Moving Crunk Out The Way: Introducing Yob – Lomé, Togo

We met Yob on our last trip to Togo, almost one year ago already! We have hours and hours of footage, but finally managed to edit some of the fantastic footage, thanks in large to Tim Videomit, who met Benjamin Lebrave last fall in Paris. Check out the interview he did here (long version in French here). We should be heading back to Togo in a matter of weeks now, where we intend to catch up with Yob, Arc Djébé and cook up some fresh sounds for y’all! Stay chooned.

DJ Spotlight: DJ K3V (Ghana)

Sep 28, 2018

Music, especially of the loud, danceable kind, is ubiquitous in most of Africa. Yet DJs, the artisans behind the walls of sound, often remain in the shadow. This is not how we roll: we want you to find out who is pushing the envelope throughout the continent. This...

Rophnan: My Generation Concert & Major Lazer Mixtape

Sep 20, 2018

On August 25, Rophnan officially released his album in Addis Abeba. The My Generation concert was a major event attended by thousands - with a queue twice as long outside! The event was much more than a release party, it was the culmination of weeks of sky rocketing...

Lala Shishi :2Baba ft Peruzzi – Amaka

Sep 14, 2018

Music serves two purposes; To entertain and to educate. Some songs can make you dance others can make you think about life. 2Baba's Amaka song makes you do both at the same time. 2Baba’s internalisation of his struggle with life and using it as fuel for his music...

Moving Crunk Out The Way: Introducing Yob – Lomé, Togo

We met Yob on our last trip to Togo, almost one year ago already! We have hours and hours of footage, but finally managed to edit some of the fantastic footage, thanks in large to Tim Videomit, who met Benjamin Lebrave last fall in Paris. Check out the interview he did here (long version in French here). We should be heading back to Togo in a matter of weeks now, where we intend to catch up with Yob, Arc Djébé and cook up some fresh sounds for y’all! Stay chooned.

http://vimeo.com/17215421

DJ Spotlight: DJ K3V (Ghana)

Sep 28, 2018

Music, especially of the loud, danceable kind, is ubiquitous in most of Africa. Yet DJs, the artisans behind the walls of sound, often remain in the shadow. This is not how we roll: we want you to find out who is pushing the envelope throughout the continent. This...

Rophnan: My Generation Concert & Major Lazer Mixtape

Sep 20, 2018

On August 25, Rophnan officially released his album in Addis Abeba. The My Generation concert was a major event attended by thousands - with a queue twice as long outside! The event was much more than a release party, it was the culmination of weeks of sky rocketing...

Lala Shishi :2Baba ft Peruzzi – Amaka

Sep 14, 2018

Music serves two purposes; To entertain and to educate. Some songs can make you dance others can make you think about life. 2Baba's Amaka song makes you do both at the same time. 2Baba’s internalisation of his struggle with life and using it as fuel for his music...

Jali – Free “Combination” Remix by Dabö

Interestingly, just as Steve Pile comes back from Gambia, where he heard the Combination remixes blasting daily on the radio (“Almost everyday they’d play 2 tracks after BBC news cast”), we received a very interesting new remix of the song by a certain Dabö, which we obviously can’t add to the existing release, so we all agreed we should just give it out for free. So here it is:

And of course you can still check out the existing remixes:

DJ Spotlight: DJ K3V (Ghana)

Sep 28, 2018

Music, especially of the loud, danceable kind, is ubiquitous in most of Africa. Yet DJs, the artisans behind the walls of sound, often remain in the shadow. This is not how we roll: we want you to find out who is pushing the envelope throughout the continent. This...

Rophnan: My Generation Concert & Major Lazer Mixtape

Sep 20, 2018

On August 25, Rophnan officially released his album in Addis Abeba. The My Generation concert was a major event attended by thousands - with a queue twice as long outside! The event was much more than a release party, it was the culmination of weeks of sky rocketing...

Lala Shishi :2Baba ft Peruzzi – Amaka

Sep 14, 2018

Music serves two purposes; To entertain and to educate. Some songs can make you dance others can make you think about life. 2Baba's Amaka song makes you do both at the same time. 2Baba’s internalisation of his struggle with life and using it as fuel for his music...

Jali – Free “Combination” Remix by Dabö

Interestingly, just as Steve Pile comes back from Gambia, where he heard the Combination remixes blasting daily on the radio (“Almost everyday they’d play 2 tracks after BBC news cast”), we received a very interesting new remix of the song by a certain Dabö, which we obviously can’t add to the existing release, so we all agreed we should just give it out for free. So here it is:

And of course you can still check out the existing remixes:

DJ Spotlight: DJ K3V (Ghana)

Sep 28, 2018

Music, especially of the loud, danceable kind, is ubiquitous in most of Africa. Yet DJs, the artisans behind the walls of sound, often remain in the shadow. This is not how we roll: we want you to find out who is pushing the envelope throughout the continent. This...

Rophnan: My Generation Concert & Major Lazer Mixtape

Sep 20, 2018

On August 25, Rophnan officially released his album in Addis Abeba. The My Generation concert was a major event attended by thousands - with a queue twice as long outside! The event was much more than a release party, it was the culmination of weeks of sky rocketing...

Lala Shishi :2Baba ft Peruzzi – Amaka

Sep 14, 2018

Music serves two purposes; To entertain and to educate. Some songs can make you dance others can make you think about life. 2Baba's Amaka song makes you do both at the same time. 2Baba’s internalisation of his struggle with life and using it as fuel for his music...

FOKN Bois: For Those Who Missed Coz Ov Moni

You know we’d never leave you in the dark… if you are a careful reader of this page you know we’re about to release an album by FOKN Bois & Irie Maffia. If you haven’t seen it yet, then its about time you check out the FOKN Bois’ pidgin musical Coz Ov Moni, which came out about a year ago in Ghana. Here’s the trailer:

Rather than paraphrase, please go read this fantastic post over at the Museke website.

DJ Spotlight: DJ K3V (Ghana)

Sep 28, 2018

Music, especially of the loud, danceable kind, is ubiquitous in most of Africa. Yet DJs, the artisans behind the walls of sound, often remain in the shadow. This is not how we roll: we want you to find out who is pushing the envelope throughout the continent. This...

Rophnan: My Generation Concert & Major Lazer Mixtape

Sep 20, 2018

On August 25, Rophnan officially released his album in Addis Abeba. The My Generation concert was a major event attended by thousands - with a queue twice as long outside! The event was much more than a release party, it was the culmination of weeks of sky rocketing...

Lala Shishi :2Baba ft Peruzzi – Amaka

Sep 14, 2018

Music serves two purposes; To entertain and to educate. Some songs can make you dance others can make you think about life. 2Baba's Amaka song makes you do both at the same time. 2Baba’s internalisation of his struggle with life and using it as fuel for his music...

FOKN Bois: For Those Who Missed Coz Ov Moni

You know we’d never leave you in the dark… if you are a careful reader of this page you know we’re about to release an album by FOKN Bois & Irie Maffia. If you haven’t seen it yet, then its about time you check out the FOKN Bois’ pidgin musical Coz Ov Moni, which came out about a year ago in Ghana. Here’s the trailer:

Rather than paraphrase, please go read this fantastic post over at the Museke website.

DJ Spotlight: DJ K3V (Ghana)

Sep 28, 2018

Music, especially of the loud, danceable kind, is ubiquitous in most of Africa. Yet DJs, the artisans behind the walls of sound, often remain in the shadow. This is not how we roll: we want you to find out who is pushing the envelope throughout the continent. This...

Rophnan: My Generation Concert & Major Lazer Mixtape

Sep 20, 2018

On August 25, Rophnan officially released his album in Addis Abeba. The My Generation concert was a major event attended by thousands - with a queue twice as long outside! The event was much more than a release party, it was the culmination of weeks of sky rocketing...

Lala Shishi :2Baba ft Peruzzi – Amaka

Sep 14, 2018

Music serves two purposes; To entertain and to educate. Some songs can make you dance others can make you think about life. 2Baba's Amaka song makes you do both at the same time. 2Baba’s internalisation of his struggle with life and using it as fuel for his music...

Just A Band: Kudish! The Sound of Soup

Straight from Just A Band‘s website:

From the first time we ever went on stage (in August 2008 – nerve-wracking!) for live performances and/or DJ-sets, we’ve always prepared some remixes of our own songs (and other Kenyan songs we like) to play before we start or after we finish. We’ve never released any of those remixes until today!

We’ve been asked many times to put those mashups and remixes together, so after Daniel unleashed a particularly fun set at the Kudishnyao street party, we figured we should put them together. Here’s “Kudish! The Sound of Soup”, available as a free download courtesy of Bandcamp (which is the coolest music platform we’ve ever worked with). It’s a collection of music we wish we could hear on radio. Grab it and play it loud, and most of all – tell us what you think! 😀

DJ Spotlight: DJ K3V (Ghana)

Sep 28, 2018

Music, especially of the loud, danceable kind, is ubiquitous in most of Africa. Yet DJs, the artisans behind the walls of sound, often remain in the shadow. This is not how we roll: we want you to find out who is pushing the envelope throughout the continent. This...

Rophnan: My Generation Concert & Major Lazer Mixtape

Sep 20, 2018

On August 25, Rophnan officially released his album in Addis Abeba. The My Generation concert was a major event attended by thousands - with a queue twice as long outside! The event was much more than a release party, it was the culmination of weeks of sky rocketing...

Lala Shishi :2Baba ft Peruzzi – Amaka

Sep 14, 2018

Music serves two purposes; To entertain and to educate. Some songs can make you dance others can make you think about life. 2Baba's Amaka song makes you do both at the same time. 2Baba’s internalisation of his struggle with life and using it as fuel for his music...

Just A Band: Kudish! The Sound of Soup

Straight from Just A Band‘s website:

From the first time we ever went on stage (in August 2008 – nerve-wracking!) for live performances and/or DJ-sets, we’ve always prepared some remixes of our own songs (and other Kenyan songs we like) to play before we start or after we finish. We’ve never released any of those remixes until today!

We’ve been asked many times to put those mashups and remixes together, so after Daniel unleashed a particularly fun set at the Kudishnyao street party, we figured we should put them together. Here’s “Kudish! The Sound of Soup”, available as a free download courtesy of Bandcamp (which is the coolest music platform we’ve ever worked with). It’s a collection of music we wish we could hear on radio. Grab it and play it loud, and most of all – tell us what you think! 😀

DJ Spotlight: DJ K3V (Ghana)

Sep 28, 2018

Music, especially of the loud, danceable kind, is ubiquitous in most of Africa. Yet DJs, the artisans behind the walls of sound, often remain in the shadow. This is not how we roll: we want you to find out who is pushing the envelope throughout the continent. This...

Rophnan: My Generation Concert & Major Lazer Mixtape

Sep 20, 2018

On August 25, Rophnan officially released his album in Addis Abeba. The My Generation concert was a major event attended by thousands - with a queue twice as long outside! The event was much more than a release party, it was the culmination of weeks of sky rocketing...

Lala Shishi :2Baba ft Peruzzi – Amaka

Sep 14, 2018

Music serves two purposes; To entertain and to educate. Some songs can make you dance others can make you think about life. 2Baba's Amaka song makes you do both at the same time. 2Baba’s internalisation of his struggle with life and using it as fuel for his music...

Azingele Remixed

Results are in! And this time we waste no time, EP is available for download right here, and shortly available at all major music stores. First let’s talk about Azingele… In 2010 Ruff-N-Smooth took Ghana by storm with a string of hits, the last of which was Azingele in late 2010. The song talks about… don’t hold your breath: girls. Although the duo boasts a decidedly modern, fairly consumerist style, they lament over the materialistic turn that relationships seem to be

Results are in! And this time we waste no time, EP is available for download right here, and shortly available at all major music stores. First let’s talk about Azingele… In 2010 Ruff-N-Smooth took Ghana by storm with a string of hits, the last of which was Azingele in late 2010. The song talks about… don’t hold your breath: girls. Although the duo boasts a decidedly modern, fairly consumerist style, they lament over the materialistic turn that relationships seem to be taking in Ghana. Joined on the track by Ghana’s number one Francophone flavor dispenser, SK Blinks, we’ve been fortunate to give the acapella a spin with an army of producers from all over the world. More importantly, this time, we are truly amazed with the musical diversity of these remixes. About the remixers:

1 – Chuck Wild (US): New-York based Charlie B Wilder has been spreading his take on music in the city’s clubs (Bembe, Cielo) and airwaves (WNYU), but also via his great blog mixtaperiot.com. A few months spent in West Africa back in 2002 got him hooked onto African music, since then he’s remixed Vieux Farka Touré and is about to release a song with Congolese singer Fredy Massamba.

2 – Pushking Noize & Tillup (Switzerland): we discovered them through their work with artists in Mozambique such as Dama do Bling, then learned about their Tropical Disco parties in Zurich. When we heard this simple moombahton banger, we had to add it…!

3 – Granada! & Madmoa (Portugal): remember Diamond Bass? Luckily he hooked his friend Granada! onto this. A natural fit with Angolan-descendant Madmoa, who’s sound is clearly close to kuduro and the like. These boys really switched the song around. We like!

4 – Daniel Klauser (Chile): this kid’s been blowing up online in the past few months, dropping remixes all over the place, and most recently releasing an EP for DBTY. Daniel feels a special connection to African rhythms, which he thinks are part of South American culture. We’re so glad he feels that way, his sound is simply addictive.

5 – Chicus (US): this Brooklynite’s been spinnng records for years now, but we know him as head honcho of vinyl imprint Redbud Recordings, neck deep into dub and roots reggae. His other label Dither Down has put out great 12” and tropical remixes, and now Chicus hits us again, proving his love of hybrid sounds from yet another angle, inspired by the crossover appeal of Azingele’s vocals.

6 – LATA (Chile): probably the most abstract cut on this EP, this remix showcases LATA’s experimental sound, at the junction of dub, electronica and latin music, which, more broadly, reflects LATA’s quest to help define cultural identity in modern Chile.

General store (iTunes, Beatport etc) release date: May 17, 2011
Until then you can grab the EP here