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Your 2020 Playback

Nicolas Jaar - Took Me Out Of The Dark Rain

Getting ready for the Colombia tour 

here goes the set played at Harry Klein in Munich on the 1st of June 

Hope you like it

SAMA' @ Harry Klein Munich

My set from the 'morning dance' event at Klunkerkranich in Berlin. The event is similar to an Ecstatic Dance. The music starts off slow but flows up like a wave before coming back to Earth...

Klunker morning dance

Ahead of Boiler Room x Ballantine's True Music Nairobi, DJ Lyta’s Gengetone mix is here, featuring East African rhythms from Boondocks Gang, Ochungulo Family and many more. His mixes are heard all over Nairobi through the city’s extensive Matatus network and at all the most exciting clubs. He has played international shows in Berlin and Dubai, and plays Gengetone, Reggaeton, Bongo and Dancehall, collaborating with some of the scene’s biggest artists. 

More True Music: https://truemusic.boilerroom.tv/

Tracklist:
        •        Mathogothanio – Krg The Don Ft  Boondocks Gang & Dj Lyta
        •        Mboko  Haram – Boondocks Gang
        •        Wale Mangaa – Vdj Jones Ft Odi Wa Muranga,Juacali & Swat
        •        Nyandus – Krg The Don Ft Dj Lyta & Sailors 
        •        Wainame – Sailors
        •        Queen B Machine – Sailors 
        •        Wamlambez – Sailors 
        •        F*Ck Boy – Rico Gang
        •        Pekejeng – Sailors
        •        Chachisha – Rico Gang Ft Ochunglo Family
        •        Instagram – Ethic
        •        Figa – Ethic
        •        Pandana – Ethic
        •        Chapa - Ethic
        •        Kidolee – Boondocks Gang
        •        Rieng Remix – Boondocks Gang Ft Vdj Jones,Rankaddah & Kristoff
        •        Riba Diba – Dj Lyta Ft Manzele
        •        Parte After Parte – Boondocks Gang Ft Rekles,Zzero & Nelly The Goon
        •        Chupa Ku Chupa – The Only Delo
        •        Kalongo – Gwaash Ft Boondocks Gang
        •        Wabebe – 3vng &  Gwaash
        •        Kaa Na Mamako – Ochunglo Family
        •        Aluta – Ochunglo Family Ft Gwaash & Exray

Sounds of Nairobi: DJ Lyta | Boiler Room x Ballantine's True Music

This is a love note to the African heritage medicine keepers of electronic music. Thank you for creating healing spaces in the club. Thank you for the vibrations that allow our bodies to release. I hope to build on your legacy. 

Happy Black futures (/history) month y'all.

OPAL - France
Charodey Jeddy - Pass that Dutch Jam (Missy)
Tweet - Oops (Itoa remix)
Aaliyah - Try Again (LFA remix)
LSDXOXO - Maenad + Heathens
Peach Milk - 4 Page Letter (Aaliyah remix)
Theo Parrish - Lost Angel (Little by Little remix)
Aequs Nyama- Ayida Weddo (mobilegirl remix)
Tiff Massey - Detroit is Black
Blawan - Getting Me Down
Promised Land - Joe Smooth
Droogs - NxWorries

An Ode to Ancestors, Self love and Black Futures -  Feb2020

This mix was recorded at an online event hosted by Repair Now, an organisation focused on decarceration efforts. If you feel to donate/check out their work: http://repairusnow.org/Donate

Free Them All, April 2020

It's Beltane - the Pagan festival of Spring, rebirth, fertility and sexual celebration. Honour the season by pleasuring yourself, delving into pxssy portals and raising some energy with your sex magick. At the very least I hope that you bounce, clap and jiggle to this x

B3LTAN3 PXSSY PORTAL

This mix pays tribute to the hypnotic and transformational power of bass music in my life. Dancing to bass heavy beats, moving with pleasure and allowing my emotions to flow out of my body became a therapeutic practice as a teenager without access to other forms of mental health support in my life. 

From 2006 - 8, I dived into the emerging dubstep scene in London. Getting deep into the bass in FWD at Plastic People was like going to church- it deepened my communion with my body and the spirituality of the music that has come from the peoples of the African diaspora.

Spending time, and eventually living, in Oakland California from 2012 - 16, also exposed me to trap, leftfield bass, regular dance cyphers and a freelance career as a twerking clown in a performance art troupe. Bass music continues to lead me in beautiful directions and provide a container for me to heal and grow. I hope this mix moves something for you.

Track list:

The Temptations - Just My Imagination (Nicolas Jaar Edit)
Maxwell Hunter - Shy Wind (ft Masego)
J -One - Collide
Mala - Alicia
L-Wiz - Girl from Codeine City
Phaeleh - Lament
Commodo - Hadi Hadi Ah
Modeselektor - Let Your Love Grow
VHOOR - Meia Noite
Helios - Still Tippin
Tweet - Oops (OAKK remix)
Ivy Lab - Thirsty
Deft - For Sudden
Mr Carmack - Nonbelieversnovox
Erykah Badu - On and On (ODP remix)
Jill Scott - My Love (Soul1LDN remix)
MJ Cole- Sincere
Roy Davis - Gabriel
Four Tet - Baby
Cooly G - Love Dub (Refix)
Larry Heard - Missing You
Wagon Christ - Shadows
Synkro - Acceptance
Supercombo Los Caviares - Glassminazed

Guest Mix for lifebalm on Threads Radio

AfroOankali serves ritual bass: a hypnotic blend of low end frequencies and polyrhythms which celebrates the legacy of sound system culture and the Afro-Caribbean influence in electronic music. 

From 2020 - 2023 AfroOankali was the creative director, booker and resident DJ for Emergent Bass, a Berlin based event series celebrating the Afro Diaspora influence in underground club culture. In recent years, AfroOankali had a radio show on Refuge Worldwide called Bass Incarnate which mixed somatic exercises with music that could allow listeners to meditate on Bass weight. AfroOankali lives in Amsterdam but was raised in London. 

Booking email: afrooankali@gmail.com

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.:: Upcoming gigs 2024 ::.

May 24th - Pinky Promise, London Electrowerkz
June 7th - Giri, Berlin
June 22nd - Holland Festival, Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam



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.:: Previously Played ::.

2023
Whole Festival, Leipzig
August 12th - Body Language, Berlin
September 16th - Emergent Bass, Berlin
October 13th - Pamela, Amsterdam
October 21st - Avalon cafe, London (for HJL Rehearsing Freedoms)
2022 
Hör - Berlin
Dgtl Festival, Amsterdam
Querfeld @ Fusion Festival, Germany 
Emergent Bass, Mensch Meier, Berlin
Liminal Village, Boom Festival
CARA, NYC
Garage Noord, Amsterdam
Lecken, Oxi, Berlin
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In 2021 AfroOankali started a residency with Refuge Worldwide, hosting a show called Bass Incarnate. Bass Incarnate celebrates bass music alongside embodied mindfulness practices. Each show begins with a downtempo embodiment practice, then builds up the polyrhythmic intensity before ending with some downtempo tracks to ground out.