Bodega Pop's Super-Lush Summer Solstice-ish Listening Party!

 

TONIGHT from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins unedited sides of ear-bending DIY, funk, hip-hop, new wave, psychedelic, surf, and synthpop LPs from Brazil, Egypt, Germany, Japan, Mali, Mexico, South Africa, and Singapore

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Ziad Rahbani | 7-10 PM EDT

 

Ziad Rahbani is Lebanon’s most famous living composer. The son of the legendary singer Fairuz, Rahbani began his career in his early teens. Beirut-born DJ Ernesto Chahoud and French label We Want Sounds have reissued a handful of Rahbani’s enduring albums recently, but this show will mostly concentrate on work by the composer that has yet to be published outside of the Arabic-speaking world.

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Chants Algériens | 7-10 PM EDT

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, Bodega Pop spins Algerian music on 45, cassette, and LP

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London Is the Place for Me | 7-10 PM EDT

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, we spin African, African-American, Arabic, Asian, Caribbean, and Yiddish artists in the capital

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From Mahraganat to Shaabi with special guest Andrew Simon

 

TONIGHT from 7-10 PM EDT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, Bodega Pop will be taking something of an audio tour of Andrew Simon’s new book Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt. Simon joins the broadcast (at approx. 7:30 pm)  to explore how Cairo street music mahraganat—and the official attempts to censor it—began decades earlier with shaabi, a form of folk music from northern Egypt, popular on cassette.

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On the DL: Stalking Duppi | 7-10 PM EDT

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, we'll listen to Japanese '80s underground from 45s, LPs, and flexi-discs downloaded from the late, great music blog, Stalking Duppi.

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Asakawa Maki 1970-80 | 7-10 PM EDT

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, Bodega Pop spins an all-vinyl immersion into the first decade of Asakawa Maki (浅川マキ), one of Japan's most beloved underground singers, featuring some of her greatest folk, blues, jazz, and avant-garde tracks

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Every Day Is Record Store Day | 7-10 PM EDT

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio we spin recent-ish record store finds on vinyl from Benin, Brazil, Ethiopia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Turkey, and Zambia

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WORLD 2.0 | 7-10 PM EDT

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, we spin adventurous 21st century tracks from Brazil, China, Congo, East Turkistan, Egypt, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Spain, Senegal, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, USA, Vietnam

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The Third Unheard | 7-10 PM EDT

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, we'll be spinning  leftfield sounds from Japanese women and East German men on vinyl. Libyan Tuareg and some other obscure North African stuff. Israeli-Yemenite funk and International folk. Connecticut hip hop.

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