No, no, it’s not another list. It’s a mixtape, the finest in innovative, future-forward sounds assembled by your pals at Motherboard. You get one track a day from now until the end of the year, and then it all comes together into the best document of the future of music seen from the year 2011 on the internet.This is off the just released vinyl of Music From Saharan Cell Phones, which is just that: music collected from the media libraries of cell phones in Western Africa. Apparently, this is file sharing in the developing world. It’s pretty interesting and Motherboard will have an interview up with the compilation’s curator, Christopher Kirkley, very soon. Anyhow, this song. . . Wow. It’s a sort of techno-folk, but on another whole different plane. Algerian guitar groove plus some very basic drum machine plus vocal drone yields a whole new drug, an entirely new strain of chillness and cool. Who knew?
.10 Group Anmataff, Tinariwen"
Enjoy more selections from Motherboard’s 2011 mixtape right over here.