On this week’s edition of solipsistic NATION we’ll focus on electronic music infused with rhythms and sounds from around the world.
Some call this subgenre of electronic music ethnotechno while others call it world beat. Maybe the reason it escapes such easy categorization is because this kind of electronic music borrows from so many cultures and is performed and composed by so musicians across the planet. Is ethnotechno electronic music that incorporates global rhythms and sounds? Or is it music composed by artists from different countries? Or both? We’ll ask Derek Beres, author of Global Beat Fusion: The History of the Future of Music, this question on today’s show.
Speaking of global beat fusion, this week’s solipsistic NATION give away is Karsh Kale‘s CD, Broken English.
On Broken English, London born and New York raised Karsh Kale balances his Indian heritage with rock ‘n’ roll, hip hop and atmospheric pop for his most diverse release to date. His third studio release, Kale works with a talented cast of collaborators including MC Napoleon and vocalists Trixie Reiss (The Crystal Method), film composer Salim Merchant (one half of the “it” Bollywood composer team, Salim-Sulaiman) and Dierdre of Ekova.
Send me an email at solipsisticnation@gmail.com and you might find yourself the lucky winner of Karsh Kale’s Broken English.
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- Banco de Gaia “Kara Kum (Radio Edit)”
- Karsh Kale “Hole in the Sky”
- Welder “Shiva”
- Soma “Baal”
- ZAMAN 8 & Hafez Modir “Sani”
- Marsicano “Ganges”
- MIDIval PunditZ “Piya”
- Bitstream Dream “Flight of the Diplasiocoela (Ft. Sandhya Sanjana)”
- Mr. Tunes “Metamorphosis”
- Maïdo Project “Galatasaray (Remix)”
- Blue Tribe “Sun King”
- Cheb I Sabbah “Madh Assalhin (Praising of the Saints Ft. Haddaretes)”
- Interview with Derek Beres, author of Global Beat Fusion: The History of the Future of Music
- Land “Bustle”