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PLAYLIST:
TELEVISION - MARQUEE MOON
THIS HEAT - HORIZONTAL HOLD (LIVE ON JOHN PEEL SESSIONS)
LADDIO BOLOCKO - NURSER
SPRAIN - GOD, OR WHATEVER YOU CALL IT

mode8 #35: felt like playing yoshi

No theme this week despite the title, just felt like including some tracks from the Yoshi catalogue. Enjoy!

Youtube Playlist!

Map // Yoshi’s Island
World 1 // Yoshi’s Woolly World
Round and Round // Yoshi’s Crafted World
Spirit of Kindness // Yoshi Topsy-Turvy
Shop // BOXBOY! + BOXGIRL!
Secret Of The Forest // Chrono Trigger
Tennis – Training // Wii Sports
SnOut 2: Slither Into The Ring! — Loeder
Pirate Man Stage // Mega Man and Bass
Bye Bye There! // Pizza Tower
Men at Work! // Papa’s Low Blood Pressure
Electroplankton // Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Yo, Go Crazy // Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse
Try, Try Again // Mario and Luigi Dream Team
Lick Fighter: Battle Against a Lick — tohomoko
End Credits // Bottoms (the movie)
Wavebreak Foxtrot — Hatsuki

Girl Rock 10/3/2023 PUNKTOBER!!!

Hot Topic // Le Tigre
Hitch-hike // Kleenex
Nasty Man// Doll Skin
Too Many Creeps // Bush Tetras

You Can’t Change Me // Fea
Typical Girls // The Slits
And Breeding // Priests
Late Stage Solution // Diode

Muerte en Paraiso // Mujeres Podridas
Back to Reaction // Surfbort
Pretend We’re Dead // L7
Kung Fu on the Internet // Lung Leg

Les Be in Love // Surfbort
Outta My Mind // Doll Skin
Greedy Goblin // Judy and the Jerks
Girl Germs // Bratmobile

Kiss Me Girl // Hands Off Gretel
Dead to Me // Scowl
Cat Call // The Side Eyes
Losing Weight // Cloud Rat

Fear // Selective Aggression
I Believe You// White Lung

Crush #222

to celebrate our angel number episode, we’re playing dream pop from the heavens above~

Heavenly Music by Creezon

tonite’s playlist:

blown a wish – my bloody valentine

spooning good singing gum – cocteau twins

shiny tiny stars starlight mix – loveliescrushing

moments of absence – vision eternal

nova dive

inertia – violet oscillation

untitled #5 – CMD094

II eternity – swirl

today is a present – dandelions

coptic – fader

country rain – slowdive

shirley temple tidal wave – airiel

vapour trail – ride

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continental drift 10/2/23 – ghana

Welcome to Continental Drift, everyone! This week, we’ll be traveling to Ghana! You can find the playlist here and listen to the episode here.

The Republic of Ghana is a West African country bordered by Burkina Faso to the north, Côte D’ivoire to the west, Togo to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the South. Its capital is Accra, and with a population of around 34 million, Ghana is the 48th most populous country in the world and the second most populous African country, behind only Nigeria. The official language of Ghana is English, but Ghana is vastly multiethnic and contains various national languages recognized by the Ghanaian government such as Twi, Ewe, Fante, and numerous others.

Ghanaian traditional music differs based on which part of the country you’re in; in the north, traditional music acts very similar to other African countries in the same sort of geographic region; you get lots of melodic music played on a variety of instruments, and like other African countries, northern Ghana has a history of the performance of griots, who were kind of like a caste of bards who would alternately serve as advisors, storytellers, musicians, and oral recordkeepers. Very cool stuff! 

In the south, where there would be more urbanization due to being near a water source, you get music that’s more closely related to social functions, which means inevitably a good portion of it will be dancing music. Tonight’s first song is music for an adowa dance, and adowa is performed at all sorts of cultural events from weddings to funerals, with specific movements meant to communicate different emotional states. Other dances, like kete, exist as well, fulfilling different roles within the social atmosphere. 

Traditional Music Segment:

Adowa: Mpre // Yiadom Boakye and Manhyia Tete Nwomkoro

Kete: Kyenkyehene // Kete Children’s Group and Mr. PK Attah

In addition to traditional music, Ghanaian music of more recent origin also exists. Perhaps the best-known Ghanaian music genre is called highlife; it involves an underlying guitar melody played over a rhythmic percussion part that sounds very similar to the Cuban clave percussion pattern. Highlife particularly got really big after World War 2, and many groups began to emulate it, not just in Ghana, but also in Nigeria and London. 

Emmanuel Tetteh (E.T.) Mensah

E.T. Mensah (not to be confused with the politician of the same name), regarded as the King of Highlife.

Highlife Segment

Son of Africa // Kwamalah Quaye Sextetto Africana

205 // E.T. Mensah

Highlife // Yiadom Boakye and Manhyia Tete Nwomkoro

OK so in a sort of reversal of this last segment, we’re now going to feature a genre which isn’t native to Ghana, but which gained some level of prominence in it; specifically, we’re talking about Afrobeat, which is like this sort of mix of a bunch of different genres (including highlife!) but mainly influenced by funk and soul. It was developed in the ‘60s in Nigeria, but it definitely sort of diffused to other areas in Africa, Ghana included. 

Afrobeat Segment

Afe Ato Yen Bio // De Frank and His Professionals

Obiara Wondo // The Cutlass Band

In the ‘60s, when rock and roll made its way to Ghana, young musicians in Accra were like “hey I actually kinda like this” and developed kpanlogo (named after the type of drums used in the music), a new type of dance influenced by rock and roll, but still very much musically rooted in traditional instruments and performance styles. It was a bit of a mixing of the old and the new, sort of. And this would’ve been very soon after Ghana got its independence from Great Britain in the late ‘50s, so in a sense it can also serve as a sort of transitional marker for Ghanaian musical history and political history. 

Kpanlogo Segment 

Kpanlogo // Elikeh

Kpanlogo // The Peace Brass Band Drummers

Kpanlogo wasn’t the only adaptation of old styles of dance, though. One of the more recent music genres from Ghana is called Azonto, which is believed to have its roots in an older dance called Apaa, which is centered around hand movements that sort of mime everyday activities. I realize that maybe radio isn’t the best way to explain performance genres that heavily involve a visual component, but y’know what, that’s why we have this blog post, so it’s no skin off my back.

A group of Ghanaian youths performing an Azonto dance

Azonto Segment

You Go Kill Me // Sarkodie and E.L

Twaame Lala // Stay Jay

Move to Da Gyal Dem – Sarkodie Mix // Donae’o, Sarkodie

Honestly I Just Wanted An Excuse to Play This One

Waiting for My Baby // De Frank and His Professionals