tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75015982009-10-25T04:46:43.655-07:00linkthink re: hip-hop, reggae, the US, jamaica, and anything else wayne wants to wax onwayne&waxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05320768422428588508noreply@blogger.comBlogger316125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7501598.post-1160381740586450072006-10-09T17:00:00.000-07:002006-10-09T13:29:52.126-07:00

not to cambridge. to wayneandwax.com.so, my dear dear readers'n'referrers, plz update your links and follow me over this-a-way >>let's keep the conversation going. shit, let's take it up a notch.see you after the jump.peace,wayneps -- new feeds, too: rdf rss rss2 atom -- but do poke around.

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in pursuing the chacalonero thread further, i've been in conversation with joshua tucker, an ethnomusicologist at UT-austin (and the guy previously in my shoes), who knows a thing or two about music in peru.clearing up some of my questions about sr. chacalon jr. -- that link, btw, dates "perreo chacalonero" to at least feb/05! -- as well as about chicha more generally (the music, that is),

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as some attentive, clicky readers might have noticed in my last post about the exploding latin american youtubosphere, i finished by asking how to say "omg!" in spanish, pointing to yet another video that leads to dozens of videos. that one, however, goes well beyond the "yasuri yamileths" out there, demonstrating -- with well-known cartoon and kids-show characters no less (para niños!?!) -- the

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^^that's the latest latin american viral video (or the latest that i'm hopelessly late to). actually, it's but the tip of the iceberg. raquel sent me the link, which i took at first to be some sort of underground reggaeton video (which it sort of is). despite its cartoonishness, the production was low-fi enough and the performance serious enough -- and the location oh-so ghetto credful -- that it

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check out chavez, who's got another book for ya, speaking to time: TIME: Do your feelings about Bush reflect your feelings toward America in general?CHAVEZ: No. I revere America as the nation of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King and Mark Twain--who was a great anti-imperialist, who opposed U.S. adventurism in the Spanish-American War.TIME: You often speak of the link between U.S. foreign policy

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lovely US cellular field, where chevy trucks drive into the outfield at least twice a gamei think i like jordan davis's "non-poetry" (like t.s. eliot's) about as much as his poetry (like t.s. eliot's -- except for the bad stuff about jews), which is to say, often quite a bit. (when dwelled upon, those seem like small words of praise, but i feel them stronger than hyperbole.) recently, jordan's

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chicagoans! i'm playing my first local party this weekend, saturday night, at a secret spot somewhere around downtown (TBA). headlining is none other than my riddim methodist colleague, kid kameleon, and joining us on the bill are such loco locals (and regionals) as curtis chip, ipaghost, wesley clay, and the no ma'am kru (i.e.). should be a vibes. par for the dance, i plan to play some slyly

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mass bay from american airmr.murk brings back his egyptronix mix for the first of his podcasts.which reminds me that dr.auratheft has some excellent new mixes up, including a bellydance diaspora special and some great latin/caribbean stuff via family history.which reminds me as well that, in case you haven't been following along (and, really, why not?), the blogariddims series -- hourlong mixes

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how hot is the new tego album? well, i'll tell you in some detail soon (via the phx), but suffice to say it's hot enough that someone stole my car radio to get a copy.* i'll say at this point, though, that i totally agree with the choice of "los maté" -- with its chipmunk'd ranchera chorus (e.g.) and filtered dembow -- as the lead single. and i like the use of mariachi men in the video to bring

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becca's and charlie's class has begun. par for the course, she and the other instructors will be keeping a blog as they go, attempting to document the successes and missteps and nitty-grit and whatnot of offering harvard's first course open to the public. the first and second lecture videos are already up, as is becca's first post, or two or three. [i do disclaim!: in that first post-class post,

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did you remember to 'never forget' today?just checking.

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two of my favorite academics and family members, becca and charlie nesson, are teaching a course together this fall. charlie at the law school, and becca at the extension school -- in second life, no less! it proves to be something special, examining (and making) arguments not in the court of law, but in the court of public opinion, and exploring the role of media technologies to facilitate and

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more literally than metaphorically, but there's always plenty of the latter too, knamean.still, i've finally reached the windy windy and am steady settling into my lil apt in the vibrant barrio of humboldt park. if the mango-con-chili we had at this weekend's "fiesta boricua" was any indication, this is a place with mucho sabor. i look forward to more. be right back with mo' wax very soon. sorry

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sorry for the relative silence, y'all. it's that time of year. more soon, for sure..

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been meaning to write about calle 13 for a while now (^^that's them^^), and mi amiga raquel rivera just gave me a reason to finally do so. these days you can find raquel blogging at herspace, but she's also opened up a blogspot to bring her thoughts to the wider web.raquel's latest post regards a song/video by calle 13 called "la jirafa" (the giraffe). she recently wrote me about the track: "The

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"I know little about the affairs of Turkey, but I am sure that I know something about barberries and chest nuts of which I have collected a store this fall. "When I go to see my neighbor he will formally communicate to me the latest news from Turkey, which he read in yesterday's Mail -- how Turkey by this time looks determined, & Lord Palmerston -- Why, I would rather talk of the bran, which,

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not to repeat repeat myself, but: angryarab, leninology, juancole -- read 'em.see also, billmon, who's been pretty on-the-money, e.g., this pessimistic but probable prediction. hell in a handbasket, folks. hell in a handbasket.also, k-punk offers a reading like only k-punk can.continued props to mazen kerbaj for putting a very human face on an all too frequently dehumanized lebanon.thx to jace

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^^via kerblog, which = "mazen kerbaj's blog. beirut + free improvised music + comics + bombs + drawings" (via [via])iraqi music -- info and mpfrees, nuff maqam (which was my #1 name-for-a-boy a few years ago, i might add), and don't miss the featured artist pagemore from eden on fast chatmatt of idol thoughts offers up the lastest blogariddimcastbut i've mostly been rockin' gold teeth thief part

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the continuing destruction of lebanon and its people (especially children) surpasses my understanding and leaves me wanting for words to express my outrage, my sadness, my despair (and from a distance, yes). how can anyone possibly countenance such shameful action as israel continues to pursue? how can anyone possibly "spin" these despicable acts as if they constitute self-defense? the mind

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who knew that this bit of spampoetry would be such a prescient plea?

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what were we talking about again? oh yeah: music.while the world soldiers smolders on, we'll be offering some alternately chill beats and riddimic heat this thursday, the 27th, as i bid my monthly night over at river gods farewell. you see, as they say, i've got some bad news and some good news.the bad news, as some may have heard, is that the boston jerk (aka, yours truly) will be leaving boston

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don't mistake the photo above for this week's time. it's from 1982. i mean, really, can you imagine the MSM publishing such an anti-semitic appropriately indicting title today? i sure can't.as my last post suggested, i'm getting really sick and tired of all the tacit (and not so tacit) complicity with israel's unchecked, unjustifiable aggression. i've noticed that the increasingly disappointing

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boingboing linked to a photoshopped googlearth img that shows -- in red -- "How Far into Israel Can Hezbollah Reach":so i google image searched 'lebanon' and found a map that shows -- in white -- "How Far into Lebanon Can Israel Reach":

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tomorrow, monday the 17th, Aa (that's 'BIG A little a') are driving up from BK to join me (that's w&w) and flack at beat research. looking forward to playing a beat-centric crowd, Aa percussionist and energytic blogga john chiasm says they'll be bringing their "most IDMmy jam ever!" -- not to mention their own lighting show and special beAat reseAarch CD-Rs ("with a mix of various stuffs from the

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it's official: this blog has gone all chacarron, all the time. check out this live "merengue tipico" version. (thx for the tip, alberto!)and thanks to the anonymous commenter who pointed me to yet another cover, this time by a dutch radio DJ whose colleague apparently heard the original in curacao:Mijn collega Dave kwam terug van Curaçao met een zeer geestig aanstekelijk liedje, chacaron. Na twee

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