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!!!
This song is a HIIIIIIT in Ghana! 4X4 have been around for a while, but are finally making it REAL BIG, thanks in part to this massive track, produced by Appietus – of course ;-p
The song takes place at the Boomerang nightclub, where we spent a few decadent nights… As of late Boomerang has been hosting some pretty sick Francophone parties, with plenty of coupé décalé and students from across Francophone Africa frantically shaking their bobarabas.
You can download the track for free in exchange for your email – which we promise we will not share with the entire world, no 419 here!
Catch Mabiisi on tour this summer: Rotterdam, Netherlands for the International Film Festival's White Nights, Brussels, Belgium at Recyclart, Göteborg, Sweden for Clandestino Festival, with Max Le Daron as Akwaaba Sound System at Le Sucre in Lyon, France, and finally...
Catch Ibaaku this summer in France at Black(s) To The Future Festival in Paris, in Belgium at Dynamo Bar in Brussels, Sweden at Clandestino Festival in Göteborg, and last but not least in Jinja, Uganda for Nyege Nyege Festival! Chopez Ibaaku en concert cet été en...
We're very proud to announce the first release of 2016, coming straight from the imagination and machines of Senegalese producer Ibaaku, who pieced together this afro-futuristic opus as the soundtrack to Selly Raby Kane's Alien Cartoon fashion show and art...
Appietus & 4X4 – Miss Doctor – free download
This song is a HIIIIIIT in Ghana! 4X4 have been around for a while, but are finally making it REAL BIG, thanks in part to this massive track, produced by Appietus – of course ;-p
The song takes place at the Boomerang nightclub, where we spent a few decadent nights… As of late Boomerang has been hosting some pretty sick Francophone parties, with plenty of coupé décalé and students from across Francophone Africa frantically shaking their bobarabas.
You can download the track for free in exchange for your email – which we promise we will not share with the entire world, no 419 here!
Catch Mabiisi on tour this summer: Rotterdam, Netherlands for the International Film Festival's White Nights, Brussels, Belgium at Recyclart, Göteborg, Sweden for Clandestino Festival, with Max Le Daron as Akwaaba Sound System at Le Sucre in Lyon, France, and finally...
Catch Ibaaku this summer in France at Black(s) To The Future Festival in Paris, in Belgium at Dynamo Bar in Brussels, Sweden at Clandestino Festival in Göteborg, and last but not least in Jinja, Uganda for Nyege Nyege Festival! Chopez Ibaaku en concert cet été en...
We're very proud to announce the first release of 2016, coming straight from the imagination and machines of Senegalese producer Ibaaku, who pieced together this afro-futuristic opus as the soundtrack to Selly Raby Kane's Alien Cartoon fashion show and art...
The album is ouuuuuut! Indulge into it, plenty PLENTY fresh sounds from the land of the Black Stars… listen below, buy directly from us here or go to iTunes.
And… you can still get this great track for FREEEEE… all we ask for is your email so we can send you occasional Akwaaba propaganda, nothing too serious!
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…
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 a week later.”
Our friend Gervase de Wilde writes for the Guardian, and we’ve been secretly hoping he’d get Just A Band a feature in the paper… but as it turns out the band shows up in the travel section as a fine example of Nairobi’s lively music scene. No need to paraphrase, just click on the image!
