Cold Tropics » podcast http://coldtropics.com mutating mediums Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:19:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 african rhythm http://coldtropics.com/2009/07/african-rhythm/ http://coldtropics.com/2009/07/african-rhythm/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:22:46 +0000 paul j. http://coldtropics.com/?p=62 If you’re looking for some great rap from the Ivory Coast check out this mixtape by CIAfrica. It features some really superb production. Unfortunately, my French isn’t quite up to the task of following most of the lyrics, which is too bad because from what I understand they are on the political awareness tip. I remember seeing a documentary on Link TV not too long ago about rap music from Mali (I believe?), and I saw some performers, and the documentary had subtitles for their lyrics which got into some deep & excellent points about the challenges Africans face from Western economic liberalization policies.

And let me sweeten this post by making it a 2 for 1 deal with this podcast from Brian from awesometapesfromafrica.

All this music is very beat-oriented, and that illustrates a serious annoying recent development of rock critics describing bands as having an African or tribal style drumming. Obviously these critics are being lazy and don’t know what they’re talking about, or else they would recognize the diverse range of styles that exist, and also the way the West and Africa really do share a common musical lexicon.

Anyway, shout out to mudd up! and wayne&wax for bringing all this excellent music to my attention.

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