Strange phone call From www.67601.com/ Hey anyone else receive a phone call that started out with bongo drums (lol) and a Nigerian male saying his wife has been kidnapped? Last time they tried calling me (back in October) I was able to call them back multiple times the same evening, and give them an earful of what sounded like acid/jazz. Sometime when a telemarketer calls just say "Hey, are you masturbating too?" I prefer to ask if it is a female caller "Hey baby what are you wearing?"

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Best Albums of 2007: #20 to #11 From obscuresound.com An album that is as smart as it is addictive, From Here We Go Sublime is a minimalist techno gem. Primarily a piano-led album with heavy doses of reverb, Love or Die is consistently in use of triple metre structures (a structure with three beats per bar). In doing so, Yokota has stunningly produced an electronica album that relies on a structural technique that is primarily used in free-form jazz or songs where a vocal melody is the most prominent. Though purely an instrumental album, Love...

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YEAR-END TOP 10: Ill Mami's Picks of 2007 From www.soulbounce.com/soul/ We focus on alot of soul artists on Soul Bounce, and previously Nova gave his top picks of this year which included soul & hip hop artists. Madlib's skills on the instrumental jazz tip have been showcased on the YNQ albums, including this release from this year. It's forty minutes of Summer love, and even includes his cover of the seminal Kool & The Gang classic "Summer Madness." The Philly sound, characterized by smooth and soulful melodies that are warm like brandy (not Hennessey though)...

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The great divide From Guardian Unlimited 15 or so years - with the calculatedly provocative mention of "apartheid": "My fears are that you enlarge the divisions in society between those for whom the arts are a part of life and people who think they are impossibly obscure and incomprehensible ... But all things aren't equal: the "choice" of going to the theatre or the opera or an art gallery doesn't exist for vast numbers of people in this country, who, if they feel anything at all about art, feel disenfranchised. I know now that...

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The James Taylor Quartet From Times Online With their regular 'guest' vocalist Yvonne Yanney at the helm, the four musicians at the core of the group hammered through some ultra-funk gems including There's a Break in Every Road, and ended with Jan Jan, an instrumental tour de force that took off like a rocket. For all the smooth excellence of the Motown section after which followedthe interval, it was nothing compared with the raw, joyously propulsive surge of excitement generated by this much more hardcore opening set. Contact our...

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