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Dear Ignorant DJ: STOP Playing “Sweet Home Alabama”
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. […]
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I Am a Nobody Doing Something in the Music Industry
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 […]
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Playlist Revisions
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 […]
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The Evils of Force-fed Music
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 […]
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Review: “Haunting Bazaar” by Teymour Housego with Yves Mesnil
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 […]
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Gypsy Music
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 […]
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Playlist for ProFusion SoundSystem at Queen St Brewhouse, 27 July 2018.
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 […]
Read more Playlist, ProFusion SoundSystem at Queen St. Brewhouse, 29 June.
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 […]
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The Catalog of One of the Most Important Labels in Music History is Now Online
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 […]
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World Fusion Radio on SOAS Radio
It was my great pleasure to sit down with Isuru Perara of SOAS Radio (sponsored by the School of Oriental an African Studies at the University of London) and record this interview. In the 1 hour 55 minute discussion, we […]
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