2010
03.01

El Iqaa – Detroit Beirut

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El Iqaa – Detroit Beirut
Genre: , .
Year: 2008

About: This music was made with live drums, with samples from old 45's and new mp3's, with a mixer and a mic, Michael's Moog, technics and technique, some claps and snaps, a g4, pro tools, sticks on cymbals from Istanbul, fingers on a Kevork riq, masking tape, kahwa araby, sweat, pride and love (infused with a little camoon). [It] is [the] rhythm from rebellions and resistance, for empowerment and progression. Through audio imaging, history is sampled onto the future, terrorific stereotypes are rejected, a slandered heritage is reclaimed, the ruins of a city are rebuilt. Sound and visions express the struggles and share the beauty of Detroit, Beirut.

Credits:
All tracks created, performed and mixed by El-Iqaa (Joe Namy)
at OTHER Arab Arts Collective Studio - Detroit.

URL: El-iqaa.com/detroitbeirut/
Download: Direct
Encoding/Size: CBR 320 / 130 MB

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    ns said: 2010.05.30 08:04

    hi again,

    I would appreciate posting the MD5 checksum -as a routine- of every album just to confirm file integrity of every album, Im having problems again with this download in specific.
    Thanks!

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    ns said: 2010.06.18 01:07

    Track 07 is corrupted… I redownloaded several times and the same track seems to be bad. the resulting checksum I find once the download finishes is:
    cdf71a0004b21a8bc92839faeb367646e53bf955

    thanks for looking into this!

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      Anonymous said: 2010.06.18 10:51

      The problem seems to be from you. We suggest using a good download manager as you have been getting a lot of corrupt files. Anyway, the md5sum of track 07 should be e0d47e6b6ef8a39352a11511c034d0af

      We’re here if you need anything else.

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    ns said: 2010.07.20 01:10

    well the checksum of an individual track won’t help since the whole album is compressed (and won’t uncompress track 07 whatsoever). I appreciate having the MD5 of the album itself, this way i make sure what i download is of good integrity from the start. (I use Free Download Manager V.3… do u recommend smth else?)
    thanks for ur attention.

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      Anonymous said: 2010.07.20 20:15

      If the archive is not decompressing, you definitely have a problem on your end. For Windows use FlashGet, OS X use Speed Download (paid) and for Linux use wget. Or you can use DownThemAll, a Firefox extension that works on all platforms.

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    ns said: 2010.07.23 00:41

    actually it’s decompressing all the tracks except track 07 which returns an error every single time (I redownloaded like 3 times so far).
    however I will try flashget and downthemall, thanks for the tip. hopefully this will solve it.

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