Desire Path

Caminos del Deseo

1.   Home by Glasser (Township Mix) 
2.   Cheps Panyaza
3.   More Pain
4.   Tsa Tsa ftr Chappies
5.   Track 08
6.   Captain Jack Spoko is Back
7.   Track 07
8.   Why U Nketsa So
9.   Seroepe Sa Nwanoo
10. Oreng Mo ftr DJ Mujava

MGMT contact:
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DJ SPOKO // GRAVE MIX

Azange (ft. Magaula & Puzuzu)

This is a collection of record instrumentals made by cypher music from delta 500 recording studios, The Problem On The Beat, one of the best recording studios in uganda, enjoy the amazing variaty of sounds be blessed.

Party Party

Party Party Instrumental

Available now on all digital stores & streaming platforms:
Bandcamp - bit.ly/UpperCuts-Bandcamp
Spotify - bit.ly/UpperCuts-Spotify
iTunes - bit.ly/UpperCuts-iTunes

If you don’t know who Rastronaut is by now you haven’t been paying attention, but it’s okay because that’s about to change. The Lisbon DJ, producer, Hard Ass Sessions resident and all-around Enchufada powerhouse breaks out of his production hiatus to deliver Flexx, a track that sounds like it was built for the Hard Ass Sessions from start to finish. Who needs a breakdown when you can just keep adding cuica samples and weird synths to the track?

This heavyweight 130bpm club track is about to make its way into your set like a hungry piranha looking for its next meal, so don’t even try to fight it. Play this one loud and destroy your local dancefloor.

@rastronaut
www.enchufada.com

Enchufada Upper Cuts: Four Years of Global Club Anthems

Flexx

Buy it on Bandcamp

Rastronaut - Flexx

Release Details:
Title: Gqom Oh! X Crudo Mixtape
Catalogue Number: GQOM 003
Label: Gqom Oh!
Format: Tape/Digital
Release Date: 11 July 2016

The word Crudo [ˈkruːdo] in Italian translates as “raw” and this is the overarching concept around the latest Gqom Oh! Release. 

It is set to be in collaboration with Crudo Volta - a young Rome-based collective who focused on visual curation and dj culture. The mixtape is the soundtrack of the Woza Taxi documentary. Making the documentary in April 2016 - whilst visiting his artists and their families in Durban - label boss Nan Kolè painstakingly narrowed down this selection of tracks for the release. The trip lent a tremendous amount of in-sight to Nan Kolè, granting him both a detailed and broad view of the Gqom scene and what Gqom means to the youth of the township (for they consist the core music makers and listeners of Gqom).

Their unique sound, which took Europe by storm at the start of 2016, is a way for the youth in the township to express themselves - something that music does the world over - but moreover enables them to express their pride and experiences in their Zulu culture and history. Mawbestana from Forgotten Souls gave some insight into how the music was made. He said in the documentary “…Everyone thinks we have a mega studio with huge speakers but we are just ‘Hlanganisa’..” Hlanganisa is a zulu word literally translated as 'putting together'; This refers to creating something out of the few elements available to you “…Just like when you scrap the bottom of a pan to get some food out of it..” cited Mawbestana. 

The release features 14 tracks showcasing different and new music from Durban  - spanning Core Tribe through Sgubhu to Gqom. The 90 minute tape will consist of two sides, with Side A containing seven tracks and Side B containing a continuous mix and a digital download code granting access to the entire compilation. 

The tape will be release in ‘package’ format designed by Crudo Volta alongside a photography book with the best pictures from the trip to Durban by Tommaso Cas-sinis, a limited edition t-shirt and access to an online premiere of the documentary.







Tracks:
1 - Dominowe - Darbuka Tribe (Core Tribe)
2 - Dj Lag - Ithuna ( Grave Yard ) remastered 2016
3 - Julz da Deejay - Quantums And Qo
4 - Formation Boyz - dlala amaBenuBenu
5 - Citizen Boy - indaba ka bani besibenuza *
6 - Emo Kid feat. WorstHood - Hennessy
7 - Cruel Boyz - Cruel Drumz
8 - TLC Fam - No 2 BeeF (slima)
9 - Mafia Boyz - Bhengi yoKhalipha **
10 - Dj Mabheko - Izinyosi (Core Tribe) ***
11 - Julz da Deejay - Broken Souls
12 - Dominowe - Dark Valley (Core Tribe)
13 - TLC Fam - Umgcwabo weNdanda (Da 4th Term Mix)
14 - Forgotten Souls - Blow my mind (dj Nerd vocalist)



Translation
* who cares if we dance under the influence of drugs
** dance retarded
*** wasps

for press pics or any other enquires write to gqomubhenga@gmail.com




Credits :

art direction : Mike Calandra
Photography : Tommaso Cassinis

Label and artist management for South Africa : Lerato Phiri lerato@gqomoh.com
Label management : Craig Pugnetti craig@gqomoh.com


Citizen Boy -  Indaba Ka Bani Besibenuza

First track from Gqom Oh! label boss Nan Kolè. 

Get it here: https://nankole.bandcamp.com/

Bayfal contains a sample taken from ‘Liital’, Performed by Aby Ngana Diop. Courtesy of Awesome Tapes From Africa used by permission. ℗ © Awesome Tapes From Africa.

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Bayefal

Nan Kolè - Bayefal

Buy - http://smarturl.it/gob024
Taken from Orlando's "The Tide That Moves Me" EP
Out 28th July
https://soundcloud.com/orlando4ev https://soundcloud.com/nemesis-66698895

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Mr. Mitch’s Gobstopper label follow a trio of blistering club records from Odeko, Tarquin and newcomer Lloyd SB with Orlando’s new four-tracker, ‘The Tide That Moves Me’.

Formerly known as Orlando Volcano, the moniker under which he released his debut EP, ‘Complete Concrete’, with Liminal Sounds in the summer of 2016, Orlando — like Mr. Mitch — is a producer who places emotion at the heart of his output. “My work explores themes of landscape and environment and a constant longing for the unobtainable”, he explains.

‘The Tide That Moves Me’ functions around these core threads, with the hopeful, new-age pop of the title-track, the soft, melody-rich dancehall of ‘Cyaa Done’ featuring new-school Jamaican vocalist Nemesis, and the glistening, wistful electronica of ‘The Smoke Descends’ all referencing a range of warming, open-ended emotions. 

Alongside the shimmering ‘Sensory Deprivation Tank’ — a track that comes alive with sporadic drum bursts to give the EP mettle for the dance — Orlando has honed in on a sound that functions in its own, bubble-like space, illuminating gorgeous, high-level sound design and his take on future club tropes in the process.

The Tide That Moves Me

Orlando - Cyaa Done ft. Nemesis

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 Track 3 Sun C: KAAD 4

"Away from Home" is the Dominowe demo Album that was supposed to be released in late 2020, but unfortunately someone broke into Dion's house and stole everything: Two laptops, one hard drive with the back up of those tracks, Sound system, clothes and tv as well. 
With this release Gqom Oh! aim is to get crowdfunding to help Dominowe rebuild his home studio and achieve the necessary funds to let Dominowe get back in the game. 
100% of the proceeds is going directly to Dion Blose and his family. 

The album "Away from Home" was written in Inanda, a durban township where Dominowe moved to, leaving his parents house in Newlands, in early february 2020 to be able to connect with musicians, singers and other Gqom producers who lived in the area. 
In late March Dominowe was going to Inanda Fm to submit an interview and asking for a radio show, once back home, he found that someone had broken into his house. 

It was and it's still very painful, here at Gqom Oh! We were very impressed of this initial demo as always with Dominowe's ability to experiment and find new, original unique directions in the Gqom, Core Tribe and Afrohouse style. 

The album contains 10 tracks unmixed and not mastered but you can still feel the incredible vibe of his work. 
It features musicians and singers: Mr Alhab and Mike Makhosini. 
All the other vocals are made by Dominowe himself. 
It's an incredible journey into Dion Blose aka Dominowe's life between Durban, and his past gigs/trip in Russia, France and Switzerland. 

Thanks for your support!! 
We will keep you updated on the results of the crowdfunding. 

Cover design by Jennifer Ayebaitari Ese @Ayebaitari__

Away From Home

Dominowe - The Prayer feat. Mr Alhab (Core Tribe)

Takeover MOVELIKE para Aire Libre

Management 
harry@truepanther.com

www.ghettoboyzmusic.co.za/

DJ Spoko was born Marvin Ramalepe, raised in the rural town of Tzaneen in northern South Africa (where he says there was no first or third class,all the same).” He started producing on a PC at age 12,after moving with his brother Kelly Rams Ramalepe to Atteridgeville (a 99%-black township outside the mostly white city of Pretoria) to find their father. They lived in an area called Ghost Town, near Atteridgeville’s cemetery, where as the neighborhood’s premiere producer,young Spoko earned the nickname The Ghost. 

Bacardi House has been fermenting for a decade

For three years in the early 2000s DJ Spoko traveled 40 miles south to Soweto, where he studied sound engineering in the studio of Nozinja, creator of the hyper-speed, hip-shaking Shangaan Electro style.   After, when Spoko  built his own studio back home, he took a 
producer named DJ Mujava under his wing, leading to Spoko’s great but uncredited triumph as the percussion mastermind  behind  Mujavas Bacardi House indebted Township Funk.” 

His sound consumed the township, passed around on numerous full- length cassette releases with names like ‘Grave Yard Session’, The All C’Ing I, and Tombs & Graves and, following the success of his tapes, Spoko had a fantastic turn of luck in  meeting True Panther Sounds Founder 
Dean Bein (who was coincidentally in South Africa in search of another artist).
Dean stayed in Atteridgeville for a while and they agreed to work together and release an EP

Spoko’s Ghost Town EP was released on True Panther on 05/03/13

Since the release of ghost town (his first official western release) Spoko has continued to develop his own Ghetto Boyz entertainment - working with local Atteridgeville talent. In the summer of 2013 he was asked to contribute to the mandela project (working with Idris Elba) and in October 2013 travelled out of Africa for the first time to perform in Paris for the ‘Sharp Jharp Johannesburg series at the Gaite Lyrique. Spoko was also featured in Spoeks Mathambo's contribution to the Vodafone #firsts international marketing campaign, in which they created the song ‘Pula'.
2014 holds yet more for Spoko with solo releases coming on Hivern discs and Lit city trax , a collaborative EP with DJ Mujava, 
coming on True Panther, and an album from 
Spoko and Spoek Mathambo's new band, FANTASMA!!

Azange (ft. Magaula & Puzuzu)

DJ SPOKO

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