Eck Echo presents RADIO AMAZONIA, a compilation curated by Peruvian artist QOQEQA.

All proceeds from this album will be destined to the education program "La Voz de La Selva" based in Iquitos, Peru (downloads via https://eckecho.bandcamp.com/album/radio-amazonia)

RADIO AMAZONIA- a remote education program based on AM radio airwaves for the families of the communities in Maynas and Loreto-Nauta in the Peruvian Amazon.

The project is led by the Vicariato Apostólico de Iquitos with the support of the Regional Directorate of Education in Loreto (DREL) and funding partners. With your donation we will be able to complete the production of 2.000 out of 7.000 planned eco-friendly radio-receivers for school students to attend the radio- educational programs "Al Son de Manguaré" and "La Voz de La Selva" and further donations will provide financing for the logistics and capacitation of teachers and families.

More info at GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/radio-amazonia-donate-for-loreto-peru

Radio Amazonia

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¡Terrenos De Machu Picchu!

Artist: @KAIFO  
Release: Rural
Label: @Eck Echo
Release Date: 15 September 2023 (digital)
Release Date: 31 October 2023 (vinyl)
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Carlos Asimbaya brings the tradition of Ecuadorian organ and synth to the future with "Rural". A unique fusion of hypnotic keyboard scales and afroandean percusions. Bomba from another dimension, hailing from the parallel zero of our planet.

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Premiere | Kaifo | Monte Espeso [Eck Echo]

The Copenhagen/Berlin based label Rhizome releases a compilation album inspired by the writer Astrida Neimanis. On the album you’ll be presented to a wide range of the Copenhagen underground from artists such as Messell to Varnrable.

The album Hypersea releases September 1st 2023

Friday September 1st 2023 Rhizome releases and celebrates the compilation album Hypersea. The compilation album takes its point of departure with the text ‘Hydrofeminism - Or, On Becoming a Body of Water’ by Astrida Neimanis andcontains 18 tracks from the Copenhagen underground scene apart from a track from New York namely Laenz who earlier this year released a double single on the label. In each way the artists have interpreted the text by Neimanis and worked with its topics such as water, ﬂuid borders and feminism.

Alto Aria about the album: “With the current threat of a watering ban in Denmark, increasing pollution and lack of water all over the world, we zoom in on water with this album. We wish to follow Neimanis’ thread about water and feminism – she teaches us that we and our identity, like the ﬂuid borders of the oceans, always are negotiable and never ﬁxed. With the compilation we celebrate water and its essential role in our lives. Whether it is through the lens of clean drinking water, an identity in ﬂux, dying ﬁsh, the western pollution level or something completely diﬀerent, we wish this album to be a reﬂection over and a get together around what
we all depend on.”

The album has become a sonic collage of a watery quest, fast footsteps, shifting and fragmented choir pieces, broken beats and hearts, soothing synthesisers, harsh wind, caring bodies, uplifting beats, polyphonic saxophones and long reverbs. Hypersea is curated by Alto Aria and presents works by Hôy la, ilinx, Saltmother, Julia Becker, ill, Angel Wei, Lyra Valenza, Faber, Jason Lee, Bysund, Holger Seidelin, Astrid Nørgaard, KRY, Laenz, Varnrable, Messell, Skarv and Alto Aria.

Rhizome is a Copenhagen/Berlin based label started in 2020 by Aria Leth Schütze and Mads Krue Bugge. The primary focus of the label is experimental electronic music and alternative release formats. Rhizome has released music by artists such as Alto Aria, Skarv, Swell, Polly, Nemo, ioulus, Laenz, Ida Urd, and ill as well as the compilation album bag/belly/box. So far Rhizome has presented music and artists
in Copenhagen at Øen, Alice, Mayhem, and Christianshavns Beboerhus.

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Hypersea

PREMIERE: Angel Wei - Nongfu Spring [Rhizome]

To celebrate the release of KFAX14 - LOGOS OF THE VENEZUELAN MINITECAS we're happy to present a contextual mix from one of the key players in Venezuela's Miniteca scene....DJ EL MAGO from the infamous Sound Crazy crew!

KFAX14 out now here: https://klassewrecks.bandcamp.com/merch/kfax14-logos-of-the-venezuelan-minitecas

WRECKS WRADIO - STREET HOUSE MINIMIX 2003 - DJ EL MAGO

KAIFO (@user-710965004) - Hecho Leña (taken from 'Rural', out on the 15th of September via @eck-echo)

Another culturally valuable project will be soon delivered by Eck Echo as Ecuadorian producer Kaifo is about to publish his debut full-length album via this Berlin-based label. Departing from the club-oriented sound of his previous this year's release, the classically trained artist this time focuses on the Ecuadorian keyboard traditions which he mixed with rhythms carried by bomba, a drum central to the Afro-Ecuadorian music of the same name. These unusual inspirations resulted in an astonishing, hard to define LP that's just as folk as it is electronic.

[PREMIERE] KAIFO - Hecho Leña (Eck Echo)

DRC-based collective Ngwaka Son Systéme showcase the vibrant, big-room sounds of Kinshasa and beyond on their debut LP, ‘Iboto Ngenge’, out 23rd February via @eck-echo. Have an exclusive first listen to ‘Lakala’ now.

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-ngwaka-son-systeme-lakala

Iboto Ngenge

Premiere: Ngwaka Son Systéme ‘Lakala’

We are happy to welcome Bawrut on the RESONICA REC. as our 5th guest available now on Soundcloud. 

A quick intro to this mix: drums and syncopated rhythms tracks never get old and can be played at wrong BPM with unexpected results. This mix is focusing on this approach playing brand new and old stuff from Kinshasa to Cairo passing by Medellin, Italy and France.

And a quick intro about him: Bawrut is a Madrid based, Italian born producer and DJ. 

Heavily influenced by the work of Chicago pioneers, established European teachers and every sound he can find on the internet or during digging sessions, Bawrut’s taste toes a wonderfully balanced line between classics and brand new tracks.

Since the early hits ‘Ciquita’ and ‘Rumba’ he received heavy support from the likes of Kink, Axel Boman and Erol Alkan. Mixmag, DJ Mag, Test Pressing and Data Transmission also proclaimed him as one of the freshest producer and DJ.
Becoming resident at legendary Mondo Disko in Madrid he shaped his taste and style trough his own music and “the art of warm up” + “the closing” sharing the booth with tons of different act from disco to techno. Since then he started to perform in the most famous clubs and festival like Sub Club, fabric, Sonar, Nuites Sonores, c/o Pop, Circoloco, Nitsa and much more sharing his unique approach to different genres combined all together as his personal music outputs.

With his last EPs on Ransom Note, Life and Death and Correspondant he became the DJ’s Producer been supported from Dixon to Keinemusik, from Sven Vath to Avalon Emerson,  from Hunee to Jennifer Cardini, from Vladimir Ivkovic to DJ Tennis.

Exploring new and old sounds he always tries to make people dance in the middle of people and cultures.

We thank you for your music.

RESONICA REC. 5 - BAWRUT

Pre-order: https://eckecho.bandcamp.com/music

Ngwaka Son Systéme’s debut album 'Iboto Ngenge' brings together the newest talent of the Democratic Republic of Congo from the former members of @kokokomusic.

Venezuela’s @dj-babatr dissects the vocal stems on 'Lakala', showcasing the big-room potential of raptor house and marrying Africa and the Latin Caribbean in the process.

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Premiere: Ngwaka Son Systéme 'Lakala' (Dj Babatr Remix)

Ngwaka Son Systéme - Iboto Ngenge
BUY LINK: https://eckecho.bandcamp.com/album/iboto-ngenge
Label: Eck Echo (https://soundcloud.com/eck-echo)
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> Cerrero (https://www.instagram.com/cerrero_)

Ngwaka Son Systéme’s debut album brings together the newest talent of the megacity’s scene, under the musical direction of Love Lokombe (vocals, percussion) and Bom’s Bomolo (guitar), both seasoned veterans who learned their trade as founders of the band @kokokomusic.

Iboto Ngenge means “power struggle” or “seizing the opportunity” but while words can only be roughly translated, the music reaches listeners unambiguously: A potent mixture of techno, rumba, soukous, zagué and dancehall with the unique “Kinoise” brand – the city that never stops innovating in the music landscape worldwide.

Iboto Ngenge was recorded and mixed by engineer and beatmaker Levy David in the studio Timbela Ba Timbela Yo, which serves as a gravitational centre for MCs and beatmakers to share their craft.

The album opens with Okokok -the title being both a twist and a reference to the musicians’ previous school of KOKOKO! - which invites the audiences to attend gospel-like ceremony or ritual of initiation, presenting the band to the world for the first time with this melodic lullaby.

The gears quickly shift with the inadvertently techno-oriented Lakala, a trance-inducing experience where listeners can quickly relish to the lyrics even without speaking Lingala, for the shapes of the words are already inviting listeners to dance, sing and smile, all the while virtuoso percussionist Steroy operates the DIY- drum kit at high-tempo.

Fresh out of the scene, the band is joined by MCs Lakala and Boomastyl who place the emphasis on Jamaican styles with their contagious flow that carries personality and attitude all along the banks of the Congo river. The call-and-response effect, where each musician lends their voice to the choir, is particularly felt in Bo Lobi Pe, where the vocals guide us ever so playfully to the tune of an acoustic guitar that invites us to take off our shoes, kick back and relax.

Benda Singa (“pull the string”) resumes the stream of dancefloor-igniting songs where MC Lakala casually paints lyrical frames of a young musicians about to wake up from a dream and into the stream of lucid consciousness where he is caught in res media with the band is already in rehearsal-mode.

Zanga Mbongo (translated as “there is no money”) is lyrically a proud anthem to celebrating life in spite of economic scarcity, and musically it is a triumphant renewal to the legendary soukous genre of the 1970s, championed by worldwide renowned stars such as Pepe Kallé and Sam Mangwana.

The adventure closes with Dondwa, an Afrobeat-oriented tune where the vocals cary a carefully balanced dosage of autotune effects playfully bouncing back-and-forth between Boms Bomolo’s cascading guitar riffs.

The bonus dub version of Zanga Mbongo showcases the creative engineering approach of musician Diego Gomez (a.k.a Cerrero), whose past work with UK dubmaster Adrian Sherwood brought the “Dub de Gaita” project to life, thus picking up once more with renewed energy, the bond between Jamaica and Colombia, shifting the shape this time into a triangle where Congo represents the largest side.

Continuing his meteoric rise to the top of the European dancefloor, Venezuela’s DJ Baba dissects the vocal stems of band Ngwaka Son Systéme to take us on an intense ride that showcases the big- room potential of the Raptor House genre, marrying Africa and the Latin Caribbean in the process, as it always has.

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PREMIERE : Ngwaka Son Systéme - Zanga Mbongo (Cerrero Dub)

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