Carnaval in Tenerife, Robert Fisk, Abu Ghraib, Playlists

Ear Conditioning Words / Playlists 6/13 Feb. 2007

Carnaval kicked off here last week, and did it ever hit the fan.

You can deprive Canarians of health centres, introduce the euro and instantly charge double for life´s essentials, privatize the electricity, water, destroy natural protected area´s, construct a million hotels on the beachfront, no problem....but if you mess with the carnaval, then you are in big deep do-do-smelling trouble.

The choreographer they chose had no idea of what carnaval means to Canarians, so when he decided that murgas, (local bands based on clown imagery, who take popular songs and then change the words to comment on politics and social runnings) would not be allowed to play as tradition dictates, the winner of the murgas competition refused to perform again, staging a silent protest at the treatment they and their collegues suffered at the hands of the organizers.

The choreographer also decided he didn´t want any ´fat´or ´ugly´people participating in his televised gala event, so once again he pissed off loads...that size zero shit don´t work down here. Several people later mentioned the television coverage, or lack of it. The televised event was apparently dominated by relatives of celebrities talking about themselves instead of having the camera´s trained on the event at hand.

The city of Santa Cruz paid the choreographer in the region of one million euro´s for his work, then the next day, Zerolo, the mayor tried to make out that he was on the side of the people that made a fuss about the choreographers lack of class and feel. "We are going to sue the choreographer!"
Sue, for what?, I wondered. Apply the spin cycle, here comes a statement to make the people think he too is shocked and on the side of the people...Zerolo most propably went to the George W. Bush school of political studies. Surely he had an idea what was gonna be presented, he attended the press photo-call with all the slim, pretty thing beauty queen types of the carnaval, three weeks previously.

Zerolo could lose his job because of the carnaval fiasco, but with that Tony Blair like teflon coating, he´ll most probably survive the elections which are due in May.

And just to give you a flavour of the politics in Tenerife, Zerolo is being investigated for financial irregularities regarding a local beach and the developer who bought, from the city council, the land adjacent to the beach, which suddenly has changed status from protected and therefore not allowed to be subject to cement coverage, to voila.... it´s open season for the cement-heads,
permission to build has been granted and the land was sold for a penny.

I wish they would do something about the mayor where I live....he has been in charge for like twenty years, he´s also sits at the head of the regional party, and holds a place in the Spanish senate. What exactly he has done in twenty years of mayorship, I am not sure. You´d think a health centre in the town would be a priority. Nope, we have to go to the next town, which serves it´s own population, plus that of the surrounding pueblos. The population has grown immensely in the last ten years, but the size of the health centre hasn´t. Four hours waiting for an appointment is not unheard of. Doctors have told us they are supposed to give two minutes per patient/visitor. It takes some senior citizens one minute to get to the chair.

We don´t have a health centre, but they have just opened a home for dogs. Maybe I should go around smelling.....
"No, don´t!"
"Okay I won´t say that." But you get my point.

Anyway, back to carnaval...so it´s my first carnaval, and so there we are watching the parade containing floats, costumed bands, folkloric music groups, the young, the not so young, Charlie Chaplin, Fidel Castro, unlikely bullfighters, pushing decorated shopping trolleys (with the beers), when I spot two, three, four, five, shit....ten people, blackfaced up with massive red lips, topped with afro wigs in the procession!
Are these people serious?
Are these people stuck in the days of lynchings, Roberton´s marmalade, and the Black and White Minstrels. WTF?
Maybe I should not be too suprised since a golliwog servant features as the logo for a popular coffee here.
I kept my thoughts to myself, though Beatriz, my partner, knew my blood was not clotting. Then a group of psuedo-negro´s approached me, I think to show that they could be ´like me´(?!), or that they were cool, I dunno, I didn´t ask. One of the group reached out to touch me.....Bam, my right fist connected with his nose.

¿Que pasa? or the Spanish version of WDF? he must of said in shock. I think I was as much suprised as he. It could´ve handled it differently, but I didn´t. He backed up, mouth open, holding his nose, then looking for blood on his hand. Luckily for me, his friends took him away. I say lucky for me ´cos Beatriz said that he probably had about ten friends with him, and they could have easily done away with me. It´s true, we are basically on our own down here, just me and Beatriz. Sure this is where Beatriz is from, but we don´t hang with loads of people, so we could be fucked later, it´s an island, and everybody knows everybody. We´ll see how things turns out. Better get back to practising my kalerippiyattu.

Seriously though, a lot of people here just don´t have any sense of what racism is, how it works and manifests itself. The excuse of ignorance of other cultures is presented. Maybe so, but fercrissakes, this is two thousand and some, Africa is next door, 100 miles from here, and you wouldn´t know it.

I have spent forty-five years on this earth, and practically every day I am reminded that I am a Black person. Do ´whites´ think about their ´whiteness´ every day in the same context? No, and why should they? And why should Black people? Because we can be called into question everyday, and it´s boring, it´s so last century.....we´ve been saying that for two, four, five hundread years...yes, hun-dread, I can spell, years.

Where have these people been? Is there no education about the struggle that Black people have had to go through? About the injustice, inhumane acts etc. that have been heaped upon the darker of the world´s population. Please bring another reason that this one. Uh...Martin, Malcolm, Jesse Owen, Public Enemy, Richard Pryor, Black Panther, Huey, Elridge, Mumia, KRS-One, Spike, Farrakhan, Dr. J, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul, Muhammad Ali, Harriet Tubman, Angela Davis, Oprah, Nelson? Helfuckinglo, wakey, wakey!

How are Black issues dealt with in Spanish educational facilties? Is it up to me now to present some kind of Black-awareness program to the councils, schools, businesses throughout this island? (Actually, a sister of a friend makes stupid amounts of money presenting ´Anti-racism enlightenment courses´ to such establishments. This touches on another issue itself, earning a living from misery. I´ll deal with that at another time, plenty on this plate at the moment.)

Fucksakes, this is a small sliver of what my parents, the Windrush generation, went through....well, they had it worse, London in the late fifties, early sixties, jeez! It´s something we never really discussed, my parents just got on with it, and tackled it in their own way.
When ever we went on holiday when living in the UK or in Canada, we went to places where we´d be the only black people there.

Fellow Caribbean...that is Black, nurses would ask my Mum why we went to such and such a place, where there weren´t any other Black people, and the response would be, "You think I´m going to not go somewhere or deprive myself and my children of seeing something because somebody may have an issue with our skin colour?" The sound of Kissing of teeth would follow...

I don´tknow, I just thought for some reason that through time we would get beyond these stupid, but real issues.


Ear Conditioning Playlist / Feb. 13 2007
David Shire / Main title from Taking of Pelham 123 (Retrograde)
Elixir / Dark Spheres (Language)
Armenie 1 / Mere de dieu (Ocora)
Al Kassam / Al filistini
Untitled Sitar and Flamenco track
David Toop and Max Eastley / City of night (Beyond)
Filastine / Judas Goat (Soot)
Dr. Das / The Alchemist (VU)
Punjab MC / Sharabi
Duseletso Seema and Tau Ea Linare / Kesete Mahlomoleno
Kocani Orkestar / Ibraim odja (Crammed)
Cut Chemist / ...the brazilian track (Warner)
King L Man / Arando (EarCon)
Moody Boyz / Dubland
The Bug feat. Warrior Queen / Bomb we (Ladybug/Soul Jazz)
Kode 9 and the Spaceape / Nine / Curious feat. Ms. Haptic (Hyperdub)
Earthling / Accident at Injured Springs (Cooltempo)
The Bees / Who cares what the question is (Virgin)
The Shins / Sealegs (SubPop)
Captain Beefheart / Obeah man / Here i am I always am (Xeric)
Frank Zappa / Catholic girls (CBS)
Cannibal Ox / Return of the Ox (DefJux)
El-P / Smithereens / Everything must go (DefJux)
The Perceptionists / Love Letter (DefJux)
Colourbox / Baby I love you so (4AD)


Ear Conditioning 6 Feb. 2007
I am almost finished the epic book by journalist Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilization / The Conquest of the Middle East...nearly 1300 pages of in-depth reporting, analysis, interviews, observations, eyewitness accounts, stories of grief and outrage. Chronicles of the powerful and misery of the innocent. The scurge of policitians and their soldiers, devoid of humanity. Some of the same soldiers are then abandoned by their government when infected with the same depleted uranium they used on Iraqi civilians.
Robert Fisk makes effort to get the names of those that would otherwise remain nameless victims of the US/UK/ Israeli assault on the Middle East world.

So with this in mind, much of the program featured soundbites from luminaries such as Howard Zinn, Angela Y. Davis, Mumia Abu Jamal, Chomsky, Greg Palast, Chavez and Marcos. Much of the spoken word material was sourced from Jello Biafra´s Alternative Tentacles label (www.alternativetentacles.com)
They have a great catalogue of music and spoken word....if your into that kinda thing of course.

I also found a video clip at Alternet that was taken off youtube.com because it ´violated´ the youtube terms of agreement. The clip featured a former US soldier/guard at Abu Ghraib talking with his mates over a few beers about some of the things they got up to at the prison.

One of his collegues "pimped out" a fifteen year old Iraqi girl.
"He made about 500 bucks before she hung herself."
"Why´d she kill herself man?" somebody off camera asks.
Something along the lines of "She´d be stoned to death by her people, that kinda thing is shameful to them kinda folks." Nuff said.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/47472/

This week also featured a bit of a French flavour, as I recieved a promo Cd of French music....which was good, however, I thought it a bit strange that five of the first six songs were in English.

Ear Conditioning Playlist / 6 Feb. 2007
Dr. Who Dat / Track 2 from the Beat Journey album (Lex)
Fila Brazilia / Rustic Bellyflop (Pork)
Angela Davis /Making a difference (AT)
Elixir / Ballad for Lisa and Richard (Language)
Meat Beat Manifesto / Nuclear Bomb (PIAS)
Howard Zinn / Corporate Welfare (AT)
Emily Laizeau / L´Autre du monde (Fargo)
Mano Negra / Mad man´s read / Sr. Matanza (Virgin)
Muslimgauze / Adu Nidal
Christian Parenti / War on Terror (AT)
Greg Palast / Bringing democracy to Iraq (AT)
Le Volume Courbe / Papillon de nuit (Honest Jons)
TV on the radio / Let the devil in (4AD/Everlasting)
Funkadelic / Brettino´s bounce (Warner Bros.)
Subcomandante Marcos / Europa
Hugo Chavez / Democracia
Jimi Hendrix / Message to the universe (MCA)
Mark Stewart and the Maffia / Just Jammin´ - Live
Robert Fisk / Hizbollah
Creation Rebel / Space Movements 3 (On-U)
La Taubita Criolle de Mongo Rives (Sonora Cubana)
Rachid Taha / Econte moi comarade (Wrasse)
Heatwave Mix
Federation Sound / Notorious (Ghetto Arc)
Mumia Abu Jamal interviews Bob Marley (AT)
Morgan Heritage / Wall of Babylon
US Soldier and Abu Ghraib guard talks of the treatment of Iraqi prisoners.
Chrome / Melody (Language)
Tackhead / Hard Left (World)
Greg Palast / Who´se winning? (AT)
Public Enemy / Public emeny No.1 (DefJam)
Leroy Young / For a few dollars more (Stonetree)
King Jammy / Shining dub (Jammy´s)
Howard Zinn / The Artist and Society (AT)

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30.01 Playlist...

Greetings all / Saludos por todos,
On Monday night I spoke with Dave O´Rama, an old friend and collegue from my college radio days at CRSC Seneca College in Toronto, Canada….he was the Program Director and I, the Music Director, and there was also Steve and Mike Brownlee (where are you Mike?) among others who contributed a wealth of musical knowledge and love.

Dave introduced me to Defunkt through a mural of an album cover on the wall of CRSC, then proceeded to pull out the record and marry it with the stylus. Everything from James White and the Contortions, Hairy Beanball & Ed Special, The DeepThroat Soundtrack, Burning Spear, The Rheostatics, The Gun Club, The Butthole Surfers, ´80´s Hip hop, Parliament/Funkadelic got an airing….

Back to the conversation with Dave, so I asked him what was giving him a musical woody, he is now at CHLY radio in the Canadian Pacific region http://www.chly.ca/ he said Hazmat Modine among other things. The name faintly rang a bell. After we said our goodbye´s and promises to keep in touch, I checked the web for Hazmat and naturally came across www.myspace.com/hazmatmodine. So I´m looking at the still image of the group, and immediately the phrase “I know them” came lept to the forefront of my grey matter.

Click.

Fun-da-Mental and Hazmat Modine were invited to perform at the Golden Mask festival in Moscow last year, but I never got to see them onstage, only in the hotel lobby waiting for the bus to take them to soundcheck/show or in the dining room!
Hazmat music is correctly described as a mixture of whorehouse Blues, Reggae, Country, Klezmer, Gypsy-tinged entity. Well it would if it´s got duelling harmonicas, Sheng (Chinese mouth organ), Cimbalon (Romanian hammered dulcimer) trumpets, tuba, along side the guitars, bass, drums and a good dose of sly humour and wit!

A joy….damn, what a shame I never got to witness it there and then! Oh well, for those not in the immediate vicinity of their impending live shows, go seek in your record shop or favourite source for the treats.
http://www.hazmatmodine.com/ http://www.rootsworld.com/interview/hazmat.shtml

The past week also brought communication with John Hutnyk, http://hutnyk.blogspot.com/ He´s a professor at Goldsmith´s University, and participated in one of the talks at the Clandestino Festival in Gothenborg where Aki (yes, the notorious terrorist-apologist Aki Nawaz) and I dropped a Fun´da´Mental DJ set a few years ago. John has twice invited me to talk with his students about the politics and presentation of Fun-da-mental videos. Coming back to last week, John and I were discussing this idea of a compilation that has been sitting in my brain for the last couple years. This year is the 40th anniversary of the death of Ernesto ´Che´ Guevara, and I wanted to compile an album of contemporary artists who have felt touched by revolutionary spirit, thought, actions, etc. The idea is not for all the music to focus on ´Che´ himself, but for expression of whatever the contributing artists feel regarding being subject to living on their knees for the sake of ´The Man´or ´System´. John has came up with a phrase which I immediately responded, “That should be the title!” So, we are going with “The Guevara Convention”.

Emails have been sent out to collegues, friends, associates etc. and so far the response has been good…we have Dj/Rupture, Filastine, Coldcut, Fermin Murguza, Fun-da-mental, Las Ratas, DJ Klandestino, Dr. Das, Shaheen (former Prophets of da City producer and vocalist) and IR, saying ´yeah´ musically. Cecilia Parsberg http://this.is/parsberg/ put me in touch with Ana from Uruguay who was 14 years old when Che was killed. She became active in the Marxist Tupac Amaru group in Uruguay. Ana said she´ll provide some words for the text, really looking forward to reading what she has to say.

fyi: The following link is for the animation that Cecilia and co-conspiritors put together about the Israeli occupation and for which they asked me to provide a soundtrack.http://this.is/TheWall/

Javi Jiminez, a teacher and music writer here in Tenerife has also come on board, so we are moving. All we need now, are a few more artists and a label, distributor. The potential for this is huge. Oh, I must say, inspiration for this album also came about through an album that Fun-da-Mental soundman Bernard Maiquez lent me several years ago, El Che Vive!, (Last Call Records) which was released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of ´Che´´s death. I ended my first DJ stint in Tenerife (an AntiWar night at the original Cafeoteca de Arte in Puerto de la Cruz/2003) with the classic ´Hasta Siempre´ by Carlos Puebla y sus Tradicionales, from the aforementioned album, and the place erupted….everybody sang along! My girlfiend´s mum knows the song, kids know the song….so a chord was struck! If you got something for this project, please bring it. More as it happens....

This week´s Ear Conditioning program went a little like this….. Found some gems, Morgan Craft & Metamussik, Rude HiFi, the Ud master Mumir Bashir. You have never heard Sicilian tuna fishermen singing alongside an infectious raucous noise until you´ve heard ´Hurra Hurrey´from BioMuse www.myspace.com/biomuse. Fresh dirty hip hop from Data MC www.myspace.com/datamc straight outta Germany.
Experimental electronic music from Venezuela courtesy of www.microbiorecords.net. That was a bit of a suprise, sincere apologies for temporarily putting ´Venezuelan music´in a pidgeon-hole!
For the mash-up heads, my former partner in the Nation World Service and Audio Sharpnel, Master Volume has presented a collision of Damien Marley and Suzi Quatro, Welcome to Glamrock! http://audioshrapnel.multiply.com/He does that kinda thing. His final mix for the FDM radio session on XFM was spellbinding. The hosts, Eddie and James hadn´t heard anything like it...something like 68 tracks in 38minutes. Yes, there is a mix floating out there that has 800tracks in 38minutes or so, I know, I know, I hope to get it this week, okay.

Stroking the pole this week then was.....

Golem / Warsaw is Khelm (JDub) www.myspace.com/golemrocks
SJ Esau / Cat Story (Anticon)
BioMuse / Yellow Wing Sphex (NoLabel)
Annie Anxiety / Rise Dub (Echo Beach)
Mumir Bashir / Nahawand (Voix de l´Orient)
Mercury Rev / The Dark is Rising (V2)
Ginger Baker Trio / Ramblin´ (Atlantic)
Lobi Traore / Deni Kelen Be Koko (Honest Jons/Astralwerks)
Cedric IM Brooks / Shaft (Soul Jazz)
Rude HiFi / Elzn in Dub (Metak)
Hazmat Modine / Yesterday´s Morning *Live on Russian TV (mp3)
Morgan Craft & Metamussik / P.Melank RA (mp3)
Audio Shrapnel / Welcome to Glamrock (mp3)
Revolting Cocks / Physical (WaxTrax)
Data MC / Madball & Wot Bout It (mp3)
Method Man / Release Yo´Delf *Prodigy Remix (DefJam/Playground)
Vast Aire feat. MC Doom / Super Friendz *Edan Remix (mp3)
BioMuse / Hurra Hurrey (NoLabel)
Oil for Food / Nobody´s Colony (Microbio)
Sajeed Jafreey & Sally Dexter reading The Art of Love (Virgin)
Ghislain Poirier / Pumpa Pimp
Digital Underground / Doowhatchalike (TommyBoy)
Basemental Platform / Lumenjack (Silvahneedle)
URoy / DJ Phonics (Ariwa/Everlasting)

Thanks to Dave O´Rama, Tommy Pop, AudioShrapnel, Wal of Data MC, Mohamed from Lebanon for pointers and contributions. Also to the two callers who phoned up to say the station lost transmission power for a bit. As always, for those in Tenerife, the program is repeated Saturday midnight, Radio Pimienta 100.3FM For those with the new technology, well, we can´t serve you yet with online broadcasting, but I am looking into podcasting to take things to another level.
PEace

23 Enero 2007 Playlist

Turn on
This week DJ/Ruputre www.negrophonic.com posted news of upcoming US shows by Vieux Farke Toure, the son of Ali Farke Toure
You can check out Vieux ripping some nasty African blues licks straight from his yard in Bamako, Mali. Courtesy of Modiba Productions. http://downthisvideo.com/?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRYi89cvr3w
The smile on his face is really warming and inviting, 100% bonafide, genuine. Check how tuning the guitar becomes part of the piece, awesome dude. For all you production heads, http://www.vieuxfarkatoure.com/index_site.html
there is an opportunity to download one of Vieux´songs for remixing and possible release on a remix project that is being planned for later this year.

What´s in the bag this week soundbwoy?
Wedding music from Rajasthan, brutal sonics from Mouse on Mars, pumelling rhythms from The Melvins, John Zorn reinterpreting Ennio Morricone, classic Egyptian melodies from Layla Mourad, another sneeky peek at the new Rjd2 effort soon to be released on XL.
Plus a 43minute mix under the banner Speaker Spazm.

Medeski, Martin and Wood / Big Time (Blue Note)
Manolo Viera / Cemento
Prakash Band /Aj Aj (Avant)
Layla Mourad / Sanatain Wana Aheyl Feek (VirginFrance)

The Melvins / Civilized Worm (Ipecac)
Benoit Pioulard / Together and Down (Kranky)
Mouse on Mars / Duul (Ipecac)
Ali Farke Toure / Yer Bounda (World Circuit)

Eardrum / Roach (Leaf)
Fathay Salama feat. DJ Mutamassik / Maqsoom (LDS)
Pixies / Planet of Sound (4AD)
John Zorn / Milano Odea (Nonesuch)
Primal Scream / Blood Money (Astralwerks)
Rjd2 / Get It (XL)

Speaker Spazm Mix
featuring...
Buju Banton / Back a Wall
Prince Fatty / Fe Fi Fo Fum
Bounty Killer / title unavailable
Drain / Wendy will win
DJ LBR / Indian Vibration
Fun-da-mental / Ja Shataan
Badawi / Final Warning
Orchestra Nacional de Barbes / Poulina
Recycler / 2 Pints please
Radiohead and Jello Biafra
Buscovina Club vs. Taraf de Haidouks
No Smoking Orchestra / Unza unza time
Bugz in the Attic / Zombie
Digital Mystikz / Conference
Afronaught and Son de Batey / Carnaval
Konono No.1
Ini Kamoze
J-Star mashes up Ms. Dynamite
Jesse Belvin
Manolo Viera otro vez...

We now return to normal programming. Good night.

Thanks to Tommy Pop/Everlasting for being ´The Man´and supplying some goods, and to all singers, players and listeners.

Ear Conditioning, hosted by D.WattsRiot, going out on Radio Pimienta, 100.3FM, Tuesday 20h00 to 22h00
covering the north of Tenerife, and La Palma.
Repeated Saturday 24h00-02h00, ´cos the mofo´s are bored!

Este semana a Ear Conditioning / 16.01.2007

Beats were brought in to supply movement, melodies to sooth, lyrics to ponder...a mixed bag as usual.

Found some new gems for this week, such as Mos Def, who´se new album True Magic got the short thrift by being released 29 December, when most people weren´t looking. Not too sure what the label had in mind there, as they have recalled the album, and now plan for a proper release later this year...spring time I suppose. So if you were one of the 11,000 people that grabbed a copy on initial release, treasure it.

Mos´former label mate at Rawkus, Pharoahe Monche is about to release a new album also, and I was directed to his myspace page where he has a video for ´Gun draws´ available to view. In this track he takes on the persona of a bullet and delivers potent lyrics on the dangers of such. Go and seek as soon as possible, it´s a million miles in the other direction of 50pence, sorry...50 cent.

Other new joints this week come from Timeblind, who has now departed Europe and set up shop in NYC, !!! deliver a seven minute work from their new long player Myth Takes due out in March, and also Jesu, the latest project from Justin Broadrick, founder of Napalm Death and former partner of Ear Conditioning favourite Kevin ´The Bug´Martin in Techno Animal.

This week´s edition started with 100percent conscious business courtesy of Fantan Mojah, with an nyiabhingi inspired ode to Ras Tafari....while he gets back up from a selection from the Greensleeves album, Forward, Top singles from 1977-82. Yeah, Forward!

• Fantan Mojah / Hail the King (DownSound)
• EekAMouse / WaDoDem (Greensleeves)
• Papa Michigan and General Smiley / Diseases (Greensleeves)
• General Echo / Bathroom Sex (Greensleeves)
• The Bug feat. Warrior Queen / Aktion Pak (Rephlex)

• Venetian Snares / Find Candace (Hymen)
• Charlie Watts / Jim Keltner The Elvin Suite - Coldcut Remix for Helen Dawn (CyberOctave)
• FSOL / Papau New Guinea Dub (Jumpin´and Pumpin´)
• Timeblind / Copycopy (mp3)

• Pharoahe Monche / Gun Draws (mp3)
• Mos Def / Napoleon Dynamite (Geffen)
• Busdriver / Less Yes´s More No´s (mp3)
• Hippaly / Hippanish Capriocho (Superego)
• Rjd2 / You never had it so good (XL)

• Req / The beat is thinking (Ultimate Dilemma)
• Jesse Jackson / Something new is happening in America...(Stax)
• Beirut / Elephant Gun (mp3)
• Jesu / Conqueror (mp3)
• !!! / Heart of hearts (Warp)
• Red Lorry Yellow Lorry / Happy
• Sand / Robins Wurl (Satellite)

• Old Skull / Homeless (Restless)
• Blind Idiot God / Wailing Wall (Enemy)
• The Clash / What´s my name (CBS)
• Bad Brains / Soul Craft (Caroline)
• Saul Williams / Telegram (Witchita)
• Mark Stewart / Revolution (cdr)

• The Moody Boyz / Witness the day (cdr)
• Burial / Exit wound (Hyperdub)
• Excerpt from Heatwave mix CD

Thanks for the use of your loudspeakers.

Ear Conditioning is repeated Saturday night, 24h00, going out to the north of Tenerife and reaching La Palma when we have the right winds....and there has been plenty of that this week, believe!

Ear Conditioning Tracklisting 09.012007

Ear Conditioning / Radio Pimienta, La Orotava, Tenerife.
Hosted by D.WattsRiot

The holiday season climaxed here (that is Spain, and it´s colonies) on Jan.6th...this represents the day that the three magic kings (or wise men) arrived at the place baby Jesus was chilling out with Mum and Dad.
Unlike in the UK for example, at least one of the three magic kings is a brother, a black man....called Baltazar. The kings represent their respective areas and races....yeah, I know there is only one race, but for the sake of argument, indulge me for a mo´....so yeah. Now there has been a lot of news in these parts over the last year because of the ´illegal immigrants´, that is Africans seeking entry into Europe via the Canary Islands, which are about 100 miles from the Western Sahara coast. Right-wing newspaper rags have been raging and publishing scaremongering stories that have got the natives all hot and bothered....
http://www.noincineraciontenerife.com/noticias/1130.htm

What got under my skin at the local presentation of the arrival of the three magic kings was the fact that the man playing Baltazar was a throwback to the Al Jolson era, yep, he was blacked-up....more beiged-up actually....so anyway, children line up to see the kings, like kids line up to see Santa Claus in a North American shopping mall...and no wonder they are frightened of people of colour....the skin of Baltazar seems to come off when he shakes their hand gives them a hug or gives them a peck on the cheek. You´d think with ´all the Africans here´ that they could get a well paying gig for a couple weeks during the Christmas period performing as a King.

On the music tip, Canadian producer Ghislain Poirier sent a link to download his freshly crafted African Hip Hop mix, featuring joints from Tanzania, S. Africa, Senegal, Mauritania and Uganda.
Ghislain is a very friendly Montrealer and gave specific instructions that I must share this with you and your boyfriend/girlfriend, so here´s the link...
http://www.zshare.net/audio/mixafriqueghislainpoirier-mp3.html

The Moody Boys (or is it Boyz?) have a new ep which I guess will be coming out in about two months or so....The lead track will be ´Witness the Day´. There was no way that The Moody Boyz, who were doing Deepstep before it was called DubStep was gonna let dBstep come and go without letting the yout dem know that they still have some tricks up their sleeves.
"All of you shall witness the day babylon will fall".

The lastest trip to London included a must stop at Soul Jazz Records with K.Mart, and they pointed me in the direction of Small Arms Fiya, among other things....great name, so had to have a listen to the ´Murderer´ 7" (1965records)

09.01.2007 Playlist
Musicians of the Nile ´Bitnadini Tani Lih´ (RealWorld)
Kokanko Sata ´Bi Ni Djugui´ (Honest Jons)
Doudou Ndiaye Rose ´Sidati Aidara (Virgin France)

Mártires del Compás.
Two tracks from their 10 Años de Mártires del Compás compilation. Sorry no titles as mi amigo Dani Medina brought the album over just as I was heading out the door for the radio station.

Ucef
Darabouka held down tighter than a mosquito´s tweeter. Title unknown, but taken from his Oriental Bounce DJ mix.

Nettle ´Uncivili´ Remixed by Hrvatski
Sabu Martinez ´All Camels Hump

Ghislain Poirier ´Propaganda´ feat. Radioactive (Rebondir)
Ghislain Poirier´s African Hip Hop mix
37mph ´All in the name´
Tuks ´Clap´
Xplastaz ´Msimu Kwa Msimu´
Peter Miles ´Owango RMX´
Awadi ´Stoppez les criminels´ feat. Tiken Jah Fakoli
994 Crew ´Bad Boy´
Unathi ´Sgubhu Sam´
Abass ´Zibi zibi zaba´

Tricky ´The moment I feared´ (Island)
Rjd2 ´The Chicken bone circuit (DefJux)
Moody Boyz ´Nasty rockers´ (CD-r)

King L Man Dreadnaught mix featuring.....
Bunny General ´Kill a drumpan sound´
YT ´England Story´
Capleton ´Baghdad´
The Bug ´Live and learn´feat. Tikiman
Prince Fatty ´Fe Fi Fo´
Horace Andy ´Quiet Dub´
Skream ´Dutch Flowerz´
Small Arms Fiya ´Murderer´
Digidub/Fairshare Unity ´I Scream´
Prince Far I ´Shuffle and Deal´
Congo Natty ´Scalp dem´
Adrian Sherwood ´Silly old dub´

This edition was put together with the sound advice of KMart, Ghislain, Carl at Soul Jazz/London, Marc Murray, Sam Pulse and Ed It.

Ear Conditioning is broadcast every Tuesday 20h00-22h00 and repeated Saturday 24h00-02h00, Radio Pimienta 100.3, available in the north of Tenerife....
In keeping with the times, Radio P should be available online soon.

All the beats