SURAJ – Tribute To The East Exclusive Mix

SURAJ – Tribute To The East Exclusive Mix

I finally made it to Nairobi last August, and among many other eye openers, I was blown away when I realized afrohouse is already a pillar of Nairobi’s nightlife. The Angolan and Mozambican scenes have inundated Soundcloud with countless bangers, not to mention South Africa, which is by most standards the global epicenter of house music. I was less aware of Nairobi’s house music output, but was very impressed by the quality of the DJs. One DJ who stood out in particular is SURAJ: this guy took me on a musical journey for the first time in way too long. I witnessed SURAJ behind the decks on several occasions, and truly appreciated his range, cleverly adapting his style to the time and venue without ever letting go of his distinct personality.

Fiending for more, I asked SURAJ to prepare an exclusive mix for us, which he describes this way:

“This mix for Akwaaba gives me the opportunity to create a set that reflects a night out in Nairobi and the music that comes along with it. I am a DJ and producer based in Nairobi, Kenya, I create contemporary electronic music infused with traditional musical and cultural elements. In this mix, I highlight my signature sound alongside new music from some of my favorite labels and artists from around the world. I’ve featured among others Denivel Line, Pablo Fierro & Zepherin Saint.

Tracklist

Denivel Line – Iniciacao (Wild Mix) (Aluku Records)

SpellbandPapaya (MoBlack Records)

BreythVoyage To Guatemala (MoBlack Records)

Zepherin SaintCanima (Afrotech Remix) (Tribe Trax)

Denivel LineWild Spirits (Aluku Records)

HyenaThe Wish (Dub) (Freerange Records)

DJ OatsKalahari Deep (Housetribe Records)

Msk & DJ Tea Feat. Dave – Nomperere (Djeff Afrozilla Private Edit) (Katsaitis Music)

Kato Change Feat. WinyoAbiro (Riot Stereo & SURAJ Remix) (Aluku Records Promo)

Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura BandHavana Sessions (Pablo Fierro Remix) (Brownswood Recordings)

FatoumataWigeon (MoBlack Records)

DJ AnnaSlow Mind (Tronic Music)

A.L.C.A.Calling Africa (Jasc Remix) (Magnetik Grooves)

 

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SURAJ – Tribute To The East Exclusive Mix

I finally made it to Nairobi last August, and among many other eye openers, I was blown away when I realized afrohouse is already a pillar of Nairobi’s nightlife. The Angolan and Mozambican scenes have inundated Soundcloud with countless bangers, not to mention South Africa, which is by most standards the global epicenter of house music. I was less aware of Nairobi’s house music output, but was very impressed by the quality of the DJs. One DJ who stood out in particular is SURAJ: this guy took me on a musical journey for the first time in way too long. I witnessed SURAJ behind the decks on several occasions, and truly appreciated his range, cleverly adapting his style to the time and venue without ever letting go of his distinct personality.

Fiending for more, I asked SURAJ to prepare an exclusive mix for us, which he describes this way:

“This mix for Akwaaba gives me the opportunity to create a set that reflects a night out in Nairobi and the music that comes along with it. I am a DJ and producer based in Nairobi, Kenya, I create contemporary electronic music infused with traditional musical and cultural elements. In this mix, I highlight my signature sound alongside new music from some of my favorite labels and artists from around the world. I’ve featured among others Denivel Line, Pablo Fierro & Zepherin Saint.

Tracklist

Denivel Line – Iniciacao (Wild Mix) (Aluku Records)

SpellbandPapaya (MoBlack Records)

BreythVoyage To Guatemala (MoBlack Records)

Zepherin SaintCanima (Afrotech Remix) (Tribe Trax)

Denivel LineWild Spirits (Aluku Records)

HyenaThe Wish (Dub) (Freerange Records)

DJ OatsKalahari Deep (Housetribe Records)

Msk & DJ Tea Feat. Dave – Nomperere (Djeff Afrozilla Private Edit) (Katsaitis Music)

Kato Change Feat. WinyoAbiro (Riot Stereo & SURAJ Remix) (Aluku Records Promo)

Gilles Peterson’s Havana Cultura BandHavana Sessions (Pablo Fierro Remix) (Brownswood Recordings)

FatoumataWigeon (MoBlack Records)

DJ AnnaSlow Mind (Tronic Music)

A.L.C.A.Calling Africa (Jasc Remix) (Magnetik Grooves)

 

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Rocky Marsiano – Esse Mambo

 

Original sample by Bonga – “Ku Tando” off of his epic Angola 72 album. iTunes

Rocky Marsiano is the brainchild of Lisbon hip hop veteran D-Mars, the result of his passion for MPC head bobbin’ beats, as well as Lusophone classics from Angola, Cape Verde and Mozambique, which permeate the streets he grew up on in Lisbon.

“Esse Mambo” samples one of the greatest Angolan recording artists of all times, Bonga, and is a perfect introduction to Rocky Marsiano’s playfully hybrid sound. “Both Angola 72 and Angola 74 are classic records from Angola. All the songs on both albums are just great: so much depth and rhythmical vibes”

Marsiano manages to tastefully expand the vibes of this classic record, as he does on the rest of his Meu Kamba project, which comes out online September 23.

Fouma System – Xamal Sa Bopp Free DL + Video

Fouma System is a very exciting project born out of the collaboration between Dakar based griot vocalist Mustaf Mbaye and Danish producer Exampler. The two met on several occasions both in Dakar and Copenhagen, and despite the language barrier they  strongly connected, as both shared not only common ideas about music, but also a passion for food and café touba.  The full story will unfold in the coming weeks as we prepare the release of their debut EP Mind Mi Dem June 17. For now, let the music do the talking:

Lyrics (this is phonetic wolof spelling, not in any way proper!):

Chorus
Xamal sa bopp
know yourself
Xamal saion
know your way
Xamsa bopp xam kinga don
understand yourself
 and acknowledge the human you are
Xamal sa bopp
know yourself
Xamal saion
know your way
Xamsa bopp xam kinga don
understand yourself
and acknowledge the human you are

Kouchi nekh tinion
Each one of us
Xamsa bopp gën nou wala wachla kinga don
should know that understanding yourself is better than being told about yourself

Xamal sa bopp
know yourself
Xamal saion
know your way
Xamsa bopp xam kinga don
understand yourself
and acknowledge the human you are

First Verse

Xamsa bopp
Understand yourself
Xamsa mbokk
Understand your origin 
Linga top
The path that you strive to be on
Ak lila top 
and the destiny that might catch up with you
Xamal saion
know your way
Xamel ou bonn
Know what is harmful to you
Xamal sonon
Know your enemy
Doxe freedom
Knowing this makes you live in freedom

(X2)
Xam lou dakh nou sakala
Acknowledge your purpose
Lofidjef de yaw mi genula
Your actions will come back to you
Gou xamatul fanga djëm
If you don’t know where you are going
Delu finga dju ge wal
Go back to where you came from

Chorus

Jumping Back Slash – Gqom Bhengz Mix

Jumping Back Slash – Gqom Bhengz Mix

 

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Gqom is the most exciting discovery of my  trip to South Africa last November. Jumping Back Slash knowledgeably takes us through a deep Durban odyssey. Listen, then feel free to feed your developing addiction to gqom over at kasimp3.com

 

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A.J. Holmes – 20 years of Kwaito Mix

A.J. Holmes – 20 years of Kwaito Mix

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With this new mix A.J. Holmes shows yet another angle to his musical taste. “I first discovered Kwaito in 2003 after a friend, João Orecchia (who now lives in Johannesburg and has a great project with members of the BLK JKS called Motel Mari) returned from his first visit to South Africa with a bag filled with Kwaito cassettes. The track that first grabbed me was TKZee – Magesh which had been a hit in SA a few years earlier. I listened to these cassettes reputably on car journeys touring in Germany the following year.

I was DJing a mix of Old School Rumba, Township Jive, High Life and Grime (UK Hip Hop) at the time. The down beat groove of Kwaito seemed to fit perfectly in this mix and to be the ‘missing link’ in my taste pallet: Employing the beautiful melodies of township Jive and the urban experience of – what was at the time – modern Soweto. This mix seemed to work in the clubs and bars in Europe: London, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Rostock, Malmö, Copenhagen…for me it was a big part of the sound of 2004; but of course I ‘discovered’ this music 10 years after the fact, as some of it – to my surprise – had been released in the mid 90’s; however it still sounded fresh and exciting to me!”

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20 years ago – on the 27th April 1994 – ‘Nelson Mandela took office as the first democratically elected president of South Africa. 
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I was recently having a bit of a spring clear out and come across these cassettes. As much as I was really into them at the time; I somehow wasn’t surprised to discover that they sound even better to me now then they did all those years ago!

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So here’s to a ‘better life for all’!

Track list

Mandoza – 50/50

Jimmy B – Make Em Bounce

TKZee – Magesh

Spokes ‘H’ – Wara Wara

Aba Shante – Come get me

Brenda Fassie – Qula

Arthur – Kaffir

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I was DJing a mix of Old School Rumba, Township Jive, High Life and Grime (UK Hip Hop) at the time. The down beat groove of Kwaito seemed to fit perfectly in this mix and to be the ‘missing link’ in my taste pallet: Employing the beautiful melodies of township Jive and the urban experience of – what was at the time – modern Soweto. This mix seemed to work in the clubs and bars in Europe: London, Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Rostock, Malmö, Copenhagen…for me it was a big part of the sound of 2004; but of course I ‘discovered’ this music 10 years after the fact, as some of it – to my surprise – had been released in the mid 90’s; however it still sounded fresh and exciting to me!”

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20 years ago – on the 27th April 1994 – ‘Nelson Mandela took office as the first democratically elected president of South Africa. 
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For me this mixtape marks a personal 10 year reflection; since I first heard this mid 90’s / early 00’s Kwaito – South African Hip Hop – music. Which became a big part of the 2004 Summer sound track for me and my friends, after my friend João Orecchia returned from South African the previous year with a plastic bag filled with cassettes.

I was recently having a bit of a spring clear out and come across these cassettes. As much as I was really into them at the time; I somehow wasn’t surprised to discover that they sound even better to me now then they did all those years ago!

I think it’s time to ‘re- discover’ – or even ‘discover’ for the first time (you lucky person if that is the case!) – this amazing dance music. 20 years after some of it was made and – to me – this music sounds as relevant as ever.

I would love to go to a club that played this music. So if anyone wanted to invite me to play a set of hissy old Kwaito cassettes from this gold era of South African dance music; I’d be well up for it!

I’ve creamed off some of my favourite tracks to make this mixtape. Most of which can be bought on the great compilation – Kwaito: South African Hip Hop CD

So here’s to a ‘better life for all’!

Track list

Mandoza – 50/50

Jimmy B – Make Em Bounce

TKZee – Magesh

Spokes ‘H’ – Wara Wara

Aba Shante – Come get me

Brenda Fassie – Qula

Arthur – Kaffir

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Joey Le Soldat – L’Hivernage

[:en]

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From the album Burkin Bâ out February 11.

Produced by DJ Form for Tentacule Records.

L’Hivernage [the rainy season] is a return to the childhood village. Joey praises the merits of the bountiful rain, saying at the heart of the hot season, rainfall can always come. Before him, Creedence Clearwater Revival sang Who’ll Stop The Rain, a metaphor asking who would stop the Vietnam war, right as the Nixon presidency disintegrated. Today, Joey Le Soldat says in essence that all forms of hope are allowed, even within the harshest of conditions. There is no doubt the recent January 18 demonstrations, during which rain came miraculously, are nourishing this hope for change. Far from a grumbling, rearguard battle, Joey Le Soldat and a handful of other African rappers are writing the soundtrack of a future where everything now seems possible.”

Florent Mazzoleni, writer and author of “L’Epopée de la Musique Africaine” (The Epic of African Music), “Afro Pop: L’Age d’Or des grands orchestres Africains” (Afro Pop:The Golden age of the great African orchestras, “Memphis: Aux racines du Rock et de la Soul“(Memphis, at the root of rock and soul).

Lyrics:

Chorus:
Farmer I salute you
The first rain, marking the Hivernage, has come
Once more we are all going to the fields to plant seeds
A new rainy season is given to us, it’s time to plow
May the Gods bring rain so the season is plentiful
May the Gods bring rain so the harvests are plentiful

First Verse:
A big cloud darkens nature
I invoke: come, cloud, to water the land
Come down so the season is good
It’s the rainy season, the weather is gentle, the grasses have grown back
Goodbye great heat
In the Mossi language we say
“when the fig tree recovers its leaves the rainy season is coming”
So farmer, hang on and don’t let go
I know it’s hard at times but your craft is noble
By these words I come to praise your work

Second Verse:
In my land it’s the rainy season
Mother nature wore her prettiest dress
I admire her greeneries
It is raining in my village
Goodbye April heat, long period of heat
Rainy season in our villages
From the morning and the rooster’s crow
Man, woman and child
A cart and a donkey are back on the road to the fields

It is raining in my village
Me, from my window
I’m looking at the rain.[:de]

hivernage_web_lo

From the album Burkin Bâ out February 11.

Produced by DJ Form for Tentacule Records.

L’Hivernage [the rainy season] is a return to the childhood village. Joey praises the merits of the bountiful rain, saying at the heart of the hot season, rainfall can always come. Before him, Creedence Clearwater Revival sang Who’ll Stop The Rain, a metaphor asking who would stop the Vietnam war, right as the Nixon presidency disintegrated. Today, Joey Le Soldat says in essence that all forms of hope are allowed, even within the harshest of conditions. There is no doubt the recent January 18 demonstrations, during which rain came miraculously, are nourishing this hope for change. Far from a grumbling, rearguard battle, Joey Le Soldat and a handful of other African rappers are writing the soundtrack of a future where everything now seems possible.”

Florent Mazzoleni, writer and author of “L’Epopée de la Musique Africaine” (The Epic of African Music), “Afro Pop: L’Age d’Or des grands orchestres Africains” (Afro Pop:The Golden age of the great African orchestras, “Memphis: Aux racines du Rock et de la Soul“(Memphis, at the root of rock and soul).

Lyrics:

Chorus:
Farmer I salute you
The first rain, marking the Hivernage, has come
Once more we are all going to the fields to plant seeds
A new rainy season is given to us, it’s time to plow
May the Gods bring rain so the season is plentiful
May the Gods bring rain so the harvests are plentiful

First Verse:
A big cloud darkens nature
I invoke: come, cloud, to water the land
Come down so the season is good
It’s the rainy season, the weather is gentle, the grasses have grown back
Goodbye great heat
In the Mossi language we say
“when the fig tree recovers its leaves the rainy season is coming”
So farmer, hang on and don’t let go
I know it’s hard at times but your craft is noble
By these words I come to praise your work

Second Verse:
In my land it’s the rainy season
Mother nature wore her prettiest dress
I admire her greeneries
It is raining in my village
Goodbye April heat, long period of heat
Rainy season in our villages
From the morning and the rooster’s crow
Man, woman and child
A cart and a donkey are back on the road to the fields

It is raining in my village
Me, from my window
I’m looking at the rain.[:fr]

hivernage_web_lo

From the album Burkin Bâ out February 11.

Produced by DJ Form for Tentacule Records.

L’Hivernage [the rainy season] is a return to the childhood village. Joey praises the merits of the bountiful rain, saying at the heart of the hot season, rainfall can always come. Before him, Creedence Clearwater Revival sang Who’ll Stop The Rain, a metaphor asking who would stop the Vietnam war, right as the Nixon presidency disintegrated. Today, Joey Le Soldat says in essence that all forms of hope are allowed, even within the harshest of conditions. There is no doubt the recent January 18 demonstrations, during which rain came miraculously, are nourishing this hope for change. Far from a grumbling, rearguard battle, Joey Le Soldat and a handful of other African rappers are writing the soundtrack of a future where everything now seems possible.”

Florent Mazzoleni, writer and author of “L’Epopée de la Musique Africaine” (The Epic of African Music), “Afro Pop: L’Age d’Or des grands orchestres Africains” (Afro Pop:The Golden age of the great African orchestras, “Memphis: Aux racines du Rock et de la Soul“(Memphis, at the root of rock and soul).

Lyrics:

Chorus:
Farmer I salute you
The first rain, marking the Hivernage, has come
Once more we are all going to the fields to plant seeds
A new rainy season is given to us, it’s time to plow
May the Gods bring rain so the season is plentiful
May the Gods bring rain so the harvests are plentiful

First Verse:
A big cloud darkens nature
I invoke: come, cloud, to water the land
Come down so the season is good
It’s the rainy season, the weather is gentle, the grasses have grown back
Goodbye great heat
In the Mossi language we say
“when the fig tree recovers its leaves the rainy season is coming”
So farmer, hang on and don’t let go
I know it’s hard at times but your craft is noble
By these words I come to praise your work

Second Verse:
In my land it’s the rainy season
Mother nature wore her prettiest dress
I admire her greeneries
It is raining in my village
Goodbye April heat, long period of heat
Rainy season in our villages
From the morning and the rooster’s crow
Man, woman and child
A cart and a donkey are back on the road to the fields

It is raining in my village
Me, from my window
I’m looking at the rain.[:]