a listening @ Mixcloud: Flying Sparks 2009, Part 2a: Dubstep by Iskra on Mixcloud Flying Sparks 2009, Part 2b: Dubstep by Iskra on Mixcloud [...]

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23 March 2010 |

Flying Sparks 2009 Review, Part 1: Culture & Politics

File under: Radio, Review, Flying Sparks, Recent listening
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Let us pay our last respects to Eartha Kitt († 25.12.2008), Blossom Dearie († 07.02.2009), Ali Akbar Khan († 19.06.2009), Michael Jackson († 25.06.2009), Margot Ebert († 26.06.2009), Patrick Swayze († 14.09.2009), Eduard Zimmermann († 19.09.2009) and Mercedes Sosa († 04.10.2009). Rest in peace! In the end of 2008, the Berlin radio station radiomultikulti from the public broadcaster RBB was closed. Instead of this programme, the Cologne station Funkhaus Europa is transmitted in Berlin. But, some of the former crew of radiomultikulti has started the internet spin-off “Multicult”, Version 2.0. In 2009 we could relisten to DT64, the GDR youth radio from before, during and after the [...]

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30 October 2009 |

Late harvest

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The summer is gone. We have autumn now. But, let us look back to late summer time and to great music, I enjoyed in that time: First, there is the the long awaited debut album Rise from the project Black Canvas, who are Mr. Melody, Rider Shafique and King Chubby J., already well-known from the work with Pressure Drop. Some tracks were already published as 12″s, now the album with quite nice reggae, breakbeats, drum’n’bass and hip hop tracks. Lynx & Kemo gave a nice DJ & MC set in Icon club in Berlin some months ago. Their album [...]

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