Reg (Couch Sessions Music Editor) and Stone (Couch Sessions Founder) sit down (usually with some alcoholic accompaniment) and wax poetic about the best music and pop culture topics of the week. Expect profound thoughts, surprises, and maybe some special guests!

Africanhiphop.com promotes hip hop and related music & culture from Africa on the web since 1997 (28 years online!). Our online news, feature stories and biographies as well as numerous offline compilations, documentaries, tours, newspaper features, radio shows, mixtapes and events since the mid-90s until today have contributed to the current explosion of urban African music around the world. On this channel you can hear select mixes from our monthly radio show (Africa Is Hot), the Afro Cosmic Club mixes by Africanhiphop.com founder Gioumanne (Jumanne), the Boom Africa series and more.

Independent record label based in Paris and London: Metronomy, Manu Chao, Ed Banger Records, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Major Lazer and more.

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Formed and run by Krushed &amp; Sorted, African Dope is one of South Africa's premier independent labels.

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Their break came after they created the music for (ironically enough) a tobacco company's cinema advertisement which brought in the cash to set up the label and release their first CD, Acid (tm) Made Me Do It, in April 2000 to much acclaim, while their "African Dope Vol 1" compilation won the 2002 "Best Dance Album" SAMA award.
Never fixed on one style or genre, the label is dedicated to showcasing the finest local leftfield dub, hip-hop, dancehall, breakbeat, and drum 'n bass emerging from the streets of South Africa. Distribution in South Africa is by Soul Candi Distribution (as of July 2007, previously by Sony), in Europe by Lowlands distribution (Benelux), Al!ve AG (Germany), and CD1D.com (France), and they have comprehensive digital distribution via INgrooves (USA), Artspages (Scandinavia / China), Blue Pie Productions (Australia) and Vidzone.tv (UK).
The pre-2009 logo was designed by Watkin Tudor Jones after an amicable settlement with lawyers representing the Cape Outspan company whose own logo the previous one was just a little too similar to.


<b>AFRIKA21 ... Your Soundtrack To The New African Renaissance</b>
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AFRIKA21 was conceptualized as a media and production outfit that could take a multidisciplinary approach to promoting a new vision of Africa in the 21st Century. AFRIKA21 produces online content, multimedia events and public programming with the expressed purpose of reframing the conversation around Africa, creating awareness of the opportunities that exist on the continent and encouraging collaboration.

Card carrying member of The Perpetually Unsatisfied.

Akwaaba label releases + lots of reposts. Dakar to Maputo is where it's at.

Tracasseur is an electronic music blog and a Dj-trio consisting of Jonas Hellström, Sebastian Frintzer and Daniel Odelstad based in Stockholm, Sweden. Tracasseur do DJ-sets worldwide, are you interested to book us, get in touch with us via jonas@tracasseur.com

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