Tiene el sabor, el blues y el tambor, este brother. Play it loud. ¡Licenciado!
Pure Poetry: Throwing Muses - Limbo (Live @ Handelsbeurs, Gent, 2011.10.27.) (by stereomacko)
The Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos in Spanish) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd. It focuses on gatherings of family and friends to remember friends and family members who have died. It is a celebration of life and it is an occasion to party.
In preparation to this day Jamboree and Sonido Chipotle have joined forces to bring you ‘¡Báilele!’ on Saturday 15th October 2011, a night dedicated to the salsa and cumbia sounds of Mexico and Latin America. Mexican-born DJ Señor Priego and guests will be behind the decks playing strictly cumbia and salsa with a Mexican sensibility.
We will have a special reading by And Other Stories from Juan Pablo Villalobos’ DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE. The Mexican author’s book is first of ten choices for the Guardian First Book Award!
Please bring your mementos for the ofrenda… Other surprises are lined up for the night, but you will have to come to find out for yourselves…
Included in TimeOut Magazine’s “101 Best Things to Do in London” feature – Jamboree was one of the special picks:
“..tucked under a wedge of artists’ studios, Jamboree Live Music Bar hosts incredible musicians and performers from all over the world. Dance between the tables, visit the resident painter or just look interesting in a darkened corner.”
¡Báilele! will be a unique Mexican cabaret/underground experience. Calacas y luchadores welcome!
"I Put a Spell on You"- Nick Cave and The Cavemen, 1984
Via Dangerous Minds.
78 rpm Leroy Anderson - Typewriter (Played on a Garrard 4HF) (by mtorringa)
The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings
“Due to copyright restrictions the digital collection is only fully accessible from computers on the UCLA campus.”
Out of Fear, Institutions Lock Millions of Books and Images - Chronicle of Higher Education
“A library of 8.7 million digital volumes. A trove of 100,000 ocean-science photos. An archive of 57,000 Mexican-music recordings.”
Media Policy Project Policy Brief 1: Creative Destruction and Copyright Protection | LSE Media Policy Project
The music industry and artists should innovate and actively reconnect with their sharing fans rather than treat them as criminals.
Mr Scruff unruffled by clearing of the Technics decks
“If you face facts, vinyl still sounds a lot better than CD or digital. If you listen to a lot of modern music like dubstep many times on CD – a lot of the UK funky stuff, a lot of harsh, very bottom-heavy, very percussive, very dynamic music – it sounds quite brittle and two-dimensional. You cut the same thing on to vinyl and, when you listen to it in a club, the bass has real depth to it. It’s not like a flat wall of sound that’s beating you down, it’s almost like you can “get inside” the music a lot better. There is something magical about vinyl. I love the way music sounds on it. Part of the reason I love it is that I don’t quite know why it sounds that way. There’s alchemy to the process of putting sound on vinyl that engineers still don’t understand to this day, but somehow it works. I’ve been DJing and collecting music for about 25 years now, and it’s still my favourite way of listening to music.”
Bien chévere: the work of art in the age of the free digital download
“When it comes to music, I’ve always been a fascist, prepared to make an instant judgement on someone’s character with nothing more than a cursory glance at their record collection.” -Simon Armitage, 2008:30
Welcome to a time when there were no guitars… (via Aguillón Mata…) cc @Koggi
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