You can contribute to Japan relief effort by buying music. Help Japan is an album put together by Steve Paul and friends, featuring artists from the label AFutureWithout (Throwing Snow, The Lastings Days, Diarmo, Will Plowman, Augustus Ghost, Memotone) and including Steve Paulremixes of Radiohead, Regina Spektor and Matisyahu. The money donated is going to British Red Cross Japan Tsunami Appeal.
The album is extremely eclectic, featuring genres spanning folk, acoustic, chilled instrumental electronica, dubstep, klezmer, indie, world music, performance poetry. It’s an album that really conjures up an emotional, pensive, moving and uplifting atmosphere. http://helpjapan.bandcamp.com/album/help-japan
Tired of minimal techno? Give a try to digital cumbia, nu world music, latin bass, cumbiastep, latin bass and more tropical hot bass.
Find Club du Monde, a weekly show on hosted by Folcore, a audiovisual collective based in Barcelona and be ready to sweat.
Live Locally, Groove Globally! Hear upbeat music from the world over on this spirited celebration of musical culture in traditional and hybrid forms. Spin The Globe – world music radio show, hosted weekly by Scott Stevens originating at KAOS-fm, Olympia USA. Featuring music from around the planet, plus artist interviews and global culture information.
Latest show Afrobeat Outside Africa – Spin The Globe 15 October 2010
Spin the globe celebrated on the 15 of october the birthday of Afrobeat creator Fela Kuti with the sounds of his rhythms gone globally viral. Plus some music from Fela Kuti himself, and some new releases.
What are we going to listen in 10 years? And in 100 years? La planète bleue (the blue planet), is a radioshow on worldwide innovative music, spiced with futuristic tales and infos about ecology, technology and science-fiction.
The radioshow produced by Yves Blanc is composed of 15% of talking in French and the rest of music.
Laid Back is a webradio and a radioshow from Brussels, Belgium.
LBDK, the radio online, plays the best in urban music from the last 40 years 24/7.
The Laid Back show is broadcasted every Wednesday between 10 and 11pm (GMT+1) on FM Brussel (Belgium) and Radio 057 (Croatia) playing everything from Soul, Funk, Jazz, Psych Rock, Disco Latin music to Hip Hop and much more.
Laid Back is also a magazine focusing on urban culture. music, art, lifestyle, etc.
http://www.laid-back.be http://www.twitter.com/laidbackradio http://www.mixcloud.com/LaidBackRadio/
This selection is an attempt to introduce you to some of the lost treasures of the very respectable early 80s Nigerian Boogie scene. Enjoy!
Tracklisting :
01. Amas – Slow Down
02. Vicky Edimo – Stormy Monday
03. Kiki Gyan – Feelin Alright
04. Oby Onyioha – Enjoy Your Life
05. Chris Mba – A Little Touch
06. Veno – Nigeria Go Survive
07. Galaxy – Close To You