a sublime frequencies call out: how often do you listen to radio palestine, i remember syria, bush taxi mali, etc.

in other news, how's everybody doing today? what other titles do y'all recommend?

they're all on my ipod, which i always keep on random. so i listen all the time!

haha well if you're the type of person who sees world music as "novelty" i guess i can see where you're coming from.

i've realized this is a big part of my problem with these. cuz my random always seems to pick the interview with the gay syrian. or two minutes of motorcycles passing or kids playing whilst someone walks by coughing and a goat bleats in the distance.

haha well if you're the type of person who sees world music as "novelty" i guess i can see where you're coming from.

okay, poor choice of words.

Anyway, fine. I suck. Lock thread.

works for me!

i bought the palestine / morocco / syria discs and i sort of regretted it, too.

the thing is there are many radio stations in america pumping out the middle-eastern jams all the time. at least there's a bunch on the internet and there's at least one high-powered station you can get in southern california. i'd be surprised if the same wasn't true for chicago and new york.

Princess Nicotine
Cambodian Cassette Archives
Molam: Country Thai Groove

Pop Hits = very effective in shuffle mode.

Radio Java I loved but feels more like a full-length

I Remember Syria is kind of needs to be taken in intact, like a radio play. esp. disc 1

http://www.iranianradio.com

when i get home i'll post a few more (this is the part i admit i only know about persian radio and not arab radio)

the main difference between these radio stations and the sublime frequencies discs is that instead of dropping in the sound of goats / the sound of the bazaar these radio stations will drop usher or nina sky or whatever. it feels a little more vital to me this way.

actually here is a better link

http://www.iranianradio.com/listen.php

x-post:

vahid, great, this might be the only way to get me to listen to some U.S. pop stuff. I am more interested in Arabic radio, but I am also interested in Iranian music. I suspect there's more of it out there that I would like.

*swoon*

Next to the Conet Project box, these are the best things for iPod shuffle play ever.

ybca.org/fv/evening/apr05/sublime_frequencies.html

This definitely isn't a first offence. I can remember some milder but still FP-worthy antisemitic nonsense from the same poster before. But that shit belongs in The Daily Mail comments section.

he's a homophobe too fwiw

aye, that's him. I've seen him say stuff before on ilx but maybe not quite as explicit as this

ugh

Some years back he once nicely sent me a salsa mixtape, but sometime later, out of the blue, emailed to me a 9/11 conspiracy theory. Responded back that I wasn't interested and never heard from him direct again.

He was "Rockist Scientist" before. The Ulm Kulthum thread and a couple other threads largely feature posts from music he was listening to. Posted a fair amount on the most recent ILX top albums or tracks thread (and seemed to keep his focus there on the music ).

I've always thought of him as a v good poster on ilm with fairly unique taste but it's disappointing to see him say what he has.

^^ yeah agree w that, extremely disappointing

wow this thread, jeeze.

i had somehow completely missed any red flag posts from him before. i think he's been on ilx longer than me and i started on here in 2005 maybe?

When some ILM posters post about anything other than music, you sometimes realise you might have met them before on that bad trip you had through the 9 circles of hell, or The Comments Section as some would have it.

You might want to check a thread called Butthole Surfers- Classic or dud? he seems troubled of late :(

yeah maybe he had some kind of break

ah, having just spied that butthole surfers thread he is definitely not a well man

oh god i missed that thread revival but...yeah

if anyone knows him irl it might be a good idea to check he's ok.

Shit.

Apparently lives in Albuquerque. Formerly known as Rockist Scientist. Re-regged under this name in 2009.

see also R S LaRue (? ) for even more old school posts, I think

I did enjoy the Wassouf clip. And I will check in with Rudipherous (virtually).

Yeesh, only just saw what was happening.

that BS thread progression does not bode well

The various Radio ones are my favorites actually. I never tire of them. They allow me to imagine i'm somewhere more exotic and interesting than Joliet, Illinois.

Wow just read the last few posts and yeah the anti-Semitism caught me by surprise and is a major bummer. I guess i should check that Butts thread. The way you guys are talking makes me wonder if this may be another Bimble type situation. I hope not.

Wow! I really hope this guy will be o.k. That is a really odd read. Re: the butts thread

i understand what dude said was kind of alarming and p vile, but is it really possible to care about someone's wellbeing while also instantly excommunicating and shunning them? would it be so bad to unban him and attempt to dialogue?

good question for the moderator request board

Suck my asshole, sleepingbag

Ack, I got into Shiina Ringo years ago because of the ILM thread, which Rudipherous was largely responsible for keeping alive.

he's been posting a long time and his music knowledge is deep; the thing this place has over specialist / focused lists is the ability to cross-reference completely across genre, it's the people who make the connective links between wildly different artists who make the deepest contributions and I hope he's ok

thanks for checking in w/him, Sund4r

is it really possible to care about someone's wellbeing while also instantly excommunicating and shunning them?

yes, as long as lines of communication are kept open

would it be so bad to unban him and attempt to dialogue?

based on past board experiences with M March@nt and burt_stanton and others, I'd say "yes" here

Milton also otm

I haven't heard back from him, fwiw. If anyone is there irl or is in touch with him, maybe you'd want to check in idk?

Thanks for trying Sund4r. Does anyone know his irl name?

Yes, feel free to email for it.

it sucks that this thread went this way as his wake-up post is OTM, I learned Wassouf's music on a long flight last year and it's astonishing stuff.

There is a blog linked in his user profile (if you click on the user name under the post). I'm presuming it's his. There are fresh posts as of today. The antisemitism goes back years. That's as far as I'm going to pursue this.

Christ, it's even worse than I thought.

fuck this arsehole.

there are loads of posters on ILX who are "on the edge". I couldn't care less if this prick decides to take himself out.

I stopped communicating with him a little over a year ago (until yesterday) and am disturbed by the blog's contents but I still FPd you for that.

probably a bit harsh an a rush of blood, but fuck him tbh.

I mean maybe some good folk can harbour International Jewish conspiracies, without being irredeemably shit people. But I've never met any yet.

shame abt the antisemitism and transphobia and homophobia bc he has eclectic taste in music

There is a blog linked in his user profile (if you click on the user name under the post). I'm presuming it's his. There are fresh posts as of today. The antisemitism goes back years. That's as far as I'm going to pursue this.

You might want to put a little NSFW warning here.

Sorry if I came off as overly snarky in my last post but he's given me thinly veiled useless bigot creep vibes forever which I think were actually masked a bit even to myself by his world music expertise. I take his particular brand of bigotry a bit personally and he should never be allowed to return. May he find peace and enlightenment elsewhere.

Dinsdale: Thanks. I've amended the post.

Calzino: for fucks sake man.

Spent some time with the catalog and the following were my POX:

Radio Java
Bush Taxi Mali
Group Doueh: Guitar Music From the Western Sahara
Molam: Thai Country Groove From Isan vol. 1
I Remember Syria
Phương Tâm: Magical Nights – Saigon Surf, Twist & Soul (1964-1966)
Omar Souleyman: Highway to Hassake
Singapore A-Go-Go Vol. 1
Baba Commandant: Juguya
Brokenhearted Dragonflies: Insect Electronica from Southeast Asia

Huge fan of that Phương Tâm compilation, its so good

big yes to Doueh and Souleyman - Cambodian Cassette Archives was also a hit in this household

^^ yes to Cambodian Cassette Archives, there are a few truly amazing songs on that one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1QZnRXs58