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- Music Weekly podcast: UK rap with RoxXxan and Ghostpoet
This week's programme looks at UK rap. As a number of interesting artists are set to break through this year, Alexis Petridis and Rosie Swash look at a resurgence of the homegrown hip-hop scene.
Chantelle Fiddy interviews RoxXxan, a 21-year-old grime MC from Birmingham who is turning her skills to rapping - and was heavily tipped by Mike Skinner in his recent takeover of the Guardian's music site. RoxXxan discusses her influences and experiences as a woman in rap.
Rosie meets Ghostpoet - real name Obaro Ejimiwe - whose rap takes another form. Influenced by Badly Drawn Boy and Squarepusher, Rosie asks why these artists are important to him.
Alexis, Rosie and Chantelle also look back at some UK rap classics from Roots Manuva, Gunshot and Klashnekoff.
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Переслать - New music: Jamie Woon – Lady Luck (Royce Wood Junior remix)
Remixers seem to love the Brit school kid's music for one very good reason
There's something about the songs that former Brit school alumnus Jamie Woon makes that seems to appeal to remixers. Perhaps it's the sparse, almost deceptively simple feel of what a few people are calling "soulful dubstep". Or the fact that there's an inbuilt atmosphere to the songs, a kind of chilly melancholia reminiscent of the xx. Whatever it is, there are some great mixes emerging of Lady Luck, the forthcoming second single from his debut album, Mirrorwriting. Hudson Mohawke's gonzo, beat-heavy reworking was revealed a few days ago, and now Royce Wood Junior's slightly gentler rerub has emerged. The element that makes the whole thing work is Woon's soulful voice, creating a focal point that allows the producers to go to town on the periphery.
Mirrorwriting is released on 11 April
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - What us Germans think of your taste in our music
Kraftwerk are too obscure and Rammstein embarrassing. How about Peter Fox instead?
Antony Hegarty was once irritated when some German journalists asked why he had sung a duet with Herbert Grönemeyer. On paper, Grönemeyer is a German superstar. A serious rocker of high calibre, with sophisticated lyrics and several million records sold. He is from the Ruhe, but is so famous he now lives in London so that he is not bothered by his German fans. In England he is unknown, though maybe a few cineastes will remember his face from Wolfgang Petersen's hit film Das Boot, in which he played a small role. His English-speaking records did not make an impression in England. In Germany, however, he is so famous that if he wants to sing a duet with Antony, somebody will make it happen.
The problem was that Antony did not realise how unpopular Grönemeyer is with German hipsters. "What is your problem with him?" Antony asked, astonished, after he had to justify himself in several German interviews. The answer is difficult. The fact is that Germans have difficulties with German music, especially with successful German music. Rammstein is way too menacing; the Scorpions or Nena are seen as embarrassing. Kraftwerk, Can and Neu might be favourites with Brits, but they are hardly noticed back home. Tangerine Dream are mainly valued beyond German borders. The Krautrock composer Michael Rother – admired by Beck, Sonic Youth, Bowie and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers – found he didn't have many home fans when he went on his Hallogallo 2010 tour.
At least the days when German music was seen as a joke in England seem to be over. Last week, the editors of the Guardian's music site put out a plea on Twitter, asking their 58,000-plus followers about their favourite German acts and music. Apart from Mozart (who is Austrian) and Grauzone (Swiss), the Twitter list reads like a crazy Wikipedia entry trying to explain German music. The suggestions covered everyone from Stockhausen to Nena, 2raumwohnung, DAF, Scorpions, Ton Steine Scherben, Rammstein and Herbert Grönemeyer. The only thing these acts have in common is that they don't reflect the present. None of them are current.
Here are some more up-to-date suggestions for you. First, the Berlin rapper Peter Fox, the biggest discovery of the past few years. The critics loved him, his album Stadtaffe sold a million copies, and school kids and Berlin hipsters sung along to his songs. Hamburg's Jan Delay became tremendously famous with his brand of German-language soul. The Gothic Clowns' single Unheilig broke sales records and the Berliner Paul Kalkbrenner is the acting techno superstar – even a movie they made about him was a hit. Today's German music has not reached foreign shores, but this is not a problem. German music got more interesting, just like French, Swedish and Norwegian music. Globalisation extends to pop. Brits know that. As a foreigner, you just have to be careful who you agree to sing a duet with.
Christoph Dallach is a German music writer
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More FeedsПереслать - Readers recommend: songs about the police
Anything you say about this week's topic will be taken down and given in evidence
The long arm of the law has featured in popular song since before the days of Robert Peel. Their role is particularly ripe for ridicule and broadside, since they represent the front line of the state. The police are an easy target for a singer looking to strike a rebellious pose.
Kettling demonstrators, miscarriages of justice ... for a variety of reasons, the police often get a bad press. But spare a thought for the boys and girls in blue: cuts in funding mean Britain's police officers are facing a pay freeze and job cuts.
So let's have some positive as well as negative tunes about the police.
The toolbox:
* This week's collaborative Spotify playlist
* The RR archive
* The Marconium (blog containing a wealth of data on RR)
* The 'Spill (blog for the RR community)
Please do:
* Post your nominations before midday on Tuesday if you wish them to be considered.
* Write a few lines advocating the merits of your choices.
But please don't:
* Post more than one third of the lyrics of any song.
* Dump lists of nominations. If you must post more than two or three at once, please attempt to justify your choices.
Cut-out-and-keep guide to the strange words used by regular RR posters:
* Dond: To second another reader's nomination. Here's how the word was coined.
* Zedded: The song has already been included in an A-list (and so convention dictates it cannot be included in another one)
* Assfairy: Nope, I'm still not sure what that means. If anyone can provide a concise definition, I'll include it in future blogs.
Here are the results of last week's Readers recommend: repetition.
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