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TransGlobal Underground

Trans-Global Underground had to happen. They refused to accept that dance music had to be four to the floor house. They refused to accept that something called ‘World Music’ ever existed. They slowed down hip hop and sped up dub. They sang in whatever language they felt like singing in. they were DJs but they played live. Their influence is all over the place, sometimes benign, sometimes joyful, sometimes beautiful and sometimes bloody dreadful. But the price of innovation is often a trail of shite left in your wake. A thousand dodgy car adverts with colourful tribespeople, colonialised blanded out ethnic samples and ten year old beats…that’s not it at all… We’re talking about the early nineties here, when drum and bass were two separate things and trip hop was something you did on a paving stone

Natacha Atlas: "Mounqaliba – Rising: The Remixes" Out September 27

September 5, 2011

Mounqaliba—Rising: The Remixes Out September 27 After two highly acclaimed string driven, predominantly acoustic projects, Natacha Atlas returns to the Global Dance-floor with the Mounqaliba Remixes. Globally celebrated singer Natacha Atlas' latest release Mounqaliba was a decidedly acoustic affair, recorded with a 20-piece Turkish ensemble and a chamber orchestra & integrating western and Arabic styles. Mounqaliba ...

Run Devils And Demons: The Best Of

By TransGlobal Underground

Label: Boheme Music
Released: 2009

Transglobal Underground

by Mark F. Turner
July 28, 2008

Transglobal Underground Transglobal Underground La Huit 2008 This film features the London-based music collective Transglobal Underground, whose birth in the early 1990s was conceived among a group of producer-DJs and belly dancers. But don't be misled by their curious origins: they may just be one of the ...

Moonshout

By TransGlobal Underground

Label: Mule Satellite
Released: 2007