awesome tapes from africa

I can't get on this site at work. Any idea why "Websense SEX is filtered?"

I need to catch up on the site a bit too. The Kweysha Seta tape he posted Jan 6, 2011, is a favorite. Just alien, wild. Highly highly recommend.

this sounds...awesome

The next Awesome Tapes From Africa LP release is by Hailu Mergia, the Ethiopian one-man-band accordion/keyboardist extraordinaire. Hailu made his name in Walias Band and later went on to do some visionary solo recordings. Hailu Mergia's beautiful and surprising 1985 foray into traditional Ethiopian songs via analog synth, electric piano and accordion has been remastered and will be available June 25 on LP/CD/MP3/C60.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dXvJQugYsfU/UY2Bg6k5brI/AAAAAAAABf4/5n-sxL56Cyg/s400/ATFA006_art_web.jpg

ATFA event in Toronto got cancelled after accusations of racism for all-white DJ line-up

Story about the cancellation:
http://www.chartattack.com/news/2014/01/24/awesome-tapes-from-africa-show-toronto-cancelled/

Response from the organizer, dude who runs the DIY venue and was to be one of the DJ's:
http://www.doubledoubleland.com/tldr.html

hmm, i'm curious what people here think of all this.

the last graf of that chartattack.com blog post seems like a desperate non-sequitir to me

Both the article and the response get pretty muddled, but I think there's actually lots to think about with this. It's too bad it's so hard for people to talk about race.

ATFA event in Toronto got cancelled after accusations of racism for all-white DJ line-up

― brio, Friday, March 28, 2014 2:13 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my only response seeing this is lol

incidentally, i'm going to a thing tonight where mr. awesome tapes is dj'ing.

this actually would all have been solved had they advertised it as "mr. awesome tapes is back"