Podcast: Radio Mukambo #516 – Top 21 of 2021

It’s the first week of the year so time to treat you to the best albums of 2021. A global trip that will take you from Colombian Pacific tot a refugee camp in the desert, from adrenaline fuelled jazz to the Beastie Boys making cumbia in the Congo. Ethiogrooves, Latin…

Artists: Ancient Astronauts , Azmari , Bejuco , Cumbiasound , DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar , Echoes of Zoo , Electric Jalaba , Gaspar Z'África , Jallanzo , Jumbo System , Kasai Allstars , Khalab , Lee Fry , Luka Afrobeat Orquesta , M'berra Ensemble , Muito Kaballa Power Ensemble , Oghene Kologbo , Ogun Afrobeat , Oliver Nayoka , Olumo Soundz , Rumble , The Anthronauts , The Selenites Band , Vito-Lalinga

Mukambo Mixtape: Forró de Macumbeiro – Baião Temperado

This mixtape was inspired by the rising global trend of organizing forró balls, first in the Southeast of Brazil (São Paulo/Rio), then in the US and Europe. Not exactly the kind of forró I discovered in Pernambuco, at Chimchim da Baiana (Olinda) and such places. Another kind of forró and…

Artists: Adriano Salhab , Alex Madureira , Atômico MC , Barbatuques , Cabruêra , Chico Correa , Cláudio Rabeca , DJ Tudo , DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar , Forro de Rebeca , FurmigaDub , Marginal Men , MassaranDub , Zé Brown

Podcast: Radio Mukambo #501 – Groove Machine

Radio Mukambo serves a Swedish cumbia band mixing analogue sound with brass and Beastie Boys energy: Cumbiasound‘s debut EP Maquina is our album of the week. We announce Jam’in Jette on tour at FIRM with Daniel Dzidzonu (afrobeat), Azmari (ethiogrooves) coming to Brosella XXS. Furthermore we listen to new afrobeat…

Artists: Àbáse , Azmari , Cumbiasound , Daniel Dzidzonu , DJ Tudo , DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar , Femi Koya , Gaspar Z'África , Krak In Dub , Lee Fry Music , MassaranDub , Muito Kaballa Power Ensemble , Mzee , Natty Campbell , Romperayo , Smile Davis , Tião Carvalho

Podcast: Radio Mukambo #491 – Tribal Futurism

Guedra Guedra‘s debut LP Vexillology is kicking down borders, offering listeners an experience made from hypnotic and rhythmic arrangements rooted in ancient cultures. From his Casablanca studio, the Moroccan genre-defying producer serves an elevation of tribal consciousness and underground futurism. Vexillology is album of the week on Radio Mukambo, out on On…

Artists: Ancient Astronauts , Brothers of Brass , DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar , Guedra Guedra , IKOQWE , Matjé , Nubiyan Twist , Son Palenque

Podcast: Radio Mukambo #490 – Transformation & Cure

Pancada Motor: Transformação e Cura is the 7th album by DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar from São Paulo (Brazil), a breed of Brazilian field recordings made between 2007 and 2019 and recordings with traditional and modern musicians during trips around the world. Calling for “Transformation and Cure”: the…

Artists: Addis Black Mamba , Basokin , Bejuco , DJ Tudo e Sua Gente de Todo Lugar , Electric Jalaba , Jumbo System , Kasai Allstars , La Fuerza Mayor , Las Cuatro Monedas , Loopcinico , Los Kings , Montparnasse Musique , Zafîf