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...finally getting its props from the rock establishment. Pioneering DJ GRANDMASTER FLASH and his group, the Furious Five, are among this year's nominees for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame--the first rap artists to claim that distinction. "The streets are buzzing," says Flash, who shares the ballot with U2, Randy Newman, the O'Jays and others. "I went into Target this week, into Home Depot. Everywhere I go, it's 'Congratulations!'" Bands are eligible for the honor when their first album is at least 25 years old. Dubbed "Toscanini of the turntables," Flash recorded Super Rappin...
...Rakugo (spoken-comedy records) and sporting-event pressings. ROME Goody Music is Rome's best-stocked vinyl venue. Located on Via Cesare Beccaria, the store has catered to platter fiends for over 25 years. The shop carries mainly house, hip-hop and soul, and twice a week hosts a DJ school. "Somebody walks in here, and when he leaves he can do a rave for 20,000 people," boasts owner Claudio Donato. www.goodymusic.it. SEOUL Livingsa, in the financial district's Hoehyeon Underground Mall, is a record-album mecca. The tiny shop is so tightly packed with its 150,000 records...
...farms of the Punjab, bhangra lyrics were often gritty, and even today Punjabi artists are the most outspoken in India, singing about sex, drugs and crime just as their hip-hop peers do in the West. In that context, Mehndi was bhangra lite and a diversion, says DJ Rekha of New York's hip Bhangra Basement club: "Even back when he was big, he was kind of like the Will Smith of bhangra. Not so respected. Now, after the scandal, his position in the scene is that he doesn't really have...
...HOGON: A fixture on the Bamako circuit for over a decade, Le Hogon, tel: (223) 223 0760, is managed by the amiable Moussa Yaffa, a DJ who mixes techno with the kora, or traditional harp. The club's best performers include Toumani Diabate, considered the world's greatest kora player, and the 22-piece Symmetric Orchestra, whose complex, swirling melodies are produced by the balaphon (a West African xylophone), djembe, kora and guitars...
...hear percussive panache, drop by on Thursdays for the djembe (African drum) sessions. Friday is griot night when a beer costs only 90?. tel: (223) 675 5933 LE HOGON: A fixture on the Bamako circuit for over a decade, Le Hogon is managed by the amiable Moussa Yaffa, a DJ who mixes techno with the kora (traditional harp). The club's best performers include Toumani Diabate, considered the world's greatest kora player, and the 22-piece Symmetric Orchestra, whose complex, swirling melodies are produced by the balaphon (a West African xylophone), djembe, kora and guitars...