Ulanism

I love my little iPhone application called Shazam. When requested, it listens to the music around me for 15 seconds, queries the internet, and comes back with amazingly accurate results. I was at the Elbo Room grooving to Dub Mission a few weeks back when DJ Sep spun a track by Fat Freddy’s Drop. Shazam successfully tagged it and I promptly forgot about the song.

I had a few minutes to kill today and decided to go through my tags. Most were pretty standard research but then I came across an amazing live video of Midnight Marauders and was instantly hooked. A very happy two hours later
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Not to take away from 50 year-olds who still want to dance their far-too narrow behinds off… I was sitting with a friend the other day talking about Madonna’s Hung Up video. She always tries to stay up on the latest urban “Thang” and this piece is no exception. Her dancers include the founder of Free Running, Sébastien Foucan, the stars from Rize along with a crowd of dancers on a Dance Dance Revolution stage.

Maybe it is just me but I think it is weak to try to dance with people who are so obviously better than you while you pull some moves that were lame in the 70’s. I guess she
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Let’s go and have some fun
On the beach
Where there is a party
Everyone will be there
On the beach
Where there is a party

We’re gonna have a ball
Dancing and singing and whining and all
Holding hand together and laughing and all
Then we’ll dance, dance, dance, daaaance…

On The Beach - The Paragons - Rock Steady CD 2

Catalina Claro - It Doesn’t Feel Good

It doesn’t feel good
It doesn’t hurt
I can’t explain it
Without words

You’re like a sunrise
You’re like a sun
You’re like the young bird
That hasn’t sung

I can’t look at you
You’re so beautiful
I can’t look at you
You’re so beautiful…

After having a good long nights rest, both Margaret and I woke up early this morning. She jumped on a conference call at 6am and I had already been working on The Palms Oceanfront Suites for a while. Max started stirring around 6:30. The first sounds were of him having a slight cough. The cough was not enough to wake him up but I knew we did not have too much time before he would bellow.

Margaret finished her call and was getting ready to leave the house just before 7 when Max finally popped his head up. Margaret hugged him a bit and let him know she needed to go to work. He laid back down only
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The Yes We Can Song
by will.i.am

I was sitting in my recording studio watching the debates…
Torn between the candidates

I was never really big on politics…
and actually I’m still not big on politics…
but 4 years ago, me and the black eyed peas supported Kerry…
And we supported Kerry with all our might…
We performed and performed and performed for the DNC…
doing all we could do to get the youth involved…

The outcome of the last 2 elections has saddened me…
on how unfair, backwards, upside down, unbalanced, untruthful,
corrupt, and just simply, how wrong the world and “politics” are…

So this year i wanted to get involved and do all i could early…

And i found myself torn…
because
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Dancing in times of stress…

War Dance - The Movie

Culture Spears - Kulenyane

MacBook Air Commercial
Yael Naïm @ Taratata
Yael Naim & Lucie Star Academy
New Soul (Cover)

New Soul MP3

I’m a new soul I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take
But since I came here felt the joy and the fear
Finding myself making every possible mistake

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la…

I’m a young soul in this very strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit about what is true and fake
But why all this hate? Try to communicate
Finding trust and love is not always easy to make

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la…

This is a happy end
cause’ you don’t understand
everything you have done
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“…because their ancestors were not Christians, they were cursed, Africa is cursed and the sins of their fathers are now visited upon all the children…”

Or, in the words of the great Max Romeo; “I’m going to put on an iron shirt and chase Satan out of earth!”

Kiss the Sky

I hold my head up just enough to see the skies
And when we go we won’t go slow we’ll put up such a fight
When they fade into dust and into ash
But all children know for sure this pain will surely pass
Strong and wise… and you are love
And when the tide it comes, you will float above
And you will be one day exactly what you are
Just keep your head held high
Kiss your fist and touch the sky

It’s not too late to keep the world from dying
It’s not too late to spread the love you have
One day when we are ready for crying
One day I know that we’ll be there
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