Sahel Sounds — Music from Saharan Cellphones (@sahelsounds.com)

Gotta let everyone know about sahelsounds.com , a great source of info. and music from the Sahel region of West Africa. Lots of cool stuff and intelligent observations but the post on cellphone music was what caught my interest most of all:

tracklist from music from saharan cellphones

This little cassette of music collected from cellphones has been in internet circulation lately (update — and the Guardian UK). Pitchfork did a nice write-up on the phenomena of “musical scarcity”, Rupture at Mudd Up! has given it some blog/radio play, and Portland’s ownGulls put together this remix of one of the tracks:

Niger Autotune (Emsitka) — Gulls Edit

(for the rest…)

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