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La música ambiental, una invitación a suspender el tiempo
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- Tuesday, 26 April 2022
La música ambiental siempre ha contenido una especie de conocimiento subterráneo.
Why a Mughal-era instrument is fading from Pakistan’s music scene
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- Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Remarkable for its resemblance to a plaintive human voice, the classical instrument is fading from Pakistan’s music scene – except for a few players dedicated to preserving its place.
House music is alive and well in South Africa
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- Tuesday, 12 April 2022
In much of the world, house music has already had its day — but in South Africa, it is pop music. Here's why this musical genre has remained king.
Unique to Jakarta, centuries-old tambourine music returns with Ramadan
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- Tuesday, 12 April 2022
The sound of tambourines has returned to the narrow alleys of southern Jakarta after a long pandemic hiatus, marking the month of Ramadan with distinctive Islamic devotional music native to the Indonesian capital.
The Surprising Influence of Classical in Metal Music
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- Tuesday, 12 April 2022
To most observers, the world of classical music and that of hard rock, particularly heavy metal, could not seem more disparate.
Rock français, la carte jeune
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- Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Donné pour moribond, le rock fait son grand retour en France. Une nouvelle génération de groupes et de labels fleurit partout dans le pays. Reste à transformer le phénomène underground en succès commercial.
LCD Soundsystem: auge, desaparición y regreso de los rockeros intelectuales que se hicieron adultos en España
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- Tuesday, 12 April 2022
Esta historia comienza con una pastilla. La “Mitsubishi” que le ofrecieron a James Murphy en el club Vanity de Nueva York mientras pinchaba David Holmes, alrededor de 2001.
A short history of electronic music
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- Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Where do you begin a history of electronic music and the synthesizer? The popular and somewhat easy view is that the two are entwined, that electronic music started with the invention of the synthesiser and its use in the 60s and 70s. But actually the synthetic manipulation of sound, and the machines that did it can be traced back further.
The Decline of Current Pop
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- Tuesday, 29 March 2022
There are a number of issues which periodically drive a shift in listening preference from new music to older music, but the key reason is when too much current pop sounds the same for too long.
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