Our friends at OkayAfrica just posted a video of New York’s Old Money chatting about their influences of world wide Ghetto music and how it translates into their sound. Check a few bars from their awesome bass heavy jam ‘Ackee & Saltfish’.
Monthly Archive for: "January, 2012"
Poirier – Soca Road EP
You can pretty much trust Poirier to deliver the goods. Once again he’s playing to his strengths with a carnival pile up of soca killers. These are going to have you following the next truck you see down the road waving your flag like you forgot its winter. Especially feeling ‘Bring It On’ with vocals …
Sorie Kondi to SXSW
*Cross-posted at Africa is a Country A small team of folks (including myself) are trying to help raise funds to get Sorie Kondi to SXSW in Austin, Texas this upcoming March. If you’re unfamiliar with Sorie, check out the many profiles done on him c/o Vickie Remoe, the BBC, and We Own TV. His songs, …
Soundway sign Batida
Massive congratulations to our own Batida who have announced this week that they’re signing to Soundway Records to release their album internationally, the label home to so many of our favourite releases. The label, now branching out into some more modern styles of African music, Batida’s brilliant sampling of old 60′s Angolan semba tunes means …
Ben-ge Bangers
Madtraxx have just vaulted into my favorite East African producers slot (although Ogopa DJs tunes still jam, and Wawesh’s productions for Bamzigi are mad) Ita Wita was a good look, but I definitely slept on Skamaress. If you’ve been reading GBQ for anytime now, you should know we’re suckers for 70′s Rumba-Benga guitars over anything. …
La Makina del Karibe – ‘Maki Man’
A few months ago, A.J. Holmes played me his great remix of a champeta track ‘Maki Man’. Its finally been released along with some other banging remixes from our dudes Moroka, Daniel Haaksman and Hat & Hoodie. Like most Colombian champeta tracks it has a strong west african soukous flavour and can’t fail to cheer …
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love me some Bongo! I didn't know you used to play in a project with him, got any recordings?
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