this came to mi existence to add even more chaos but also energy so it's a deal

Music for the Eagles

Mixing Khyam Allami
Mastering Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Artwork Studio Kawakeb
Amygdala records 2021

Relentless and heavy dark electronic beats mingle with anger and anguish on Liliane Chlela’s latest album “Safala”. The Lebanese producer and hybrid DJ tapped into her personal memories to bring forth a sonic concoction anchored in the inherited oral epistemologies of her ancestors. Memories intertwine with Beirut, using incantations inherited from Chlela’s grandmother as building blocks to build an eight track album. From warding off the evil eye to protest sounds from the past year of events in Lebanon, the album haunts the listener to invoke a striking elegy on terror and anger, while inducing a rollercoaster of sonic eruptions.

Most of the sound palette was organically produced to mimic the remains of situations during which Chlela’s sonic memory aligned with the ‘keywords’ from the aforementioned incantations.

Charr

Ratigan Era - Gan Dem

Phelimuncasi - Kolamula Ukusa (feat. DJ Ndaxy)

Otim Alpha - Lobo Olanya

One Djezz - Djelimandi

MC Yallah - No One Seems To Bother (feat. Lord Spikeheart)

Kidene Fighter - Ugai Gai

FLO - Baby

Ecko Bazz - Kowola

Aunty Rayzor - Tornado

Anti Vairas X Vampi - Kidogo

DIY synth builder and electronica experimentalist Brian Bamanya aka AFRORACK has only released two tracks so far, but his live sets at CTM, Nyege Nyege boiler room and Refractions festival have already made him a name as an unpredictable live electronics act that brings together so many influences, from jazz to techno and traditional Ugandan rhythms, all laced with the delicious textures that his home build machines create.

Afrorack - Trance

Since his first productions emerged back in 2010, Munchi has put his own spin on everything he's approached, bending moombahton into breakcore and creating moombahcore fusing skullstep and trap and making skulltrap, and curving bachata and merengue … . A voracious listener, he's been able to absorb sounds from across the diaspora - from reggeton and baile funk to Dutch bubbling and Chicago juke - and effortlessly engineer his own twist, creating tracks and mixes with a journalistic hunger for storytelling and contextual deconstruction. Blogger and musicologist Wayne Marshall even coined a separate genre for Munchi's diverse spread of genre-agnostic productions back in 2010: Munchiton. Since then, Munchi has worked with M.I.A. and Pharell Williams among others, and remixed everyone from Skrillex to Nguzunguzu, Noisia to Buraka.


 "I Love Mambo" was put together in 2010 for Dave Quam's notorious It's After The End Of The World blog. It was Munchi's first proper mixtape, and matched a handful of his original productions with his favorite tracks from the Dominican Mambo canon, that had evolved throughout the 2000’s after merengue ... even got more stripped down with live instruments replaced with digital sounds with the use of daws like fl studio. Munchi was fascinated by this music at the time, downloading everything he could get his hands on, scraping the internet's darkest corners for "the cheapest, cheesiest, dirtiest, most Fruityloops-ish" tracks. He laments that this era has come and gone, leaving "polished, pretentious and almost soulless" reggaeton to dominate the landscape. "At least when the rhythms were extremely raw you could feel the energy and spirit in it," he says. "It felt like it was alive and breathing." Listening now, the mix sounds as raw, fresh and vital as it did back then, brushing the dust off an often forgotten and certainly misunderstood moment in the history of Dominican music. At any moment the tracks sound so brittle they could collapse completely, only to be bolstered by a swift beat flip, vocal chop or cheeky bass drop. Over the course of an hour, Munchi accompanies us on a thrill ride through a genre that's left an indelible mark on dance music throughout the Caribbean and further afield. … "I Love Mambo" serves as a critical missing link. Munchi's "Detonao EP" is a collection of unreleased material recorded in Rotterdam between 2008 and 2010, and is among the most experimental, minimal and uptempo material Munchi has put his name to. Here he purposefully approximates the kind of jerky, plasticated speed dance that used to dominate the Dominican scene, offering his own spin on the mambo sound. Each track is unsettlingly clean, assembled from detuned toybox pianos, radio sting voices and cheap, groggy horns: opening track 'Damu Mambo' crashes into view thru hollow clunks, horror movie voices, pained air horns, glass smashes and rolling snares before ceding to looped vocals and "X-Files" whistles.In the wrong hands, this chaotic assemblage would be as playable as nails on a chalkboard, but Munchi's genius lies in his ability to massage almost anything into a coherent groove. There are even parallels to be drawn with Portugal's wiry batida sound, and Tanzania's hi-nrg singeli (just check those pacy percussive sounds on 'Comenzo El Party'). There's a sense that Munchi is aware of everything existing in the same continuum, shuffling through Dutch bubbling scrapes and bassline womps on 'Luis Esta Seguroski VIP', and mind-altering 'Percolator' trills on the hypnotic 'Ayoba Mambo'. A history lesson and wild-eyed cultural mashup that'll leave you breathless, "Detonao" is proof that Munchi is operating in a league of his own.

Damu Mambo

Clara! y Maoupa - Meneo(BZH002)

A1 Ruge
A2 Ruge (Instrumental)
A3 Ruge (Acapella)
B1 El Ratón
B2 El Ratón (Instrumental)
B3 Discordia

@clara-uno @maoupa-mazzocchetti

Meneo

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Clara! y Maoupa - El Ratón

Next level digital tribalism from roving Punk ethno-musicologist and label boss of the archival re-issue label petPets' tapes , Julien Hairon. After spending the past 6 years recording soundscapes and traditional musicians across Asia, Oceania and Africa, he moved to Tanzania in 2017. Inspired by the sounds he heard around him and field recordings he made over the past couple of years during his stay their, Judgitzu was born. Umeme Kelele represents his debut release and his first foray into electronic music production.

Umemekelele

Umemekele

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Nyege Nyege Tapes is a Kampala based label exploring, producing and releasing outsider music from around the region.

For bookings email: tapes@nyegenyege.com

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