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Chief Priest say
Song of Shuffering and Shmiling from the PASS Playlist in tribute to Fela Anikulapo Fela, who passed 15 years ago today.
Father of Afro-beat. Spiritualist. Pan-Africanist. Commune king. Composer, saxophonist, keyboardist, vocalist, dancer. PASS Chief Priest.
More Felasophy here.
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Mandla Mlangeni
Any styles
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Plan Be
Sakhile Moleshe and Bokani Dyer bring the Soul Housing Project. The essence is groove! Taking in everything from the bump of hip-hop cadence to the swing of soul, from the hypnotic refrain of deep-house to the wobble of drum & bass. Listen in by clicking the live stream (left) or check them out at Pan African Space Station back in September 2010.
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Stellar Regions
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Makwerhu
Makwerhu fuse African styles with seminal boogie funk, rock, classic ska, rocksteady and reggae roots.
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In the mix
We dust off hidden gems from the PASS archive to keep you grooving ahead of the live stream of Makwerhu at Tagore’s tonight from 9.30pm. Be there or listen in for some seminal African infected boogie funk, rock, classic ska, rocksteady and reggae roots.
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It’s Church night
B(l)ack to the future
Deep archeology into the PASS archive to bring you today’s seleksun of future-forward pan-galactic grooves.
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The loud minority
Ntone, Mighty & Mogale digging the blues (in the Baraka sense) crates. As Baraka writes it: “The past (black night’s your mother) is also the future (What is nigh is coming-Eve before Am). The Present was here before it was the past and after it was the future. The world is a tragedy, i.e., it is a carrying, the weight, the changes not time, rhythm, not counting, feeling. Any and Every-All are related as the one, part of a whole, …