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18 de August de 2026
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The Birth of Afrofuturism: When the Future Became Memory

There is something deeply paradoxical about the birth of Afrofuturism. A movement that imagined spaceships, extraterrestrial civilisations, advanced technology and impossible futures was born, to a large extent, from a question about the past. What happens when a people have had much of their history taken away? ...
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29 de July de 2026
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The Day the Turntable Became an Instrument

There are inventions that changed the way we make music. Others transformed the way we record it, distribute it or preserve it for future generations. But every now and then, someone looks at an ordinary object and imagines a purpose nobody else had considered before. The turntable is one of those objects....
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17 de July de 2026
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The Culture of Sampling: When Memory Learned How to Make Music

There’s a persistent misconception that has followed the sampler ever since it first appeared. Many people still see it as a machine for copying sounds—a shortcut for musicians who can’t play an instrument. An easy way out. But all it takes is a look at the history of popular music to realise the opposite is true. Sampling was never about replacing creativity...
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10 de July de 2026
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EMI Nigeria: When Lagos Was the African Capital of Vinyl

There was a time when buying a record in Lagos was almost as normal as doing so in London, New York or Tokyo. Today it may seem difficult to imagine, especially if we think about the current state of the African music industry, but during the 1970s Nigeria became the greatest recording industry powerhouse on the continent....
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19 de June de 2026
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How Jamaica Changed Electronic Music Forever

Some countries produce great musicians. Others change the course of music history. Jamaica belongs firmly in the latter category. When we talk about the evolution of electronic music, we tend to focus on places like Detroit, Chicago, Berlin or Manchester. And rightly so...
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