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“Moombahton was like the glue holding everything together in the beats, the last piece of the puzzle.” Munchi is an all around buffon from Rotterdam, who gets a lot of attention internationally, especially for his outstanding individual style of creating various tracks ranging from Moombahton to Moombahcore and all other global genres. He helped me [...]

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Maga Bo, the sonic traveller from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, just came for a visit to Berlin to play at Club Transmediale, the digital media culture festival. His set was a fluent mix of Brazilian tunes, Baile Funk, Dubstep and Elektronic bits n pieces, all supoorted by his rapper MC Bnegao. Just before his great [...]

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Filastine is one of those globalistas, who bring their sound to every corner of the world and mix every sound they pick up into something very unique. In 2006 Filastine released his debut “Burn it” on Soot records, a fusion of revolutionary arabic, electronic, global beats´n´pieces and panhispanic elements, with which he successfully opened shows [...]

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Asian Dub Foundation have been around for 15 years now and although they say they don’t belong to the Asian Underground movement, they have pushed several things forward and introduced their own multi hybrid sound. Steve, long-term guitarist and core of the group, talks about ethnic discrimination in music, the question of good immigrant bands [...]

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Balkan Beat Box are from New York and make beats. Beats and balkan and musical boxing – as to say musical boxing against existing genre-limits, because Balkan Beat Box’ music is a global mash up a la New Yorkean. Bulgarian singers meet Morroccan and Palestinian artist and the two Israelis Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat [...]

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Macaco 07

This interview is from October 07. But it’s time to publish it now, because Macaco released a new album: Puerto Presente! Macaco are one of the icons of Barcelonas Mestizo scene. A story that started ten years ago in a squat in the heart of Barcelona has by now gained so much success that the [...]

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LA MALA RODRIGUEZ Sala Apolo, Barcelona 26.11.05 LA MALA RODRIGUEZ is a female phenomenon in Spain. Out of the streets of Sevilla she rapped herself with her very own authentic blend of hip hop, flamenco, scratches and ragga into the hearts of the Spainiards and on top of the charts. LA MALA knows what she [...]

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ZUCO 103 – June 2005 @ Sorat Hotel Berlin Call it Jazz, Worldmusic or Brazilectro – none of these attributes will be sufficient to describe the musical broadness of ZUCO 103, formed by Brazilian singer Lilian Vieira, Munich-born keyboarder Stefan Schmid and Dutch drummer Stefan Kruger. However, none of these attributes is wrong. They all [...]

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A German in exile Frankfurts Techno scene is big and very popular. It´s so popular that it eventually gets quite small and oppressing at the same time, in relation to the style it marked. That´s why Señor Coconut aka Stefan Schmidt packed his bag in 1997 and went off to Chile. Since than he is [...]

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Bajofondo Tango Club – 22.07.05 – Berlin My summer was Argentinian. Three interviews with bands from Buenos Aires that all won the Premio Gardel and that are marked by their very own style. One of those bands is the electro tango project BAJOFONDO TANGO CLUB. Founder Gustavo Santaolalla is an archaic member of the Latinamerican [...]

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