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Quick little edit of one of my fav Dancehall tracks. Needed a super lit club version and couldn't find one, so I decided to make one. Just in time for SHOTTAS! 
Boxing Day Lituation
at Trans-Pecos
10pm-4am

Ding Dong x Bob Traxx- Badman Forward (Tygapaw Edit)

A small teaser from the Otim Alpha compilation coming out on Nyege Nyege Tapes on February 20th 2017)

OTIM ALPHA - Gang Ber Ki Dako

For the past 15 years the Tanzanian megalopolis of Dar Es Salaam has had one of the most exciting underground electronic music scenes in East Africa. A constellation of micro-scenes from Mchiriku, Sebene and Segere all the way to its latest mutation of Singeli that finally after years of lurking in the underground has exploded into the mainstream and taken over Bongo Flava as the music of choice amongst Tanzania's youth. Born in the sprawling working class neighborhoods of Tandale and Manzese, Singeli's signature sound consists of fast paced frantic loops interlocking with each other, with influences from Zanzibars Tarab music all the way to South African afro-house coupled with mc's who often spit satirical lyrics about the challenges facing Tanzania's youth, from police corruption to the complications of dating girls when you are broke. If there is one studio that stands out amongst the hundreds that dot Dar es Salaam's musical landscape it is SISSO RECORDS. Centered around producers; Bwax, Sisso, Bampa Pana and Yung Keyz Morento and Mc's Dogo Niga and Makavelli, they were early pioneers of the Singeli sound. Whilst some Singeli artists have begun fusing their music with more traditional Tanzanian hip hop, Sisso have remained uncompromising in their sound, always raw, fast with a punk DIY aesthetic that can at times verge on Noise and Gabber, to produce a spell binding music that is like no other Sound System culture in the region.

Available as digital download and limited edition pro-dubbed C- 75 cassette.
credits
releases June 10, 2017

Graphics my Aleczandah
Mastering by Emiliano Motta

Sounds of Sisso

Bwax Ft S Kide Baba Aminata Natafuta Kiki: NNT005 Sounds of Sisso

Welcome to the world of NIHILOXICA. A darker take on traditional Bugandan drumming. Comprised of seven percussionists, one kit drummer combined with an analog synth player. Recorded live in single takes at Boutiq Studios in Kampala, Uganda between the 26th and 29th of August 2017.

All tracks written by Jacob Maskell-Key and Peter Jones alongside Nilotica Cultural Ensemble
All tracks mastered at Declared Sound
Engineered by Ben Beheshty and Pete Jones at Boutiq Studios
Mixed by Peter Jones 
Graphics by Aleczandah

Mwanje Jamiru - Djembe
Kasooma Henry - Namunjoloba (Small Tom Drums)
Aineomugisha Alimansi - Shakers
Isabirye Henry - Bakisimba Drums (Bass Drums)
Kalanda Peter - Binghi
Galabuzi Edward - Engalabi (Long Drum)
Kayondo Herbert - Engalabi
Peter Jones - Synthesizers, Shaker, Cowbell
Jacob Maskell-Key - Drum Kit

Nihiloxica

Nihiloxica - 03 - Endongo

to de volta em(2018 ta ae xitão)

Haling from Nord-Kivu, Congo DRC, Rey Sapeinz's debut ep offers a window into his Soukous mutations.

Rey Sapienz - 01 - Hakuna Ku Lala F

Kenyan artist Alai K’s ‘Disco Vumbi’ moniker returns with a new two track ep recorded in the village of Bombo outside Kampala in collaboration with the a number of children from the village performing Buganda Folk Songs.

Wilobo Man

Disco Vumbi - Jo - Ducuroma Roma (Draft Master V3)

Polilt

Jako Maron, was born in St Denis, Reunion Island in 1968. He developed an interest in electronic music composition from the late 90’s and for the last 15 years began experimenting with the tertiary and binary beats of Maloya music via modular synthesis and drum machines. This album compiles for the first time his electro-Maloya experiments.

Traditional Maloya described the songs, music and dances of slaves of sugar plantations of Réunion Island in the 17th Century – Maloya ceremonies paid tribute to ancestors and mediated between the living and the dead. The music and culture began to be more widely accepted by Réunionese society from the 1930s as folklorist Georges Fourcade began to play Maloya songs. By the ‘50s, Maloya tracks were appearing on 78rpm releases and, in the ‘60s, it was used as a form of cultural protest music. In the mid-‘70s, a new generation began exploring new directions in the music, using Créole language and may different styles of Maloya music emerged. Jako Maron explores the full spectrum of these styles through his electronic re-interpretations of his native lands music.

Jako Maron - 02 - Maloya Valsé Chok 1

After almost 15 years of peddling his own cd’s and tapes on the streets of Mbale, Robert Mugamba’s Kadodi finally get a proper introduction to the outside world thanks to the increasingly vital Nyege Nyege Tapes crew. ‘Kadodi’ pairs a transfixing percussive soundtrack with modern electronic contributions from Bamba Pana and Sun C, resulting in another remarkable document from the pearl of Africa.
Extending privileged insight to the way ancient practices meet modernism near the Equator in East Africa, the ‘Kadodi’ LP renders a set of mesmerising, rhythmelodic percussion and crowd hollers, along with electrifying reinterpretations by local, East Ugandan producer Sun C and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania’s Bamba Pana. Placing ageless ritual music alongside its club antecedents, the results find tradition frictionlessly reconciled with modernism, drawing bridges between tribal identities and ancient belief systems, and clubs as contemporary sites of ritual enactment.
The musical aspect of the ceremony is intended to induce initiates to a trance state, readying them to transcend from boyhood (basinde) into men (basani). The twice yearly rites of passage are such an occasion that their soundtrack has now transcended from original ritual use to find its ways into nightclubs, thanks to producers such as DMX, Papas and Sun C - the pioneer of Kadodi music’s shift into electronic spheres.
On this set the ceremony starts on side A and continues into side B, documenting the Domadana Kadodi Performers brewing a bristling frenzy of polymetric percussion with hypnotic intensity coming as a result of their natural complexity. Following this utterly unique situation, Mbale native Sun C offers a near 10 minute electronic reinterpretation of Kadodi music on ‘Kaad 4’, mirroring the breathless cadence and intensity of the original in its sustained pitches and intricate syncopation of pipes and pointillist percussions. And you can trust Bamba Pana to take that one step farther on ‘Wateranga’, where he ramps the original drums with Singeli-style pattern and pace to irresistibly energetic effect.

NNT009 SIDE A Track 1 Kadodi Domadana Kadodi Performers

Salem Tradition - Kabaré(BoogzBrown Edit)

XXIII // 150 is a compilation specially delivered and made to feed the club scene. It contains 12 tracks + 1 bonus track of funk150bpm. Some blend the new genre with worldwide hits and some are original tracks that catch up with funk150bpm. 
XXIII brings together brazilian and european artists to promote this new sub-genre in Europe and squeeze some of that funk150bpm into the clubs. 

Full Compilation: soundcloud.com/xxiiibeats/sets/xxiii-150
or https://xxiii.bandcamp.com/album/xxiii-150

Shootouts to @amorsatyr , @petitpiment , @lym_dot , @shiftshiftshift , @ckrono , @boutdj , @larinhx , @djbjf , @nathschleder , @dkvpz , @mu540 and @jlzoficial

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/8b58ef'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

BJF - Baile Do Busta

Dj Rogelio H - Mito Prehispanico (Siu Mata Rework)

TRAUMA

Без Остановки (NONSTOP)

Musi o Tunya - Bashi Mwana (Danny Goliger's Awesome 808's from Africa Edit)

AMBOSDOS

@klearamsterdam and @sosodality are joining forces once again on a new themed collaborative project named “The Jamaica EP”. 

Containing a selection of artists, which are some of the best the Soundcloud world as to give at this moment. By giving an artist an unknown territory to explore to make a contemporary, but authentic track that fits within the soundscape of the artist. Make sure to repost & like, but most of all please enjoy the project as a whole! 

Artist:
Soulely x Mar'One

Track title:
Jungle is Massive (Edit)

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/ef8366'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Jamaica EP (Sosodality x KLEAR)

Free Download

10. Soulely x Mar'One - Jungle is Massive (Edit)

Download

Flacko (f r a n c h i s e. Afro Baile Edit)

FLIP SEASON

bla bla bailinho (maul pond flip)

27 Year old Menzi Shabane from the Umlazi township of Durban South Africa was one of the early pioneers of the cities now world famous Gqom scene, having rose to prominence as one half of the Infamous Boiz. In the last few years Menzi has produced for many of South Africa's biggest acts like Babes Wodumo, Moonchild Sanelly, Mahotella Queens, Zolani Mahola and Zakes Bantwini. For the last few years has also been organizing Durban's largest annual Goqm Bloq Party called Festive Road Block Umlazi.

Impazamo presents his debut release. A six track ep that explores his signature dark left field gqom productions that have been rocking Durban nightclubs over the past few years. Over the years he has crafted a unique sound exploring Gqoms textures within different arrangements from the genres usual track structure. The ep also includes a collaboration with Uganda MC Ecko Bazz with the track GQOM Tera.


All tracks recorded between 2019 - 2020 in Umlazi Durban and Boutiq Studios Kampala, Uganda.
Mastered at Declared Sound
Artwork by Kid Gringo

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