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For close to a decade, DJ AM defined the Hollywood party scene—his celebrity status sometimes overshadowing appreciation for his skills behind the decks and his (usually) amazing taste in tunes. A year after the DJs high-profile death, his records are being sold for charity at that most hipster of Hollywood venues, The Cobrasnake Shop Cobranake in the Highland and Hollywood mall (6801 Hollywood Blvd).
The sale takes place from Friday Nov. 12 until Sunday Nov. 14, with 100% of proceeds going to the DJ AM Memorial Fund to help fight drug and alcohol addiction.
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Dead? Dying? Being Buried or getting cremated is SO passé. All the cool kids are going to be pressing their ashes into vinyl.
Township Sounds From The Golden Age Of Mbaqanga
NEXT STOP... SOWETO
With Next Stop... Soweto, Strut trace some of the amazing music that often only appeared on short run 45s at the time; rare lost gems deftly culled from the '60s + '70s South African "township jive sound." Featuring music recorded primarily for the local market, the album takes the listener far beyond the accepted township jive template into fusions with jazz, gospel, rumba, funk and traditional mining songs. It delves into the golden age of mbaqanga. Jazz had been a fixture in South African music since the ‘50s and jive (or mbaqanga) initially emerged a decade later as a fusion combining elements of rural Zulu music and harmony vocal styles with Western instrumentation. You can hear influences from American R&B and '60s rock and surf, in the same way ska and rocksteady developed in Jamaica. And if you like desert blues from Sahara, you will also like the fusion of mbaqanga.
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