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		<title>My Top Records of 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:25:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another year, another raft of time defining songs and albums that we shall remember until our dying day: 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Well well I. This is the best the underground and mainstream could do. One year closer to death and this is what we get. Maybe next year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=retrotek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1692592&amp;post=741&amp;subd=retrotek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Pianists: Gil Scott Heron and Ray Bryant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The shuffling of the mortal coil for even the most obscure musicians will usually result in posthumous praise previously unknown. Part of it is in tribute by fans the other by apologists looking to  endorse someone they had previously passed on listening to. The death of Ray Bryant is unlikely to gain too much column [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=retrotek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1692592&amp;post=723&amp;subd=retrotek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kid Hood lives&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 17:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty first century internet communication is surely something huh? The long deceased Kid Hood&#8217;s only known recorded output had been the Scenario remix with the Tribe however the people at TROY have come with this very interesting solo cut taped from the Stretch &#38; Bobbito show on WKCR back in the day. Pour a 40 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=retrotek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1692592&amp;post=714&amp;subd=retrotek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rap Review: Kool G Rap &#8211; On The Run</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 21:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kool G Rap&#8217;s On The Run from 1992 tells the story of a &#8216;flunky&#8217; (Mr G Rap&#8217;s words not ours) who is moving ki&#8217;s and funds for the mob. He details the temptation of wanting to make a break for it and quite simply take the money and run. If successful he will have enough [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=retrotek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1692592&amp;post=710&amp;subd=retrotek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Match Disappointments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Don&#8217;t even think about going anywhere&#8221;, &#8220;They just don&#8217;t do nil-nil&#8221;, &#8220;It&#8217;s not in their language it&#8217;s not even in their DNA&#8221;&#8230; As the ultra globalisation of Football continues unabated there is always the fear amongst right holders, sponsors and others involved that the viewer is going to switch over. Whether it be switch over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=retrotek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1692592&amp;post=689&amp;subd=retrotek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m bumping these right about now</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 21:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Crap Album Covers: United Dance: The Designer Collection</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before the era of American Apparel&#8217;s suggestive adverts there wasn&#8217;t a major amount of publicly flaunted nipple action in modern day convenience products. The emergence of lads mags in mid nineties Britain however helped the increase of under dressed women in the public retail space. The clubbing world would later adopt the sex sells policy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=retrotek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1692592&amp;post=669&amp;subd=retrotek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of Music: Posh Pop Stars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a regular feature on A Man Named Omar I shall be covering the problems currently faced by the music industry. The first is the invasion of the pop charts by the posh and privileged. Though I have little interest in modern music a lot has been made recently about pop music becoming posh. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=retrotek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1692592&amp;post=649&amp;subd=retrotek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop dick riding Jay Dee</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like all people I was sad to hear of the death of Jay Dee in 2006. As any reader will know I have little time for post 2000 hip hop but along with the earlier stuff by MF Doom and Madlib I thought Jay Dee was nice. I got into him when Welcome To Detroit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=retrotek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1692592&amp;post=645&amp;subd=retrotek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please donate to DJ Kool Herc</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend DJ Kool Herc from the Bronx, New York was hospitalised and is now seriously ill. Despite being the creator of what is known as hip hop Kool Herc has not amassed a fortune like other people have from this art form. As we all know America provides little in the form of free [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=retrotek.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1692592&amp;post=639&amp;subd=retrotek&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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