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The music industry has received permission from the U.S. government to double the special tax they place on Internet radio stations, retroactive to the beginning of 2021. It is the latest salvo in the corporate music industry’s long war to kill off non-corporate Internet radio stations. I’ve run an Internet […]
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My wife and I were at a recent street festival in Prague, Czech Republic. A DJ was playing standard mainstream music for the masses when suddenly the distinctive opening riff of Lynard Skynard peeled out from the loudspeakers. We groaned. “They have no clue what this song means,” my wife […]
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You don’t know my name. Much of that is my fault—I am not one to put my own name out there. It’s “Douglas” by the way. But I have been a radio DJ for 21 years and have run World Fusion Radio.com for 16 years. I inhabit a small, isolated […]
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The March 2019 playlist updates mark the biggest revisions in what is played on World Fusion Radio in over four years. Taking into account listener feedback, I have gone through every song on Global Chillout and recategorized them. I moved some songs to World Revolutions, some to Moonlight Meditations, and […]
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My spouse and I recently traveled for 47 days through 12 cities in 8 different countries. So many different sights, people, foods… And the same, damn force-fed music. Most restaurants, stores, and other public places we passed through on our journey inflicted piped-in music on their customers. I would say […]
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Haunting Bazaar by Teymour Housego with Yves Mesnil Co-composed with French guitarist and singer Yves Mesnil. Haunting Bazaar reflects Indian flautist Teymour Housego’s personal musical journey. The album fuses together the sounds Teymour grew up with as a boy in India with the sounds he picked up through the decade […]
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A rather underappreciated genre of world music is variously known as gypsy or sometimes less accurately Balkan music. Gypsy, because much of it musical forms derive from Romani, more commonly known as “gypsy,” culture. Balkan, because those forms have influenced much of the music from that region. Like all genres […]
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18:34:19 – Fi Perspective – El Tango 18:39:55 – Tango Fusion Club – Hablando Tango 18:43:31 – Henry Mancini – The Tango I Saved For You (Zeb’s The Tango I Stole From You Remix 18:48:32 – DJ Turok – Crazy Tango 18:52:01 – Gotan Project – Santa Maria 18:57:48 – […]
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It was a not summer night so I concentrated on music from the tropics. Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder – Gomni Songhoy Blues – Petit Metier The Bhundu Boys – Hatisitose Habib Koité & Eric Bibb – Foro Bana Mamani Keita – Dougale William Onyeabor – Love Is Blind […]
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Revolutions are not televised. Revolutions are not covered by newspapers. But revolutions leave their mark and leave a legacy. One revolution in music happened in England in the 1990s — the Asian Underground, partly captured in the documentaries Pardesi and Buy More Incense. The young rebel artists of the Asian […]
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