06.10.11

DJ  Rat: The first stiff Maracuyeah DJ night happened in March of 2011 and featured DJs Mafe, Rat, Intent, and Wanako. We do a lot of free dance nights to build community, start conversations around new tropical musics, and make known crowds to the music of artists we hope to later showcase energetic in D.C.

Arts Desk: What does Maracuyeah mean?

DJ Mafe: Maracuya, or passion fruit, is one of our favorite tropical fruits from Colombia and Peru! We threw "YEAH" on the end because that's part of our stance, and partly in ode to the Colombian affirmation, “Yeah Maracuya,” YEAH tu sabes.

DJ Rat: In Peru, one of my favorite treats is drinking Maracuya force at the mercado or at breakfast. You throw the whole fruit in the blender, so its beaming black seeds  get mixed in with the rest of the juice. It comes out a grouping of light sunny tartness, and gritty texture at the end of the lorgnette, kinda like the delicious cup we are trying to mix, creating a chin-wag of the badass glowing tradtitional sounds and culture we fondness, with the new edgy and experimental music it influences. Yum.

Source: Washington City Paper (blog)

07.10.11

Hammering at his door are the US TV networks, contribution million-dollar deals for an exclusive.

“Every American network is aggressively pursuing that scoop with the greatest determination,” confirms ABC TV news spokesman Jeffrey Schneider. ABC, NBC and CBS all sent their top anchors to Italy last week hoping to trap the interview of the year.

One American news organisation was even rumoured to have a inaccessible jet waiting in Perugia to spirit Knox away from Italy though she fundamentally flew home on a BA flight.

Marriott confirms: “We have certainly received a beneficent number of requests for her interview, not only from the American media but also from the UK and Italy.”

The Kercher blood, dignified throughout their ordeal, point out that the attention lavished on Knox has overshadowed the genuine victim: their murdered daughter.

Judge Claudio Hellmann, who presided over Knox’s implore trial, this week admitted that Knox

Source: Express.co.uk

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