Last year Groovalizacion Radio selected monthly the best albums for you. What better way to celebrate the new year than looking back at these fine albums from 2017? Out of our selections, we distilled a top 20 from the past year. The higher the album is ranked, the more it is supported by our curators.
Listen to our handy mixtape below to discover these albums and our favourite tracks.
Our top 20 Best albums of 2017:
![Event Review: Tootard @ Electrowerkz [London; Thursday 24th March 2022]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/tootard-2-photo-by-jenan-shkeer-620x547.jpg)
Rami and Hasan, the Syrian duo of brothers, have just finished their London show at the exciting and packed Electrowerkz tucked behind the main streets of Angel. As the last notes from the 80s-sounding synths echo out into the crowd, it feels as though the floor could fall through from the…
Artists: TootArd
For International Women’s Rights Day, we play tribute to all women in music with this Strictly Female mix going from afrobeat, Lusophone sounds & ethiogrooves over Arab, reggae & dub to Latin, hip-hop & global bass. Power to the Women! Tracklist: Organic Soul – Frap Frap The Afrorockerz feat. Ruth Tafébé –…
Artists: Actitud Maria Marta , Akua Naru , Asmara All Stars , ChocQuibTown , Dona Cila do Coco , Dub Colossus , Estelle Goldfarb , Family Atlantica , Golpe Seko , Jah9 , Karol Conka , Lura , Maguaré , Minyeshu , Mo'Kalamity , Obsesion , Pongo Love , Quantic , Sia Tolno , Skip&Die , SUPERSAN , Terrakota , The Afrorockerz , The Skints , Watcha Clan
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
Preview of the album: This Album is no longer available however if you want to receive exclusive access to a free album like this each month just sign up to our monthly newsletter by filling in the form below: The 65th episode of our monthly compilation focuses its attention…
Artists: Acid Coco , Dat Garcia , Dubamix , Kasai Allstars , Kasfelgues , Lagartijeando , Mulele Matondo Afrika , Oliver Nayoka , Seaboy , Shay Hazan , Small Island Big Song
Nightshop for November via Radio Campus Bxl and shared on Rhythm Passport & Groovalizacion Radio with +3 hours of new global sounds. 3 songs of the day via Angola, Lebanon and Colombia (La Perla). Our albums of the month take us to Mali via mandinke guitar strings of Boubara Badian…
Artists: Atongo Zimba , Bachar Mar-Khalifé , Boubacar Badian Diabate , Deli Teli , DJ Abbas , Irreversible Entanglements , La Perla , Los Kamer , Luca Ferraris , Machance , Maiuka , Monsieur Doumani , Nidia Gongora , Obeka , On Our Own Clock , PT Musik , Quantic , Susobrino
Thanks to the cool people at Taco!, the Thamesmead-based artist-led organisation, we are finally back “on air”! After a few months of radio silence, we are indeed pretty excited about our new monthly residency at one of the most vibrant community-led stations in London, RTM.FM, and to introduce you to…
Artists: Black Flower , Combo Chimbita , El Búho , Guanaco , Ibibio Sound Machine , Imarhan , Jally Kebba Susso , Joe Driscoll , L'Entourloop , Lagartijeando , Nilotika Cultural Ensemble , NOMÅGIK , Phuong Tam , Pongo , Puman , Samir Langus , Seckou Kouyate , Shay Hazan , Sound of Mint
Preview of the album: This Album is no longer available however if you want to receive exclusive access to a free album like this each month just sign up to our monthly newsletter by filling in the form below: Track List: 1. Cimafunk – Caramelo [from El Alimiento; Terapia Productions] 00:00…
Artists: Baildsa , Carmen Lienqueo , CIMAFUNK , Go Dugong , Grupo Changuí de Guantanamo , La Deyabu , Locos Por Juana , Manjul , Native Soul , Nidia Gongora , Nilotika Cultural Ensemble , Orquesta Akokán , Quantic , Saul
Every month, we bring you a collection of the best world music-related videos. That’s our way to give value to too often overlooked, rich and diverse artistic expressions. Listen with your eyes! Watch the full playlist:
Artists: Caoilfhionn Rose , Combo Chimbita , Criolo , Don Zilla , Juana Molina , Lagartijeando , Lakou Mizik , Las Cafeteras , Martin Bruhn , Matteo , Oum , Priya Darshini , Rael , Rawayana , Rodrigo Leao , Yemi Alade
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…
Artists: Batida , Dele Sosimi , Dizzy Mandjeku , Doña Onete , Ebo Taylor , Gaspar Z'África , Guts , Gyedu-Blay Ambolley , Jungle Fire , Konono N1 , London Afrobeat Collective , Michi Sarmiento , Mulatu Astatke , Newen Afrobeat , Oghene Kologbo , Raúl Monsalve , Raul Monsalve Y Los Forajidos , Rocky Marsiano , Seun Kuti , Son Palenque , The Bongo Hop
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”. …
Artists: Lagartijeando
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
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…
Artists: Abelardo Carbono , Bejuco , Dj Kobayashi , DJ Tudo , Eek A Mouse , Electric Jalaba , Gabacho Maroc , Gansan , Irie Ites , Mario y sus Diamantes , NOMÅGIK , Shiran , Sir Jean and NMB Afrobeat Experience , Son Palenque
“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…
Artists: Bejuco , David Cairol , Echoes of Zoo , Eek A Mouse , Electric Jalaba , Kady Diarra , La Fuerza Mayor , Osayomore Joseph And The Creative Seven , Punta Diamante , Son Palenque
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…
Artists: Belen Natali , Bomba Estereo , Chalart58 , Dawtas of Aya , Doña Onete , Huw Marc Bennett , Insólito Universo , Instigator Afrobeat Orchestra , Ko Shin Moon , La Dame Blanche , Liraz , Malecon , Samba de Coco Raízes de Arcoverde , Terrakota
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…
Artists: Hasan Nakhleh , Safe and Sounds , TootArd![Album Review: TootArd – Migrant Birds [Glitterbeat Records; May 2020]](https://www.rhythmpassport.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/tootard-migrant-birds-620x620.jpg)
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…
Artists: TootArd
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…
Artists: Abdul And The Gang , Altın Gün , Anthony Joseph , Benjamin Zephaniah , Criolo , Dj Firmeza , Dj Lilocox , Dj Lycox , Kel Assouf , Orchestra Baobab , Sarathy Korwar , Shabaka Hutchings , Shingai , The Heliocentrics , Valia Calda
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…
Artists: Aar Manta , Afrikan Boy , Ayanna Witter-Johnson , Bcuc , Carleen Anderson , Dj Khalab , Femina , Guts , Isaac Birituro , Isaac Birituro & The Rail Abandon , Jambinai , Judi Jackson , Killah Priest , Kodjovi Kush & Afrospot Orchesta , Nicola Cruz , Nuri , Reginald Omas Mamode lV , Sama , Shkoon , Simo Lagnawi , Skabba , Tarantola , Tenesha The Wordsmith , Terri Walker , The Rolling Shakers , TootArd , Yolanda Brown
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…
Artists: Bounty Radio , Groovalizacion Radio
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…
Artists: Coro Qom Chelaalapi , Lagartijeando
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