This video was very inspirational in writing Computer Rise for Red Bull Music Academy as it showcases the loss of traditional instrumentation in the onslaught of digital music. I love digital music, and there is no Luddite tendencies for exploring sound, but it is tragic when Africa refuses her native percussion for 8-bit laptop programs. The sounds from Africa to Jamaica to Brooklyn are becoming homogenized into a trendy, pasteurized and inorganic amalgam of "world music." This genre has its place, but witness the effect on cultures as a slow march towards monotone sonic hegemony.
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