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It was a challenge finding something truly foreign. I just kept stumbling across america's best hits of the 80s and 90s, all across the globe. With a steady helping of generic euro-pop.

But some revival preaching in africa really felt like visiting a foreign place, as did some cape town talk radio. Obviously the islamic world has a very different playlist, so that was a gimme. What a neat concept!

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When I was first time in Paris, me and friends were blown away by the sheer number of stations and good, rave-class, electronic music on the waves. We used to wander around the city with walkman's on. Sounds weird... good times.

Also, when I was a small kid, used to go to the furthest room in the house, close the door and lay down with small, pocket radio, catching foreign stations on LW. The further, the better.

Radio rocks. Great mash-up.

> when I was a small kid .. lay down with small, pocket radio, catching foreign stations on LW.

I’m long past being a kid and I still do this

That's cool... I would have a hard time finding a radio-set around, though. Few months ago I spent half of a night watching video streams from tokyo public transit stations, so I guess kid inside is doing fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37829061 https://minitokyo3d.com/

> lay down with small, pocket radio, catching foreign stations on LW.

You were probably listening to shortwave stations, not longwave. Most international broadcasting was done in the shortwave bands, typically in the range of 3 MHz (100 meter wavelength) to 30 MHz (10 meter wavelength).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_radio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwave

You are right. Short waves, tiny move and you are on another station.

France is amazing for nurturing artists, they make some of the coolest electronic around

"(...) Get into the water, let is splash across your face. Don't you loose your party, don't you loose your faith (...)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Vtg2Oc4IU

Perfect. Thank you. I needed this today. I loved ONE, back in the day.

Have you heard of Lyrics Born? Hearing this track again makes me wonder about their respective influences.

Cool, really happy you like it. I can't decipher/find ONE/Born, thou.

Debut single:

Lyrics Born - Calling Out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-kV6TRs8PU

Um. Just did a quick stroll down memory lane. Ya. Me Phi Me's album ONE hasn't exactly held up well... So here's another movie soundtrack single that I still enjoy:

Me Phi Me ft Jeriko One - Here We Come https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQsmJif3RTA

Revival was on a soundtrack of a (mediocre) movie Reality Bites. It has wonderful sense of South-style communion for me. I remember that was the only song by Me Phi Me, which I enjoyed at that time.

Thx for links, good stuff. Let us keep it up.

I assume you're referring to Cape Talk 567 [1], which broadcasts on 567 kHz AM/MW in the Cape Town region. I also enjoy it, although the late night political debates can become tiring. It has a sister talk radio station in Gauteng, Radio 702 [2]. Both are owned by Primedia.

[1] https://www.primediaplus.com/station/capetalk [2] https://www.primediaplus.com/station/702

Your first paragraph is similar to when I first started traveling and was surprised to hear so much American music everywhere. That's when I truly realized the scale of American cultural hegemony and what "soft power" really means.

Nigeria has lots of good stuff

Try Finland.

Here I was expecting Finn Tango and I landed on a chiptune station...

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