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Ten years of making radio and 500 podcasts, that’s what Mukambo is celebrating this week. So we have a special program talking you through the very vest albums of those ten years. Get ready for a trans-Atlantic trip going from Africa over Latin America to Europe, and a pan-African ride…

Check out the latest single by Argentinian musician, producer and DJ Lagartijeando. In ‘Sideral Cumbia’, Mati Zundel reworks traditional cumbia rhythms adding “minimalist drums, a bouncing bassline, echoes upon echos of synth, staccato guitar and even some mbira before coming back to earth momentarily for a swelling horn section”.  …

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…

Plenty of Afro-Colombian music on Radio Mukambo this week. Starting with the marimba and percussion driven Batea, debut album by Bejuco, a powerful band rooted in the Colombian Pacific with a fresh and contemporary feeling. We also listen to a new single by Abelardo Carbono x Meridian Brothers and a…

“El Hal” is the feeling that comes when playing music, forgetting where you are. The feeling of being grabbed by the music and lost in the groove. A title that says it all about the third album from the London/Moroccan collective Electric Jalaba around Moroccan-born singer and guimbri player Simo…

Specially for International Women’s Day, this podcast is entirely dedicated to women’s voices. And for the first time in 10 years, basically all tracks come from Be My Voice, a NYP Records-compilation by Global Riddims and Mukambo. Discover 15 female artists from around the world fighting for female rights and…

This Corona stuff really sucks ey! Since we might all be bound by borders for a while, we’d like to come together and share some happiness in the shape of a playlist or mix! In the next days and weeks, check out Safe & Sounds, where we will figuratively introduce you…

Tootard is one of my favourite bands, their combination of Middle Eastern tonalities: the maqqam scales, with Caribbean reggae and western funk and disco – is not only original, but innovative.  Migrant Birds is their third studio album, out on the hit churners Glitterbeat Records. The brother duo Hasan and…

At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some…

At times, we are the first to lose track of how many exciting music events happen in London each month, so we have decided to offer you some sort of “public musical service”, meant for all the locals and passers-by, with the aim of suggesting where to listen to some…

View Groovalizacion Radio bio here Bounty Radio – Bass Without Frontiers “I grew up with the sounds of Jungle and Drum and Bass. I became interested in the origins of Ragga Jungle and dived deep into Reggae and Dub. From there my love for Caribbean music grew. Various genres of Afro-Diasporic…

 View Lagartijeando bio here We always prefer to let the music “do the talking”, and when it comes to DJs and producers, this means featuring their selections. So, we have seized the opportunity, and to celebrate and introduce you to his latest release (Revisión) for Big in Japan, we…

It was another triumphant weekend at Walthamstow Garden Party. Sunbathing in glorious weather and indulging in radiant notes played by brilliant musicians, we enjoyed every minute of it. From its debut, basking in Saturday’s early afternoon heat with London African Gospel Choir and their rendition of Paul Simon’s Graceland, until Sunday…

It wasn’t the first time that we had experienced and enjoyed a Doña Onete gig, still, she blew us away. Throughout her latest London show – which was organised by Movimientos and Mama Sound and took place at Rich Mix on the 17th of July – her energy and kaleidoscopic…

Worcester-born Will Holland aka Quantic returns to Manchester off the back of the recent Quantic y Los Míticos del Ritmo ‘Hotline Bling’ single, an inspired accordion band cover of Drake backed with the more electronic leaning ‘Doombia’. Holland is certainly prolific – a talented bandleader, producer and DJ, the multi-instrumentalist…

View Groovalizacion Radio bio here In his latest mix, Global Riddims brings you lots of afrobeat and Afro-Brazilian music, new and old generation, not forgetting about jazz & funk! Track list: Shaka – Podes Cher 00:00 Milton Nascimento – Louva a Deus (Black Classical Amazonia Edit) [On The Corner Records]…

View Groovalizacion Radio bio here Bounty Radio – The Glow The Glow is named after the spectacular neon glow of bioluminescent plankton who turn coastlines at night into an almost club-like space. With its tribal and organic ingredients fused with slow and sexy elements from hip-hop, tropical bass, zouk bass, nueva…

There are hardly any better ways with which to illustrate the concept of ‘upbeat’ than by narrating a TootArd show. The band, hailing from the Golan Heights, with its heartening music, are the best answer to the decades of political troubles and social struggles burdening the region, and one of…

Although we are supposedly perpetually infatuated with the ‘new’ in music, we seem to fall in love with tradition, in the same way that a hummingbird chooses to nest high up, like its parents did. Pirates, and those given the opportunity to mass communicate, often lie about the human species…