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May 15, 2012 02:33 pm PDT
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Awesome Tapes From Africa and beyond
Brian Shimkovitz was on a Fulbright scholarship in Ghana when he got hooked on the cassette culture of the region. Street vendors hawked West African recordings in myriad genres, from highlife to African disco, old left-field soul to curious local pop. Shimkovitz started a blog, Awesome Tapes from Africa, and a record label to share [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/zvsxuEbAhkM/awesome-tapes-from-africa-and.html
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