DJ Katapila, Cult Ghanaian Producer, Dies at 50
The innovative Accra musician and DJ was an “inimitable producer, disc jockey, and mobile party-starter,” his label Awesome Tapes From Africa said
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Ghanaian DJ and Awesome Tapes From Africa alum Katapila has died
Katapila, a Ghanaian DJ and Awesome Tapes From Africa alum, has died on Sunday, January 21, after battling a brief illness.
Source: nme.com
Ghanaian DJ and Awesome Tapes From Africa alum Katapila has died
Katapila, a Ghanaian DJ and Awesome Tapes From Africa alum, has died on Sunday, January 21, after battling a brief illness.
Source: nme.com
Anjimile, Hailu Mergia, and More Best Bets for Nov. 30–Dec. 6
A free show at Millennium Stage, Anjimile at DC9, local musician Mergia at Union Stage, Christmas with the Tudors, and Lydia Loveless.
Source: washingtoncitypaper.com
Marc Masters’s High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
The cassette tape is the audio equivalent of the AK-47: cheap and easy to mass manufacture; highly usable with the minimum of skills and experience; and a symbol and tool of revolutions. Marc Masters doesn’t use that metaphor in his excellent and truly exciting book on cassette tapes, but he doesn’t have to. He outlines the story of how the cassette came to be the dominant recording medium on a global scale during the 1980s and into the mid-1990s, and by doing so shows how essential cassettes were to so many musical movements that they would have been impossible without the tapes tha...
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