Category: Music
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Ska-Rocksteady-Reggae, by Dj Lowkey
🎵 | The classic 60’s Rude Boy working-class Jamaican sounds. From Ska to Rocksteady, into Reggae, ‘People Get Ready‘! [DOWNLOAD HERE]
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CHILE, by DJ Sigua
🎵 | Music was often written, sung, and heard in political detention and torture centers in Chile during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). For many political prisoners, writing, playing, and listening to music were ways to register, process, remember, forget, and transcend difficult experiences. Music was a tool to preserve dignity and hope, to…
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Bachata Roja, by Dj Sigua
🎵 | Bachata is popular guitar music from the Dominican Republic. Now overwhelmingly successful in the United States, bachata took shape over a period of about forty years in the bars and brothels of Santo Domingo, not gaining acceptance in its native land until relatively recently. Young groups like Aventura have a similar relationship to…
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Borikén, by Dj Sigua
🎵 | This music is all from or about Borikén, aka “Puerto Rico.” Most of it is quite old. The exceptions are the fifth track, released in 2017; and the final track, which dropped in 2018. The set consists of the following six vocal tracks: Interspersed between them are four Taino drumming interludes, each of…