FOALS / ‘SPANISH SAHARA’ VIDEO
“Now I see you lying there, like a Lylo losing air.”
“Spanish Sahara”, by 5-piece band Foals, is about one particular past experience of lead singer Yannis Philippakis – a childhood memory of stumbling upon a dead dog in a river. The jagged broken sheets of ice floating in the dark ocean captures the feeling of the song quite well.
You can hear snippets of their album by completing the puzzles (nice visual idea) on their website HERE.
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Anybody heard the new record by Gonjasufi yet? It’s a killer album and I highly recommend it.
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Gonjasufi ‘Duet’
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Joy Orbison ‘So Derobe’
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Pantha Du Prince ‘Stick To My Side’ (Four Tet Remix)
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Prince Jammy ‘Second Generation’
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Afrigadget
Truly inspiring inventions made from the most mundane objects. This has seriously got me thinking.
Click HERE to see the creations.
Afrigadget
Most objects that we interact with everyday are discarded without a second thought. How many readers think about how they can reuse their collection of empty Milk containers at the end of the week? I don’t but maybe I will now thanks to clever blog, AfriGadget. Afrigadget is a website dedicated to showcasing African ingenuity in such a beautiful and life-affirming way. A team of bloggers and readers contribute their pictures, videos and stories from all over Africa. The website is a testament to Africans using their creativity to overcome life’s challenges. Truly inspiring inventions made from the most mundane objects. This has seriously got me thinking.
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Photomachine “Nite Fevr”
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Laws “Hold You Down” (Produced by Dj Khalil)
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White Fence “The Love Between”
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Psychobuildings “Dirty Rainbows”
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What do you think of rapper Laws? Apparently he’s part of the Hip-Hop collective, Justice League (Little Brother, Buckshot, 9th Wonder, Joe Scudda & co). I’m not convinced. I think he sounds Lupe-ish BUT the beat by Dj Khalil KNOCKS HARD!
