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Wed., 28th dec. @ SOJU BAR /// GLOBAL BASS / AFRICAN TEK / TROPIKAL ELEKTRO. /// NGOMA SOUND bridges fictional dichotomies such as "east" and "west", acoustic and electronic. Featuring live percussion & international Guests. Check out mixes & show your dancestyle

_> Berlin Angola

Nomadic Wax Records

Brandnew! Diamondog (Berlin/Angola)

Mixtape “Nomadic Wax” Say Word --Promo Track out now--

download here | click

http://hiphopangolano.blogspot.com/2011/12/diamondogmixtape-nomadic-wax-say-word.html

_> Focus: Planet Myousic

The distances which once existed between continents, countries &

cultures is disappearing. Join "Emerging Face of a Nationless World" campaign to connect communities, worldwide.

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Rachelle Jeanty at CHB, Fr. 14th Oct. presents SOUL, BOSSA and JAZZ in a sweet melange with french spice. Join this special evening in the elegant café at hungaricum.de

Album D’ÂME SOUL
Recorded at Studios Victor and Mixart, “D’ÂME SOUL” is one of those unique recordings, timeless and true. Accompanied by some of the best musicians, a duet with the one and only George Thurston aka Boule Noire comes to treasure this album.

This Soul legend was so moved by Rachelle’s new version of his hit song “Loin, loin de la ville”, that he recorded his unforgettable voice one last time in a touching and final collaboration.

special concert,Thursday 15th Sept. with our friends of the METROPOL JAM BAND. A new excellent project by alfredmehnert.de

_> NGOMA SOUNDSYSTEM/DJ zhao. Regular club events in Berlin & beyond

*new track. DJ zhao/Ngoma Sound. "Grimey Rough Electro Rai-Step for the end of Summer". Fusing arabic/north african roots with urban european clubsound. dig it!

شيخة ريميتي (Cheikha Rimitti) - أبو عبد الله محمد ابن تومرت (Mohammed Ay Sidi) >< Roska-Squark by djzhao

Ngoma Soundsystem (DJ zhao+live musicians) Sa., 10.9., starts 21pm at Monarch Club, U-Kottbussertor. THE ICAS SUITE Networking Tomorrow's Art for an Unknown Future A project by CTM within the 2nd Berlin Music Week /// 7. – 10. September 2011. Festsaal Kreuzberg, Monarch, Palomabar, West Germany, Blumenbar.

"With DJ Zhao, Secousse Sound System (aka Etienne Tron of Radioclit) and Jess & Crabbe, the French Festival Les Siestes Electroniques bring to the ICAS SUITE a mixed bag of DJs and producer teams who have devoted many years of their time to fostering club-musical dialogue between Africa and Europa. That Africa is not only an essential source of inspiration for contemporary dance music, but also the cradle of exciting new music like shangaan electro, kuduro, kwaito or african house needs no further explanation"(program)

CTM co-founded the network ICAS – International Cities of Advanced Sound. In total, 30 organisations and festivals on 5 continents joined forces to (co-)create projects and foster discourse, and thereby promote artistic development at the interface of music, art, technology and society. Following the small but splendid ICAS KITCHEN, which cooked up the goods during CTM.11 for several days in the Palomabar, CTM is preparing to cater for a wide array of tastes and foreign tongues during the second Berlin Music Week (7. – 10. September)

Prgramm http://www.berlin-music-week.de/events/details/130/the_icas_suite_les_siestes_electroniques_toulouse

tropicfusion_Focus: Congo

_> TROPICAL BASS MIX. urban electro tropic fusion sounds by DJ/producer Tio Chango (LaChusma Records/Berlin)

Vol #1 - BerlinTropicalBass by Tio Chango

_> RIDDIMS TROPICALE MIXES & more, DJ Marflix (Faluma/Berlin)

Marflix - Riddims Tropicale #15 by Marflix

_> Special Summer Concert

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Live RACHELLE JEANTY aka D'AME SOUL

at FETE DE LA MUSIQUE BERLIN!

21th June, 17 pm. Nikolaikirche/OPEN AIR Stage, U2-Klosterstr. NuSoul, Jazz and Funk, en francais!

Nominated at the 2009 and 2010 SOBA Awards as Best Soul/R&B Francophone artist and Francophone Revelation of the year, three time performer at Les Francofolies de Montreal, winner of the Rythme FM ''Le plus beau rythme du Québec'' contest, Rachelle has earned the respect and admiration of her peers, as well as members of the industry, by the greatness of her talent, her charisma and her sensitivity.

album review

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In June 2010, Terrakota celebrated its 10th birthday with the avant-première of the documentary ‘On top of the world – Roadmovie of Terrakota in the Himalayas’ about the band’s adventures in India and with a big, three-hour long concert in Lisbon with a battery of guests. That same month, the bands first single of it’s upcoming fourth album came out, ‘World Massala’, a first product of the band’s trip to India. The single is a groundbreaking musical fusion that might never have been done before: Punjabi afro-reggae. Bridging the gap between India and Jamaica, but also between Rajasthani folk and classical India. While the gypsy musicians of Rajasthan Roots take care of the rhythm and give the song some authentic gypsy guts, the carnatic singers Mahesh Vinyakram and Bollywood-star Vasundhara Das take the song to new mystical heights.

The single announced the arrival of the fourth studio album, “WORLD MASSALA” (2010), recorded and produced and released in October 2010 by Ojo Música/Galileo Music Communication. On this new work, Terrakota keeps on mashing up frontiers to bring together music and people from around the world, expanding their musical horizons to Rajasthan, Angola, classical India, urban Cuba, and beyond. Terrakota’s Afro/world mestizo explosion now also has a proper term: world massala! World standing for world music and massala for the fusion, as massala is a mixture of species used a lot in Indian cuisine. The recipe? Bringing new innovative musical fusions without any fear of experiment, just jamming until you find a formula where ancient musical traditions embrace the 21st century.

Other than the Indian guests, the album includes recordings with the Angolan singer-songwriter Paulo Flores, the Cuban rapper Kumar and keyboard, bass and brass from the Lisbon-based funkband Cool Hipnoise. That song with brass is a powerful afrobeat, born in the wake of the band’s side-project, the KotaCool Afrobeat Orchestra, that has done some powerful gigs around Lisbon since 2009.

Maturity On “World Massala”, once again the masters of Afro-Lisboa fusão have used a broad palette of colours to paint a world without borders, masterfully recorded and mixed by Lisbon’s Afro-scene producer Bruno ‘Beat Laden’ Lobato. Whether it’s mbalax, funana, samba, reggae, Afro-Cuba, gnawa, afrobeat, desert blues, batuque, flamenco, maracatu, rap or chimurenga, Terrakota intermingles it with ease in its world massala.

It’s no secret that Terrakota is a live band with one of the most energetic shows of the world music scene. Now, with this fourth recording, Terrakota has reached its tremendous potential in the studio too. The band has found a new maturity, making a more balanced studio album that doesn’t only show Terrakota’s explosiveness but also some calmer, acoustic songs. An exceptional album that should bring the band to new horizons, taking their music to even wider audiences and spreading their message of changing the world into a more positive, equal and balanced planet, where an optimistic and vibrant humanity can exist in harmony, TOGETHER.

_> PAST EVENTS

supporting DJ Matatu/BLACK ATLANTIC BEATZ. percussion: Marcel (tropicfusion)

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Tropical Squeeze! Club Party Special at Betahaus, Prinzessinenstr.19, Sa, 9.4. embrace spring, dance & let loose! DJ marcel (tropicfusion)/DJ diamondog "infectious rhythms" souljazzafrofunkbrazilatinhiphopelectropical
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tropicfusion supported "KOALAS DESPERADOS"-Reggae meets worldwide HipHop". 11.6.2010, Glashaus ARENA BERLIN

Mit Thilo 'Teka' Jacks und Manar El-Abed haben sich zwei Veteranen des Reglerschiebertums zusammengefunden, um ein neues Projekt zu ge“bär“en. Der Kölner und der Franzose, die sich schon seit Schul-zeiten kennen, haben für das Debütalbum der Koalas Desperados insgesamt 17 Musiker und 17 Vokalisten (u.a. Nosliw, Bezegol, Nubla, Jaqee, D-Flame und Maxim) aus 15 Ländern auf Rille gebracht. Jetzt geht das Soundkollektiv mit seinem Drops aus Latin-Beats, Soca und Reggae aus der Karibik, Afrobeat, französischem HipHop und portugiesischem Fado endlich raus auf die Bühnen.

Berlin Locals

A good friend, Fabiano Lima, brazilian percussionist & inspired teacher based in Berlin, presents his workshop results "mangue beat". A fusion of funk & rock grooves and traditional rhythms from the northeast of Brazil.