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Chop Our Music – 2 year Anniversary Super Release!

on January 1, 2011

Hard to believe, but it was just over 2 years ago that our first release, Akwaaba wo Africa, came out worldwide. What a journey it’s been since then! 2 dozen releases spanning the gamut from Nigerian highlife to Gambian griot kora, Angolan kuduro to Benin salsa… We’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with artists from [...]

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Pan African Music Stew mix for This Is Africa

on December 16, 2010

This here is a 2 hour roundup of some of our favorite sounds coming from Africa. With a definite emphasis on sounds to make your hips move, and also definitely not an exhaustive line-up of genres – we are heavily biased towards Ghana, Angola, the Congo Kinshasa and Ivory Coast… what can you do! BBRAVE [...]

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Bomb Diggy – Crusade of the Monkey Mix

on July 4, 2010

Fresh from Amsterdam, Bomb Diggy’s Crusade of the Monkey Mix!!! In their own words: “For this mix the crew-members individually gave their most powerful tropical bass tracks to the mix monkey for a lousy fee of 2 crates of bananas, some pineapple juice, and a bottle of Dominican rum. He sent us back this mix [...]

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Hat+Hoodie – Akwaabarama mixtape

on June 21, 2010

Akwaabarama Mix by Hat+Hoodie Our German sucks, but we still love to *read* Hat + Hoodie’s posts – or should we say, look at the odd series of letters and wonder what they are saying. Thankfully, once they get behind the decks the language is universal, and this last mixtape of is sure to move [...]

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