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Aaaand we're back. Holidays are over, although they never are for us the free souls. We work all the time and we holiday all the time.

For our good times during the last of the summer dayz, I strongly recommend "and the Anonymous Nobody" by De La Soul - it is so good! I like that they are so good, but they don't take themselves so seriously, they take us back and forth in time and music and the stuff on the album is ridiculously flawless. Maybe we could here some more stuff from the hours and hours of live sessions that De La Soul covered for via crowd-funding some time in the future, cuz this sounds great.

On this album we've got them classic De La Soul, with some Stevie Wonder-invoking Usher (that I would immediately get rid of), some Snoop Dogg and insightful lucidity by David Byrne sounding like the Everything that happens will happen today period.

So, let's start the season playfully.

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When I first heard Edward Snowden speak in an interview, I immediately thought of Terence Mckenna. It's not only the color of the voice and the somewhat characteristic pronunciation, but it's about the general wholistic approach and understanding of the big picture and life, people, the world, and the topic of their specific interests, respectively. It all works well for an audio experience, there is something very soothing to the voice of Mckenna and Astralwerks knew how to play with it well. 

Today we stumble onto Matthew Collings and listen to his Requiem for Edward Snowden >> Originally, a complex audio/visual piece including electronic sound, acoustic instrumentation and live, interactive visuals. It was mostly performed last year, I guess it has been released as an audio material, now coming up on diskordia.

Just for the heart, we also play Re-evolution. 

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~I'm not a woman

~I'm not a man
~I am something that you'll never understand

We say goodbye to yet another star specific to a certain era. All there is left is Madonna. 

Prince was a proliferating artist till the last breath, and the only one I had followed whatever he might release or do/perform. Remember how the world fell apart over Bowie and his identity transgressions that meant so much to so many...? Apply that to a male person of color and talk about gender fluidity in the 70s and you get our pioneer. The perfect musician, always over the top and gallant at the same time. 

I am forever in love with any of his phases and incarnations - even the odd ones with not such good music. Cuz I knew he'd get out of it into something new. 

Today we listen to a selection of Prince music, my most played tracks these days after his death.

Long live the Prince.

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A long-lasting, but recently discovered collaboration between Blixa Bargeld and Teho Teardo (+Balanescu Quartet) has been keeping me content. 
Wonderful lyrical soundscapes accompanied by poetic, but not naive lyrics, on top of a very dark, but whimsical creation.
Blixa Bargeld keeps a level of humor, or at least doesn't take himself so seriously and Teho Teardo keeps it on the edge of avantguarde and classical. 
Oh, and whats with the "dada gone dunce gone pet shop boys" cover?

While we wait for their latest release "Nerissimo", we listen to "Still Smiling" from 2013. 

Listen here:

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Skopje welcomes Clara 3000 this week, so let's meet this Parisian street prodigy with unique taste and understanding of music. This is one of her regular mixes for Rinse FM from 2014. Dirty and diverse sounds, so well put together, that's Clara 3000!

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First listen:

Micachu is back with a brief and experimentally sweet EP, Taz and May Vids. A good occasion to revisit some old, equally pleasing tracks. 
Underworld are finally back with Barbara Barbara, we face a shining future.

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Diskordia 007 from feb/15/2016: introducing DJ Alinka, a chicago-bred-berlin-based-dj and musicmaker, owner of label Twirl Recordings (together with Shaun J. Wright). She is a true house heroine, soon to spin records for a feminist crowd in Skopje. Listen, recognize and dance like everybody is watching. 

Diskordia listening: Alinka Mix for Deeper Sound with Andy Eastough, from nov/02/14.