For 8 years now, Michael Leahy has been watching the lyric scene, the people that write them and “the trouble they make” as he puts it. “Song lyrics are an endless source of news, amusement and debate,” he notes. “They have the power to move, inspire and seriously irritate people.”

The playlist of the new game from Electronic Arts, "Facebreaker", features a track from South Africa's Tone Deaf Junkies. They are just one of a number of pioneering acts from South Africa, grouped around the African Dope label.

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The TV images and sounds coming from Palestine can be overbearing. But for many people, they are the daily lot. Now a Palestinian-Franco-Tunisian collective is using them as a soundtrack to create electronic music.