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		<title>Mr. Raoul K: The African Government (Blog)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille Larbey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/shic-post-thumbnail/6sB2nz.jpg'/><p>Un titre afro-techno à télécharger. Cool Raoul. </p>]]></description>
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<p>D&#8217;origine ivoirienne, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/mrraoulk" target="_blank">Mr. Raoul K</a>, alias Raoul Konan, immigre en Allemagne en 1992 <em>&#8220;pour raisons politiques et parce qu&#8217;aussi je n&#8217;avais aucune autre perspective&#8221;</em> explique-t-il. Il débarque à Hambourg et entreprend une formation de charpentier. A l&#8217;été 1997, il défile dans les rues de Berlin avec un million d&#8217;autres technoïdes à piercings et baggys à franges durant la Love Parade. Là, sa vocation est immédiate: il veut être DJ. <em> </em>Avec sa première paye de charpentier, il s&#8217;offre une paire de platines et commence à mixer. Mais c&#8217;est en 2003, au cours d&#8217;un stage de trois mois dans un studio bordelais, qu&#8217;il va réellement apprendre toutes les ficelles du parfait producteur de musiques électroniques.</p>
<p>En 2007, il saute le pas et monte son label <a href="http://www.myspace.com/baobabm" target="_blank">Baobab Music</a>, sur lequel ne sort que ses propres productions. Son premier EP, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROSVnan-daw" target="_blank"><em>Le Cercle Peul</em></a><em> </em>ne passe pas inaperçu et emballe la critique. Quand d&#8217;autres DJs vont se référer aux grands noms de la techno, Mr. Raoul K. préfère citer <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fela_Kuti" target="_blank">Fela Kuti</a>, <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toumani_Diabat%C3%A9" target="_blank">Toumani Diabaté</a> et <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Farka_Tour%C3%A9" target="_blank">Ali Farka Touré</a>. Il met d&#8217;ailleurs un point d&#8217;honneur à inviter des musiciens &#8211; guinéens, maliens, sénégalais, ivoiriens, nigérians -  à jouer de la <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kora" target="_blank">kora</a>, du <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%27goni" target="_blank">n&#8217;goni</a>, du <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balafon" target="_blank">balafon</a> et des <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabar" target="_blank">sabars</a> sur ses morceaux.</p>
<p>Son premier LP, <em>Introducing My World</em>, est prévu pour le 16 mai et sort chez <a href="http://www.mulemusiq.com/" target="_blank">Mule Musiq</a>, un label japonais. On parie qu&#8217;on pourra le ranger entre <a href="http://www.myspace.com/culoedsong" target="_blank">Culoe De Song</a> et le <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsAsM5CCoWg&amp;feature=related" target="_blank"><em>I Exist Because of You</em></a> d&#8217;<a href="http://www.myspace.com/henrikschwarz" target="_blank">Henrik Schwarz</a>. En attendant, le titre<em> The</em> <em>African Government</em> est d&#8217;ores et déjà téléchargeable par <a href="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/02%20The%20African%20Government.mp3" target="_blank">ici</a> ou en écoute ci-dessous.</p>
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		<title>Sofrito: Tropical Discotheque (Blog)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clément Mathon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/shic-post-thumbnail/mCvK.png'/><p>Le duo anglais accros aux tropiques fait son entrée dans le monde du disque. Ecoute!</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-large wp-image-12721" title="sofrito-front-web_lg" src="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/sofrito-front-web_lg-588x582.jpg" alt="" width="371" height="366" />En 2005, Hugo Mendez et Frankie Francis lancent leurs soirées Tropical Warehouse à East London. Aujourd&#8217;hui maqués avec le disquaire <a href="http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/" target="_blank">Souljazz</a> (à qui l&#8217;on doit les excellentes compilations sur la No Wave, sur <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_One" target="_blank">Studio One</a>, ou plus récemment sur le Krautrock), ces deux <em>crate diggers</em> des tropiques sortent <a href="http://sofrito.co.uk/" target="_blank"><em>Sofrito</em></a> (du nom de la tambouille espagnole à la tomate): 15 titres faisant (selon eux) le pont entre l&#8217;Afrique, l&#8217;Amérique du Sud, et les Caraïbes&#8230;</p>
<p>Le pitch laisse perplexe et mériterait, à l&#8217;instar des compilations de leurs cousins de Souljazz, un peu d&#8217;explications histoire de mettre d&#8217;ordre dans ce gloubi boulga transcontinental. On salue néanmoins la sélection ici en écoute.</p>
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		<title>Radioclit Presents: The Sound of Club Secousse Vol. 1 (Blog)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Rozec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/shic-post-thumbnail/QDArL.jpg'/><p>Ecoute exclusive de la compil signée par les artisans de The Very Best.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cram171_Radioclit_cover_hires.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-11006" title="DA1X12XB_4secousse10.eps" src="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cram171_Radioclit_cover_hires-284x254.jpg" alt="" width="284" height="254" /></a>Les deux têtes pensantes de <a href="http://www.myspace.com/radioclit" target="_blank">Radioclit</a> ont définitivement trouvé leur niche.</p>
<p>Après le succès rencontré par leur projet <a href="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/the-very-best-interview/" target="_blank">The Very Best</a>, Etienne Tron et Johan &#8220;Hugo&#8221; Karlberg poursuivent leur exploration des nouvelles scènes africaines avec cette compilation, qui sort le 2 novembre chez <a href="http://www.crammed.be" target="_blank">Crammed Discs</a>, le très cosmopolite label belge.</p>
<p>Ce premier volume de <em>The Sound of Club Secousse</em> est en réalité une sorte de best-of des titres passés par le duo lors de leurs sessions de mixs surchauffées.</p>
<p>Lancées en 2008, les soirées <em><a href="http://www.secousse.org" target="_blank">Secousse</a></em> sont vite devenues l&#8217;emblème de la génération electro-world, fascinée par les mélanges électro produits aux quatres coins du monde par des DJs réinventant, chacun à leur manière, la musique traditionnelle qui avait bercé leur enfance.</p>
<p>Les 17 titres de cette compil brassent un très large éventail de genres : on passe du kuduro angolais de <a href="http://www.myspace.com/putopratakuduro" target="_blank">Puto Prata</a> au coupé décalé ivoirien de <a href="http://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CB4QFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myspace.com%2Fmagicsystemofficiel&amp;ei=EAfITOnjNY7KjAf4oLA_&amp;usg=AFQjCNHQyilcKuVgfIaS8RcX9qkKt_TZ2Q&amp;sig2=0IJUvCdc48Gac9nJnM2X1Q" target="_blank">Magic System</a>, tout en faisant des détours par le soukouss congolais de <a href="http://www.musicme.com/Lutchiana/" target="_blank">Lutchiana</a> ou le funana capverdien avec <a href="http://www.google.fr/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=3&amp;ved=0CCgQFjAC&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.we7.com%2Fartist%2FNaty-Kid&amp;ei=QAfITJDzH93NjAfB8uA4&amp;usg=AFQjCNHEghLRAmSWyYf-X1W7stTlaflvQA&amp;sig2=XPhVeX6ZSpHC6ZqmHvc1Jg" target="_blank">Naty Kid</a>.</p>
<p>On pourrait dérouler comme ça toute la liste des incursions géographiques de <em>Secousse</em>, mais, le mieux, c&#8217;est encore d&#8217;écouter:</p>
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<p>Pour commander le disque, c&#8217;est <a href="http://crammed.greedbag.com/buy/radioclit-presents-the-sound-of-1/" target="_blank">par ici</a>.</p>
<p>Et si vous voulez voir Radioclit à l&#8217;oeuvre, la prochaine soirée <em>Secousse</em> aura lieu à Paris, le 11 novembre, au Divan du Monde.</p>
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		<title>The Very Best (Videos)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Rozec</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/shic-post-thumbnail/Garw2.jpg'/><p>L'Afrique, c'est chic.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-8590" title="The+Very+Best+Esau+Mwamwaya++Radioclit+The+Very+Best" src="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/The+Very+Best+Esau+Mwamwaya++Radioclit+The+Very+Best-284x202.jpg" alt="" width="284" height="202" />La mauvaise idée, quand on parle avec <a href="http://www.myspace.com/theverybestmyspace" target="_blank">The Very Best</a>, c&#8217;est de leur suggérer qu&#8217;ils font de la musique africaine vue par des Occidentaux, et qu&#8217;ils sont partis se chercher une crédibilité en embauchant  un chanteur du cru.</p>
<p>Ca va beaucoup les agacer, parce que c&#8217;est totalement faux.</p>
<p>The Very Best, c&#8217;est une histoire d&#8217;exil. Pas le genre fuite forcée pour échapper à la main de fer d&#8217;un régime oppresseur, ni même le genre fugue adolescente loin de papa-maman-qui-ne-me-comprennent-pas.</p>
<p>Non, c&#8217;est tout simplement la rencontre de trois jeunes mecs venus à Londres pour voir un peu ce qu&#8217;il s&#8217;y faisait.</p>
<p>Esau Mwamwaya, né au Malawi, vient y découvrir cette musique anglo-saxonne qu&#8217;il ne connaît que par les nombreux disques que possède son père. Etienne Tron, Parisien, issu de la bande de <a href="http://www.myspace.com/inbedwithttc" target="_blank">TTC</a>, est là pour bosser chez <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bigdadarecords" target="_blank">Big Dada</a>, et se lancer dans la production. Johan Karlberg, hip-hop kid suédois, vient vivre dans les squats avec ses potes.</p>
<p>Les deux derniers se rencontrent par hasard, et décident de former le duo <a href="http://www.myspace.com/radioclit" target="_blank">Radioclit</a>. S&#8217;en suivent quelques prods pour <a href="http://www.myspace.com/mia" target="_blank">M.I.A.</a> &#8211; alors toujours maquée à <a href="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/diplo/" target="_blank">Diplo</a>, grand pote d&#8217;Etienne -, <a href="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/vampire-weekend/" target="_blank">Vampire Weekend</a> ou <a href="http://www.myspace.com/santigold" target="_blank">Santigold</a>.</p>
<p>Et c&#8217;est une nouvelle fois par un hasard complet qu&#8217;ils croisent la route d&#8217;Esau, batteur-chanteur parfaitement inconnu, et qu&#8217;ils lancent The Very Best avec un premier morceau, &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR4BnNOAe7g" target="_blank">Tengazako</a>&#8220;, remix-reprise du &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sei-eEjy4g" target="_blank">Paper Planes</a>&#8221; de M.I.A.</p>
<p>Carton immédiat. Ils s&#8217;attaquent alors à l&#8217;écriture de leurs premiers morceaux, de leur première mixtape, puis de l&#8217;album &#8220;Warm Heart of Africa&#8221;, bric à brac total et réjouissant, ni Africain, ni Européen, mais &#8220;world&#8221; au sens premier du terme : sans frontières.</p>
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		<title>Fool&#8217;s Gold (Blog)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pais</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/shic-post-thumbnail/D0PoxE.jpg'/><p>Notre sujet interview/live, traduit en français.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-large wp-image-5995" title="foolsgold" src="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/foolsgold-588x414.jpg" alt="" width="412" height="290" />En février dernier, The Drone publiait un <a href="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/fools-gold/" target="_blank">sujet</a> sur ce groupe de la taille d&#8217;une équipe de foot qui, marchant sur les pas de <a href="http://www.davidbyrne.com/" target="_blank">David Byrne</a>, tentent de réhabiliter ce que les trous du cul appellent la World.<span id="more-5985"></span></p>
<p>Mais comme personne n&#8217;avait compris ce que leur chanteur Luke Top racontait en anglais, voici la V.F.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/foolsgold" target="_blank">Myspace.</a></p>
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		<title>Konono N°1: Assume Crash Position (Blog)</title>
		<link>http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/konono-n%c2%b01-assume-crash-position/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clément Mathon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/shic-post-thumbnail/jVbLSN.jpg'/><p>Piano à pouce, couvercles de casseroles, pièces de voitures: nouveau Konono en écoute!</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-4100" title="Konono_album" src="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Konono_album1.jpg" alt="" width="310" height="265" />Toujours signé sur l&#8217;écurie belge de <a href="http://www.crammed.be/" target="_blank">Crammed Discs</a> (Staff Benda Bilili, Megafaun&#8230;), Konono est passé en l&#8217;espace de 6 ans des rues de Kinshasa, aux tournées internationales. <span id="more-4095"></span>Invités par Björk sur son album &#8220;Earth Intruders&#8221;, ou nominés aux Grammy Awards, ces boss du &#8220;piono à pouces&#8221; sortent ce mois-ci leur sixième album, &#8220;Assume Crash Position&#8221;.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/konononr1" target="_blank">Myspace</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.crammed.be/index.php?id=34&amp;art_id=77" target="_blank">Les dates de la tournée</a> (France, Etats-Unis&#8230;)</p>
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		<title>Yeasayer: Remix Contest (Blog)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clément Mathon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/shic-post-thumbnail/44uca.png'/><p>After raising funds to Uganda, remix the band for a Traktor Scratch Pro</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="topspin-widget topspin-widget-bundle-widget"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3508" title="yeasayer" src="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/yeasayer-284x213.jpg" alt="" width="284" height="213" />A month ago, Brooklyn-based Yeasayer offered a bunch of goodies in exchange of your financial donnations for them to go to Uganda, which is probably the biggest joke of the year. They gathered 22 grands for their little journey to Africa, which prupose was to learn about the effects of the Ugandan civil war. Think what that money would have fixed over there for kids involved in it! Instead of paying for sending hypsters to African History class.</div>
<div class="topspin-widget topspin-widget-bundle-widget">Today the band launches a remix contest of the song O.N.E. from the album Odd Blood. On Mad Decent&#8217;s website, who&#8217;s organizing the competition, you can read that &#8220;the winners are determined by public voting [...] so it&#8217;s up to you as the creator to promote your mix&#8221;.<span id="more-3500"></span></div>
<div class="topspin-widget topspin-widget-bundle-widget">I just want to make sure everyone reads this right: so it&#8217;s up to you as a fan to promote the band.</div>
<h1><a href="http://remix.maddecent.com/login.aspx" target="_blank">REGISTER HERE</a></h1>
<div class="topspin-widget topspin-widget-bundle-widget"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/yeasayer" target="_self">Myspace</a></div>
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		<title>Fool&#8217;s Gold (Videos)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pais</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/shic-post-thumbnail/UCw82d.jpg'/><p>We bless the rains down in Africaaaaa.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2580" title="Fools Gold" src="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/l_0559a3d8dd62495ba06486f759a52f56-284x189.jpg" alt="" width="284" height="189" />I hate world music. This is not me saying it but <a href="http://www.davidbyrne.com" target="_blank">David Byrne</a>, in this <a href="http://www.davidbyrne.com/news/press/articles/I_hate_world_music_1999.php" target="_blank">great article he wrote in 99 for The NY Times</a>. Byrne complained about the fact that albums by Os Mutantes, Fela Kuti or Ravi Shankar are racked together just because they are made by non-western musicians. It&#8217;s such an easy way out for westerners to label whatever seems exotic to them as world music, the same way someone would say &#8220;Oh I love african music&#8221; like it would mean anything specific.</p>
<p>Ten years after David Byrne&#8217;s article, Fool&#8217;s Gold&#8217;s album must be a total mind fuck for record store managers. Where does this music belong: it&#8217;s made in L.A, inspired by Ethiopian grooves, Highlife, Touareg Blues à la Tinariwen, with hebrew lyrics?<span id="more-2577"></span></p>
<p>If you judge the band by the amount of people in it, Fool&#8217;s Gold is practically a soccer team. This multi-cultural collective was created by singer Luke Top and guitarist Lewis Pesacov after they found that they share the same interest for what morons call world music. When it comes to Fool&#8217;s Gold eclectic, danceable songs, the world eventually becomes a smaller and better place where people would finally treat music by The Smiths and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRcCLz4sLWE" target="_blank">King Sunny Ade</a> as equal. There is hope.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/foolsgold" target="_blank">Myspace</a></p>
<p>Live shot @ <a href="http://www.pointephemere.org/" target="_blank">Point Ephemere, Paris.</a></p>
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		<title>Vampire Weekend (Videos)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clément Mathon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/shic-post-thumbnail/kyL6xS.jpg'/><p>Sustainable development.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2068" title="vampire weekend picture on a couch" src="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/vampire_weekend1-284x213.jpg" alt="" width="284" height="213" />It&#8217;s been a couple of months since New York-based <a href="http://www.vampireweekend.com/" target="_blank">Vampire Weekend</a> announced the release of their second album, &#8220;Contra&#8221;, which can be found in stores as from today! Since their eponymous debut album in 2008, their redigested &#8220;third-world&#8221; type of sound (from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlife" target="_blank">highlife</a>, to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropicalismo" target="_blank">tropicalia</a>) has provoked lots of questions about the guilt-issue that they face as westerners playing African-inspired music.</p>
<p>Although the band had stated their clean-guitar sound was a reaction to the post-grunge fuzz dictat, this new opus seems to be answering the class/genre/race question more accurately than ever. &#8220;I&#8217;m glad we get that kind of question, but everyone should be answering those. Ask Jay-Z!&#8221;, says frontman Ezra Koenig.</p>
<p>If you liked the first opus, you&#8217;ll realise that &#8220;Contra&#8221; is more focused on Ezra&#8217;s personnal struggle with social status and with his own privileged background than some kind of obsession with pillaging African culture.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/vampireweekend">LISTEN TO THE WHOLE ALBUM ON MYSPACE.</a></p>
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		<title>Culoe De Song (Blog)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clément Mathon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/shic-post-thumbnail/tMwfY.jpg'/><p>Minimal Techno in South Africa.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1837" title="Culoe de Song press photo" src="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1258Culoe-de-Song-284x208.jpg" alt="Culoe de Song press photo" width="227" height="166" />Born in South Africa&#8217;s East Coast, Culolethu Zulu aka <a href="http://www.myspace.com/culoedsong" target="_blank">Culoe De Song</a> was unveiled at the 08&#8242; Red Bull Academy which he got out of his country for the 1st time for. Now here comes a one hour-long mix (on this <a href="http://bit.ly/8pRczW" target="_blank">rapidshare link</a>).<span id="more-1833"></span></p>
<p>You&#8217;ll be the judge.</p>
<p>Interview <a href="http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=146" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Vampire Weekend: Cousins (Update) (Blog)</title>
		<link>http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/vampire-weekend-cousins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clément Mathon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/shic-post-thumbnail/vVq7YX.jpg'/><p>I shot the Web Sheriff</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1461" title="Ezra Koenig from Vapire Weekend playing" src="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/VW-284x188.jpg" alt="Ezra Koenig from Vapire Weekend playing" width="284" height="188" />All we had so far was the song Horchata streaming on their <a href="http://www.vampireweekend.com/" target="_blank">website</a>. Today, <a href="http://www.myspace.com/vampireweekend" target="_blank">Vampire Weekend </a>is releasing the first music video from their upcoming album Contra. The Drone has already filmed and interviewed singer Ezra Koenig talking about the new album. The story is to be released in January too.<span id="more-1460"></span></p>
<p>The song is digitally out on <a href="http://www.xlrecordings.com/vampireweekend" target="_blank">XL</a> and will come out on 7&#8243; on December 15 and its video is directed by <a href="http://www.tongsville.com/" target="_blank">Garth Jennings</a> (Fatboy Slim, R.E.M., Supergrass).</p>
<p>Previous video was of course removed by the Web Sheriff, it still available at <a href="http://mtvu.com" target="_blank">mtvu.com</a></p>
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		<title>Nollywood: between Bolly and Holly (Blog)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clément Mathon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/shic-post-thumbnail/e2L2lv.jpg'/><p>The Palme d'Or Goes To Nigeria.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1272" title="Pieter Hugo photo" src="http://www.the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/nollywood_04-284x283.jpg" alt="Pieter Hugo photo" width="284" height="283" />Fela Kuti&#8217;s drummer Tony Allen had enlisted him for the cover of his compilation <a href="http://www.discogs.com/Various-Lagos-Shake-A-Tony-Allen-Chop-Up/release/1353495" target="_blank">&#8220;Lagos Shake&#8221;</a> last Year, with a picture taken from his series <a href="http://www.pieterhugo.com/selected-work/the-hyena-other-men/4.jpg/" target="_blank">&#8220;The Hyena and Other Men&#8221;</a> .<span id="more-1267"></span></p>
<p>In 2009, 33 years-old south-african photographer <a href="http://www.pieterhugo.com/" target="_blank">Pieter Hugo</a> headed to Abuja, Nigeria to focus on what&#8217;s become the 2nd largest movie industry in the world releasing up to 2500 movies a year: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Nigeria" target="_blank">Nollywood</a>.</p>
<p>Ahead of Hollywood, and behind Bollywood, it produces movies on its own terms (worth over $2.3 billion as of 2008), telling stories that appeal to and reflect the lives of its public: it is a rare instance of self-representation on such a scale in Africa.</p>
<p>Check out the Nollywood series <a href="http://www.pieterhugo.com/selected-work/nollywood/nollywoodescort.jpg/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</p>
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		<title>Mahjongg (Videos)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Clément Mathon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/shic-post-thumbnail/qdSXC8.jpg'/><p>Their god: "Kontpab ". Their ideal: "The Sphere".</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1022" title="mahjongg" src="http://the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/mahjongg1-284x189.jpg" alt="mahjongg" width="284" height="189" />Today, eight years after the band&#8217;s formation, we can pretty much state that <span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%;"><a href="http://www.myspace.com/machinegong" target="_blank">Mahjonng</a></span> were pioneers of the Y2K era music scene, <span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%;">succeeding</span> in bridging the gap between dance and rock.  But unlike the rest of their fellow dance-<span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%;">punkers </span>such as the Raptures or LCD Sound System, this four-piece from Columbia, Missouri, never thought twice about pulling it off.</p>
<p>Since their relocation to Chicago in 2004, vocalist Hunter <span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%;">Husar</span> and his buddies have cultivated a certain air of mystery that keeps audiences on their toes.  Named after the famous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahjong">chinese game</a> that was imported to the West at the end of the 19th century, <span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%;">Mahjongg</span> released their second full-length record, <em>Kontpab</em>, last year.  It was immediately dubbed as a &#8216;concept album&#8217;, with a title that sprang from a fusion of the German expression &#8216;kontra-punkte&#8217;, meaning &#8216;counterpoint&#8217; and the word &#8216;pab&#8217; which roughly translates as&#8230; &#8216;spam&#8217;.For the band members <em>Kontpab</em> personified a <span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%;">deity</span> that they collectively worshiped; the nine-track album <span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%;">representing</span>their spiritual journey from &#8216;The Grid&#8217; to &#8216;The Sphere&#8217;, and thus the Kontpab myth was born&#8230;</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, the record appealed to Olympia-based musician and producer <a href="http://www.kpunk.com/html/artists/artistbio.php?interest=62" target="_blank">Calvin Johnson</a> (Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System) who is known for his eclectic taste for sub-indie experimentation.But that&#8217;s enough chitchat: let&#8217;s hear it from <span style="background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-position: 0% 0%;">Mahjongg</span>.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1025" title="Mahjongg album cover" src="http://the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Mahjongg-album-cover-284x287.jpg" alt="Mahjongg album cover" width="284" height="287" />- <a href="http://www.krecs.com/mahjongg/kontpab/" target="_blank">Listen to the whole album on the label&#8217;s band page here.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.krecs.com/mahjongg/kontpab/"></a><br />
- <a href="http://www.myspace.com/machinegong" target="_blank">Enjoy the autostereogram (cool 3D visual illusion) on their myspace page here.</a></p>
<p>This was filmed at the Mizmiz Restaurant</p>
 
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		<title>Sir Victor Uwaifo (Blog)</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Pais</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-756" title="sir victor uwaifo soundway cover" src="http://the-drone.com/magazine/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/sir-victor-uwaifo_guitar-boy-superstar-284x284.jpg" alt="sir victor uwaifo soundway cover" width="284" height="284" /><a href="http://soundway.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/sndwcd012-sir-victor-uwaifo-guitar-boy-superstar-1970-76/" target="_blank">Sir Victor Uwaifo</a> was born in Benin City, Nigeria in 1941. At a very young age, this genius guitarist had a strange encounter with a &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mami_Wata" target="_blank">Mami Wata</a>&#8221;  (mermaid) who told him: &#8220;Guitar Boy! Eeh, if you see Mami Wata, never you run away.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Guitar Boy and Mamiwater&#8221; became a huge hit in 1966. Then &#8220;Joromi&#8221; won him the first gold record in Africa.<span id="more-755"></span></p>
<p>According to his impressive <a href="http://www.victoruwaifo.com/biography.htm" target="_blank">online C.V</a>:</p>
<p>&#8220;Sir Victor Uwaifo does not only plays the guitar with his fingers, which is normal, but also with his jaw, his toes, his teeth, from behind his neck and back which are unusual, then, he spins the guitar 360 degrees suspending in the air with amazing speed faster than sound in a phenomenon.</p>
<p>The total duration of his recorded repertoires can play non stop for one month uninterrupted, the recorded tape can stretch across Africa from Egypt to Cape-town. His fame cuts across generation gap ethnic  barriers and has become a household name in Nigeria and beyond.</p>
<p>Victor Uwaifo, the Living Legend, twanging of the guitar in quick successions, the up-and-down strokes by hand on the strings have exceeded 5 million kilometers accumulated length measured at an average speed of 10 strokes per second and combined with the movement of the left had to and fro on the guitar neck are long enough to go round the planet earth.&#8221;</p>
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