Africa meets blues funk, with Hip-Hop back beats and Rock elements. the stunning vocals and vibes of Yacouba Diarra sits nicely over this Afrolicious riddim written, performed and produced by Pleasuremaker.
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Son Doni Doni Bela  'Unified' Yacouba Diarra and Afrolicious

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Japanese producer Anchorsong brings a mellow, uplifting 70s afro-disco feel to Afriquoi’s much-loved track ‘Kudaushe’. Replacing the euphoric afro-house vibe of the original with a funky, organic-sounding bassline, crunchy horns and keys, this version adds a sunset softness to Kudaushe’s warm marimba and hypnotic vocals.

Featuring veteran, ex-Bundu Boys Zimbabwean marimba player Kudaushe Matimba, the original is the first track of Afriquoi’s album ‘Kolaba’ which was released in September 2015.

buy it here: http://bit.ly/1okGIpr

Afriquoi: Kudaushe (Anchorsong Remix)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/meu-kamba-vol.-2/id1095293296
https://open.spotify.com/album/0psVAhifMw7TJ1yOKsQ3o1
http://www.deezer.com/album/12680584
https://www.amazon.com/Meu-Kamba-Vol-Rocky-Marsiano/dp/B01DB7CBPK/ref=sr_1_4?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1459766899&sr=1-4-mp3-albums-bar-strip-0&keywords=Rocky+Marsiano

Original song “Mana Fatita” by Duo Ouro Negro (Angola)
play.spotify.com/track/4k4LjhQxBZHItNE7qXTEcV

@rockymarsiano's first album, Meu Kamba, felt like the very natural, spontaneous reaction between a serious hip hop head, an MPC and a deep collection of Lusophone African records. Upon its release the album immediately drew loads of attention, and Rocky Marsiano quickly hit the road across Europe.

Performing as a sound system with musicians naturally led Rocky Marsiano towards this second volume, which follows a very different approach:

"Meu Kamba was made very impulsively - if I felt a track worked, if there was a good balance to it, I didn't go much further with the production because I wanted it to sound raw.

On this new volume I did exactly the opposite: every single track was experimented on, its possibilities tested. So this time around there's a lot more production on every track: bass lines, retro synths, guitar licks, extra vocals, different drum patterns and textures...

It took almost two years to pick the original songs reinterpreted here. Months of a musical journey which led towards a lot of music and influences from Guinea Bissau, which wasn't a part of the first Meu Kamba. "With this second volume I want to close the cycle, finish a story: my hommage to music from Lusophone Africa."

Rocky Marsiano - "Ué Lé Lé" feat. Bruce James

EP Sou Kono Remix à venir le 27 mai 2016 (vinyle + digital).

Unanimement salué par la critique, Midnight Ravers a réussi le pari de livrer avec son second album une oeuvre complète, où l'image (dessin et vidéo), la musique et la performance live animent de façon croisée l'âme d'un Mali moderne et en profonde mutation où l'occident et la tradition culturelle nationale se mêlent avec générosité et subtilité.

Preuve - s'il en fallait une supplémentaire - que Midnight Ravers est désormais l'un des éléments clés de ces musiques électroniques africaines qui ont le vent poupe, tout ce qu'on compte cet univers de références internationales sexy et pointues est présent sur cet EP : Spoek Mathambo, Mawimbi, Simbad et Gulls!
Chaque artiste a immédiatement accepté de réinterpréter à sa façon l'un des titres de l'album, afin de donner corps à un nouvel opus de 4 titres représentatifs de la diversité musicale africaine moderne si chère à Midnight Ravers.


Midnight Ravers - Sou Kono Remix - Koroni Foli (remix by Mawimbi)

Righteous Dub (George T Edit)

Live Recorded set from the Cannibal Radio headquarters. 
Enjoy!

SUPERSAN on Cannibal Radio 05/07/2018

Randonnée Mentale

https://wonderwheelrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/desert-to-douala 

An exploration of traditional Chadian music with an electronic twist... Chad is in many ways a blind spot on the map of today's global musical conversation. Overlooked, misunderstood and misrepresented, outside observers rarely concede the country an autonomous voice over its past, present and future. N’Djamena, the dusty capital of Chad with its well-kept stories of boundary-breaking musical collaborations and thirst for experimentation is a city that reflects the country's diversity: the arid North, bordering the Sahara, where nomadic tribes revere the endless desert with their handcrafted instruments. The lush tropical South, where the frenetic drumming of local initiation ceremonies blends with sounds of neighboring Congo and Cameroon. Right in the middle: N'Djamena, a forgotten melting pot of cultures and peoples bursting with unrecorded stories of life at the margins of the world's attention. Tackling this view is precisely one of the aims of Pulo NDJ. In May 2018, Nickodemus accepted an invitation from Hape Collective to travel to N'Djamena to teach a group of young adults DJ'ing and electronic music production, which resulted in the encounter between a group of talented artists from Cameroon, Chad, Congo and Togo. After a weeklong series of listening to original songs & demos, the recordings continued in a pop-up studio created by DJ Buosis & Nickodemus which culimated in Desert To Douala, an album featuring 11 songs, all originally written and recorded in N’Djamena. The project found its inspiration in the city's un-narrated diversity and seeks to explore the possibilities offered by technology to demonstrate how the country’s rich heritage connects with existing musical conversations. It strives to create bridges in a world of walls. It has been a yearlong creative process that built friendships and fostered understanding among people united by a passion for music and creation.

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Pulo NDJ "Desert To Douala" 28 Min Album Mix By Nickodemus

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Spanish Afro Latin House producer Kiko Navarro returns to Wonderwheel for the second single from his upcoming album 'Afroterraneo'. "Ihabogi Rawaly" drops the tempo and brings in a thick groove with an 80's bassline, a slowed 4/4 beat, syncopated percussion, and synth stabs. Soaring, soulful vocals on the track come from Guinean singer Aboubacar Sylla, extolling the virtues of how grateful we should be for the earth and to enjoy and protect what we all have and share as humans. Italian production duo Randomized Coffee come through with a Afrohouse re-working complete with West African guitar licks and heavy live percussion turning the track into an Carving out an enviable reputation across the globe for his distinctive and highly personal brand of House music, Kiko Navarro’s voyage of sonic discovery has been going strong for almost three decades now. Born in Mallorca, Kiko’s sound reflects the sun-drenched, slow living atmosphere of the Balearic island he still calls home. Obsessed from an early age with the more soulful side of US House music, Navarro’s DJ skills soon attracted the attention of nightlife behemoth Pacha who offered him club residencies both in Palma and in Ibiza. Next came a monthly gig at Space Ibiza and the rest, as they say, is history.

Ihabogi Rawaly (feat. Aboubacar Sylla)

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Kiko Navarro - Ihabogi Rawaly (feat. Aboubacar Sylla) [Randomized Coffee Remix]

Meu Kamba Vol. Dois

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Kisua Ba

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





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