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My joy was bottomless when I became aware that footwork music pioneer RP Boo (aka Kavain Space) is going to dice and splice some of his Chicago house music in Delhi. The music that spawned dance battles on the streets of Chicago in the 1990s drew its vitality from wicked fast tempos, uncanny samples and polyrhytms. It was basically EDM way before EDM but for black people of Chicago who were on the fringes. Pop Matters’ website even compared Space to Philip Glass and that’s quite an apt description considering he seems like someone conceived during a Wagnerian ecstasy.
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