Check out the new collaborative single by the late afrobeat legend Tony Allen and London-based rapper Lava La Rue extracted from the Nigerian drummer’s posthumous album There Is No End out now on Blue Note Records: https://tonyallen.lnk.to/ThereIsNoEnd “I play yours, you play mine. The music never ends.” The wisdom of...
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‘Mountains of Madness’ is the latest video by Brighton-based instrumental hip-hop producer DJ Format. The tune is part of his 7th album The Devil’s Workshop, which goes far and beyond the hip-hop borders… In DJ Format’s words, “I’ve travelled half way around the world in search of old...
Spicy Boom Boom by Balaphonics from France is album of the week on Radio Mukambo, a mix of balafon and other West-African influences with brass and afro-grooves. The podcast serves new singles by Esinam (Ghana/Belgium), Alex Figueira (Portugal/Venezuela), Rumble (France) Havana meets Kingston (Cuba/Jamaica). We discover DJ Grissino‘s new EP I’m...
M’berra is the story of a collective of Malian musicians from the M’berra Refugee Camp in southeast Mauritania meeting Italian producer and electro-shaman Khalab in a tent city rising out of the desert, out of nothingness, at the border with Mali in West Africa. Brought together by spirit and circumstance,...
Jaubi (“an urdu word roughly translating to whatever”) is a quartet from Lahore, Pakistan blending North Indian classical music with modal jazz and hip-hop. Satanic Nafs is their new single on Astigmatic Records and serves as a “teaser for Jaubi’s debut album entitled ‘Nafs At Peace’ which itself is a musical...
Voy Pa’ Allá is our album of the week, delicious marimba music from the Colombian Pacific coast, not just made by a band but by a cultural institution: Semblanzas del Río Guapi. Out on Llorona Records. Radio Mukambo also serves afrobeat from Lagos (Nigeria) and Bahia (Brazil), musical patchworks by Jaguar...
‘Iron Steel Samurai’ by Quelle Chris & The Alchemist is extracted from Mello Music Group latest compilation Bushido, gathering the current roster and the label’s closest brethren: https://mellomusicgroup360.bandcamp.com/album/bushido “You can hear the spirit of Mobb Deep and Wu-Tang in a song like Iron Steel Samurai — where The Alchemist...
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In ‘Pedacito de Coco’, French dub and jungle producer Krak in Dub fully expresses his love for Colombian music collaborating with Bogotá-based trio La Perla. The single is extracted from Krak in Dub’s brand-new album Catleya out on May 21 via Galletas Calientes Records which was entirely recorded in Bogotá...
French rapper and beatmaker Degiheugi has just released his new single ‘Nuday’ anticipating his 8th album Foreglow out on April 23 via X-RAY Production: https://endlesssmile.bandcamp.com/album/foreglow “Ranging from samba to Afrobeat through soul and French chanson, Foreglow is a real ray of light that makes you want to escape and takes...
Ghanaian singer/songwriter and rapper M.anifest joined forces with Chicago-based rapper Vic Mensa and afro-pop singer Moliy to release his first single of the year titled ‘No Fear’. More info here: https://lnk.to/MDotNoFear