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Konono No. 1

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Konono No. 1: Congotronics

By Michael J. Kramer

Their music accepts the distortion, overtones, and surprising sonorities of contemporary life, but re-imagines instrumental power from the trash heap of modernity. [27 January 2006]

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Mixtape Confessions: In the J-Zone Zone

Blogs
Consuming Consumables: G.I. Joe A Real American Hero & Transformers
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Channel Surfing: Is ‘Glee’ a Little Bit Racist?
Mixed Media: Liars - Sisterworld (new album / MP3)
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Moving Pixels: Locomotion, Parkour, and the Illusion of Competence in Video Games
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:. To Kill a Petty Bourgeosie: Marlone
:. Mountains: Etching

Events
:. Our Brother the Native + Zen Zen Egui: 26 October 2009 - London

Film
:. The Last Station

DVDs
:. The Way of the Gun
:. Keeping Up With the Kardashians: The Complete Second Season

Books
:. Photography Degree Zero: Reflections on Roland Barthes’s Camera Lucida by Geoffrey B
:. The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk

Multimedia
:. Space Invaders Extreme 2

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