<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Benn loxo du taccu &#187; mauritius</title>
	<atom:link href="http://bennloxo.com/archives/tag/mauritius/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://bennloxo.com</link>
	<description>One hand can&#039;t clap: world music for the masses</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:43:26 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=abc</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>Last Maurice: Serge Lebrasse</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/16/more-maurice-serge-lebrasse/</link>
		<comments>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/16/more-maurice-serge-lebrasse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mauritius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sega]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/16/more-maurice-serge-lebrasse/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, now that&#8217;s an amazing photo.  Serge is definitely in margaritaville.
I&#8217;m going to devote the last post in this Mauritius series to Serge Lebrasse.  Once again this music comes from the collection of Benn loxo listener, DR.  Thanks again, DR, for all the music.
Serge Lebrasse brings us, in DR&#8217;s words, &#8220;standard hotel [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/16/more-maurice-serge-lebrasse/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://bennloxo.com/sounds/Serge_Lebrasse-Cyclone_Carol.mp3" length="5763671" type="audio/mpeg" />
<enclosure url="http://bennloxo.com/sounds/Serge_Lebrasse-Maurice_Mo_Pays.mp3" length="6764269" type="audio/mpeg" />
<enclosure url="http://bennloxo.com/sounds/Serge_Lebrasse-Madame_Euzene.mp3" length="5379149" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>More Maurice: Drums for the weekend</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/15/more-maurice-drums-for-the-weekend/</link>
		<comments>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/15/more-maurice-drums-for-the-weekend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mauritius]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/15/more-maurice-drums-for-the-weekend/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How would you characterize this music?  Rootsy sega?  &#8220;Traditional Mauritian&#8221;?  Who knows.. but whatever, I like the rhythm.
Two tracks today with a similar beat.  We&#8217;ll call it roots sega until someone educates me.
The title of the first by Ras Mayul, Ras Carosin and Zotsa translates into &#8220;the heritage of our ancestors&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/15/more-maurice-drums-for-the-weekend/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://bennloxo.com/sounds/Cassambo-Mo_zeneration_dan_sega.mp3" length="9296821" type="audio/mpeg" />
<enclosure url="http://bennloxo.com/sounds/Ras_Mayul-Ras_Carosin-Zotsa-Leritaz_nu_Ancet.mp3" length="7542268" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>More Maurice: Blakkayo</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/14/more-maurice-blakkayo/</link>
		<comments>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/14/more-maurice-blakkayo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mauritius]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/14/more-maurice-blakkayo/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today we&#8217;ll hear some more reggae-ragga urban island music from Mauritius, courtesy of DR.
Jean Clario Cateaux, a.k.a. Blakkayo, is now a member of the Otentikk Street Brothers who I featured a couple posts ago.
Today&#8217;s tracks come from another cassette submitted by Benn loxo reader, DR: Blakkayo&#8217;s 2000 release, Tcheck To Life.
I love the description of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/14/more-maurice-blakkayo/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>More Maurice: MonAster</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/13/more-maurice-monaster/</link>
		<comments>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/13/more-maurice-monaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiphop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mauritius]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/13/more-maurice-monaster/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Benn loxo reader, DR, came through huge with a collection of cassettes that he picked up in Mauritius a few years ago.
The first music we&#8217;ll hear from his collection is by another leading Mauritian rap group, MonAster.  
Today&#8217;s second track, Bikini, is more your standard tropical hiphop outing, while the first, Pour Toi, has [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/13/more-maurice-monaster/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://bennloxo.com/sounds/Monaster-Bikini.mp3" length="5468881" type="audio/mpeg" />
<enclosure url="http://bennloxo.com/sounds/Monaster-Pour_Toi.mp3" length="5544953" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>More Maurice: Otentikk Street Brothers</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/12/more-maurice-otentikk-street-brothers/</link>
		<comments>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/12/more-maurice-otentikk-street-brothers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hiphop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mauritius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reggae]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/12/more-maurice-otentikk-street-brothers/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You see that picture to the left?  All Mauritian.  Aside from the dozen albums I&#8217;ve received digitally, those are the tapes and CDs that people have lent me or that I&#8217;ve picked-up over the last couple weeks.  Obviously I can&#8217;t afford to buy 30 albums for every X country week, so these [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/12/more-maurice-otentikk-street-brothers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://bennloxo.com/sounds/Otentikk_Street_Brothers-Kreolite_Dub.mp3" length="5957760" type="audio/mpeg" />
<enclosure url="http://bennloxo.com/sounds/Otentikk_Street_Brothers-Ki_Si_Sa_Sa.mp3" length="5793920" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Mauritius Week: Ti Frere</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/06/mauritius-week-ti-frere/</link>
		<comments>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/06/mauritius-week-ti-frere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 08:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mauritius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sega]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/06/mauritius-week-ti-frere/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll take it down a notch today.. something older, more &#8220;traditional&#8221;.  Old-school sega from one of the genres early revivalists.
Jean Alphonse Ravaton, a.k.a. Ti Frere, is known in Mauritius as the &#8220;king of sega&#8221;.
Ti Frere was born in 1900 to a Madagascan father who was also a sega musician.  He spent much of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/06/mauritius-week-ti-frere/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://bennloxo.com/sounds/Ti_Frere-Charlie_o.mp3" length="3859368" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Mauritius Week: Bhojpuri Boys</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/05/mauritius-week-bhojpuri-boys/</link>
		<comments>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/05/mauritius-week-bhojpuri-boys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[india]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mauritius]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/06/mauritius-week-bhojpuri-boys/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I said yesterday that today we&#8217;d &#8220;Indian.. ocean&#8221;.  Music from the African side of the Indian Ocean usually doesn&#8217;t sound too (typically) Indian, but today we&#8217;ll hear the Mauritian exception.
So far we&#8217;ve only heard music from Mauritius&#8217; creole population.  However, the majority of Mauritius&#8217; population are descendants of people from the Indian subcontinent. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/05/mauritius-week-bhojpuri-boys/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://bennloxo.com/sounds/Bhojpuri_Boys-Doolha.mp3" length="5331144" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Mauritius Week: Kaya</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/04/mauritius-week-kaya/</link>
		<comments>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/04/mauritius-week-kaya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mauritius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sega]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seggae]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/05/mauritius-week-kaya/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, well, it happened.  Hey from Vienna.  I&#8217;ve managed to line-up some music for this week afterall.
The more I read about Mauritius and listen to music by its musicians the more interesting it becomes.  Indian Ocean sega meets reggae meets island&#8217;ed bhangra.  What a wild mix of influences.  I guess [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/04/mauritius-week-kaya/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://bennloxo.com/sounds/Kaya-Allelujah.mp3" length="5230834" type="audio/mpeg" />
<enclosure url="http://bennloxo.com/sounds/Kaya-Gran_Ter.mp3" length="11241087" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Mauritius Week&#8230; maybe</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/03/mauritius-week-maybe/</link>
		<comments>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/03/mauritius-week-maybe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mauritius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sega]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/03/mauritius-week-maybe/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have already heard a few tracks from Réunion, Rodrigues and other Indian Ocean hot spots on Benn loxo, but never Mauritius.
During Eritrea week Benn loxo listener, DJ Earball, suggested we have a Mauritius week here at Benn loxo.  I think he was probably joking, but I&#8217;m always up for a challenge.
Finding (good) [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2008/02/03/mauritius-week-maybe/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
<enclosure url="http://bennloxo.com/sounds/Menwar-Ay_ay_lolo.mp3" length="7477376" type="audio/mpeg" />
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Island Accordimania</title>
		<link>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2006/04/21/island-accordimania/</link>
		<comments>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2006/04/21/island-accordimania/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Yanchyshyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accordian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mauritius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[réunion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rodrigues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sega]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bennloxo.com/archives/2006/04/21/island-accordimania/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned a couple posts ago about how I&#8217;ve been feelin the accordian sounds from the Indian Ocean islands off south-eastern Africa.  You thought I was joking?  René Lacaille plays a seriously mean accordian, and the musicians of the tiny Île Rodrigues bust it like today is their last.
Lacaille is a talented artist [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://bennloxo.com/archives/2006/04/21/island-accordimania/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
