Super Heroes Walking on Water International. . .

I realized now that there are a few people holding it down around the globe that need to be mentioned. So this is just a roll call of some people who march to the same beat.

Radiola Urbana is a Brazilian website dedicated to all music funky-but with a specific focus on Brazilian music. The team who runs it is well informed and very much into what I like to call "good" music, or better yet, music that speaks to that funky beast inside us all.

Amplified Online is the UK version of Radiola Urbana, with a specific focus to that tasty music called brokenbeat.

Signtifics is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of Ghanian arts, music, culture, and society. It's run by a team of solid individuals who walk with the music gods and put the needs of their country first. I worked on their music restoration project-a project dedicated to digitizing and archiving the musical assests of not only Ghana, but West Africa. Imagine a future where all the tasty Fela breaks couldn't be tracked down to their originals. . . Exactly. These brothers are doing a good thing.

The guys at Soundway Records, Brighton, UK, don't need any hype or promotion from me. Their work is known and it speaks for it self. But I couldn't mention everyone else and not mention them. Check them out.

One last one for now, Tahira of the Groove Clan, Sao Paulo, Brazil, is perhaps one of the most solid DJ's I've met in my travels. This turntable samurai can mix Herbie Hancock with Fela Kuti and make it sound like it always should be that way. He's a photojournalist by day and a mastermind on the 1 and the 2 by night.

These links are gonna be thrown up on the side bar under a new heading. Click on them now and come back to check them out again in the future.