A deluge of five excellent releases dropping this month. 1. A Tribe Called Red – Free Album Download We spoke about Canada’s A Tribe Called Red before when they were discovered over at Masalacism. They’re doing something highly unique, blending the music of their Native American heritage with deafening 2012 beats. Dropping today, grab their …
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OkayAfrica’s Diplo Vs Boima
If you followed the convervsation in the comments after Boima’s recent controversial discussion in this piece at the Africa is A Country blog, you’ll be pleased to see both Diplo and Boima took up Eddie Stat’s challenge for a face off over some pizza. The result has just been published over at OkayAfrica which you …
Bruno M – ‘Éh ewé’
From the end of last year, a great kuduro jam and video from Luanda’s Bruno M. The making of is very cool too. Via the excellent Kelly Stress productions. And make sure you cop his track ‘Takule Kuya’ from Jess & Crabbe’s Bazzerk compilation from last year.
Denham Smith & SWS – ‘Want Some More’ (Funky House Mix)
I can’t get enough of this African/funky sound at the moment. It seems to be taking over the UK right now. Our friends at the Tropical Bass blog just released their first official compilation, a nice package of Tropical x funky jams. Its got a lot of good stuff on it especially the tracks from …
Waya Waya – La Tribu EP
Cani & Janice are Waya Waya (Soundcloud) from Mexico’s Aguascalientes. Like so much amazing stuff coming out of Mexico these days, they make beautifully mental tropical dance music – a collidoscope of jacking unrelenting kuduro beats, 3ballish pre-colombian samples and fuck knows what else that makes me want to run off into the jungle and …
A.J. Holmes & The Hackney Empire – Full 1st Album stream
Regular readers here will know we’re massive fans of The Hackney Empire, London’s premier East London soukous-pop band. Aside from their debut single that we released and epic live shows they’ve been busy in the studio completing their first album – 8 tracks or pure tropical sunshine energy. Collaborations come from Sierra Leonian High Life …
Chief Boima – XLR8R Mix
With a great new record, African in New York, dropping on Dutty Artz next week, Boima’s had time to whip up a new fire cracker of a mix for XLR8R. Taking in a myriad of Afro house party styles from kuduro to coupe decale as well as a few of his own productions, you need …
Jack 2 Juke – The Movie
From Jack to Juke: 25 Years of Ghetto House from Sonali Aggarwal on Vimeo. Ever since this blog started we’ve been longtime fans of the greatest thing thats ever come out of Chicago – JUKE dammit. Sonali Aggarwal has put together a great film looking at the history of all the Chi-town Ghetto House styles …
Old Money Next Hype
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’.
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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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