The concept of remixing involves copying, transforming, and combining existing materials to produce something new. Remixing is present everywhere, from music to memes to computer programming. What about creativity?
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When they came, there was nobody to speak out for me...
Julian Assange: exiled, imprisoned, convicted? After many years they came for him. What makes you think they won't be coming for you. If not for your personal freedom, then at least for your civil liberties. There is historical precedent.
From Standing Rock To The Swamp
A short film about Indigenous sovereignty in Louisiana. On the banks of Louisiana, fierce Indigenous women are ready to fight—to stop the corporate blacksnake and preserve their way of life. They are risking everything to protect Mother Earth from the predatory fossil fuel companies that seek to poison it.
Why we are here
One of the reasons ubuntu.fm was established
Video blog about Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is portrayed in the mainstream media as a peace-loving anti-apartheid revolutionary and philanthropist. But what is the truth about Nelson Mandela? The viewer is presented with a lot of facts, but do the facts lead up to the right conclusions?
A piece of music history
"Small Club, 2nd Show That Night" is probably the most famous Prince bootleg as it captures one of the many after-shows Prince performed throughout the years. Many of these gigs have been recorded but none in such pristine sound quality. The listener gets to experience the performance as much as the audience did at that moment in time. It's a piece of music history...
I am because We are
Michael Tellinger being interviewed on the ancient wisdom of Ubuntu, the understanding of unity within community.
No Way Out?
Failed politics, failed politicians, failed people, failed states.. There seems to be no way out. Or is there? Let's see what Dave Chapelle has to say for it.
We all have been here before
Our world is replete with proofs of our progressive journey as a collective; traces of the places where we have been and how we have arrived at where we currently are. We all have been here before.
4 the People
"To dance is to pray, to pray is to heal, to heal is to give, to give is to live, to live is to dance". -Marijo Moore
Epic
In her 2015 TED x Berlin Talk, Mallence Bart-Williams shared a truth that not only deeply resonated with people across the globe, but many felt compelled to share. So do we. Today Mallence's TED Talk has become an integral part of academic curricula of universities and high schools in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas as a timeless piece of essential truth.
Secret UK funded program aimed at undermining Russia exposed
Max Blumenthal (GrayZone) exposes Secret UK funded program aimed at undermining Russia. In this video, acTVism Munich speaks with investigative journalist and founder of The Grayzone Max Blumenthal about his latest investigative article which exposes an elaborate scheme involving the British media, government, and intelligence community to undermine Russia.
Are You Experienced?
Jimi Hendrix, the musical firestorm that raged thru the land of Sound and Soul, changing it forever.
Has the rebound bitch turned soft?
“Rock Me Baby” is a long-distance love song Lily co-wrote with Jesse Singer and Chris Soper during the tracking of her 2019 LP, Retro-Moderne. It might be the only song with that title that doesn't actually "rock." Instead, it finds Frost cooing sweet nothings into her lover's ear with a gentle sigh, breathy vocals.
A brave new world
Star Trek: Discovery is an American television series created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman for the streaming service CBS All Access (later rebranded as Paramount+). Launched in 2017, it is the seventh Star Trek series and was the first since Star Trek: Enterprise concluded in 2005. It begins a decade before Star Trek: The Original Series and follows the crew of the USS Discovery.
Once you gave it all, you wouldn't have any problem
Special video edit of Stevie Ray Vaughan's hit track 'Life Without You' who sadly passed on August 27, 1990, East Troy, Wisconsin, United States in a helicopter crash.
Life Without You
'Life Without You' was a song Stevie wrote after the untimely death of his great friend and mentor Charley Wirz. In the lyrics, Stevie shows his love for Charley and how much he truly missed him. It's the last track on 'Soul to Soul', the third studio album Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble released on September 30, 1985, by Epic Records.
The Prince of Music
Elvis was the king of Rock 'n Roll, Bob was the king of Reggae, Michael was the king of Pop, B.B. was the king of Blues, Prince was the king of Music.... All praises to the King of kings
Where do you really come from?
DNA studies suggest that all humans today descend from a group of African ancestors who about 60,000 years ago began a remarkable journey.
Non-conformist
Singer, exhibition curator, curator of the 4th volume of Wizzz! French Psychorama 1966-1974, Barnabé Mons is an artist with an atypical career. He first rose to prominence in the rock scene in garage rock bands. He releases his first solo album Bunker Superstars. He unveils very personal compositions, neo-retro pop, retro-futurist, from pop, psychedelia, punk, bossa nova and groove.
The speech credited as the inspiration for Bob Marley's hit song "War"
This story recounts the attempts of one mortal man and humanity at large to establish everlasting peace instead of waging perpetual war. A struggle of good over evil.
We are UbuntuFM
A house with four people in it, one of them is a Christian, one of them is a Jew, one of them is a Muslim, one of them is a Buddhist. Imagine, one of them is a Black man, one of them is a White man, one of them is an Asian man, one of them is an Indian man. Imagine...
Unique harmonies and forms
SPRING - the debut album from the Artur Tuźnik Sextet - takes listeners on an engaging, reflective journey through sounds, sensations and seasons in a program featuring new music that pays homage to the bandleader and composer’s greatest inspirations. The musical voices of the carefully chosen contributing instrumentalists bring nine original tunes to life in a production that’s intimate, spiritual, and offers something for audiences of all backgrounds.
The house is on fire. Let us bring the water
A song about broken family units, values, broken communities, societies. A black family is broken, the human soul is broken.
A wake-up call
A brilliant single and video release. The singing, coordinated with the creative video is superb. The subtitles make it all the more interesting for people who do not speak the local language. Not only the sound but also the meaning is to be appreciated. Nature is calling for humanity to come together, to care for the creation we are all part of.
Hope against a backdrop of social injustice
'Stimela' (Coal Train) is the track that Hugh Masekela will probably be best remembered for as it encompasses all of his work both lyrically and musically. Such is the significance of 'Stimela' as it addresses the theme of hope against a backdrop of social injustice, central to South African modern history, a history still marked by decades of 'apartheid'.
About time for a Grammy
In Reggae, all roads lead to the “Riddim Twins”, Sly & Robbie. Now, Sly & Robbie meet Dubmatix. The Canadian producer and multi-instrumentalist got his hands on original Sly & Robbie tracks and spent months crafting this new album, "Overdubbed".