What are you doing & listening to at the moment?

[Hammoudi]

one the original version by the Clash, then the Rachid Taha version

The song was inspired by Iran, so it's just cool

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_The_Casbah

and Rachid Taha is the man..

Nice song, never heared about it before, but it was cool, specially its message. Really well-done stuff!

About Taha, he is indeed the man. The guy is so underrated and misunderstood. I remember talking with an Algerian friend about him, he thought Taha was a confused guy, 'how can an Algerian sing techno and be punk rock?'

Sadly this is the common perception of Taha in the Middle East. I wish people would dig deeper and learn that this guy was artistically tackling racism and discrimination and fighting for African and immigrants' right since the 80's in France.

Khaled, Mami and Faudel get most attention. Taha was the man for me in 1,2,3 soleils, specially when he sang Menfi (Exiled.) :star:

Waiting for Girlfriends to start. The ghetto Sex and The City?

Watched the show once or twice, my sis likes it, but I thought it didn't bring anything new to the African-American shows, same recycled stuff. Definitely not ghetto S&C, there is nothing ghetto in it (at least from what I saw.)

 

[Handoyo]

I love it! I got two Cinematic Orchestra albums a few weeks ago. I also love Nicola Conte, Four Tet, Koop, De-Phazz, Cibelle, Bonobo...I would go on forever!

Nice to know that you like this genre too.

I'm new to this genre so I don't know any names. Check these out though, these are the tracks I mentioned:

Antonio Carlos Jobim - A felicidade
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Aguas de Marco

I hope you like it.

 

[zip]

Almost sleeping ;~~~~~~

 

[rainBOWstarlite]

Khaled, Mami and Faudel get most attention. Taha was the man for me in 1,2,3 soleils, specially when he sang Menfi (Exiled.) :star:




Watched the show once or twice, my sis likes it, but I thought it didn't bring anything new to the African-American shows, same recycled stuff. Definitely not ghetto S&C, there is nothing ghetto in it (at least from what I saw.)

When I said ghetto, I didn't littrally mean ghetto, I just used it in a stereotypical black way (not in the serious sense if you get what I mean), with Sex and The City being a comedy about the love lives of 4 white friends from NY as opposed to 4 black females from LA.


As for Faudel, Taha & Khaled, Abdel Kader is my favourite from that album. I can remember the day I first heard the song. I was 12 and it was live performance of it on TV5 at the Barcy in Paris. It was back in the day where you couldn't get most international CDs on the internet, plus I was only 12 and I wouldn't have been able to use a credit card, but I went to France a couple of months later on a school trip and we got to go to a shopping mall a couple of hours before we had to get going home. I left all my mates to go to the nearest music store and buy the single. It was sold out but they recommended the album, and unfortunatly I didn't have enougbh money but they recommended a Faudel single, which lead me to become a pretty big Faudel fan. I kind of fancied Taha as well. I know...

 

[rainBOWstarlite]

Nice to know that you like this genre too.

I'm new to this genre so I don't know any names. Check these out though, these are the tracks I mentioned:

Antonio Carlos Jobim - A felicidade
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Aguas de Marco

I hope you like it.

Thanks for the tunes. I'll check them out. It's so cool that you love the Brazilian stuff. I will upload a few songs for you today

 

[rainBOWstarlite]

I just got back from Birmingham about 30 minutes ago. I haven't bene up at this time on a aturday in ages. I went to an all nighter at church, so feleing inspired, of course I had to put some inspirational music on. Hillsong it is

 

[UhUhOleguer]

Nice song, never heared about it before, but it was cool, specially its message. Really well-done stuff!

About Taha, he is indeed the man. The guy is so underrated and misunderstood. I remember talking with an Algerian friend about him, he thought Taha was a confused guy, 'how can an Algerian sing techno and be punk rock?'

Sadly this is the common perception of Taha in the Middle East. I wish people would dig deeper and learn that this guy was artistically tackling racism and discrimination and fighting for African and immigrants' right since the 80's in France.

Khaled, Mami and Faudel get most attention. Taha was the man for me in 1,2,3 soleils, specially when he sang Menfi (Exiled.) :star:

Unfortunately, I didn't understand a single word of what he sang..but it was really cool

But you're right...I have just seen him more from the outside..but his album are most what you would say modern and experimental and in that aspect he is a genius. he crossovers a lot and has many styles and in concert he just seems like really on fire.

generally, creative and new aspects don't get understood by most people. to me, he was the man too and 1,2,3 soleils is probably one of my alltime live albums. just brilliant..


edit:

I just checked the lyrics and it's just the original song translated in Arabic..

ok..

 

[Inter101]

Don't one of you niggas got sickle-cell or something you ****ing with me, nigga ? you **** around and catch a seizure or a heart-attack you better back the **** up before you get smacked the **** up!!!!!!!!! never get tired of listening to dis guy

 

[Hammoudi]

As for Faudel, Taha & Khaled, Abdel Kader is my favourite from that album. I can remember the day I first heard the song. I was 12 and it was live performance of it on TV5 at the Barcy in Paris. It was back in the day where you couldn't get most international CDs on the internet, plus I was only 12 and I wouldn't have been able to use a credit card, but I went to France a couple of months later on a school trip and we got to go to a shopping mall a couple of hours before we had to get going home. I left all my mates to go to the nearest music store and buy the single. It was sold out but they recommended the album, and unfortunatly I didn't have enougbh money but they recommended a Faudel single, which lead me to become a pretty big Faudel fan. I kind of fancied Taha as well. I know...

Ah, I was looking for a happy 'and then I got the album in the nick of time' ending! I had the same problem, back then it was impossible to get it here, but I was lucky that I went to Saudi Arabia that summer and got the album.

Anyway, good to know you are a fan of that epic album!

It's so cool that you love the Brazilian stuff.

Anyone here a Seu Jorge fan? Brazilian music is really cool, I reckon it's because of the variety of musical cultures the country has, I am a fan of music that's a fusion of cultures.

Unfortunately, I didn't understand a single word of what he sang..but it was really cool

But you're right...I have just seen him more from the outside..but his album are most what you would say modern and experimental and in that aspect he is a genius. he crossovers a lot and has many styles and in concert he just seems like really on fire.

generally, creative and new aspects don't get understood by most people. to me, he was the man too and 1,2,3 soleils is probably one of my alltime live albums. just brilliant..


edit:

I just checked the lyrics and it's just the original song translated in Arabic..

ok..

I didn't fair better, I probably understood 10% of the song, but it was still great. BTW, I didn't know Menfi was a translation of the French song, I tried looking around for the French lyrics but no luck.

Also, for some reason, Taha is probably the clearest Raï singer to understand in arabic, Faudel is the worse.

 

[Lamb of God]

im currently listening to atb a long way home on my way to bed soon.peace out

 

[Pajo]

im currently listening to atb a long way home on my way to bed soon.peace out

Nice song there Yav... I love it!

Btw, listening to "Ibiza Power Musc" CD, man I have to go on some party on Ibiza... And I'm drinking coffee...

 

[IbraHimoVic]

Now i'm listening Fort Minor-Remember the name and i'm watching at a compilation with Ibra

 

[rainBOWstarlite]

Anyone here a Seu Jorge fan? Brazilian music is really cool, I reckon it's because of the variety of musical cultures the country has, I am a fan of music that's a fusion of cultures.

Yep. I have the Life Aquatic Soundtrack which is amazing. Better than the original songs. I love the osng about silicone breasts on the Cru album. You have good taste

 

[UhUhOleguer]

I didn't fair better, I probably understood 10% of the song, but it was still great. BTW, I didn't know Menfi was a translation of the French song, I tried looking around for the French lyrics but no luck.

Also, for some reason, Taha is probably the clearest Raï singer to understand in arabic, Faudel is the worse.

Ah..ok..I know Arabic of Saudi Arabia and Arabic of Algeria are two different things almost..and then Rai arabic is again something else even Algerians don't really understand but I thought you had learned that somewhere in France or anywhere else.

 

[Hammoudi]

Yep. I have the Life Aquatic Soundtrack which is amazing. Better than the original songs. I love the osng about silicone breasts on the Cru album. You have good taste

Thanks! BTW, his songs on Life Aquatic are great, but I prefer others ones that I got off Limewire (É isso aí, Mangueira, Te Segura.)

Ah..ok..I know Arabic of Saudi Arabia and Arabic of Algeria are two different things almost..and then Rai arabic is again something else even Algerians don't really understand but I thought you had learned that somewhere in France or anywhere else.

Really? Interesting, never knew that, I just assumed they did understand it. But I know that Rai grew up from Bedouin life in western Algeria, hence why most the stars are from Oran or Tlemcen.

 

[pablito]

listening to the lahme song

 

[UhUhOleguer]

Really? Interesting, never knew that, I just assumed they did understand it. But I know that Rai grew up from Bedouin life in western Algeria, hence why most the stars are from Oran or Tlemcen.

well....a Moroccon guy i met the last days, said that he understands Rai pretty good and somehow, because he learned arabic good, he also understands "mashregh" arabic...but he also lives in Paris.

 

[blackbox_]

hardcore/heavy music plz check out

hey guys im from a hardcore band from aus we played in the nations capital a couple of weeks back and someone has put us on youtube so can u check it out and rate it for me im the singer the quality is pretty shit caus u cant hear much of the music. but just giv me a bit of feed back we would really appreciate it. thanks guys the link is http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blackbox+theatre

u can also check us out at www.myspace.com/blackboxtheatrehc. again plz dont judge us by the quality of our recordings we got f*cked over big time with that haha. cheers guys

 

[Lamb of God]

im currently listening to weird al yankovic white and nerdy its so damn funny the video and the song even better than chamilionaires ridin.im gonna do same errands soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkKuZk1f1ZI

 

[snake]

hey guys im from a hardcore band from aus we played in the nations capital a couple of weeks back and someone has put us on youtube so can u check it out and rate it for me im the singer the quality is pretty shit caus u cant hear much of the music. but just giv me a bit of feed back we would really appreciate it. thanks guys the link is http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blackbox+theatre

u can also check us out at www.myspace.com/blackboxtheatrehc. again plz dont judge us by the quality of our recordings we got f*cked over big time with that haha. cheers guys

Not bad mate.

To be honest though its hard to understand most of it due to the quality however it looks as if you guys show some decent character up there.

Ill give you guys an add on my space.