| And popdeurope leaps nimbly into the ring for the third round! Summer 2003 saw more than 10.000 guests grooving to the six concerts, club shows, and sound system nights at the House of World Cultures, helping to make popdeurope into one Berlin's most successful music events last year. popdeurope 2004 stays true to the search for the most exciting new pop sounds going down in European metropolises, and this year dedicates itself to pop music's roots - Africa. Once again, popdeurope is presenting six summer night sets, this time grouped under the title of "Sounds: Afropean-A-Licious", showcasing artists whose lives may be centred in Europe but whose music explores non-European sounds and styles. Afro-beat influences are very much evident in the Afro-Caribbean rhythms laid down by P18, a project initiated by former Mano Negra keyboarder Tom Darnal, and are similarly found shaping the cyber-tech-rock grooves pumped out by Portuguese pop aliens Blasted Mechanism in their mix of futuristic sounds and Angolan storytelling. Dancehall, hip-hop, R'n'B and soul - all styles long since advanced to global pop-music languages, creating new urban sounds as local roots blend with the pulse of their beats. As in past years, popdeurope 2004 provides a broad framework to pay tribute to these developments, offering club nights, video installations, workshops, a photo exhibition on hip-hop in Senegal, and a CD compilation. "Sounds: Afropean-A-Licious" is supported by the German Federal Agency for Civil Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung). It is part of "Fokus Afrika: Africome 2004-2006", their three-year on-going programme aimed at increasing awareness of contemporary urban African art and culture
YORUBA SOUNDCULTURES
Saturday, 17 July 2004
FEMI KUTI
Afro-beat, soul, hip-hop
(Nigeria/London/Paris)
P18
Afro-Cuban electronics
(Paris/Cuba/Nigeria)
BLACKTRONICA
2-step, hip-hop, soul
(London)
EUROPEAN-A-REGGAE
Saturday, 24 July 2004
TIKEN JAH FAKOLY
Reggae
(Ivory Coast/ Mali/ Paris)
TURTLE BAY COUNTRY CLUB
feat. MAMADEE & ONEJIRU
Dub, soul, R'n'B
(Germany/Kenya/ Sierra Leone)
AFRICA IN AND OUT OF LISBON
Saturday, 31 July 2004
BLASTED MECHANISM & GALISSA
Cyber rock
(Lisboa/Angola)
AFRICA IN AND OUT OF LONDON
Saturday, 7 August 2004
TEMPLE OF SOUND feat.
MYKAEL S. RILEY
Club grooves
(London/Jamaica/Brazil)
THE SHRINE feat. SHONIWA &
POPULARE POSSE
Clubgrooves
(London/Nigeria/Berlin)
AFRICA IN AND OUT OF BARCELONA
Saturday, 14 August 2004
08001
Flamenco dub downbeat
(Barcelona/France/Guinea/Morocco/Jamaica)
BLACK BAUDELAIRE
Hip-hop
(Barcelona/Morocco/Senegal)
BARXINO
Brazil-Drum'n'Bass
(Barcelona/Columbia/Argentina)
OUT OF SOUTH AFRICA
Friday, 20 August 2004
FUN-DA-MENTAL & THE MIGHTY ZULU NATION
Banghra-Zulu
(UK/India/Pakistan/South Africa)
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