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2010 has seen the term "tropical" tossed around more than ever, but Banana Clipz producers Oro11 and Chief Boima are anything but newcomers to the movement. Their self-titled debut EP is the culmination of several years of work, and effectively melds modern, bass-heavy club sounds with the rhythms of Africa, Jamaica, and Latin America.

Oro11 is the co-founder of the Bersa Discos, the West Coast cumbia imprint whose low-end-heavy brand of cumbia and other Latin sounds helped bring an entire new sound palette to first-world dancefloors. Currently residing in Los Angeles, the California native previously spent several years in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he first began fusing cumbia with hip-hop, dancehall, and electronic music.

Chief Boima is a New York-based DJ, producer, writer, blogger, and academic. Basically, if you've spent any time investigating so-called "tropical" music in recent years, it would be impossible not to stumble across his name, his writing, or his productions. Well-versed in a variety of African, Latin, and Caribbean sounds, he frequently writes for our own acclaimed Ghetto Bassquake blog right here. He's also been adopted by New York's Dutty Artz collective, a label/crew headed by DJ Rupture and Matt Shadetek that released his Techno Rumba EP earlier this year.

Together, Oro11 and Chief Boima are Banana Clipz, a project that began when both artists were living in Oakland. Forged over the course of three years, their EP distills the pair's shared love of Afro-Latin-Caribbean sounds into a modern club template, one partially inspired by Bersa Discos' monthly Tormenta Tropical party in San Francisco, where Boima was a frequent guest DJ and even more frequent dancefloor participant.

While Oro11 and Chief Boima might be responsible for the beats on the Banana Clipz EP, the seven-track release features a number of guest vocalists, including white-hot Oakland/Panamanian rappers Los Rakas, Bay Area-based Guyanese dancehall MC Tidal, Sierra Leone-born singer Khady Black, and Black Nature of San Francisco's Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars.

The Banana Clipz EP is released on  29th November 2010.

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Grime meets Fish Uptown

Posted Apr 30 2012 by in London with 0 Comments

I’m sceptical that this guy’s fish really is the best in town if its only a quid but he most definitely has the best sales tune (at least in Queen’s market, Upton Park).

Listen. And Learn.

Comon ladies Comon ladies 1 pound fish (X2)
1 pound fish comon have a look 1 pound fish heva have a look 1 pound fish
very very good 1 pound fish very very cheap 1 pound fish
6 for 5 pound 1 pound each (X2)
fish to the 1 pound (X4)
6 for 5 pound, 1 pound each
fish to the 1 pound (X2)
Comon ladies Comon ladies to the fish 1 pound each
1 pound each (X2)
very good and very cheap (X2)

With a tune this good, happy to see that Boy Better Know have sampled him on a new beat. Naturally. As Twister once said…”make you a celebrity overnight”.

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Shorty, Skepta & JME – 1 Pound Fish

Via Dan Hancox

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Cham Vs Swappi – ‘Wine (Bubble On Ah DJ)’ (Scratch Master remix)

Posted Apr 27 2012 by in Barbados with 0 Comments

Swappi’s insane soca anthem Bubble on ah DJ has getting me up in the mornings the last couple of weeks. Barbados’s Scratch Master, who you might remember from his amazing road mix of Zoelah’s ‘Fly Away’ has made this great version with Cham and an unknown lady. How can you not love this.

Cham Vs Swappi – Wine (Bubble On Ah DJ)’ (Scratch Master remix) (mediafire)

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The Very Best ‘Yoshua Alikuti’

Posted Apr 25 2012 by in London, Malawi, Nairobi, Sweden with 1 Comment

Our boys The Very Best return with a hammer of a video directed by Village Beat for the 1st single from their forthcoming new album, MTMTMTK, dropping this summer on Moshi Moshi/Cooperative Music. Esau & Johan take the part of Lil Wayne and his security except they’re in a Nairobi township have a goat which makes it video of the year.

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Rubi Dan ‘Gal wan Buddy’

Posted Apr 17 2012 by in Ghana with 0 Comments

The Heatwave’s Rubi Dan just passed me his exclusive new vocal on the Oliver Twist beat taking the Afrobeats anthem into funky bashment territory with a great hook. Grab it below.

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Musicalia Vs Peligrosa

Posted Apr 16 2012 by in Colombia, GBQ-Gigs, London, Texas with 0 Comments

Catch me this Thursday with Texas’s finest tropical party kings, DJ Orion & King Louis from Peligrosa on their 1st European tour, along with Musicalia residents, Isa GT & Arcade. FREE ENTRY.FREE BBQ! Info here.

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