I was enjoying the Bebey comp until I got to the song where he goes on about beating his wife for not obeying him :(
This is a great recent Awesome Tape: http://www.awesometapes.com/2012/04/manka-le-phallang-mokhosi-side-1.html
― NSFW Australia (seandalai), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 10:58 (twelve years ago) link
I heard him play his cassettes live a little while back in W. DC. It was great. He has a label now, that has re-released two tapes.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
I can't get on this site at work. Any idea why "Websense SEX is filtered?"
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
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
― mizzell, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
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
― brio, Friday, 28 March 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
hmm, i'm curious what people here think of all this.
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 28 March 2014 21:29 (ten years ago) link
the last graf of that chartattack.com blog post seems like a desperate non-sequitir to me
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 28 March 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
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.
― brio, Friday, 28 March 2014 21:33 (ten years ago) link
― brio, Friday, March 28, 2014 2:13 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my only response seeing this is lol
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 28 March 2014 21:50 (ten years ago) link
incidentally, i'm going to a thing tonight where mr. awesome tapes is dj'ing.
― the pursuit of ha'pennies (get bent), Friday, 28 March 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
this actually would all have been solved had they advertised it as "mr. awesome tapes is back"
― espring (amateurist), Saturday, 29 March 2014 02:39 (ten years ago) link