Thank you!

John

The films’ plots too have strong pan-African appeal. They often revolve around the travails of new arrivals in big cities—an experience familiar across the continent. The epic film “One God One Nation” portrays a Muslim man and a Christian woman who struggle to marry. “Caught in the Act” shows a wife who is wrongly accused by her own mother-in-law of abducting a child. Nollywood films depict families whose faith has been shattered, whose certainties have been undermined. They show ordinary people struggling to make sense of a fast-changing, unkind world. Aspirations are dashed. Trust is forsaken. The overarching theme of Nollywood films is Africa’s troubled journey to modernity. Because Hollywood films tend to show people at the other end of that journey, they fail to resonate.

Nigeria’s rapidly growing film industry.

Basis: It seems that last year’s chillwave movement — while it may have outlived GoogleWave — has officially become boring: utterly beached. Sun’s gone. Night’s come.  Teen – age – Ice – age. And with this Night, comes glimmering synths, handclaps & drummachines, croons. Consider Twin Shadow, who with his ’10/10′ Forget pulled it off all so well. With 2011, let’s usher in the overly sentimental, the too articulate. In 2011, let’s smile till it hurts.

Project: Here are some new wave tracks from all around the world. I’ve used several from a selection of killer vietnamese/german new wave tapes I’ve come across since September as well as some perhaps more familiar selections. I’ve done some reversing, some sampling of my own, and had a wonderful time mixing it all together. It’s a blast. I hope you like it. Fill up your pencaps and Have a Happy New Year.

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to see tracklist…

0. Intro

1. Linda Trang Đài – Ever Lasting Love

2. Violens – Acid Reign

3. Suzy Andrews – Teenage Iceage

4. Michael CHánh – Black is Black

5. Twin Shadow – At My Heels

6. Phillippe Laurent – Interferon

7. Vy Lan – Back Seat of Your Cadillac

8. Hooray for Earth vs Twin Shadow – A Place We Like

9. The Samps – FXNC

10. Lilian – I Fell The Earth Move

11. Knut Skodvin – Seg Og Hor Jenten Fra

12. Games – Strawberry Skies

13. Frank (Just Frank) – Mr. Itagaki

14. Goûts De Luxe – Last Train

15. Cao Lâm – In Shaire

16. Fred A. – Ik En Mezelf

17. Trizzie Phuong Trinh – Can’t Take My Eyes Off You

0. Outro

Jessie Thorn talks to Jad Abumrad about what goes into making Radiolab, and no surprise, it’s super thoughtful. He talks a lot about storytelling, words and music; also audio editing, which I was really into.

PODCAST VERSION HERE

Autre Ne Veut – S/T (2010)

Altered Zones has an interview and mp3s.

Via the Bygone Bureau’s Best blogs of 2010

Because more journalism should be long-form.