Musik Line is a journal / blog dedicated to sound system culture and to African, Caribbean and other music. I update it irregularly with articles, interviews, mixes, reviews and other interesting sonic and literary fragments.
Current features are:
Jamaica Jamaica!
- A mix from the Philharmonie de Paris expo
Riddim Shack 5
- No Sleeping!
Riddim Shack 4
- Big big business
Cutting and Running in the Zouglou Nation
- Zouglou, coupé-décalé and DJ culture in Côte d'Ivoire
Riddim Shack 3
- Rave o'clock in Dominica
Fade 2 presents Riddim Shack! - The Reload
- Tun up, get low
Interzone Dub
- New album, now available on the Black Redemption label
Riddim Click!
- 90s / 00s dancehall versions
Groupe al-Redha
- Shocking out in Tangier's suburbs
Blue Bar Hotel
- A mix of funk, disco, highlife, soukous and suchlike
Everyday Hustle: Sat. 22 Dec. 2012
- Self-promotion
Gwoka Nation: Jocelyn Gabali and the Music of Guadeloupe
- Struggle, commercialization and why gwoka isn't a tradition
FADE 2 presents RIDDIM SHACK
- Bring your airhorns and whistles for this global carnival tour
Mixes Part 1: Dub
- 70s roots, digi, UK steppas, dubstep and beyond
Ras Kush: Sound of Brooklyn
- Black Redemption and the New York sound system scene
Ten years of reggae and dub
- 2k0-2k9
Tambou means drums
- a short mix from the Antilles and Africa
Wall of Sound
- Berlin Wall sound map
African Dancehall and Hip Hop Minimix
- bump and grind
RAW dub style
- the Berlin dub scene and the RAW.tempel
Sofrito and the Antilles
- a musical voyage round the French Caribbean
1315 Broadway, 1988
- a first encounter with The Music Institute and Detroit techno
Empty Barrels Make The Most Noise
- soundboy killing with Stone Love
Gnawa: Music and the Black Diaspora in Morocco
- notes on the gnawa confraternity in Morocco, their history and identity, from the sixteenth century to the present day
Play the Music Stand Tall Man!
- dancehall session from the Stand Tall sound system in Paris, 1993
Tarantism
- the Italian cult of the tarantula, and its relation to music, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Shaka in Africa
- Jah Shaka's history lesson about the repatriation movement, from 1989
Hip Hop in Nouakchott
- a snapshot of the hip hop scene in Mauritania in 2005
Rih: Folk and Blues from Morocco
- mix, with notes, of spiritual and popular music from 1970s Morocco
What is Musik Line?
- music and business with Prince Nico Mbarga and Rocafil Jazz
Stay tuned for future installments. Please feel free to leave your comments, or get in touch via musikline at googlemail com.
Enjoy!
