Profilage racial policier en Angleterre autour de la musique urbaine?

D'abord l'un des gros hit du UK Funky:

Attacca Pesanete : Make It Funky (Zshare)

Et ensuite cette note que je viens de trouver sur le blog d'un journaliste UK:



The Black music scene in the UK, or as some people would like to label it 'urban', has come up against many battles in its effort to become credible, from underground acts getting signed then dropped as soon as they don't gain a 10 hit, to club nights getting closed down due to the genre of the music getting played. The Metropolitan Police have recently set up a new system whereby all live music events that contain Bashment, Garage or R&B (and everything in between) music, will have to complete a form called ‘Form 696’, which is a document all promoters that will play such music will have to fill in. This is apparently due to the fact that many shootings and stabbings that have occurred in the capital have happened in and around club nights that people would like to call 'urban'. There has been outrage from unlikely people, such as former punk rocker and current CEO of the UK music industry representative, Fergal Sharkey, who has complained to the Equality and Human Rights Commission claiming that the Police seem to be focusing on music enjoyed by Black and Asian teenagers.

In a letter he wrote to Sir Ian Blair recently he stated, ''In explicitly singling out performances and musical styles favoured by the Black community: Garage and R&B, MC's and DJ's, we believe the use of the risk assessment Form 696, is disproportionate, unacceptable and damaging to live music in the UK.''

This issue isn't new to the urban music scene, back in 2006 Music Journalist and Ctrl+ Alt+ Shift editor, Chantelle Fiddy had to deal with something similar, where her popular Grime club night 'Straight Outta Bethnal' was shut down at it's resident nightclub 333, due to a shooting that happened elsewhere in East London at the same time people were enjoying a night full of MC based music). What must the urban club night do to save itself? I asked Pete Todd, the promoter behind London’s 100% Grime night, Dirty Canvas.

''When we first started our nights it was virtually impossible to put on a Grime night in London as clubs were too scared, we had to use Art galleries such as the Whitechapel and the ICA to put on the acts we wanted and even then we felt we were only one incident away from being shut down. Through our successful and trouble free nights we are now in a position to hold nights in most clubs, our most recent JME concert at Astoria felt like a big break through, as it was the first time an unsigned independent Grime act had headlined a concert there. Until recently it had felt like it was becoming easier to put on urban nights, but this form 696 seems to be another step back to shutting them down again. I think many artists will see this as an attempt by the government to close down their music scenes. The government has spent a lot of money on community music schemes in deprived urban areas, yet it is placing a hugely restrictive barrier from these musicians progressing and being heard and in the current music climate of downloads, live performances are hugely important both financially and for artists development.''

If you are partial liking a bit of Bashment or even some Grime every now and, then may I suggest you join the rest of people, in signing the petition to keep the 'urban' club night alive.

Sign up here: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Scrapthe696

Words: Joseph ‘JP’ Patterson

A version of this appeared in The Voice Newspaper

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Chili Electronique - El Pueblo Unido....

Je suis arrivé à Rio il y a quelques jours et après des visites intensives des plages de Copacabana et d'Ipanema, je me dis qu'il est peut-être temps que je commence à partager mes découvertes musicales faites au Chili.

3 semaines au Chili à beaucoup marcher dans les rues de Santiago, passer du temps aves les différentes membres de la famille de ma copine et faire un voyage dans le nord du pays dans le désert d'Atacama. Aprés 3 semaines, j'ose penser pouvoir dire que ce qui s'entend dans la rue en terme de musique se diviserait en 6 groupes plus ou moins égal (sans ordre donc):
1/ Cumbia
2/ Salsa et Merrengue
3/ Reggaetton
4/ Variété Chilienne
5/ Variété US et musique US en général
6/ Musique Andine ou "folklorique"

Voilà pour l'aperçu général (oui je sais c'est court). Rentrons à présent dans l'anecdote. Mon passage au Chili coincidait avec le sommet ibéro-américain, réunissant l'Espagne avec ses anciennes colonies d'Amérique Latine (même si le Brésil était de la partie), dans une forme de réunion d'influence du monde hispanophone. Le forum s'est terminé sur une grosse polémique entre Chavez, Zapatero et le roi Juan Carlos qui a même perdu les nerfs en quittant la salle. Je rentre pas dans les détails, bref aperçu des mots qui fachent dans la vidéo ci-dessous et le texte ici:

Le jour d'après, Hugo Chavez se réunissait avec ses proches du camp anti-inmpérialiste, le président de la Bolivie Evo Morales et le commandante du Nicaragua Daniel Ortega, pour un sommet alternatif, un Cumbre de Los Pueblos, qui n'aurait apparement rassemblé qu'un maigre 4000 personnes, dans un Santiago qui compte près de 3 millions. Il y avait tout de même de belles photos dans le journal que je n'arrive malheureusement pas à retrouver sur le net. Toujours est-il qu'un homonyme du Daniel Ortega, Sergio Ortega, est samplé dans le morceau que je souhaite partager. Un titre de Sokio, qui est paru sur une compilation anniversaire du label de musique électronique Chilien du nom de Pueblo Nuevo. Ca prend un petit peu de temps avant de se lancer, mais écoutez c'est un morceau trés intéressant. Oui je sais c'était tordu. A bientôt.

Sokio - El Pueblo

English translation: Just listen to the track, you'll see it's interesting. Sokio sampled the famous El Pueblo Unido Jamas Seran Vencido in a glitchy hip-hop electro version.

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