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Cassette Connection The project covers the popular music edited tape through three of its top global exponents: Awesome Tapes From Africa, DJ K-Sets and Sebcat's Maj Tahal.
Come to the festival on Friday July 25th
In the last 5 years, the cassette has recovered a tiny presence in the music industry independient and not subject to large commercial objectives;
debutantes artists, labels with little capital or simple lovers and tagged format proposed worship limited releases in this format, seeking to recover part of the philosophy that the tape had old and incidentally, earn some exclusivity.
The proliferation of this practice has become widespread, especially in the electronic field, but there are initiatives like Awesome Tapes From Africa that have helped it to become something of value to give to the fact acquiring a cassette.
Take off the feeling of committing insane in this day and age.
Awesome Tapes From America is the work done by the American musicologist Brian Shimkovitz forefront, perhaps the greatest exponent of pinchacasete.
Its two main characteristics is that it puts music cassette only and does African music.
Come to the Sea of Music with Cassette Connection project and accompanied by two of his companions.'s Spanish Dj k-Sets, conduct a detailed work Fear East, and the Belgian Sebcat's Maj Tahal in the Indian subcontinent Friday July 25 at Castle à rabe, at 1 am, in what will be his debut single meeting in our country.
Cassette Connection is a journey through popular music released on cassette tape in Africa, Middle East and Indian Subcontinent by playing a dj set with the original album.
This session consists of a collage approach to playful and emotional baggage of some of the most humble, variegated, dynamic, and sometimes stigmatized-global civil society sectors.
Comprehensively cover such a broad spectrum the conjunction of three homologous projects, developed in the mid of the last decade, on different but interconnected geographic areas was necessary.
The compilation work was performed respectively visiting countries like Nepal, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Ethiopia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, but also because of slums inhabited mainly by people of foreign origin in Europe and the United States.
Awesome Tapes From America began as a blog www.awesometapes.com where today you can hear all the discoveries tape Shimkovitz Brian Africa.
The project began in Musicologist stay in Ghana for an investigation of hiplife, a kind of Ghanaian rap.
From there, his interest in African music grew and grew.
His trips to Africa and cassettes that make them reach their fans across the world have caused Brian has more than 4,000 African music tapes stored.
Manuel Sánchez Cartagena birth is after the name of Dj K-Sets.
Repeat on the Sea of ​​Music after his presence two years ago at the festival as Cinnamoon.
Dj K-Sets cassettes specializes in the Middle East, but has expanded its collection over the years.
On its website www.djk-sets.net can do a musical journey through different parts of the world including Spain through tapes and gypsy music.
MAJ'S TAHAL SEBCAT Finally, Belgian counter-initiative scheduler Bassleer Seb will be in charge of bringing the rhythms of the Indian subcontinent.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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