| Various Artists / Audio Refuge Compilation, The |
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| Album: | Audio Refuge Compilation, The | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Jul 2011 | |
| Label: | Stronghold Sound | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2011-07-24 | Pull Date: | 2011-09-25 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Sep 25 | Sep 18 | Sep 4 | Aug 28 | Aug 21 | Aug 14 | Aug 7 | Jul 31 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jul 28, 2012: | Bouge Mood Farafina Massaya (Feat. Nils Bultmann) | 4. | Sep 24, 2011: | New World Disorder Bab Manara (Feat. Snakkr Horn Mix) | |
| 2. | Jun 30, 2012: | New World Disorder Cumbia Nena (Feat. Ephniko & Nes) | 5. | Sep 16, 2011: | Music Casserole Cumbia Nena (Feat. Ephniko & Nes) | |
| 3. | Dec 31, 2011: | New World Disorder Salchichón Primavera (Feat. Tami) | 6. | Sep 01, 2011: | Summertime Sunshine Bab Manara (Feat. Snakkr Horn Mix) |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2011-07-19 | ||
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[coll:] Audio Refuge Reviewed by Sadie O., 7/19/11 World fusion club grooves (tending toward the African Musical Diaspora) by a Bay Area collective. At the same time strongly based in traditional music and pretty experimental, moving more to the latter end as it goes. 1. 5:34 ***pretty harp intro, slow loping sway, vocals in heavily accented English. Mellow music, rather angry lyrics, but trance-y overall. Mashup of African, Reggae and Hip hop. 2. 4:53 ***hand drum intro, highlife bounce, upbeat, Afro-jazz. 3. 6:09 ***traditional Gnawa clackers and instrumentation with a Reggae beat. Trance-y, and long enough that you can definitely get altered while listening… 4. 2:45 **traditional style Gnawa strings, then clackers, odd beat that seems a moment late, a bit of electronica, violin. 5. 6:46 ***sweet, mellow Afrobeat groove with stuttering instruments and violin, African (specifics unknown) vocals. 6. 4:47 ****groovy, blatty Reggae stroll, downtempo, cool horns, dubby. 7. 5:29 ***slow boom bap with double-time bubbling keyboards. Another Afro-Reggae-Hip hop mashup. 8. 5:23 ****UK-style club-dub/dubstep, Trinidadian vocals and whoobles. I’m a sucker for whoobles. 9. 4;41 ****electronics and thumping something that is a bit of a cumbia, but nothing traditional about it. Vocals in Spanglish with a sort of Reggaeton intonation. 10. 4:01 *****ridiculously bitchen cumbiamuffin riddim, dubby, female vocals. Mi gusta esta aqui. 11. 3:52 **fractured electronic gronches. Becomes rather more like a riddim (cumbiastep?) gradually. 12. 5:02 ****clackers, fun little electronic bopper. No vocals. 13. 3:57 ***mellow and trance-y dub with hip hop vocals. (FCC – “goddamit” – if that counts your book…) 14. 5:12 *****uptempo stuttering riddim with a growing hint of north Africa (from Palestine, it turns out) – interesting. Oud-funk. Very long fade with oud and faint heartbeats. 15. 5:12 ****pretty chimey chords. Afro-hip hop vocals in Afro-ench. Gets a strong beat after a while – nice stuff. 16. 4:16 *acoustic guitar, indy-hip-pop something. Um. Er. | ||
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