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From Funkification to Pacification
As an anthropologist and urban planning researcher with specialties in music and sound, we have combined our backgrounds to examine the politics of reconstructing soundscapes in Rio de Janeiro. In...
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Norient stürzt sich mitten ins Gewimmel des WorldWideWeb, stöbert, wühlt und klickt was das Zeug hält und pickt musikalische Perlen, Neuheiten und Highlights der letzten Wochen heraus. Heute nicht...
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Future Sounds from Brazil
Last Spring Brazilian producer and festival promoter Chico Dub compiled three CDs with young, mostly unsigned, Brazilian artists from the electronic music scene. The online music-magazine SPIN wrote...
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Noch einmal, kurz vor Jahresende, springt Norient ins Gewimmel des WorldWideWeb, stöbert, wühlt und klickt was das Zeug hält und pickt musikalische Perlen, Neuheiten und Highlights der letzten Wochen...
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Norient April 2014 Selection
Norient keeps searching for new sounds and puts together a monthly playlist from Soundcloud. Enjoy or skip through tracks from upcoming and well-known artists from a wide variety of places – urban pop...
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Funk is Culture – Music Politics in Brazil
One Month before FIFA World Cup in Brazil starts one can everywhere read about the «pacification» of Rio's favelas. Therefore police or militias causes deep ruptures in the social fabric of the...
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Brazil 2014 Roundup
There is a lot more than samba drums: A journey through current sounds and different cities in Brazil. A trip between kitchy electromelodia sounds, cumbia shaped tracks and afro-brazilian rooted bass...
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