This crazy track is only the tip of the iceberg… please run to Edoheart’s myspace page and soak in the pungent creativity! Poetry, music, choreography… the Benin empire of modern-day Nigeria is very much alive. You can grab this song Sosomoneycockplease from iTunes. Thanks to Catherine Barnes for turning us onto this one, follow her wise suggestions on Twitter.
And another one! We connect this time with Barcelona / worldwide crew Folcore, who’ve been running the Club du Monde nights. On September 26, Akwaaba’s own bbrave join the festivities, alongside Lisbon’s Diamond Bass, who sounds a little like this:
Also on the bill, our doods hat+hoodie, hailing from Fulda / Würzburg, Germany – did you grab their Akwaabarama mixtape?
Folcore’s El Timbe:
Also 555 aka BP, and VJ O’Video!
Another hit from Ghana, new duo Ruff N Smooth attacking clubs and airwaves across the country, every time we listen to this song it brings us back to Accra… enjoy the tropical love! Album drops September 14, but you can already grab the song for free, we just ask for your email, we won’t abuse it too much, we promise.
Nnamdi Moweta, host of KPFK’s Afrodicia, invites Akwaaba yet again to share some of the sounds and stories we gathered on our recent trip to Ghana and Togo. Nnamdi is one of our number one supporters, and it’ll be a real pleasure to bring him some freshness from the Motherland… tune in today from 2 to 4pm PST (GMT – 8), either at 90.7fm in the Los Angeles area, or listen online at kpfk.org.
On the more obroni side of things… more techno, less soukous, hopefully just as enjoyable!!!
Playlist:
01 – BATIDA – TRIBALISMO FEAT SACERDOTE (Facebook – iTunes)
02 – SCHLACHTHOFBRONX – FUNANA (website – Soundcloud)
03 – KILLAMU – FLAMINGUINHO (bandcamp – iTunes)
04 – DJ ZNOBIA – EUE (blog download)
05 – PIZETA – KLEZMER FEAT REAGADELICA (ALVARO ARABIC NIGHTS BOOTLEG) (myspace)
06 – DAKUNT – TA SURDOU (LORCAN MAK REMIX) (myspace)
07 – KU BO – KAGGUA FEAT TSHILA (BATIDA REMIX) (myspace)
08 – JUAN MAGAN & MARCOS RODRIGUEZ – BORA BORA (MASTIKSOUL REMIX) (Facebook)
09 – KILLAMU – MELODIA DE SEMBA (bandcamp – iTunes)
10 – KILLAMU – TA NDJEFF (bandcamp – iTunes)
11 – X-PENSIVE NFRAMA – AUNTY ADOLEY (DOUSTER REMIX)
12 – ONYENZE – ONWU NNA NA NWA (SCHLACHTHOFBRONX REMIX)
13 – AHMED FOFANA – DON KANO (JOKERS OF THE SCENE REMIX)
It’s official!! We are letting you take over 4×4’s vocals to make whatever you see fit out of this massive banger from Ghana… we heard this song playing 20 times a day on the radio, at outdoor bars, at weddings… now is the chance to see where else this track can end up!! Download the acapella track from Soundcloud above, and upload your remix to our dropbox by September 15:
The prize… is getting released on one of the most forward thinking labels of African music, he he. We will put out an EP with our favorite remixes, as we did for Ze Bula and Combination. Download the original song in nearly any format below – we just ask for your email, cool?
Whooooaaaaaa! Yet another 70s afrofunk compilation… this one caught our attention though. Maybe because it has Pierre Antoine’s BANGING track Kalabuley Women. Clocking in at 11:40, it should get you going for a while. Grab this comp in iTunes, follow Julien Lebrun, bossman behind the Hot Casa Records imprint. And if you still want more, check out this super deep set by Frank of Voodoofunk, which also incorporates Kalabuley Women… make sure to read about it and grab the playlist on his blog.
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
LONG OVERDUE!!!! We know it, and we are slightly ashamed of it… well not that ashamed really, because good things are well worth waiting for. And we are proud to announce very good things!!
At last, the winners of the Jali Bakary Konteh remix contest are in…
From Fulda / Würzburg Germany, our friends Hat+Hoodie pieced together a massive banger:
From Glasgow, Scotland, we couldn’t help but bring back the dubbed out sound of Voltergeist:
From San Francisco, California, we are excited to feature a deep cut by Señor Oz of Afrolicious:
And last but not least, a newbie on our radar, artfx! from Berlin, Germany:
This EP will come out in September, as soon as we get final cuts and master them… thanks again to all of you who submitted their remix, it was a very tough call!!! And again, congratulations to the winners, we love your choons!!!
We are excited… it’s been WAY TOO LONG IN THE MAKING. But at last we are about to release the first album from our incredible trip to Ghana. Appietus is arguably the most successful beat maker in Ghana. He’s been around for well over a decade, and has produced so many of the country’s hits, we really don’t know which to even list.
He recently released a compilation, where he highlights some of the best Ghana has to offer right now. From huge names such as Samini, Kwabena Kwabena or KK Fosu, to up and coming voices such as Old Sodja, Mike or…. Mframa.
Ghana Lady, this song should be your summer anthem!!! Grab it for free here, give us your email and you’ll get the album first…
Another fine mashup of some of our recent titles… this time coming from our good friends Anna and Sebastian of Highlife Stockholm! Scroll down for full tracklist.
The Highlife of the 60’s was one of the first – or maybe even THE first – hybrid music style that integrated both western and traditional elements. You can say that it represents a somewhat prototype for the music we play, therefore the name.
How did you first get into tropical beats?
We have both been djing for a long time and are always looking for fresh and exiting stuff. At one point we came across a mixtape with picked highlife-guitars and repetitive soukous-rhythms that made us curious. To find out that these styles even had made their way into today’s samplers and drum machines and were combined with Techno and
House got us even more exited.
Why don’t you tell everyone how you hooked up with us at Akwaaba?
We hooked up with Akwaaba almost a year ago when we had the honor to host DJ BBRAVE for an eclectic dj-set full of African pop pearls. Tunes from Akwaaba acts as Kedjevara, Killamu or Skeat are floorfillers at High Life nights since then and make the swedish palms shake.
What are your personal favorites / highlights in the mix?
We put together a couple of our Akwaaba favourites (for more favs check our other mixes and some tunes that are hot at High Life right now. It’s hard to point out particular songs but we really dig the cora-tunes of Jali Bakary Konteh and Issa Bagayogo as well as Skeats botswana house. In Europe, Debruit impresses us most at the moment with his wonky take on Highlife.
Tracklist:
1. Combination (Swedish Palms Re-edit) – Jali Bakary Konteh
2. Filaw (Chief Boima Remix) – Issa Bagayogo
3. Nigeria What? – dÉbruit
4. Som do Zoca – Zoca Zoca
5. Tchoukou Tchoukou – Kedjevara
6. Django – DJ Bonano
7. Messe Messe – Gregor Salto & Mokoomba
8. Mamela – Skeat
9. Ya Yo Se - Chico Mann
10. Uko Mbele – Just a Band
| Beatport
Older Entries
