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  • MMI 2014 Listeners’ Picks Poll

    mmi2014You can now vote for your top picks from 2014 in the following categories:

    • Top Album
    • Top Single or EP
    • Top Music Video
    • Top Online Release
    • Top Overseas-based Artists

    Please vote on all five categories for your top picks from the 2014 music releases featured during the Mużika Mod Ieħor podcasts from last year.

    A full list of nominations is available through the M3P, as in previous years. No further nominations are being accepted at this point and any suggestions or omissions will be considered for inclusion in the 2015 poll. Please vote on all the five categories on the poll right below this text…and spread the word though Facebook and/or Twitter.

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    The results from this 2014 MMI Listeners’ Picks Poll will be available during a special podcast in the series, which will be released on Saturday 24 October 2015.

    The 2015 edition will hopefully be available at the customary time this year.

    Both editions of the MMI Listeners’ Picks poll are brought to you by the web team at QUE Design Studio. Their support is greatly appreciated.

    The MMI 2014 Listener’s Picks Poll 2014 was not published towards the end of last year. This was mainly due to a technical issue but also because this whole thing runs on a shoestring budget supported by just a couple of people. Anyway, the saying “better late than never” fits really well here. 

  • What if?

    What if I started blogging regularly again?

    This thought has been on my mind quite a bit over the past few days.  Firstly I am rather impressed by the blog at the new QUE Design Studio website. And secondly old-timer Antonio Olivari has (apparently) taken to blogging fairly regularly again.

    What if the whole microblogging thing on Twitter, the photoblogging thing on Instagram, and the nonsense that is Facebook were all just fads?

    What if blogging is really where it’s at?

  • Young Folks


    Show notes for the 422nd Mużika Mod Ieħor podcast featuring music by performers from or in Malta:

    Rikki Lee – Naughty Girls

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kku_ZsGkyM

    The Madhatters – Another Toy on the Shelf

    Nadine Axisa – F’Ħajti Stennejt
    From time to time Dominic Galea’s Heritage Records releases a new CD album inspired by Maltese literature. A relatively long string of such project have appeared over the past decade or so. The latest in this series is called Moħġaġa (which is the Maltese word for puzzle) and features contemporary poetry from the past five decades. This particular track is from a poem by Victor Fenech, whom I’ve always considered as on of three or four quasi-beat poets from Malta to emerge in the 1960s.

    Federica – Human

    Airport Impressions – Ballymena Sun
    It always good to see Maltese bands giving their recordings the largest exposure possible. One tactic that several bands have developed in recent years is to release many tracks from the same album as singles. Sometimes, however, this can make old codgers like me lose track of what’s actually going on. Perhaps this is mostly because I crave new music from people I know can produce it relatively easily.

    The RSS feed for the Mużika Mod Ieħor podcast is available here or you can simply click here to subscribe directly with iTunes. You can also follow each new episode through the MMI Podcast: Facebook Fan Page. An archive of MMI podcast is also available on Mixcloud. If you have no idea what any of this means, just enjoy listening to the podcast on the player right below this text.

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  • Maria


    Show notes for the 421st Mużika Mod Ieħor podcast featuring music by performers from or in Malta:

    Mind’s Eye Dub – Say Something
    What’s a summer without the sounds of Mind’s Eye Dub? David Magro never disappoints! This clearly a nod to the world’s most popular Jamaican singer-songwriter, but there’s more to it than that. Anyway, I’m sure you’ll like it, even if you’re not particularly keen on dub or reggae.

    Lyndsay Pace – Sick Day

    John Galea – I Am a Survivor

    Danjeli – Qabbad Ħa Jfuħ
    How could I not grab the opportunity to include something new by one of my favourite Maltese musicians of all time. I’ve still to hear a track by Danjeli I totally dislike, and this one is certainly rather special. If for no other reason for the use of the Maltese language accompanied by the sort of electronic soundscape that he has now mastered over the years.

    Gresha – Dreamers
    Shawn Grech is a singer who I feel like I’ve heard before and possibly included in this series of podcast. I’m not 100% sure. However, I’m pretty certain that this is the first time that I’ve ever included anything from him as Gresha. It’s the sort of song where I get the feeling that I’d like it just as much without the vocal track.

    The RSS feed for the Mużika Mod Ieħor podcast is available here or you can simply click here to subscribe directly with iTunes. You can also follow each new episode through the MMI Podcast: Facebook Fan Page. An archive of MMI podcast is also available on Mixcloud. If you have no idea what any of this means, just enjoy listening to the podcast on the player right below this text.

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