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| | Tune Your World :: calabashmusic.com |
 | | While hip music enthusiasts are digging through record bins for Ethiopian funk and soul of the ’60s and ’70s, a diverse crew of Ethiopians, other Africans, and Americans in New York’s Harlem have created a new sound with positive Ethiocentric rhymes, funky horns, lively percussion and booty-shaking beats. |
 | | I took a trip there about five years ago, and when I was there, I found there was a new version of hip hop coming out and it was kind of bad. |
 | | Realizing that they had a unique opportunity to fuse up-to-the-minute production techniques with deep flavors of hip hop, reggaeton, global music and traditional Ethiopian rituals, many of which are rooted in highly rhythmic — often politically charged — chants and boasts, Schommer and Siraj got to work. |
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