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"He's one of these artists who's created his own sound world over the years and his lyrics mix English and Spanish, and there's it's like elements of 90s electronic and indie and it's sort of like beautiful kind of cryptic poetic open lyrics. It's a timeless record, that's the word I'm looking for."Watch this moment
"Juan Peña Lebrijano, very famous Spanish flamenco singer who did these two records with a group of backing musicians from Morocco from Tangier... It blows my mind because flamenco, it's one of those things you can say, oh yes, you know it's related to music from North Africa and India, but then he... can be very conservative in many ways and he's like, no, I'm gonna go to the roots."Watch this moment
"Scientist does just the right amount of dub; he removes everything except what you really need to have this record, and that's the kind of magic why I've listened to this endlessly."Watch this moment
"Low, they're kind of dominant in a way, right? In their last two records they've gotten weirder and weirder and their sonics have gotten more and more interesting... This record is killer; it sounds kind of wrong at certain points and I love the sense that they keep going."Watch this moment
"this music called tarab and it is gorgeous... it just has all these geographic influences around it and at times it will sound like oh yeah it's african music at times it'll sound arabic at times it might sound indian, but it's very much its own thing."Watch this moment
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