Our strength here at Akwaaba is distributing and marketing music from Africa, and we’d like to put our expertise to work, by releasing a compilation of music from Haiti, and by giving our entire profits to organizations working on the ground in Haiti.
We need to act fast, so if you are a Haitian artist, or if you own the rights to Haitian songs, please contact us to see how to release this music as part of a joint relief effort.
Let’s get people involved! Please forward to your friends and family, and feel free to join the conversation at Music for Relief.
Killamu is one of the most respected kuduro beat makers in Angola. He has been part of the kuduro scene for ten years now, and started producing tracks for Gueto Produções with Mestre Ara eight years ago. The duo quickly established their production house as one of the very best in Luanda, collaborating with many of Angola’s most innovative kudurists: laying tracks for artists such as Puto Prata, Noite e Día and Fofandó & Saborosa, together they have paved the way for the next generation of hard-hitting, rhyme-spitting kuduro lyricists.
With a slew of hits behind his name, Killamu has become an unavoidable producer on the kuduro circuit. But as this album shows, his versatility allows him to explore sounds beyond kuduro, starting with kizomba (Angolan zouk), but also, and perhaps most importantly for Western audiences, his experimentations into more instrumental, electronic kuduro beats have definitely set him aside within Angola’s kuduro community.
Killamu’s full length album is coming out this Tuesday January 12. Til then, get your mouth watering as BBRAVE squeezes the album’s potency into a 30 minute set of pure 140bpm Angolan batidas… Pick your poison: Mixcloud, Soundcloud, Fairtilizer, or just stay here, listen a download!
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As always, Marcos Sacchi takes us all over the world, download the latest episode of his Mundiando podcast while it lasts!! And check out the full tracklist on his site as well.
Cameroonian singer Lapiro de Mbanga landed a 3 year jail sentence for his song “Constipated Constitution” which denounces Paul Biya’s “management style”: Biya’s been running Cameroon for 26 years now, and seems not to tolerate much criticism… please take a moment to sign the petition for Lapiro’s release – and get a free album in the process. It’s all at Mondomix, and don’t forget to download the pdf booklet to learn more about Lapiro and his sentencing. And if you’re still hungry for more go to Freemuse.
Pinning down Maga Bo is tough. Not just musically: the man seems to constantly be on the go, making beats and laying vocals anywhere between Senegal and his hometown, Rio de Janeiro. The tracks featured on this mixtape reflect his geographic and sonic range, as Bo puts it:
“100% Maga Bo production with help from some very special friends – Jahdan Blakkamoore (Brooklyn), BNegão (Rio de Janeiro), Ghislain Poirier (Montreal), Filastine (Barcelona), Pacheko (Caracas), Fletcher (Cape Town), Dr. Das (London), Matona (Zanzibar), Abena Koomson (NYC), Teba (Cape Town), Xuman (Dakar), Speed Freaks (Rio de Janeiro) and too many more to try and list (you haven’t been forgotten!!!)…..”
If you place the cursor right under the T in Terras above the player below (14 min in), you’ll hear a sneak peek of a remix Maga Bo did for us… Aunty Adoley, more about that soon!!
