If you hear a Western DJ playing music from Africa, 99% of the time he/she will either be playing old school afrobeat and afrofunk, or super high energy dance music. Unless maybe you find yourself in a Cape Verdian club we doubt you’d hear a lot of more mellow sounds. Well thankfully, as exemplified with his Chop Chop Supermix, there’s DJ Zhao. The man of the hour when it comes to digging deeper into music that will move more than your hips and feet. Perfect timing with Valentine’s day around the corner, some warm lovin’ music to kick off the week end on a bright note.
Our good friends the Crowkrushers strike again with another bad arse mix, this time for our other doods the Bomb Diggy crew out of Amsterdam. They pieced together a pretty fantastic mix spanning the gamut from dancehall to hiplife to a lot of stuff we’re not sure what to call!!! Listen and download it here:
Featuring two of our favorite Akwaaba cuts, One Gallon by Bradez – one of the main reasons why we started this whole Akwaaba thing. And Mona Lisa by Ghana superstars Ruff N Smooth. On a different note, remember the great Krush on Akwaaba mix they did for us? Also well worth checking out:
It was only a matter of time!! We can’t believe it’s finally happening.. one of Nigeria’s top dawgs with the top dawg himself!!! Can’t pretend to be so impressed by the actual song, but that’s a different story. We’re moving the main Akwaaba office to Ghana in a few weeks, it’ll be our responsibility to raise the bar for such collaborations!!!!
Ho Chi Fu strikes again! If he is not yet a household name in your brain, then go check out his youtube channel NOW. He has established himself as the number one music video director in Angola, a country with a booming music scene, more and more cash, hence more and more good looking videos. Spread this one around, it shows Angola – and even Africa – in a way too many would not ever expect. Elegom Bounsa – slang/broken portuguese for he’s a good dancer, ele e bom dançar. Get the track from iTunes or directly from us here:
Going Africa and Beyond… Ruff-N-Smooth’s moto seems particularly appropriate for this next Akwaaba remix contest: their song Azingele is the next big hit coming from this new Ghanaian powerduo, the video’s been out for a couple of days only, and it’s already generating serious buzz in Ghana. The track features SK Blinks, the go-to guy in Ghana for hooks and choruses in French. The aim with SK is also to reach an audience outside of Ghana, inside its neighboring Francophone countries. So it only makes sense to take this song even further, and put the acapella in the hands of beat makers all over the world. Grab the acapella from Soundcloud, do your thing, and send back your work of magic BEFORE FEBRUARY 28. Either use our dropbox or any file sharing service you wish, just make sure you tag your song!! In the past many, many remixes we received got lost in the shuffle due to very poor tagging, so when you send your remix:
– make sure you tag the song well enough: if we can’t see your remixer name anywhere, we’ll never know it’s yours.
– make sure we can DOWNLOAD the song. Seems pretty obvious, but it’s apparently not. We’re always on the move, and most likely will not listen to your remix online. Possibly in a trotro or an airplane. So please make it easy on us and let us download it and take it where we need to.
– please send us a message by email or on Soundcloud with your full contact info and a short bio. That’ll save a lot of time for all of us.
