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Cover of The Specials - Ghost Town

Taken from 'The Sword & The Soaring', new album out 11/11

https://navybluethetruest.bandcamp.com/album/the-sword-the-soaring

Taken off their second full length ‘File Under: Easy Listening’, the official music video for the Sugar track ‘Your Favorite Thing’ released in 1994.

I know there's probably a good technical or historical explanation, but it's very irritating to copy/paste text into Lemmy to have it looking like poo after posting. Is there an Android editor that will add double spaces to ends of lines so it's wysiwyg? Bonus if it will also insert "> " at the beginning of lines for quoting selected blocks of text. Maybe this can be done with a JavaScript webpage?

Punjabi Disco: The lost masterpiece which birthed British-Asian dance music

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Mohinder Kaur Bhamra was one such person who recognised the importance of that escapism. Having moved to the UK from India back in 1961, Bhamra was among the growing South Asian population in Britain at that time, and she came face to face with the extent of the nation’s widespread racist attitudes as a result. Nevertheless, she always maintained her cultural roots through music and encouraged countless others to follow suit.

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Hang on, you might be saying, ‘What does this have to do with disco?’ Well, through her performances, often accompanied by her son Kuljit, Bhamra essentially laid the foundations for all future British-Asian dance music, and her 1982 record Punjabi Disco was a particular revelation, without which Bhangra daytimers might never have existed.

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Despite its endlessly obscure nature, though, Punjabi Disco amassed something of a cult following in the years following its release, rightly hailed as being the origins of Asian dance music, as well as being a key cultural landmark in the story of the British-Asian community as a whole. Perhaps more so than any other record, Punjabi Disco told the liberating story of Asian people in the UK, enmeshing those traditional wedding-song sounds with a distinctly westernised form of dance music.

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Now, at long last, the prayers of those crate diggers have been answered by the higher power, which is Los Angeles’ Naya Beat Records, who have announced a full reissue of the album for the very first time. What’s more, the long-awaited reissue comes complete with a previously unreleased track and a collection of dance-heavy remixes, which help to capture the impact which this album had on Asian dance music upon its release.

• https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/punjabi-disco-masterpiece-british-asian-dance-music/

Taken from the album "Ethereal Horizons", out on November 28th 2025.

"Ethereal Horizons" incorporates otherworldliness from all eras of BAN - traces of churning dissonance, subtle industrialised elements, the weeping of celestial leads, V's spectral & subliminal snarl - but brings in a suite of new and more grounded feels too. Far-reaching melodic themes turn inward and outward, frequently resolving into the swing of classic, prog and post rock. The warmth of swirling psych-organ and expanses of kosmische synth provide a bed for emotive themes to build and release into full-throttle ruthlessness. Vocal stylings are wide-ranging as ever, utilising the distinctive cloudbusting cleans and choirs, but this time with a lazer-focus on wistful transcendent melodies, refrains and even out-and-out hooks.

@jamiexx_‬ performs his song Baddy On The Floor from his sophomore album, In Waves, live at History in Toronto.

Watch the full show: Jamie xx: Live Concert | CBC Music Live

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51061126

Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread

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Most countries have a legal mandate to carry out domestic phone network surveillance. The First Wap archive demonstrates, however, how phone network connections can be leveraged to allow tracking all over the world, without authorisation from the targeted networks.

In recent years, a number of investigations have explored the ways in which surveillance companies gain access to phone networks to enable this type of tracking. Lighthouse and its partners have previously written about how SS7 abuses were linked to the murder of a reporter in Mexico and a crackdown on an activist in Congo, and how they were enabled via leasing of Global Titles.

Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread

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Most countries have a legal mandate to carry out domestic phone network surveillance. The First Wap archive demonstrates, however, how phone network connections can be leveraged to allow tracking all over the world, without authorisation from the targeted networks.

In recent years, a number of investigations have explored the ways in which surveillance companies gain access to phone networks to enable this type of tracking. Lighthouse and its partners have previously written about how SS7 abuses were linked to the murder of a reporter in Mexico and a crackdown on an activist in Congo, and how they were enabled via leasing of Global Titles.

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The singer’s family confirmed in a statement Tuesday that he died after a prolonged battle with cancer. They called him “a shining star of our family and has dimmed his light for us in this life,” adding that they are “eternally grateful for the legacy of extraordinarily moving music he leaves behind.”
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https://lycia.bandcamp.com/