Berlin’s finest Radio Hobo aka Hobito aka the Tropi OG aka DJ TropiKhaled cooked up a nice Mezcla for Island Time Radio with yummy ingredients like Semba, Samba, Forró, Vallenato, Highlife, Compas, Cumbia or Afro-peruvian Music. 

Saboréalo, disfrútalo, aprovéchalo y gózalo!

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Tracklist:

1.Francis Bebey – Sanza Tristesse
2.Walter Wanderley – A mesma rosa amarela
3.Gertrudis Bonilla – Desden
4.Esthercita Neto y Conjunto Nuevo – Mi dejo mi chola
5.Vicente Vásquez – Zapateo en menor
6.Sonia Lemos – Baiana de Rosario
7.Jackson do Pandeiro - Capoeira mata um
8.Thelma – Batucada surgiu
9.Os Kiezos - Memorias de lamartine
10.Urbano de Castro - Semba avô
11.Les Docteurs du Rythme – On ne vit pas
12.Lisandro Meza y su Conjunto – Charanga completa
13.Los Corraleros de Majagual – Cumbia saramuya
14.Los tiburones – La negrita zarambulla
15.Adolfo Echeveria - La paloma
16.Ebo Taylor – Odofo nyi akyiri biara
17.Betti Betti & TP Poly Rhytmo - Guidoho guitcho
18.Eric Agyeman – I don’t care
19.Eastern Pioneers Of Ghana – Enye Wani Kaan
20.Okukuseku Band of Ghana – Keks Ko

Island Time Radio: Mix 28 with Radio Hobo

Oumou Sangaré - Yere Faga (Remixes) ft.Tony Allen
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Oumou Sangare's New Album: "Mogoya" out on May 19th! 
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Watch The New Oumou Sangaré's Video! 
Yere Faga ft. Tony Allen : bit.ly/2ojSCAS

04 - Yege Fara (Ghetto Vanessa Remix)

It's grail time! Kalita are honoured to officially release for Record Store Day 2020 (29th August!) for the first time since 1983 Marcy Luarks & Classic Touch's mythical American-Nigerian Afro boogie masterpiece 'Electric Murder', accompanied by extensive liner notes based on interviews with Marcy's family and producer Daniel Irabor.

The product of the then husband and wife team of Marcy and Dan, 'Electric Murder' brought together both the former's American and the latter's Nigerian roots; recorded in London with UK-based session musicians, this mix of heritage and styles resulted in an Afro disco album unlike any other.

With original copies turning up for sale roughly once every few years, and with an eye-watering four-figure price tag to match, Kalita for this year's Record Store Day saves you the never-ending search for this true holy grail.

Released on black vinyl, with printed insert detailing Marcy's life and musical career.

Electric Murder

Buy here!

A3. Marcy Luarks & Classic Touch - Electric Murder

A little rumage in Lisboa came up with this lot from the islands of Cape verde and Sao tome e Principe. Killer Afro cosmic dance floor bangers from 70's / early eighties... all on original vinyl...

Cape Verde / Sao Tome e  Principe- Original vinyl mix 2020

(Tracklist with timecodes below)

One of the go-to terms for anything “tropical” nowadays, Zouk is a music genre born in the late 70’s in the French Antillean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. Zouk's first iteration was crafted by the band Kassav’ when bandleaders Desvarieux and Décimus longed for a local "Disco-type music”, thus proudly proposing their own homegrown brand of pop. Carved around the foundation of an infectious pattern carried by hi-hat cymbals, Zouk was created as a weapon to elevate the status of frowned-upon Antillean cultural practices. It was a powerful response to the musical and political domination of France and other regions of the Caribbean. Kassav' paved the way for the groundbreaking genre to become both culturally relevant and commercially viable beyond the Antilles, reaching a career high in 1985 with a global hit in which they cheekily claim that Zouk is "the only medicine they need".

Borrowing elements from the neighboring islands - such as Cadence-lypso from Dominica and Compas from Haiti - Zouk’s signature sound was also shaped by the tools from the burgeoning digital age, as musicians and producers embraced the MIDI technology with its promise of fun through loop-programming. On top of the exciting new effects offered by other music-making machines, it opened up a whole new world of experimentation. Many of these eager pioneers jumped head in and didn't shy from manufacturing anvil-sounding snare drums, wacky vocal modulations, epic horns, saturated bass and sexy synths... all of it duly drenched in reverb!

Perceived right away by some stiff necks as low-brow entertainment inducing lewd motions of the hips, Zouk was actually the result of incredibly sophisticated recording technology and visionary talent. Although derided in the distant French “métropole” - with hits from bands such as “La Compagnie Créole” and “Zouk Machine” relegated to camping and carnival DJ playlists - Zouk invaded the African continent within a decade. The familiarity of Zouk’s underlying rhythm spoke to many through the deep and complex web of pre-slavery roots connecting Africa to the Caribbean.

Whereas most white French music snobs disregarded Zouk as a synonym for bad taste and cheesy regionalism - sometimes with the racist tinge of colonial contempt - African listeners loved it for what it was: a kick-ass beat to sweat to, especially while dancing close to a partner. Since the early 80’s, African musicians have been paying homage to the couple-friendly genre, quoting words from the creole lexicon (“Doudou”) and blending in their own territorial twists: be it in francophone (Makossa, Rumba, Soukous) or lusophone countries (Tarraxinha, Kizomba, Coladeira). A lot of Afro Zouk legends actually met, hung out and worked in recording studios and DJ booths of the cosmopolitan city of Paris, which has been acting as the cross-pollinating hub of French-speaking black diasporas since the 70's.

00:00 · Ibro Diabate - Nnamè Nnamè (Guinea-Conakry)
02:46 · Mathey - Nzoutio (Ivory Coast)
05:02 · Tshala Muana - Kokola (Congo-Kinshasa)
07:57 · Angelina Tezanou - La Vie (Cameroon)
11:50 · Mossia - Mowa (Ivory Coast)
15:03 · Chacha di Charmi - Tempo Urgente (Guinea-Bissau)
17:44 · Monique Seka - Ôkaman (Ivory Coast)
20:50 · Oliver N'Goma · Bane (Gabon)
23:01 · Alice Sofa - Yalé (Ivory Coast)
25:42 · Michel Moutouari - Albertina (Congo-Brazza)
28:24 · Loony Johnson ft. Zéca di Nha Reinalda - Homi Grandi (Cabo Verde)
30:14 · Papa Wemba - Moyi (Congo-Kinshasa)
32:23 · Tam Tam 2000 - Zouk en Avant (Cabo Verde)
38:51 · Empire Bakuba - Zouke Zouke (Congo-Kinshasa)
41:34 · Koffi Olomide - Tcha-tcho du sorcier (Congo-Kinshasa)
45:51 · Woya - Atépé (Ivory Coast)
48:28 · Joelle Seka - Chimoin (Ivory Coast)
52:10 · Patience Dabany - Chéri Ton Disque Est Rayé (Gabon)
55:17 · Abby Surya - Tant Pis Pour Toi (Congo-Kinshasa)
59:18 · Mayaula - Doudou A Mwen (Congo-Kinshasa)

(Thanks to @afrozouk in Toronto for letting us use their design!)

Afro Zouk, Vol. 1 • Homages Across Oceans

The square gumbe frame drum was created centuries ago by enslaved Africans in Jamaica. It traveled to Sierra Leone with freed Maroons from Jamaica’s highlands in 1800. From there, the drum and its evolving, pan-ethnic music spread to 17 African nations. In this program we trace the history and legacy of this joyous and surprising music with field work in Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Ghana and Mali. Produced by Banning Eyre.

817 The Story Of Gumbe

Here's our latest show on Soho Radio, once again packed with brand new music and exclusive Village Cuts business!

We invited Uganda's Kampire to send a guest-mix for an end-of-summer celebration of music from around the globe. She certainly delivered !!!

Track ID's answered in the comments <3

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05/09/20 - Soho Radio w/ Kampire

This episode of Island Time is brought to us by Tangal Beatz and his project @afrika-cassette. Tangal is a Tunisian DJ and selector based in Dakar, Senegal. He is a collector of unique cassette tapes from Sub-Saharan Africa and specializes in genres like Afrobeat, Congolese rumba, and Cape Verdean sounds. For his Island Time set, Tangal Beatz is serving us an exclusive selection of tracks taken off Senegalese cassette tapes he collected during his many trips in the region.

Thanks Tangal for spreading the love!
@afrika-cassette for any IDs

Island Time Radio: Mix 13 with Afrika Cassette

Another timeless trip through Nigerian music 🇳🇬 Spirit of drums (Ayan Agalu) with vinyls from the 80's 🥁 Hypnotic Juju trance, breathtaking Yoruba dance, abrasive Apala disco, mesmeresing Afro-beat 💥
📷 Photo credit : "A Wonderful Space" - Collage painting by ABRAHAM OGUNLENDE (https://art635.gallery/)

NIGERIA 🇳🇬 JUJU TRANCE ~ APALA DISCO ~ YORUBA DANCE 💥 SPIRIT OF DRUMS 🥁 04-10-2020 @ Kiosk Radio

In this episode, Georges Collinet inaugurates a traveling talent search introducing guest deejays and producers with unique perspectives on global African music. First up is Matthew Key—a.k.a. DJ M-Point—host of "The Loxion Music Mix Show" on WESU FM in Middletown, CT. Key has been absorbed in South Africa’s post-apartheid pop music for 22 years, and he takes us on a tour through a succession of genres, starting with kwaito, the country’s joyous, jazzy response to long awaited freedom, and leading up to the latest SA music craze, Amapiano. Produced by Georges Collinet, Matthew Key and Banning Eyre.

[APWW #821]

GC's DJ Roadshow - From Kwaito To Amapiano

We trace the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and into the present, as a new generation of Black women artists reclaim the banjo as their own. Rhiannon Giddens, Bassekou Kouyate, Bela Fleck and more talk claw-hammers, trad jazz, Appalachian folk, African ancestors and the on-going story of American music, which would be woefully incomplete without a Black history of the banjo. Produced by Ben Richmond.

[APWW #828]

The Black History Of The Banjo

French-born & Berlin-based Boris Paillard a.k.a. Mixanthrope has been shaking up dancefloors from Canada to Ghana since 2015 with African, Afro-diasporic and Afro-Caribbean songs & sounds. After working for the label "Akwaaba Music" in Accra, he created the monthly event series "African Beats & Pieces" in Berlin in 2017, inviting passionate DJs and underground live acts to explore specific musical themes.

► djmixanthrope@gmail.com

Resident DJ & organizer of regular Afro-centric music parties in Berlin since 2017: "African Beats & Pieces"
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P A S T     G I G S

Berlin: Monarch | Badehaus | Gretchen | MAAYA | Humboldthain Club | YAAM | HAU | Prince Charles | ACUD Macht Neu | ZK/U | Schrippe Hawaii | Haubentaucher | Crack Bellmer | Artistania | Suicide Circus | Alte Kantine
France : Connexion Live | Intermédiaire | Bric à Brac
Accra: Republic | Tea Baa | Rockstone's Office
Toronto: Alliance Française | Radio-Canada | Supermarket
Antananarivo: Chez Papa

Afro Zouk, Vol. 1 • Homages Across Oceans

Mixanthrope (African Beats & Pieces)