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Ubuntu

Apr 1, 2026 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Music

3:05 PM		Nuri Asfer Nuri Irun Shouka 2020
3:10 PM		Metttani Exile (Animislam Roscius rework) Metttani Divīne Shouka 2019
3:17 PM		Budalagi HAPA NI WAPI (Dåser Remix) Budalagi HAPA NI WAPI - EP Vief Records 2025
3:22 PM		Talvin Singh O.K. Talvin Singh O.K. Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1998
3:26 PM		Must Rousnam Lersal Must Rousnam Aswat Jamila Must Rousnam 2025
3:30 PM		Juno Reactor Hulelam Juno Reactor Shango Metropolis Records 2000
3:34 PM		Deep Forest Deep Forest Deep Forest World Mix Celine 1998
3:39 PM		Kumodi /Kaggen (the Trickster God) Africa dives 2020
3:42 PM		Dreamcatcher Seventh Heaven Dreamcatcher Dreamcatcher Universal-Island Records Ltd. 1997
3:45 PM		Masakatsu Takagi Urute Kagayaki Takagi Masakatsu 2014
3:57 PM		Jali Nyama Suso Kuruntu Kelefa et Kelefabaa Jali Nyama Suso Gambie, L'art De La Kora (Série archives) Ocora Radio France 2019
4:07 PM		Khalab Tiende! (feat. Clap! Clap!) Khalab Eunoto - EP Black Acre Records 2015
4:11 PM		Innocent Kimpe & Praktika Kénéya Malabobo - Single 2026
4:16 PM		MANCHO 3 Mancho- Africa Trip Tape 2018
4:19 PM		St Germain Real Blues St Germain St Germain Parlophone (France) 2015
4:23 PM		Culoe De Song Exodus Culoe De Song Exodus Universal Music (Pty) Ltd. 2013
4:30 PM		Culoe De Song Journey of Love (feat. Thandi Draai) Culoe De Song Exodus Universal Music (Pty) Ltd. 2013
4:36 PM		Banga Tournesol Banga Obaka Banga 2023
4:40 PM		Montparnasse Musique Malele (feat. Menga Waku) Montparnasse Musique Archeology Real World Records 2022
4:44 PM		Konono N°1 Paradiso Konono N°1 Congotronics Crammed Discs 2004
4:51 PM		Tshegue Mais Mais - Single Animal63 2022
4:54 PM		Tshegue When You Walk Tshegue Survivor - EP Ekler 2017

Chat is archived.

wazzzzaaaaa. Taking a break from the idiocy of Google photo storage before I lose my mind. Analog scrapbooks are easier to use and find pics than Google.

Whats up Matt! Do NOT get me started on google photos

I get 5 emails everyday letting me know my storage has run out

Google should seriously be held accountable for digital war crimes.

I visited Google in Mountain View, CA, on a tour and they all called themselves "smart" repeatedly. Yet Google photos is the dumbest thing I may have ever seen.

They're so luck I'm lazy to get a hardrive

lucky*

them and apple

anyway, tunes soundin great, DJ!

Thanks for tuning in!!

Deep Forest! Takes me back to the strange 1990s

what was so strange about them?

Just a weird decade. Wacky Pomo in advertising; the ramp-up of the internet; the beginnings of dystopia.

a lotta heroin in the 1990s. Seems wholesome now contrasted with Fent & Tranq

where the "zombies" a phenomenon back then too?

Absolutely! Good question. I saw 28 Days Later in the theater with pinkeye LOL. Zombies were yuge in the early 2000s.

ah yes the griot tradition, fascinating

Khalab has a cool Donkey Kong Island thing going

haha yeah I guess that's right

DJ have you read Amos Tutuola? Nigerian writer, does some awesome magic realism in his writing

the dude who wrote Things Fall Apart gets all the Nigerian literary cred, but I much prefer Amos Tutuola any day

what do you rec by him matt

Sorry to miss this week, I'm off for Passover. Dan from Tomorrow is an Octopus fills in at 5!

DJ Jagannath: hi! The Palm-Wine Drinkard is really good, and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is wildin

Jon happy Passover. Enjoy!

Palm wine drinkard is such a trip

Jon put some Manishevitz back for me. I miss that stuff.

i'll put that on the goodreads

I unfortunately read too many old white men

DJ Twizzy it is! I love how they didn't correct Tutuola's pidgin english, either. He is so unique.

DJ Jagannath haaaaaaaaaaaaa

DJ Jagannath, dont give up on the white man. William T Vollmann just published a 3400-word novel that makes David Foster Wallace look like the kiddie table.

or actually WTV's 3400 page epic comes out in June

sorry to miss you this week Jon!

haha I know someone who likes vollmann but I fear I can't do maximalist postmodern in my current state

DJ Jagannath, WTV was a Unabomber suspect (which really fucked up his life), he was cleared, but he ran with the Muhajdeen in Afghanistan for awhile and got on a CIA watchlist LOL

DJ Jagannath, WTV is hard to keep up with. 3.6 million words published over his career. The man is inhuman, but very good.

my favorite books tend to be of that tendency but i have no time, alas. too busy searching for music

pynchon, gaddis, etc. never read dfw

DJ Jagannath, always good to know your limits. I had some grueling childhood experiences, so my nervous system is wired for grueling experiences LOLOL. Like 3400 word novels.

dude how do you read pynchon, I' ve had this copy og gravity's rainbow sitting on mym shelf for 5 years now

DJ Twizzy LOLOLOLOLOLOL

I just thought the cover looked cool

I have trouble gettin into Pynchon, but I respect him deeply

Miami vice was a little better but still preetty hard to get a sense of what was going on

why do you respect him?

DJ Jagannath, I edited a southern goth writer named William Gay you may like. He is the poor man's Cormac LOL

I just respect the ass-in-chair writers with strong output. Writing novels is crazymaking.

Lauren Groff is a badass female grit lit writer from Gainesville, FL. She destroys all her first drafts on principle, as warm-ups. Fukn hardcore!

the child of Groff and Vollmann would, clearly, be the Ubermensch of literature

any good books you've read recently?

ooooo this Culoe De Song song is nice

His work is excellent, highly recommend

Dj Twizzy, the N-Body Problem by Tony Burgess is fukn a trip. It's about climate change, pandemic, and body horror, all written before the pandy

but be forewarned it goes shamelessly into places that scuzzy and nightmarish

*are

dj check out this label if you haven't yet https://igetrvng.com/ very cool, clean, global sounds with high recording standards

good brain musics with a global sense

Thanks will do!!

one of their early comps is super good, all killer no filler

I listened to its diaspora-sounds driving thru old plantation South Carolina, which was a heady experience

sorry i had to hop off but

i recently made it through gravity's rainbow

and honestly I wasn't a huge fan

I do really love Mason and Dixon though

is it more "accessible" lol

kind of

Nice! It's hard for me to encounter quotation marks in books after reading a shitload of Cormac LOL

he writes it in ye olde style

but it's more human, so to speak. less pessimistic and skeptical

there are actual characters, for one

I think my thoughts on literature have changed a bit after reading Lukacs' Theory of the Novel

are you an editor matt? that's sick

DJ Jagannath, I am. Guilty as charged. Southern goth/grit lit field.

so impressed with yall's reading habits and enthusiasm, great to hear

lol with all the names you were throwing at me yesterday I figured

I spent my covid years shut in a room reading an inordinate amount of books

which I guess is not the worst way to go about it

Dj Jagannath, you'll dig this: William Gay once went to a literary event to shake Cormac's EDITOR'S hand. William said: I just needed to meet the motherfucker with the balls to edit Cormac.

haha are you in as difficult a position

Dj Jagannath you handled the pandy well! Well played.

DJ Jagannath, William is deceased and was super easygoing and easy to edit, cuz he wrote in his head all day at his dayjob before putting words down in the eve. I only called him out on comma splices now and again.

William also knew Stephen King was gonna call at a certain time, and William let it ring and sat out in the creek in back his house. That is the most punk rock thing, ever. And I love King.

Tennesseans are kinda surly and passive-aggressive like that. Sorry. TMI! LOL

not tmi at all lol

I was planning on doing a show of songs with literary references you should make sure to be there for that

DJ Jagannath read Dave Eggers? Sweetest dude.

DJ Jagannath I shant miss it.

DJ Twizzy another banger show! Many thanks for the curation.

Thanks for tuning in!!!

different flavors this week, which was cool, DJ

don't think i have

great to talk lit with yall

thanks for puttin the brilliance on the gem of NJ, wprb

my pleasure!!!