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Attic Beats 005 - Poland

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Attic Beats 005 - Recorded August 24, 2005
This week we check out the music of Poland, polka-free.
A few years ago I stumbled upon a cheap copy of an Eastern European music compilation. One of the tracks, “Sonda Jungle”, was by a group named Robotobibok representing Poland. The song grabbed my ear and I [...]

Attic Beats 004 - Instrumental Hip-Hop

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Attic Beats 004 - Recorded August 17-18, 2005
For this episode, I serve up strictly beats… instrumental hip-hop covering the last 15 years. Let this be your background music for weekend activities. Dig dig dig.
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Attic Beats 003 - Stuff I Bought At the Library Book Sale

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Attic Beats 003 - Recorded August 9, 2005
This week’s show is a short one, but was a surprisingly tricky one to produce. After all, how do you segue from French funk to a marching band? What theme would pull together those two disparate musical selections, you ask? “Stuff I Bought At the [...]

Attic Beats 002 - Roots Reggae

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Attic Beats 002 - Recorded August 2, 2005
This week the theme of the show is roots reggae. I’m what one would call a late-comer to reggae, only getting into it in 1991 when I saw a Shabba video on Yo! MTV Raps. But since then, I’ve gotten much more deeply into the genre, [...]