Watch your back: Chris and his Focale44 fixed gear somewhere in Austria this Summer.
Mom, I wanna be a pan arranger when I am grown up! CarnivalTV special about the legendary pan player and arranger of Laventille Steel Band - Ken “Professor” Philmore.
New video from the BLNRB project: BLNRB - Kibera Benga (Kichwateli) (by Maasai Mbili, William Warero, Modeselektor, Just a Band). A little to artsy for me but def worth to watch it.
Riddims Tropicale #17 is loaded with some serious soulful Afro-Deep and Afro-House. Info, playlist and download: marflix.me
Can’t go wrong with cooking videos - esp. Caribbean cooking. Host: Levi Roots.
Notting Hill Carnival: Future in doubt
Did you know that this huge event was organised by two unpaid volunteers? Sounds hard to believe if you see the millions of people celebrating. These two directors of the festival now resigned, saying: this festival is impossible to manage without funds.
Old brick factory Ziegeleipark Zehdenick on the bike route Berlin - Copenhagen.
Salsa in Senegal, Coupe Décale in Guadeloupe, Soca in Sweden, Kuduro in Brasil, and now Funk in Angola - modern times.
Funk in Angola? Yes - this is Besta Fera, an Angolan group making funk carioca, interviewed in Rio de Janeiro.
New member in the bike family: Cinelli Vigorelli.
Short movie “Only in Trinidad” by producers Dominic de Bourg and Amilcar Sanatan. Have some doubles with this.
In this short 2 minute film, producers Dominic de Bourg and Amilcar Sanatan explore a simple situation, while adding immense symbolism. Issues subliminally highlighted include: the division of race, the unity of Trinidadian culture, the simplicity of human kindness. The storyline has been seamlessly blended to create something that’s short, simple and entertaining.
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