Those that know me well know that I’m rooting for the geopolitical underdogs to win the FIFA World Cup (I can’t shed politics, yo! And how thrilling would it be to see a European nation get their asses whooped by a country from the Global South?). So what does soccer have to do with music? [...]
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MissRuckus' Top 25 Albums, 2000-2009
01.09.2010 – 3:54 am
How have 10 years gone by so fast? Wasn’t it just last week that we were stashing away emergency rations in our basements, getting all ready for the apocalypse (aka Y2K)? This past decade was an interesting one for me because 2000 marked the actual year that I really began my increasing transition from guitars [...]
Mulatu!
10.21.2009 – 12:51 am
“Vibraphone and keyboard player, master arranger and bandleader, Mulatu Astatke is one of the all-time greats of Ethiopian music and the creator of his own original music form, Ethio jazz. Through the acclaimed Ethiopiques album series and through featuring on the soundtrack to the Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers, his music has belatedly reached a [...]
Ethio jazz meets… hip hop?
09.18.2009 – 3:00 am
One of my favourite artists of all time is the godfather of Ethiopian jazz, Mulatu Astatke, and this 10″ Soundway record of a few old re-releases of the funkier side of his music is one of my favourite records of all time (i.e. I will probably get buried with this record!): This 1998 album of [...]
Today's record haul
07.05.2009 – 10:33 pm
Got some new records today! Now that I have Serato, it’s somewhat harder to decide what I should buy on vinyl, and what I should just get digitally. Well, this is the wax I decided to pick up today (click on album covers to learn more): -MissRuckus
