Dourfestival 2012 - Mixcloud sets

Dourfestival is starting tomorrow! Best festival in Belgium, in my opinion, that made me discover real music 12 years ago. Electro, dubstep, reggae, hip hop, indie, and lots more. Voted best festival in the world for discoveries by LastFM users this year, it partnered with Mixcloud to presents artists on the 2012 edition. Here are some of the mixes. Few hours of good music below!
More info about the festival here : http://dourfestival.be/




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Sweatshop Union - Leisure Gang

I am quite picky with music submissions to my blog, but this is a good one. Check out Sweatshop Union, a hip hop crew from Canada. Creative, heavy beats and great flows. Sharing their music for free. I like that. Keep it up, guys!




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Staff Benda Bilili - Tres Tres Fort (2011)

Critically acclaimed by the press, Tres Tres Fort is for sure an album not to miss from 2011. Staff Benda Bilili is a group formed by homeless and disabled polio victims living in the grounds of Kinshasa Zoo. Their music combines reggae, rumba, soul and funk with traditional African rhythms as accessibly and joyously as Bob Marley or Buena Vista Social Club. The songs were recorded out in the open, using a dozen microphones, a MacBook and a 100m extension cord fraudulously connected to a deserted refreshment bar nearby. A inspiring movie about Staff Benda Bilili has recently been released.




"Even if the tale so far of Staff Benda Bilili wasn’t such an inspiring one, Très Très Fort still wouldn’t fail to melt the coldest of hearts… incredible." -HMV Choice


Support Staff Benda Bilili and get the album, they deserve it!


Staff Benda Bilili - Tres Tres Fort by Yves Taquet on Grooveshark

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Roots Manuva - 4everevolution (2011)

     


Nearing his 40th birthday, Rodney Smith a.k.a Roots Manuva has delivered a contemplative and insightful album. Skid Valley, a sketch of life outside the bubble in 2011, ends with the couplet: "Low pay packets and high inflation/ And now they want to blame us for the end of the nation." Wha' Mek domesticises this insecurity: "What makes you sigh ... When I'm trying my hardest, it's the best that I can be." Even club banger Get the Get ends with an exasperated: "I am somebody." There's an impressive range of styles here – an overdose of maudlin strings, perhaps, but there would at least appear to be a reason for that.




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Veence Hanao presents...Les Voix du 8: The Border E​.​P


"Les Voix Du 8" is a side project initiated by Veence Hanao accompanied by special guests Citizen Ledge from Brussels and Subtitle (Los Angeles/Berlin). The Border E.P. is only available digitally, on www.veencehanao.bandcamp.com.


Veence Hanao is a belgian artist known for crafting his own kind of lyrical french music rooted in hip hop. With "Les Voix Du 8", he had a desire to explore his beatmaking skills with different textures, particularly 8 bit. The result is The Border E.P. on which he has produced all tracks. As for vocal duties Veence Hanao has called in fellow mc's Citizen Ledge and Subtitle to the microphone.


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