Liming - Part 1

There Is No End

Mau Mau (feat. Nah Eeto)

Double Drop: Not All the Stars

Not Around

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Rye Lane Versions

Santiago Black

The 2025 single “Rise Up” marks the latest release from Sam Baller, an American DJ and producer blending EDM and House into a powerful, socially aware sound.

Inspired by the legacy of Frankie Knuckles and the duality of modern electronic music, “Rise Up” combines high‑energy beats, deep urban grit, and layered lyrical double entendres reflecting current world events. The track leads into Baller’s debut project SPECTRUM THEORY.

Produced and mixed in Texas, USA, then mastered for streaming platforms at 24‑bit / 44.1 kHz. Released independently via the artist’s dual creative entity Sam Baller / BΛLLΞR GHOST.

Rise Up - 01 - Rise Up

Pieces of a Man

Peace

Projections

The Drifter

Obaa Sima

hey rose

Connection

The Vice Yard

Mangroves

Mangroves (Contours Edit)

Miniatures de auto rhythm

Faux savage

Comme ça

La basse et les shakers

Forthcoming on Mr Bongo on vinyl LP and CD

Blo - Chant To Mother Earth

Born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1940, of mixed Nigerian and Ghanaian parentage, Tony Allen taught himself to play by listening to records made by the American jazz drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach. He began working as a professional musician in 1960, gigging around Lagos and variously playing highlife and jazz. Today living in Paris, Allen has long been acknowledged as Africa’s finest kit drummer and one of it's most influential musicians, the man who with Fela Anikulapo Kuti created Afrobeat - the hard driving, James Brown funk-infused, and politically engaged style which became such a dominant force in African music and whose influence continues to spread today.

Allen had to overcome strong parental opposition to realise his dream of
becoming a professional musician. “My parents were…not keen. Back then, in Lagos, musicians were more or less thought of as beggars, or worse. But I just put it in front of them. I was an electrical technician, but I wanted to make a change. My mother was never happy about it, but my father, who was an amateur musician, eventually agreed.”

Allen started out as a jazz drummer. “Art Blakey was my big influence, and before that, before I started club crawling, it was Gene Krupa. When I started, I tried to play like Gene Krupa. Then I discovered Blue Note Records and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers - it opened up another style to me. Max Roach was important too. I studied some lessons he wrote in Down Beat magazine about how to play high-hats. Most drummers in Lagos never used them, they were just a decoration on the kit,and I’d always thought that was something incomplete.”

Mau Mau (feat. Nah Eeto)

Tony Allen

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