What’s up Planet Ill fam!
It’s time for the latest Indiesent Exposure installment, Planet Ill’s weekly music column where I drop some quality music downloads & info about quality independent music artists of different genres who deserve serious credit for keeping things lively & original in the music world.
Indiesent Exposure, post by post, aims to give your ears some respite from some of the daily audio wackness that bombards the masses through the mainstream radio’s definitions of Hip-Hop, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Rock, Reggae, House, World Music, etc.
If you like what you hear & download, PLEASE support (monetarily and otherwise) these artists as much as you can in the future – hit up their websites, purchase some product, go to their shows, etc.
I’m doing a little bit of a different mode of operation for this week’s Indiesent Exposure music selections – going to hit heads with some sample episodes of one the Best of Independent Radio Shows that supports old & new school indie international music artists from their area of the globe and beyond.
Whenever you have the chance, please let all of the talented Indiesent Exposure artists and the Planet Ill crew know what you think of the music in our comments section!
Let’s get into it – download, sit back relax & hope you enjoy everything:
World Passport
http://EthnoMusic.podomatic.com
World Passport is a fantastic resource of old and new school International Music that has been in effect since 2006.
Maintained by teacher, curator and musician Kalil Wilson, this podcast of 1 hour episodes is literally jam packed with worldwide grooves that range from Salsa to Son, Highlife to Hawaian Music, AfroBeat to AfroJazz and everything in between.
A listener could literally zone out on the more mellow shows and/or get their serious dance party on for days off the diverse and fascinating song selections in the podcast archives as well as probably make iTunes or Amazon rich after fulfilling the yearning to cop music from the artists on display.
For people who like to hear what people are grooving to in other countries and languages as well as music history fans, the joints from World Passport should most definitely be pumping in your own personal International Sound System ASAP.
Kompa Direk (No. 1)
Kompa is a musical genre as well as a dance that originated in Haïti. The name is derived from compas, the Spanish word meaning rhythm or tone.
Sung in Haïtian Creole/Patois, Kompa is a uniquely Haïtian musical form, however it does closely share musical attributes in common with it’s neighbors; Dominican Merengue, Cuban Son, Puerto Rican Bomba, and West African/Caribbean Highlife/Calypso. Typically Kompa can be recognized by it’s fast paced rhythm driven by a trap set (heavy use of symbols and snares), congas, tambourine and guiro.
The music is commonly arranged around a verse and chorus pattern which alternates between major and minor keys for each section. Swift staccato or arpeggiated double guitar backing is another trademark of the genre with the solo instrument of choice being some sort of single reeded soundsource; usually saxophone, harmonica, accordion/concertina or electronically synthesized versions fo these instruments.
Big up Haiti!
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Preview:
Tracklisting:
1. Coupé Cloué – Gros Bambou
2. Les Shleu-Shleu – Aïe Tiou Aïe
3. Les Difficiles De Petion-Ville – Téléphone
4. Tabou Combo – Ney York City Pt. 1 & 2
5. Les Difficiles De Petion-Ville – Ce La Vie
6. L’Ensemble Nemours Jean-Baptiste – Robe Entraveaprann rinmin
7. Les Difficiles De Petion-Ville – Mesdame Yo
8. Les Shleu-Shleu – Tambour Shleu-Shleu Frapé
9. DBS Presents Cadence Gold – Unknown Groove
10. Coupé Cloué – Net Alcole
11. L’ensemble Nemours Jean-Baptiste – La Discipline
12. Les Shleu-Shleu – Douceur De La Vie
Salsa Para Gozar (No. 13)
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Preview:
Tracklisting:
1. Agustin Arce – Despierta Emilia
2. Roberto Roena – Traición
3. Al Santiago – Con Sandunga
4. Rolando Laserie – Capullito De Aleli
5. Ismael Miranda – Naci Para Cantar
6. Ismael Rivera – El Nazareno
7. Willie Rosario – El Flamboyan
8. La Sonora Poncena – Mayeya
9. Eddie Palmieri, Ismael Quintana, Lalo Rodriguez – Tirandote Flores
10. La Sonora Poncena – Boranda (Real Version)
11. Alexandre Pires Ft. Orquesta Colon – Pedro Simon
12. Apollo Sound – Unknown Groove (Lp Track 8)
13. Adolfo Echeverria – Fantasia Marina
14. Willie Colon Y Hector Lavoe – El Todo Poderoso
O Hawai’i Nei (No. 1)
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Preview:
Tracklisting:
1. Ktuh Manoa Music Library – Ku’u Apai (Song of Welcome)
2. George Kainapau – O Mauna Kea
3. Alfred Apaka – Hawaiian Wedding Song
4. Ktuh Manoa Music Library – Unknown Groove
5. Linda Dela Cruz – E Mama E
6. Marlene Sai – Ku Kuna Okala
7. Ktuh Manoa Music Library – Unknown Groove
8. Ktuh Manoa Music Library – Unknown Groove
9. Lena Machado – Ho’onanea
10. Ktuh Manoa Music Library – E Mama E
11. Charles Kaipua and his Happy Hawaiians – My Yellow Ginger Lei
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DJ Fusion is the creator and co-host/mix DJ of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast (http://fuseboxradio.podomatic.com/ for the radio show archives) and the website BlackRadioIsBack.com, two areas trying to fight audio B.S. one day at a time…check folks out around either way when you can. 🙂
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