Oh man, late summer 2023!!! Hot enough for you? The sheer volume of insanely great music out of Africa has been the listening highlight of this summer for me, but let's be honest most folks are not that sophisticated or adventurous enough to listen outside of the various lanes and channels created for them by the music industry. I urge you not to stay in your lane, it's boring, and you create a boring life.

Still, we get a little North Africa in the hizzy with the Charif Megarbane track Tarator in the third position I say don't sleep on Homeboy Sandman's new album Rich, he's a clever MC, funny and smart. Otherwise the episode kicks off with a track out of Berlin, an interesting mash of electronic and other sounds, a little Caribbean dancefloor bangin', old school punk it goes on an on and cuz that's how the Magic Organ rolls.

As for the title I recently read a blog post where the writer described large music stars in America as cult leaders, actively cultivating their fans (no pun!), and it ends up more about some weird relationship and status thing, and oy The Magic Organ is vehemently opposed to that. That's why the Magic Organ hates both Drake and Tay Tay, it's a cult!!! Music is music, it's something humans have done for centuries, once and still with drums, but also with whatever tools they have humans have they will make music. And it doesn't have to be some weird cult.

Enjoy the music (not the cult!)

Excerpts from this episode:

Ziur: Malikan

Homeboy Sandman: Biology

Charif Megarbane: Tarator

BAMBII: Wicked Gyal

Snooper: Bed Bugs

Nicolas Bougaieff: Recursive 4

of Tropique: Great Booga Looga

Hey I usually put a bunch of spiel down here but let's not do that. If you want to reach the Magic Organ email skeptical.chimp@disroot.org.