The full length album 'California Dreaming' by the San Francisco's Afrolicious. 

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Afrolicious Bio -

Afrolicious, the live/electronic collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area started out not as a band but as a club night at the famed Elbo Room in The Mission District in 2007.  The format of Afrolicious party was very open and included the DJs spinning the latest soulful dance music including Afro-House, broken beat, modern funk and disco alongside classics and re-edits and remixes of their favorite Afrobeat, Salsa, and Brazilian funk alongside live percussionists and guest MCs and musicians. Eventually morphing into a live band led by the production and arrangement skills of Pleasuremaker, many dancers, DJs and producers began to take notice of their unique sound.  

Since the release of their first two EPs which were produced by Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation, the reputation of the band and founding DJs Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz have grown and they have performed everywhere from Red Rocks, Burning Man, Cielo and the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. "We never planned on becoming a live band, but like everything else about Afrolicious it happened organically," says Oz. "When we started the party, it was truly what we thought the Mission was about. It wasn't exclusive and it wasn't exclusionary, it was open to everyone. The youngest person in our collective is the rising soul singer Ziek McCarter who started with us at 19. Our oldest member is Baba Duru, who moved to SF in 1970 and toured with Stevie Wonder. Our vocalist is from Trinidad and our drummer is from Brazil. We all congregated in SF over our love of the universal groove. There are rhythms that connect all dance music from the beginning of time to the present day and we believed we could transmit them."  

In 2013 they released their debut full-length album, California Dreaming on their own label, Afrolicious Music. IN 2014 they assembled some of the finest DJs and producers from around the world to remix their debut album. California Dreaming Remixed features remixes from Jamaican dub legend Scientist, Rob Garza from Thievery Corporation, Peruvian electronic live hybrid Novalima, Brazilian nu-disco producer Trotter, Australia’s Omegaman, Miami’s Stereo 77 and the Bay Area’s DJ Smash, J Boogie, Izzy Wise and Antonio Guedes.



  Afrolicious is also loosely affiliated with a worldwide group of DJs, producers, bands, and labels who produce contemporary soulful dance music inspired by sounds of the African diaspora, including Antibalas, Chico Mann, Nickodemus, DJ Smash, Wonderwheel Recordings, Subsuelo, and Cumba Mela. 



Amazing Live band, sound system, weekly party, vibration!
For 8 years Afrolicious brought out an amazing crowd every week to an experience many compare to church in the sense of a weekly gathering for spiritual purposes.
Afrolicious continues to inspire and push the boundaries of music productions, events, and community. They are set to release a number of new releases in 2015. There are finished projects ready to be released and brand new songs being  added to the fold regularly. Stay tuned for new originals, remixes, and mixtapes. Plus some amazing collaborations in the works





Nattyken nasce a Losone, Svizzera il 13.05.1995. Svizzero, d'origine nigeriana, riscopre il mondo della musica, dalle basi della musica nera, alla musica  d'origine africana.
Comincia a concepire le sue prime composizioni usando soltanto un portatile e un tablet. Poi, nell'estate del 2013 durante un soggiorno in Olanda, sente, per la prima volta, la trasmissione radio DJ della Red light Radio, ne rimane molto colpito, ed ancora adesso innamorato, perché proprio nel sentire vari Dj mettere i generi più disparati, pensò "Anch'io voglio riuscire a riempire il mondo della musica con i miei suoni, ci voglio almeno provare".  La RLR diventa la sua più grande fonte d'ispirazione e la sua più grande amica. Grazie ad essa conosce anche la musica dutch elettronica  e i sintetizzatori!

Portando con sé solo le sue passioni e le sue emozioni, comincia ad sentirsi sempre più attratto dal mondo dei dj e,partendo da niente, inizia a strutturare un studio di registrazione in camera sua, riempiendola con dispositivi e strumenti musicali.
Da dicembre 2016 collabora con l'associazione Laboratorio Luna (a Socraggio, VB, Italia) 

(Laboratorio Luna, lo spazio di promozione sociale e culturale, totalmente aperto, libero e senza scopo di lucro. Obiettivo è quello di promuovere la riqualificazione territoriale di Socraggio, un piccolo villaggio sulle pendici della Valle Cannobina. Non sapete dov'è? Molto probabile. Infatti gli anni lo hanno consegnato all'oblio, ma ora Socraggio sta per diventare un paese di giovani, appassionati in special modo di musica elettronica, amanti della cultura e della natura. Pronto a rinascere come roccaforte per artisti, come enclave del libero pensiero, come punto di incontro tra modernità e tradizione, tra scienza e cultura popolare).

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music is the soul of the universe ,,, come waste your time with me =) if its got a beat and bumps  let it play !!!

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