Archives des Skeat - Akwaaba Music - African Music and Pop Culture https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/category/artists/skeat/ African Music and Pop Culture Mon, 26 Apr 2021 11:57:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.akwaabamusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-favicon-akwaaba-32x32.png Archives des Skeat - Akwaaba Music - African Music and Pop Culture https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/category/artists/skeat/ 32 32 Chop Our Music – 2 year Anniversary Super Release! https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/chop-our-music-2-year-anniversary-super-release/ https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/chop-our-music-2-year-anniversary-super-release/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:41:46 +0000 https://www.akwaabamusic.com/?p=2580   [:en] 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 […]

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]]> https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/chop-our-music-2-year-anniversary-super-release/feed/ 0 Pan African Music Stew mix for This Is Africa https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/pan-african-music-stew-mix-for-this-is-africa/ https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/pan-african-music-stew-mix-for-this-is-africa/#respond Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:03:51 +0000 https://www.akwaabamusic.com/?p=2563 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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]]> https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/pan-african-music-stew-mix-for-this-is-africa/feed/ 0 Bomb Diggy – Crusade of the Monkey Mix https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/bomb-diggy-crusade-of-the-monkey-mix/ https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/bomb-diggy-crusade-of-the-monkey-mix/#respond Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:08:20 +0000 https://www.akwaabamusic.com/?p=2303 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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]]> https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/bomb-diggy-crusade-of-the-monkey-mix/feed/ 0 Hat+Hoodie – Akwaabarama mixtape https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/hathoodie-akwaabarama-mixtape/ https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/hathoodie-akwaabarama-mixtape/#respond Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:05:13 +0000 https://www.akwaabamusic.com/?p=2255 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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]]> https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/listen-to-skeat-kwaito-kwassa-bw/feed/ 0 Botswana, land of the Zebra.. wicker.. Ruff Riddims studio!! https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/botswana-land-of-the-zebra-wicker-ruff-riddims-studio/ https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/botswana-land-of-the-zebra-wicker-ruff-riddims-studio/#respond Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:19:45 +0000 https://www.akwaabamusic.com/?p=2030 Moemdi runs Ruff Riddims, a music production studio located in Palapye, Botswana. Botswana’s national animal is the zebra, wicker baskets with geometric motifs are a national staple, and we think how Moemdi incorporated both into his studio design is PRETTY EFFIN COOL. Stay tuned for our first collaboration with Ruff Riddims, Skeat’s debut album Basimanyana […]

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]]> https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/botswana-land-of-the-zebra-wicker-ruff-riddims-studio/feed/ 0 Next up… Botswana, Skeat “Meropa” https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/next-up-botswana-skeat-meropa/ https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/next-up-botswana-skeat-meropa/#respond Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:33:38 +0000 https://www.akwaabamusic.com/?p=2017 We’re excited to release Skeat’s debut album later this month!! Expect a crazy mish mash of kwaito, kwassa house, hip hop and even some gospel, all meticulously produced by Ruff Riddims’s Moemdi Ramogapi. More soon on these pages…

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