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let's see....ska is like rock steady--faster than reggae, but the same basic sound--the later waves of ska revival bands (mustard plug et al) are ska with a punk rhythm section for the most part. chipper stuff, soundwise. which is why it tends to get on my nerves after a while.
i would recommend badawi (kind of dubbed-out music with moroccan percussion)....soldiers of midian--muslimgauze more generally (it needs to be loud to work well, this music)....
anything by fela anikulapo kuti---there are vocals (i like em) but the instrumental sections are often extraordinary and the tempii are up. plus his stuff gives you a range of times to choose from within any given track, so you can focus on different elements as a way of adjusting your speed.
dunno---i stay away from gyms--prefer blasting around on my bicycle, which precludes listening to music (i am in a city)...so i havent got stuff i associate with the space. most of the "jazz" i know of is a bit too complex for soundtrack music--except (just through of this) stuff from the first electric period of miles davis's output: live/evil, live at the fillmore, on the corner, dark magus, maybe panagea....
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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