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URB spent another wonderful weekend in the amazing city of Barcelona for the annual Sonar Electronic Music Festival. And like year’s past, the spot on music programming combined with the wonderful Spanish city and always up-for-it European crowd to make Sonar a must-experience destination for music heads.
Here’s some of our top moments.
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Let’s be honest. A lot of folks mourning the loss of ’70s proto-hip-hop poet and radical Gil Scott-Heron are probably more familiar with the name than they are with the music. Hell, an entire generation know him mostly as a lyric from an LCD Soundsystem song. And an even younger generation think he’s just the guy who got remixed by Jamie XX. …MORE
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OK, Jamie XX’s “Far Nearer” has been circulating in one form or another for over a year, but the b-side, “Beat For,” is brand new to these ears, and well worth the wait. The tune is more morose than “Far Nearer’s” almost glitchy tropicalia, which might actually appeal more to Jamie’s day job with The xx (although he’s been on hiatus so long we’re starting to wonder if the threesome is gonna get it together for album #2). …MORE
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Real heads don’t throw bottles. When a Detroit Original Schooler like Elzhi does a show with a stellar live backing band (fellow D-natives, Will Sessions), there better be no trouble. And there wasn’t. A diverse bunch came to get down and that’s what hip-hop’s really all about kiddies. Yeah, there’s funky-ass attitudes but you should keep that shit under wraps unless some real stuff goes down, not penny-ante you-stepped-on-my-Nikes shit. Don’t start none, there won’t be none. The first motive is to have as much fun as humanly possible.
A minor pall was cast over the evening when DJ Dez announced Gil Scott-Heron had passed while he was warming up the crowd. We all took a moment’s pause then kept it moving because a …
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There’s always something so touching about boxers and seeing them just being normal people in cities with kids. Add the music and the lights and the action and you get something even more potent. [via P4K]
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