Nnamdi Moweta, host of KPFK‘s Afrodicia, invites Akwaaba yetagain 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.
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!
DJ Pizaro: This week we have Drummer Boy by Naija Afrobeats Star Naira Marley, Naija afrobeats legend Flavour N'abania features east africa's afrobeats star Diamond Platnumz on Time To Party , the dancehall king from Ghana Shatta Wale with Testimony, Elele by Yemi...
This week, we introduce to you Eff The Dj, based in Accra (Ghana). we are grateful and happy to share with you his latest mix for us, along with the following interview: When did you start DJing - and what or who were your early passions and influences?...
DJ Pizaro: This week we have one of the UK AfroWave pioneers Afro B featuring Wizkid on a remix to his hit song Drogba(Joana) , Akuapem rap sensation Koo Ntakra delivers top bars on Gyedie(faith) featuring Choirmaster (a member of the legendary Hiplife group Praye),...
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!
DJ Pizaro: This week we have Drummer Boy by Naija Afrobeats Star Naira Marley, Naija afrobeats legend Flavour N'abania features east africa's afrobeats star Diamond Platnumz on Time To Party , the dancehall king from Ghana Shatta Wale with Testimony, Elele by Yemi...
This week, we introduce to you Eff The Dj, based in Accra (Ghana). we are grateful and happy to share with you his latest mix for us, along with the following interview: When did you start DJing - and what or who were your early passions and influences?...
DJ Pizaro: This week we have one of the UK AfroWave pioneers Afro B featuring Wizkid on a remix to his hit song Drogba(Joana) , Akuapem rap sensation Koo Ntakra delivers top bars on Gyedie(faith) featuring Choirmaster (a member of the legendary Hiplife group Praye),...
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.
What’s the story behind High Life?
High Life is Stockholm’s most tropical club night and dj-team. Since two years we bring together everything from good time party music such as Highlife, Soukous or Champeta to dancefloor smashers from all continents: Kwaito house, Coupé Decalé, Kuduro and Digital Cumbia to just name a few.
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.
