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Kinshasa One Two
''Kinshasa One Two'' is an album recorded by Damon Albarn alongside ten producers of the newly established DRC Music (Democratic Republic of the Congo Music) group, to benefit Oxfam's work in Congo. Background Recorded in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, within five out of nine days spent there during July 2011, the album was intended to shine a light on contemporary Congolese musicians, featuring more than 50 local performers, notably Nelly Liyemge, Jupiter Bokondji & Okwess International and Bokatola System. DRC Music is composed of producers Damon Albarn, Dan the Automator, XL Recordings managers Richard Russell (XL Recordings), Richard Russell & Rodaidh McDonald, Jneiro Jarel, DJ Actress (musician), Darren Cunningham aka Actress, Marc Antoine (musician), Marc Antoine, Alwest, Remi Kabaka, Remi Kabaka Jr., Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Kwes. Album was released digitally by Warp Records on 3 October 2011, followed by a CD edition in digipak and a d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinshasa
Kinshasa (; ; ln, Kinsásá), formerly Léopoldville ( nl, Leopoldstad), is the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Once a site of fishing and trading villages situated along the Congo River, Kinshasa is now one of the world's fastest growing megacities. The city of Kinshasa is also one of the DRC's 26 provinces. Because the administrative boundaries of the city-province cover a vast area, over 90 percent of the city-province's land is rural in nature, and the urban area occupies a small but expanding section on the western side. Kinshasa is Africa's third-largest metropolitan area after Cairo and Lagos. It is also the world's largest nominally Francophone urban area, with French being the language of government, education, media, public services and high-end commerce in the city, while Lingala is used as a ''lingua franca'' in the street. Kinshasa hosted the 14th Francophonie Summit in October 2012. Residents of Kinshasa are known as ''Kinoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan The Automator
Daniel M. Nakamura better known by his stage name Dan the Automator, is an American record producer from San Francisco, California. He is the founder of the publishing company Sharkman Music and the record label 75 Ark. Early life Nakamura was born in San Francisco, California on 20 December 1968. His parents spent time in Internment of Japanese Americans, Japanese internment camps as children. His father worked for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and his mother taught at City College of San Francisco. As a child, he learned to play violin. While in high school, he became immersed in hip hop culture. He graduated from San Francisco State University. Career Nakamura started his career as a DJ when he was a teenager. After seeing the younger DJs DJ Qbert and Mix Master Mike performing live, he decided to focus on producing tracks. He first gained attention for his work on Kool Keith's 1996 album ''Dr. Octagonecologyst''. His debut EP, ''Music to Be Murdered By'', was released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. Online music store Paid downloads are sometimes encoded with d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remi Kabaka Jr
Remi Kabaka Jr. (born 11 April 1970) is a British record producer, art director, percussionist and voice actor best known as the drummer and producer for British virtual band Gorillaz. He became a music producer for the band in 2015 after several years of providing the voice of Russel Hobbs and was listed as an A&R producer alongside Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett in the 2019 documentary ''Gorillaz: Reject False Icons''. In 2007, Kabaka created the audiovisual collective Gorillaz Sound System. Career Along with his work with Gorillaz, Kabaka has collaborated further with the band's frontman Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett on other projects including DRC, Africa Express and Bobby Womack's album ''The Bravest Man in the Universe''. Kabaka is also a manager of Steve Lazarides's London art gallery, which regularly exhibits work by the artist Banksy Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based street artist, political activist and film director whose real name and identity r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aitor Throup
Aitor Throup (born 1980, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an artist, designer and creative director. Throup is best known for his menswear label 'New Object Research' which has shown at London Fashion Week Men's. Throup's G-Star Raw Research line is shown during Paris Fashion Week in a gallery setting. His work for, and collaborations with, Damon Albarn, Kasabian, Flying Lotus, Umbro, C.P. Company, Stone Island, and G-Star Raw are well known and often still studied. Throup most recently debuted his modular costume designs for the 'Autobiography' dance work by Company Wayne McGregor. Aitor Throup's work is always informed by anatomy and movement. Early life and education Born in Argentina, Throup moved first to Spain and then to Burnley, Lancashire in 1992. Growing up in Burnley influenced his interest in football culture and kit. Throup's interest in anatomy and movement came at an earlier age when his mother was training to become a medical doctor, and he would find himself surr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digipak
Optical disc packaging is the packaging that accompanies CDs, DVDs, and other formats of optical discs. Most packaging is rigid or semi-rigid and designed to protect the media from scratches and other types of exposure damage. Jewel case A jewel CD case is a compact disc case that has been used since the compact disc was first released in 1982. It is a three-piece plastic case, measuring , a volume of , which usually contains a compact disc along with the liner notes and a back card. Two opposing transparent halves are hinged together to form the casing, the back half holding a media tray that grips the disc by its hole. All three parts are made of injection-moulded polystyrene. The front lid contains two, four, or six tabs to keep any liner notes in place. The liner notes typically will be a booklet, or a single leaf folded in half. In addition, there is usually a back card, , underneath the media tray and visible through the clear back, often listing the track names, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwes
Kwes (; sometimes stylised as ''kwes'', ''kwes.'', ''Kwes.'' or '' =o'' ) is a British music producer and artist from London, England. Kwes is also currently signed to Warp as a solo artist and released his debut album, ''ilp'' in October 2013. Biography Kwes began playing his grandparents' organ at the age of four and his grandmother bought him his first small keyboard aged 5. For his tenth birthday, he received a radio/tape recorder with a built-in microphone, which launched his interest in sound recording.(January 2009)Kwes. / [o=o]. Retrieved 17 November 2011. Kwes has chromesthesia (sound-to-colour synaesthesia).Fitzmaurice, Larry (11 June 2010)Kwes: 'No Need To Run' , Forkcast , Pitchfork ''Pitchfork''. Retrieved 17 November 2011. His earliest synaesthetic experiences occurred around the age of 4 and he attempted to colour paper with the particular colours he was seeing when listening to music. These colours have been set since he first discovered his condit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
Orlando Tobias Edward Higginbottom (born 7 March 1986), known professionally as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (or TEED), is a British electronic music producer, DJ and singer-songwriter based in the United States. Early life Orlando is the son of Professor Edward Higginbottom, formerly conductor of the choir of New College, Oxford. He was educated at Abingdon School and Cherwell School, Oxford. A classically trained musician, he attended the Junior Royal Academy of Music in London. Orlando began listening to electronic music in his early teens, through borrowing audio tapes from his older siblings. Orlando commented to ''Spin'' that he was looking for a name that "couldn't be cool, couldn't be put into some kind of scene that gets hip for six months and then falls out of fashion." Musical career On 11 June 2012 TEED's debut album ''Trouble'' was released by Polydor Records. The album was well received, with favourable reviews from several well-respected music publicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remi Kabaka
Remi Kabaka (born 27 March 1945) is an Afro-rock avant-garde drummer. He worked with John Martyn, Hugh Masekela, on ''Rhythm of the Saints'' by Paul Simon, and ''Short Cut Draw Blood'' by Jim Capaldi. He was also an important figure in the 1970s afro-jazz scene, composing the music to the film ''Black Goddess''. Discography * 1973: ''Aiye-Keta'' (with Steve Winwood and Abdul Lasisi Amao, as Third World) * 1980: ''Roots Funkadelia'' (Polydor) * 1983: ''Great Nation'' (R.A.K.) * 2020: ''Mystic Souls'' appears as a guest with The Jazz Messiahs ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the ... track #4, #5, #6, #7, #8) (Soulitude Records) JM S-1205-2 url=https://www.soulituderecords.com/the-jazz-messiahs References 1945 births Living people musicians from Kano Nigerian drumm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Antoine (musician)
Marc Jean Roland Antoine Vouilloux (born 28 May 1963) known professionally as Marc Antoine, is a jazz guitarist from France. Biography Early life Marc Antoine was born Marc Jean Roland Antoine Vouilloux in Paris, France. Recording career Solo career ''Hi-Lo Split'', was released on Peak Records in 2007; the album features a cover of R&B and jazz classic "Spooky". Discography * ''Classical Soul'' ( GRP, 1994) * ''Urban Gypsy'' (GRP, 1995) * ''Madrid'' (GRP, 1998) * ''Universal Language'' (GRP, 2000) * ''Cruisin' '' (GRP, 2001) * ''Mediterranéo'' (Rendezvous Entertainment, 2003) * ''Modern Times'' (Rendezvous, 2005) * ''Hi-Lo Split'' (Peak Peak or The Peak may refer to: Basic meanings Geology * Mountain peak ** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics * Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion * Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-di ..., 2007) * ''Foreign Exchange'' with Paul Brown (Peak, 2009) * ''My Classical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actress (musician)
Darren J. Cunningham (born 23 August 1979) is a British electronic musician, who uses the pseudonym Actress. His albums include '' Hazyville'' (2008), '' Splazsh'' (2010), '' R.I.P.'' (2012), ''Ghettoville'' (2014), '' AZD'' (2017), ''LAGEOS'' (with the London Contemporary Orchestra; 2018), ''88'' (2020), and '' Karma & Desire'' (2020); released on Ninja Tune, Honest Jon's Records, and Werkdiscs, a label he co-founded in 2004. ''Splazsh'' was named best album of the year by ''The Wire''. Biography Growing up, Cunningham was a footballer, signing and playing for West Bromwich Albion until suffering an injury which derailed his career. His first introduction to music came through a friend who had a basic music studio set up in his student accommodation. When he went travelling, Cunningham purchased his studio equipment for £200. When he first began making music, Cunningham did not use a metronome, a technique which he says has contributed to how his "style developed". To fund h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jneiro Jarel
Omar Jarel Gilyard, known by his stage name Jneiro Jarel, is an American recording artist, music producer, composer and Disc Jockey, DJ. Recognized for his versatile, abstract, and often experimental style, he is also known for his beat-making alias Dr. Who Dat? and his groups Willie Isz, JJ Doom and Shape of Broad Minds. He has collaborated with artists such as Damon Albarn, Count Bass D, Massive Attack, TV on the Radio and Kimbra among others. History Jarel was born in Brooklyn. He spent several years of his life living in Maryland, Arizona, Atlanta and Houston, before eventually moving back to New York City. It was in New York that he started his own label, Orienj Recordings (now Label Who?), and released his first EP as a solo artist. In 2003 he signed to indie record label Kindred Spirits, and was the sole representative from New York to participate in and perform at Red Bull Music Academy in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2004 Jneiro moved to Philadelphia and, through his succ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
