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A SONG FOR ASSATA >>>

DISKORDIA is back!
We dive in another social dissident's life that serves as an inspiration to musicians and all round cultural players. Such is the life of Assata Shakur, just recently priced $2mil. by the FBI. 
The former black panther has been living a dissident life in Cuba since the 80s and this is her word (from an article from 2016 http://rollingout.com/2016/11/26/castros-death-mean-assata-shakur/):

“My name is Assata (‘she who struggles’) Olugbala ( ‘for the people’) Shakur (‘the thankful one’), and I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of  government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from the political repression, racism and violence that dominate the US government’s policy towards people of color. I am an ex-political prisoner, and I have been living in exile in Cuba since 1984. I have been a political activist most of my life, and although the U.S. government has done everything in its power to criminalize me, I am not a criminal, nor have I ever been one. In the 1960s, I participated in various struggles: the black liberation movement, the student rights movement, and the movement to end the war in Vietnam. I  joined the Black Panther Party. By 1969 the Black Panther Party had become the number one organization targeted by the FBI’s COINTELPRO program. because the Black Panther Party demanded the total liberation of black people, J. Edgar  Hoover called it “greatest threat to the internal security of the country” and  vowed to destroy it and its leaders and activists.”

In the rest of Diskordia we examine why Frank Ocean slipped Endless on the side and tricked us into listening to Blonde only, a quite weak attempt at following-up Channel Orange.


*** After a short break I am back on Kanal 103 Tuesdays 6-8pm. New and old music and sounds of the dissidents. In the meantime, I visited some new and old places and neighborhoods and people >>> airports are cities too. Except there is a strict hierarchy, based on so many things. The one codifying our experience on the travels is based on our point of origin (passport) and point of arrival (boarding pass). The "nicer" these two are, the nicer the experience. I've been on both ends and the arbitrarity is ridiculous because I am always the same person.
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Top 10 Albums of 2016

I love it when at the end of the year people comment "Naah, it's been a weak year..." blah blah. Even with the loss it took off and landed with (Bowie, Prince, George Michael), 2016 has been good to me. Here is my list:

1. Frank Ocean . Endless . Def Jam Recordings

2. A Tribe Called Quest / We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service / Epic

3. Solange Knowles . A Seat At The Table . Saint Records/Columbia

4. Mykki Blanco . Mykki . Dogfood/!K7

5. LA-4A . Phonoautograph . Delft

6. Factory Floor . 25 25 . DFA

7. David Bowie . Blackstar . RCA/Columbia/Sony

8. Anohni . Hopelessness . Secretly Canadian

9. Ryuichi Sakamoto, Alva Noto, Bryce Dessner . The Revenant . Milan Records

10. James Blake . The Colour In Anything . Polydor

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Diskordia in the service of hardworking women again: I present to you a local artist, recently got my attention, but has obviously been working hard for some time now. She performs as Klara, wandering around clubs and studios, recently announced that she finalized her first studio, to completely dedicate to the musical endeavors she has started. Some of it is her own solo work, some of it is in a colab with another recent acquisition on the Macedonian electronic music scene - Defect 13. Klara can also be heard perform as a dj!

Tune in DISKORDIA to catch some early plays of the music, soon to be released. 

Klara can be found here: https://www.mixcloud.com/Klara_Melody/

Kanal 103 can be streamed here: http://radio.spodeli.org/kanal103/

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This week's Diskordia is to compensate for the technical difficulties from last week and spend quality 60mins with the ingenious diletante that is Gudrun Gut. From her formation years as an artist in the late 70s, she seems like an irresistable part of the art scenes she is working within. A motor to many successful and prominent art collectives, she has been creatively present in Einstürzende Neubauten, Malaria! and others. My favorite piece from her more recent history is her colab with AGF on the project Baustelle. 

Tonight we listen to some of her collaborative pieces with artist Myra Davies and some not incidentally selected Erase Errata tracks. 
DISKORDIA always in service of hardworking women
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Fresh from last month - Mykki Blanco's newest album "MYKKI" in tonight's DIskordia. Fresh sounds from my generation's Yoko Ono, some heavy beats, some over-the-top lyrics and some cultural re-appropriations right there in this half an hour of an album. The Mykki Blanco persona is so sensitive, serious and most of all, free. Thats why we dip into some older tracks too, also featuring Princess Nokia whose "Young girls" is an irresistible part of most of my radio shows. 

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Diskordia in solidarity with polish women. Listen here::::::

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Flying Lotus has been present in my playlists for a while now, but I never picked up on any of the artists around him. Kamasi Washington is already very well recognized and has made it on air on my other radio shows, but mr Stephen Bruner is fresh new around here. Although active for 15 years now, with a wide variety of talents and collaboration, we sail into his works with his most recent release - The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam, released for Fly-Lo's Brainfeeder under his Thundercat alias. So obvious why they jam along with Flying Lotus, I enjoy this music a lot. 

Also listening to Warpaint today: the ultimate girl-on-the-edge-of-main-stream-and-avantgarde listen these days. They released their new Heads Up album this summer on Rough Trade and it's working for me on so many levels - with the sensibility Janet Jackson meets Cocteau Twins and much better rhythms than most of the their music before. So soft and with a dark twist, if I may. 

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