Like Manu Chao versión 2.20, Calle 13 use a mix of sounds and rhythms from across a vast sampling of cultures to make political and cultural points about identity. For the above song they use a rhythm called Sayas, that stems from the Afro-Bolivian community in and around Yungas, the valley region in the Andes range outside …
Monthly Archive for: "October, 2011"
New Old Dolla Money
A Brooklyn shout out to Caribbean folks, The Lost Boys, and Nissan Maximas.
Can You Say Gbema?
…If not, at least you can listen to it: The collaborative project Akwaaba Music and I have embarked on, Lone Stars Vol: 1 Hipco & Gbema is out now! Buy it at your nearest clickable link: “Bandcamp, iTunes and next week at other major retailers such as Amazon.”
Ritmos de Huayño Electronicas
Photo: Max Cabello Been fishing about for Huayno remixes for some reason. Before I’ve only really ever listened to Wendy Sulca stuff in this genre and thats pretty much where my knowledge ends. I just watched this new VBS film about the Huyno murders, looking at the unsolved death of one of Peru’s biggest huayno …
Johan Hugo ‘Super Mom feat. Baloji’ & ‘Arab Spring’
Fresh back from playing Lake of Stars in Malawi with Esau, our boy Johan of The Very Best / We Don’t Belong in Pacha, Blasts you with a double barrel of always welcome output of pure music sunshine. Earlier this summer, inspired by the North African and Arabic uprisings, he laid down this dabke house …
NaZaretH & Roulet – Aegyptus EP
If you liked the dark techno flavoured kuduro that Angola’s NaZaretH brought to his killer remix of Batida’s Yumbala (get it here). His productions sound like BSS on bad acid. This is the side of African music that you rarely hear with a slightly brutal paranoid edge. Maybe because its not conventionally ‘African’ sounding and …
Call Mi A Yardie
If you haven’t checked JA/UK’s Stylo G’s new hammer, then you should. And when you’ve done that cop this refix from Joe Grime on Dre Skull’s immense Go Go Wine riddim. Stylo G – Call Me A Yardie (Joe Grime Go Go Wine Remix) by joegrime
The Sounds of Liberia
It is my extreme pleasure to present to you the promo mix for the first international release of contemporary popular Liberian music: Lone Stars Vol. 1: Hipco and Gbema. I had a great time visiting Liberia for two months this summer. I met a lot of artists, and enjoyed getting to know the “scene” in …
Anything You Need
Big tune! This song is my number one Freetown tune from U.S. based (they all seem to be now) Sierra Leonean rapper from the Black Leo crew, Kao Denero. Interesting things a gwan in the Sierra Leonean Hip Hop diaspora. For some more insight, check the “street documentary.”
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