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BEATS OF LOVE 

26. Gennarino 'O Sioux by Tonica & Dominante

ARRIVING HOME after another empty day at work, and watching the rubber dinghies on the news, feeling overwhelmed, I picked up this beauty and started head nodding before finally dancing around my living room.

Despite it being the best thing Manu has put out (which is really saying something when you consider his label's output), and zoning out of my emotional state into a state of near delirium to the best bit of Neapolitan Funk music I've ever heard, it still felt a bit of shallow experience coz I momentarily forgot all about the rubber dinghies.

My only thought was now whether Manu was reissuing their recently reduced but still way out of my price-range masterpiece of an LP. I do hope so. Modern life conditions us to be easily distracted, and whether you're zonked out in front of the telly on a comfy sofa or tearing the cellophane off recent record buys, both of these activities are ones we should be a lot more thankful for.

It really is a privilege to be entertained and have spare time and cash, and not something we should simply take for granted. Under late capitalism, 689 million of our fellow human-beings live in abject poverty. I recall in about 1998 some wallpaper CEO rabbiting on about structural changes at work and the union holding folk back to say that they fully support the proposed changes. Some guy just got his coat and said 'fuck that' or words to that effect, and left. Everyone thought he was barmy, but in hindsight, he was the cleverest person in the place.

Off shore trillions have stolen what were once our terms and conditions and we get mad about folk in these rubber dinghies who in their desperation still look at our environment, wage slavery, and dehumanization, and think it's paradise. Makes you think what those off shore trillions have stolen from them.

God help the rich if we were to have a lightbulb moment and not for once blame the poorest people on the planet for everything we think is wrong with the world.