MAUXUAM
Viceversa
ICHILLCD033
Interchill Records 2008
10 Tracks. 73mins06secs
Buy: The world is getting smaller: just ask an electronic musician. True, the concept of “world music†is nothing new, but attempts at harvesting non-Western musics in bite-size pieces for white people to listen to has generally been fraught with (un)intentional exotification and misappropriation of said musical cultures. Good intentions, certainly, but as the saying goes, there leads the path to hell; listen to any of the dime-a-dozen compilations with yawning beats over tambura loops from the mid-nineties and tell me I’m wrong.
The past few years have seen an upset in this formula for the positive, however, as increasing Internet speeds and ease of access to digital media has fostered a more universally collaborative global musical realm. Continue Reading »
