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For 20 years, Samy Ben Redjeb and his label Analogue Africa have been unearthing forgotten African musical treasures and telling the stories behind them. Not to capitalize on the past, but because he is genuinely interested in the music and the people behind it.
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With »Warlord of the Weejuns« Goya Gumbani explores new sound spaces – between rap, jazz, soul and the lightness of a warm voice. He has selected ten current highlights for us.
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In the Berlin Philharmonie, Hania Rani unfolds her album “Ghosts” as a quiet masterpiece. A concert that opens up space for ambivalence, contemplation and emotion – transcendent, but never pathetic.
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Derya Yıldırım & & Grup Şimşek have just released their fourth album. The Anadolu Pop sounds softer and more haunting than ever before. Derya Yıldırım has selected ten albums that have shaped her.
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Early January nd_baumecker spent two hours behind the decks at the HHV Store in Grünberger Straße in Berlin-Friedrichshain. The recording of the mix is now online.
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Record Store Day. More than 600 releases. The task is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Luckily, there is an indomitable music editorial team to do the job. Here are the highlights of RSD 2025: melancholy, rattle and plenty of rarities.
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The history of brutal and powerful noise rock cannot be written without the influence of Jim Coleman: he once mowed his way through the 90s as part of Cop Shoot Cop; today he is part of Human Impact, a kind of supergroup of the genre. But it would be a gross oversimplification to reduce Coleman’s work to that.
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