Diaspora
Crossing borders and languages to see what the global music diaspora really looks like
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The Essential Guide to Soca
False Witness: A journey between industrial dembow and confessional club
Interview: Africaine 808
The Globalization of La Etnnia → We meet with Colombia’s biggest hip hop stars upon the release of their most international album
Notting Hill Carnival: a photo essay
Mbongwana Star: New African Rhythms
How apartheid, exile and America helped shape Letta Mbulu’s In the Music...
Strut Records: The Story So Far
Country Music in Jamaica
The Rise of South African Hip-Hop
Kingston Ave. Dreaming: Dancehall, Hip Hop and New York City
Ready D → Hip-hop and politics all up in the mix with two South African b-boys
Arthur Verocai → The legendary Brazilian producer discusses bossa nova and being sampled
Gyedu-Blay Ambolley → Ghana’s father of rap brings swinging Accra and Simigwa-do to highlife
Dre Skull → The vybz master tells how he became one of Jamaica’s most in-demand beatmakers
Dengue Dengue Dengue! → The masked purveyors of tropical underground come to the couch to discuss cumbia, parties, and Peruvian history
Fatima Al Qadiri → The restless Hyperdub and Warp affiliate talks about her sonic globetrotting
Center of Chaos: Common and Electric Circus