HOOTANANNY BRIXTON - FRIDAY JUNE 30TH - 9PM to 3AM - £5 ENTRY [free b4 10pm] - LAST ADMISSION 2AM

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GHOST WRITERZ
http://www.gwzuk.com/
Combining heavyweight production talents of SLEEPY TIME GHOST (UNIT 137) with the vocal toasting talents of JIMMY SCREECH (Banana Clan/Roots Manuva). Contemporary pioneers of homegrown Sound System Music, their work fuses Reggae, Hip Hop and Jungle with conscious lyricism, melodic hooks and virtuoso instrumentation to create supernatural, soaring bass music. Following a slew of releases on Tru Thoughts and a recent mixtape "Welcome To Ghost Town" heating up the streets, Jimmy Screech and Sleepy Time Ghost return with a big splash on NICE UP! Records with their latest single 'They Wanna Know'

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YAP aka YUNG AFRIKA PYONEERS

https://soundcloud.com/pastor-aio

Afrobeat & Highlife inspired by Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah formed the first Young African Pioneer movement in Ghana in the 60s to promote Pan-African ideology amongst the youth. This ideology was adopted by Fela Kuti and he subsequently formed a manifestation of the Young African Pioneers in his sovereign home, Kalakuta Republic, in the 70s. In the 21st century the latest manifestation of young african pioneers takes the spirit of Nkrumah, Garvey, Fela and applies it to a Post-afrobeat, Post-post-Truth world, and attempts, using the popular music forms of africa and beyond, to forge a new ideological direction for a new generation. Come and soak in their delicious Afro grooves.

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RU1 FAM
https://ru1-fam.bandcamp.com
Rooted in the african drum. Revolutionary 21st century griots DanJahDan, Hunta PRO, Majical, Mercury and Watusi 87 deliver a message with a deep social spitiual conscious, served up with soulful and crunchy live hip hop. Together as one, spreading one love and unity to the people through the use of music. “RU1 FAM’s in-depth perceptions of reality create a thought provoking; heart felt expression of WORD, SOUND and POWER"

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DJSNUFFONE & MCHONEYBROWN
www.twitter.com/djsnuffone
Congo Natty affiliated International party starters spin a bashment mix of dub, hip hop, dancehall, afrobeats, junglist and afrohousejazztech bass

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http://www.hootanannybrixton.co.uk/
FREE B4 10PM - SALOON BAR - POOL TABLES - FOOD COURT (BURRITOS, PIZZA, JERK) - AWARD WINNING LIVE MUSIC VENUE IN THE HEART OF BRIXTON - 95 Effra Rd, Brixton SW2 1DF

Podcast: Radio Mukambo #511 – Confusion Break Beats

DOPE BEATS for DOPE PEEPS is the name of our album of the week, a compilation celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Switchstance Recordings. Twenty years of searching for ultimate freedom, whether in their musical movements or in “switching” between styles. We listen to six artists from the German label, each…

Artists: Abelardo Carbono , Ancient Astronauts , Brace & Kabanjak , Break Ya Bones , Carthnage , Dat Garcia , Deela , Enrique Nicolas Noviello , Fela Kuti , IKOQWE , Kabanjak , The Selenites Band , Vito-Lalinga

Podcast: Out Of Africa (June 2021)

This show is a trip through world music and global beats searching for the Oneness in humanity, regardless of all geographical, political, economic and all kinds of divisions, and identifications we might all have, in these times of uncertainties we search for Unity.  The unity that music brings to us……

Artists: Akaba Man and The Niggie Rockets , Alpha Blondy , Amerigo Gazaway , Anthony Joseph , Cesária Évora , Eddy Grant , Faran Ensamble , Fela Kuti , Laijadu Sisters , Linton Kwesi Johnson , Lura , Mária Bethânia , Paulo Flores , Salif Keita , Tinariwen , Zé do Pau

Podcast: Rendez-Vous à Bobo – A Rendez-Vous with the Heirs of Afrobeat (December 2020)

To end 2020 we make a Rendez-vous with three generations of afrobeat and celebrate a Nigerian musical dynasty. As Fela is honoured with a Black Plaque at his old music conservatoire Trinity Laban in Greenwich, we consider how the musical idiom he created remains more popular than ever. Track list: 1….

Artists: Fela Kuti , Femi Kuti , Made Kuti , Seun Kuti

Album Review: Fela Kuti – Box Set #4 curated by Erykah Badu [Knitting Factory Records; 15th December 2017]

On first impressions, this is just another Fela Kuti compilation, albeit an extensive one. Dig a little deeper, though, and spend a bit more time with the music and, like any good art retrospective, there’s more to it than meets the eye. Badu’s own sensibilities shine through with her penchant…

Artists: Fela Kuti

Gallery: Lakuta + Native Sun + Family Atlantica Duo + DJ Pete On the Corner @ Rich Mix (London, 28th April 2017)

It was a night to remember! Three exciting bands (Lakuta, Native Sun & Family Atlantica Duo) and a funky DJ (DJ Pete from On the Corner Records) for a unique show. Were you there? Recollect your memories and re-experience what happened at Rich Mix with our photo gallery. You missed it?…

Artists: Dj Snuff , Family Atlantica , Lakuta , Luzmira Zerpa , Native Sun , Pete On The Corner

Daily Discovery: Congo Natty – “UK All Stars” (Official Video)

Artists: Congo Natty

Review: Natty, Congo Natty, Mad Professor, Subajah & Trojan Soundsystem @ Electric Brixton (London, 4th November 2016)

Tonight begins with a performance from Subajah, who, in and of himself, is an incredibly talented man. He displays his abilities as a rapper, singer and composer with real aplomb. In an age of vapid consumerism, it’s pleasing to find artists willing to stand up and go against the grain, educating the…

Artists: Congo Natty , Mad Professor , Natty , Subajah

Album Review: Fela Ransome Kuti and His Koola Lobitos – Highlife Jazz and Afro-Soul (1963-1969) [Knitting Factory Records, 8th April 2016]

To sum up these three albums in a few words, would be to say that Highlife, Jazz and Afro-Soul is a journey to discover the origins of afrobeat and the Fela Kuti myth. In fact, there was a time when the Black President was ‘simply’ a music student at the Royal Trinity College of…

Artists: Fela Kuti , Fela Ransome Kuti and His Koola Lobitos