V/A - Kikommando
Label: PAN / Hakuna Kulala 
Cat.No. PAN 124 / HK029 
Format: DL / Book
Release Date: 6 August 2021
Purchase: pan.lnk.to/Kikommando
Video: https://bit.ly/3i2EgSg

A collective effort from a vital scene in Kampala, KIKOMMANDO takes its name from Ugandan street food of flat bread and beans. As a ‘food of soldiers’ offering maximum energy for minimum funds, the eponymous mixtape, video series and book project is an equally nourishing and ambitious proposition. It all began in the East African summer of 2018, during a two-month residency at the Nyege Nyege label and collective’s villa, in collaboration with their sublabel Hakuna Kulala. Producer and PAN artist Simone Trabucchi (aka STILL) opened the door to his temporary studio in the city and a crucial cross-cultural collaboration was born.

“The intention was to record as much as possible,” Trabucchi says about KIKOMMANDO’s musical showcase of eight Kampala-based artists, coming from the spectrum of musical influences, crossing trap, drill, cut ups, kuduro, electro, smooth jams—the list goes on. In creating a sonic space to support the expression of its featured singers, poets and emcees, the mixtape ties countless styles and flows into a single snapshot of a particular part of the Kampala music scene, at a particular point in time. The invective of rapper and street legend Blaq Bandana’s “Nkwaata” is laid over a spare and brooding ambient. Kampala Unit trumpet player and first-time singer, Florence, rolls a thick melodic texture through the organic clicks, knocks and atmospherics of “Bae Tasanze”. Jahcity’s unique lyricism combines a personal take on traditional music and soulful-reggae with a jerky, wobbly collection of drops and donks.

Meanwhile, Ecko Bazz applies his grimey vocals and rhythmic, introspective words to lead single ‘Ntabala (Rolex Riddim) at a particularly pertinent moment of self-reflection. “I was trying to listen to the voice inside myself and wanted to achieve a higher level of understanding of things, life,” he says about the themes that he felt inspired to explore with Trabucchi at the recording desk. The accompanying video, shot on a rooftop in the Kampala neighborhood of Ggaba, is one of a series of slick and high-definition films complementing each one of the KIKOMMANDO tracks. These also include contributions from Ugandan emcee and key Hakuna Kulala member Biga Yut, don dada of the GabaGaza gang Swordman Kitala (with Omutaba on percussion) and South Sudanese poet and singer Winnie Lado.

Also accompanying a ‘visual mixtape’ of moving images for each song on KIKOMMANDO is a recording diary of sorts, where Trabucchi compiles a vibrant collection of pictures, colours and textures reflecting the its heterogeneous sonic palette into a book. Together this multifaceted, interdisciplinary project showcases, what Lamin Fofana’s liner notes describe as, “amazing originality, complexity”, while “embracing dissonance”.

Trabucchi’s personal take on a kind of ‘digital dancehall’ defined the sound of his ground-breaking rumination on Italy’s colonial history on debut STILL album, I, in 2017. KIKOMMANDO is a different proposition entirely, where he finds new ways to complement the personality and skills of its contributors sprung from a constant stream of visitors arriving at the Nyege Nyege Villa’s makeshift studio. “It was a dialogue,” stresses Trabucchi, who has always preferred collaboration as a means to escape branded and stereotypical identities, while creating something new. “I created the musical platform to make the singers confident, and challenged them at the same time. Working together accelerates ideas and reveals that nothing is your invention alone. That’s why KIKOMMANDO is a mixtape to me, and not an album.”

The mixtape is mastered by Rashad Becker, featuring artwork by NMR. Tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 11 & 12 mixed by Ville Haimala. Tracks 5, 6 & 8 mixed by Lorenzo Dal Ri.

@hakunakulala

KIKOMMANDO

STILL, ECKO BAZZ - Ntabala (Rolex Riddim) (PAN 124 / HK029)

Between September 2019 and August 2021 I completed a Master's Degree study at Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technology Berlin / University of St. Mark and St. John Plymouth. The topic of my work was "Composing Ambient Music with Modular Synthesizer - A Practice Based Research". This album contains all musical submissions I composed and handed in.

Knauthe CPM II Étude 1

Looking In EP

Cold Mate

@antenafoyard

Instrumental: @beatsbynyce

se nao for sobre dinheiro pelo menos vai direto ao assunto 🗣
so tenho uma missão, quero deixar a minha mãe no luxo 
viciado em conduzir pedrado eu acelero a fundo
depois derrapo e facilmente contorno essa bull💩
so nao espeto o beamer porque a za deixa-me habilidoso
im the highest that i been in months
fiz bem em parar um pouco
mas hoje 
eu fumo que nem um animal🦥 (ganda animal 🐘) 
fodo o pulmão acho que vou ter de ir trocá-lo
agora querem fazer parte 
rebobina, tu não tavas la
mano o que eu ja suei nessa merda dava pa encher um lago 🚣‍♂
por mim nao haviam mais janelas e era so fumarada

Tas a vender cena velha ao preço de uma nova
Eu nao fico pressed tenho weed tenho bottles
Eu tenho bulido mais que tu e bem melhor (ya)
Contigo eu nao quero chegar a nenhum acordo❌

Tanta zaza que peguei e coloquei dentro do forno
125°🔥meia hora e mano fill it up  💊
Explosão nesse body moca foreigner chamo de WORLDSTAR shit nessa merda
Tenho logica na back


Tenho beat infinitos eu adoro a internet
Só amigos coloridos sentimentos? Nao tou nessa
Back broke but thank god que temos SNS 🏨
Eu fumei quatro ganzas eu tou bem mais q relaxed

big body whip
precisas de ajuda nao sou paramedico
parece uma ambulancia 🚑
tu tas muito lento tipo uma caracoleta
pra mim é tudo mais urgente
o bolo é nosso e tu não sabes a receita
falta-te autenticidade

recipe freestyle 🧑‍🍳 ft. foya

((((((way back in ᄅ𝟶ᄅ⇂))))))

Acordei, contei, poupei
Pa ser flex up tipo Popeye
Ficas parado no tempo, à pala do smoke
És Pompeii
Pa ter no backyard, reino del Rey
I'm trynna get this paper today
Nivel mister, master, sensei
Nos teus olhos ódio notei
OK ok ok ok, huh
Faço aquele double shit
Cama king-size Ritz
Cara Podre na Blitz
Man Evito o deslize
Vim do fundo recife
Deixo na mama um kiss
E aqui vai o patife, clean
Man eu vim do south
Não passa porta, sinal keep out
Caça talento ou caça clout
Faço o que eu faço e dou peace out
Se eu dou slide, tu dás splash e no final Whipeout
Ficas a parar uma beca huh
Tipo o chaval do Get out yuh


Sou uma estrela 
Pa me veres tens de olhar pa cima 
És so luz acesa
A sigla no meu belt é de GinGão
Se eu fosse a ti imitava-me
Vieste floppar e o chico claro
Claro que não 
Droga fez efeito
A ressaca fucked me up eu tou nas aulas a fingir bem
Tenho um plug ambicioso ele fica ativo às 10:30
Tive quase uma overdose, eu vim da cova, os decibéis 
dessa moca, é vintage, booted na reggie e tamos estendidos no meio
Prazer o meu nome é Shoppin não devo a ninguem
Put it on my name
Se não vais mandar let me take it
Tão joga mais uma bala no meu copo
E se eu chumbar mãe juro que tenho de fazer money
Odeio falar tenho um canhão na boca
Mãe diz larga a merda do polen não quero saber o teu filho anda em tudo
Deixa bater se a cena é da boa
Hoje eu mato esse mel do the pooh
Fecho a minha lead e tem um bicho no refrão

Passo de broke a ballin
De pobre a poppin
Solo dolo sozinho
Eu tou poppin
É só manter sólido, yaaa
É só manter sólido, yaaaa

Passo de broke a ballin
De pobre a poppin
Solo dolo sozinho
Eu tou poppin
É só manter sólido, yaaa

Manter só o ritmo 
Bate insónia a pensar que o meu primeiro projeto é pedagógico
No hustle hungover não me posso em pé ontem só me intoxiquei
Tudo numa sessão até erro o playback é lógico nem ouvi de novo
Canto essa porra and they start engagin' é fácil vem ouvir de novo
Se eu não tirar um fuckin 10?
Pera isso é cagativo
Isso é quase negativa
Mano eu já nem sei o que é que tou a dizer
Mas adoro falar shii
Bora lá Fatacil!!!

Broke A Ballin

1stset

Palhaça

Apneia

Vocals: Sonikin
Mix e Master: MiguelDzn & Sonikin
Capa: TsukiS2 & Sonikin

ch-ch-ch-check my instagram, yuh
derramo lean dentro do meu cup 
haters go to spam, yuh
because i stack my paper up
i know im balling, like yuh
take a paper then roll-up
eu sei que sempre que há problemas basta eu acender a blunt

check my instagram, yuh
derramo lean dentro do meu cup 
haters go to spam, yuh
because i stack my paper up
i know im balling, like yuh
take a paper then roll-up
eu sei que sempre que há problemas basta eu acender a blunt

não quero saber de ti, eu tou a contar o meu cahh
demoro a somar essa shi, de tanto q ele é
haters no meu dick, juro não me largam o pé
tu fazes zero money, juro, sem boné 

i-i-i can't walk, i can't walk, like im off the wok
been sippin way too much, my liver finna stop
got my money with me, im going to the shop
buying what i want because the gang is up

j-j-já matei o game vou tar no funeral
porcos atrás de mim, eu meto no curral
choppa canta bue, vai fazer um recital 
queres falar de mim puto, mas tu não tens moral

ch-ch-ch-check my instagram, yuh
derramo lean dentro do meu cup 
haters go to spam, yuh
because i stack my paper up
i know im balling, like yuh
take a paper then roll-up
eu sei que sempre que há problemas basta eu acender a blunt

check my instagram, yuh
derramo lean dentro do meu cup 
haters go to spam, yuh
because i stack my paper up
i know im balling, like yuh
take a paper then roll-up
eu sei que sempre que há problemas basta eu acender a blunt


beat: https://youtu.be/psJ07UbkNQ0?si=zESBCMaGcv4BL9qw

Problemas [prod. kittyflower x axry x tritely]

Amphibious (video in desc.)

This album is a collection of some of my works.
They are not meant to be pieced together as a story, rather each one  tells a story of its own.
I hope that you enjoy.

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