KABYLE STARBURST

Kingdom tonite on the radio! Tune in, this show should be good..

plus, Mode Raw blogs!

plus, 2 Amazigh pop jams as mid-morning fuel. REAL POP = INSTANT HAPPINESS with a dreamy aftertaste.

dble

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Takfarinas – Zaama Zaama

a big hit! Tamazight lyrics, French hook. This has been bootlegged onto the “Oriental Vibes” vinyl which Broklyn Beats stocked awhile back. Kabyle stormer with international legs.

& here’s one of those 10 minute Berber male & female autotune duets (which i can’t get enough of)

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Varietes Amazigh – track 7



8 comments

  1. rachel:

    damnit its 8:10!

  2. rachel:

    ive missed the show every week since hearing about it.. :(

    btw, theres a small kabyle culture site i like called tudukli with kablye karaoke http://tadukli.free.fr/pages/video/karaoke.htm and intersting stuff like plug ins to read tifinagh? http://tadukli.free.fr/pages/downloads/utilitaires.htm

  3. jace:

    rachel- the show is archived here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/dr and available as a podcast as well… in case you are curious…

  4. bent:

    damn i miss arabic pop – walking near damascus gate in jerusalem old city there were a million tape vendors and i would buy so many, so good – i wish i knew how to convert them to more easily played audio format for party dj times. thanks for sharing this

  5. carlos:

    a *friday* review of uproot from pitchfork + best new music, sir. congrats!!

    http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/146769-dj-rupture-uproot

  6. thomas:

    congrats of the glowing p4k review.

    is the berber track the same duo as the other two tracks you posted (in 2006, i think), and is a cd available anywhere? i’ve been wondering for a long time.

  7. jace:

    i’m not sure who it is – first off, I lost the original Cd (but can find it again, surely its on my desk *somewhere*) but its probably a different duo with most of the earlier material was on a different label. This album – Varietes Amazigh — i picked up at the Fassiphone shop in Paris back in April and it doesn’t list artist names(!). The good news is that Fassiphone is Europe’s biggest Arab music distro + does online mailorder… the bad news is that I may be mistaken, as I can’t find the CD on their website… I’ll do some research, glad you dig it!

    http://www.fassiphone.com

  8. james gyre:

    i’m sure you’ve heard this before, jace, but just in case…

    omar souleyman…

    i’ve really been digging the track “atabat” recently, but the big hit was “leh jani” (which features a bit of auto-tune, methinks, and a SMOKING synth solo you can see up close in the video)

    the whole album can be found, *ahem* (if you DO that…) here.

    and i totally second the longing comments about listening to radio internationally… india, morocco, turkey… the radio was great.

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