Read Wayne Marshall’s interview here. Wayne is the Wayne & Wax guy. If you don’t know his blog, well, since you’re here you’d probably dig his site, an always insightful blog on new music trends with a foot – or two – in cross-Atlantic syncopated beats. Ghetto tech, tropical bass, you might’ve heard the expressions, Wayne deciphers a lot of it on his blog. As does our good ol’buddy Boima, you’ve seen his name pop up here quite a bit, ya?
In French only… for now at least… but a lot of the gestures are pretty self-explanatory, so keep practicing!
Daniel Haaksman is a Berlin based DJ with eclectic taste, particularly in baile funk (which can best be described as Brazilian party music). “Kid Conga,” from Haaksman’s Gostoso EP (released this summer on his label, Man Recordings), features 9 year old MC Miltinho (son of baile funk legend MC Batata) singing a Bazillion nursery rhyme over baile funk influenced tropical dance beats.
On a scale of 1-10, it’s freaking awesome.
Practice your Swedish… and help us figure out what the article says! Anna and Sebastian of Stockholm’s High Life party introduced us to Nanushka Yeaman, a – very friendly – Swedish-American journalist who does culture columns for Dagens Nyheter, the largest Swedish daily. Today, this culture is dedicated to Akwaaba and our mission to spread music and cultures from Africa. Dig it!
This just in: thanks to our Swedish fans for the translation in the comments below.
From our friends at Bomb Diggy’s website:
By far the baddest, biggest edition of Bomb Diggy will be the Amsterdam Dance Event Special!
a serious line-up will wreck the floor and smash a horny vibe in your face till 05:00 in the morning:
– yes.. a special set with the hottest baile funk tunes by European adopter Daniel Haaksman!
– the live deep and analog hiphoppedy global tech kicks of soundboy Filastine, together with MC Nova from Indonesia!
– BBRAVE from Akwaaba Music with the true African sounds, banging from calypso, hiplife, kuduro and back to Ghanaian roots!
– Raving bassline and no-mercy bouncers from the one and only AC Slater!
– the brothers from Lisbon with their soca fueled bashment and kuduro influenced afro-electro: Octa Push!
– supported by the deep dubstep sounds from new kid on the block Tommy Tequila!
– and rounded off with the records of residents Mataklap, Makks & Ru-D
IF YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE HOUSE/TECHNO PARTYING AND SEEK OTHER SOUNDS ON THE AMSTERDAM DANCE EVENT FESTIVAL:
COME TO THE OT301 ‘CAUSE THAT’S WHERE THE TROPICAL BASS IS GONNA KICK!
stay tuned if you want to win tickets for this night!
NO PRE-SALE!!!! SO DON’T BE TOO LATE!!!!
bye friends!
Bomb Diggy crew
Russ Jones and DJ Cliffy are having BBRAVE share the decks with them at their Saturday party Future World Funk, at the Notting Hill Arts Club. Tell your peeps, these guys play some serious, serious stuff, just have a quick listen at their respective myspace pages and enyoy, very nice cumbia, 70s Brazilian funk, and of course a dash of soukous and highlife with BBRAVE in there…