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Just A Band In Your Earbuds

Take classics: Fela, Manu Dibango, Hugh Masekela. Take dancefloor killers: DJ Cleo, Louie Vega, Hat+Hoodie. Soak it all in a thick Just A Band Kenyan stew. Bam! Sick sick sick mixtape by our favorite Kenyan band, thanks to okayafrica for making it happen! Check Just A Band’s album “82″ if you haven’t – this is [...]

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Kibera Benga “Kichwateli” – Just A Band, Modeselektor, Maasai Mbili

Kibera Benga “Kichwateli” – Just A Band, Modeselektor, Maasai Mbili

“Kichwateli” is an Afro-Scifi music-mentary performed by the super nerdy African boy band Just A Band, Berlin’s top electronic act Modeselektor and Nairobi’s talented art group Maasai Mbili. This video is Studio Ang‘s contribution to the BLNRB project, a cooperation of Kenyan and German artists initiated by Goethe-Institut Nairobi and Gebrüder Teichmann, anad released by [...]

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Just A Band Behind the Lens – “Away”

http://www.akwaabamusic.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2885&action=edit&message=1 Starring Stella Nasambu and Thimba Gichuki in a tale of obsession this video was produced and directed by Just A Band, with support from the Goethe-Institut Nairobi. The song “Away” was one of Just A Band‘s contributions to the “BLNRB – Welcome to the Madhouse” album – a joint project between the Berlin and [...]

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Just A Band: Kudish! The Sound of Soup

Straight from Just A Band‘s website: From the first time we ever went on stage (in August 2008 – nerve-wracking!) for live performances and/or DJ-sets, we’ve always prepared some remixes of our own songs (and other Kenyan songs we like) to play before we start or after we finish. We’ve never released any of those [...]

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Pan African Music Stew mix for This Is Africa

Pan African Music Stew mix for This Is Africa

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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