Most global communities around the world can claim some sort of indigenous melody as their own, and these personalized cultural chords have become what we often bracket as ‘World Music’. A term that seems to imply that it’ll never make it to the Top 40, and you won’t be hearing it on the back of the bus on a tiny loudspeaker. However in the realms of dance music it’s these world sounds that just seem to crop in and out of focus, whether it be an African chant, Swedish ambiance or a debka drum lick from some Israeli Psy-trance…these composites of ethnicity are everywhere.
These rhythmic worldly discourses are no new thing, as multitudes of varied over sea strains creep around the unmonitored corridors of the inter-web, until they claim musical sanctuary far away from home, and another crazy variation on the global boombox appears. Here’s a bit of 100% organic world produce that’s been on my player recently…
He headed to Cape Town having once been a lad from from Wigan, and with an English touch he brought the sounds of Kwaito a space age makeover with warm analog
ue grooves, that ring the sirens of Chicago and Detroit. Make sure you wander down to Pollinate Records where you can find more of Jumping Back Slash‘s Kwaito house gems for free download, and check their impressive rosta of artists who are contributing to the lo-fi sounds of the future.
Jumpin Back Slash – Ibhithi One
Jumpin Back Slash – Ibhithi Five
Jumping Back Slash – Ibhithi Six
So dubstep’s radius of influence has set sail to the furthermost corners of the globe, and this time it has landed on the shores of Delhi, where the incoming sounds are reverberating in a 12×10 bedroom that belongs to the East Stepper. Touching up his drums with quintessential Indian percussion, he makes use of his trusty djembe and doumbek, to twist the expectations of the south London steppers.
East Stepper – Damn Them Coke Lines
He’s from Australia and little be known about about why he’s called Cairo. But he’s got a free release on the horizon and be sure to look out for his ‘After Dark’ e.p. Living room ambiance and low end pressure all over this one.
Cairo – Unknown
The manifesto of the Dub Traffik Control is to “make dem speakers burn”. These boys hold their flag high and go by the names of El Poeta and Eddie Turbo, who stake most of their influences from the roots of dub and reggae, with a heavy dosage of hip hop and funk. Carlito Headset (aka. El Poeta) also plays a load of next level dance-hall sounds with a Cumbian twist.
Be sure you take a trip down to Generation Bass where I picked up a few of these gems!
Carlito Headset – Cumbia Dub murder
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