U.M.O.J.A

Been working all day? Been sweating all week? Time to throw down the hammer and have a dansi time! 

In the spotlights: The irresistible dance music coming out of East Africa! Kenyan Benga, Congolese Rumba's, Muziki Wa Dansi from Tanzania, they all have something in common: Untamable Hi-hat samurai's, tireless guitar terriers, scattering songbirds forming a tidal wave of uplifting dance music. 

Umoja picked some their favorite songs & elements and went for a session to add some Umoja flavours. Keeping a wide range of tempo's and moods, there should be something for all your moves and moments. Put on your brightest socks, sprinkle some glitters and join the Dansi! 

Much love, 
Umoja

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Orchestre Kiam - Kamiki (Umoja Edit)

Celebrating love!
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UMOJA DJ set @ Pagode 13-2-2016

selection of deep, electronic afro music. recorded live @ Waterhouse, 11-03-2016, Amsterdam.

Tracklist:

Wareika - Jazz Shaman
Sonidos Profundos - Sureña (nudub mix)
Souleance - Sao Paulo (interlude)
Cafe Da Silva - Ancestors
Al Dobson Jr. - Garifuna
The Green Door All-stars - Set Upon the River
Michael Ozone - Hetrotopia (Young Marco remix)
Takuya Matsumoto - Drafting Under the Stars
St Germain - Family Tree
Kuniyuki Takahashi - Dear African Sky (Henrik Schwarz remix)
DJ Khalab - Before She Pass Away
Nico Sun - Nomad
Panama Cardoon - El Caracol
Cherry Garcia - Vine Of Souls
Qapac - Murmullo
Aunti Flo - Daabi
Owiny Sigoma Band - Tech 9
Nacho Patrol - Africaspaceprogram
Fantastic Man - St. Elmo's Theme
Von Party - Mongo Bongo
Ccolo - Exoticaspeakerjam
Harmonious Thelonious - The Grasshopper Was The Witness (Elmore Judd & Rowan Park remix)
Domenique Dumont - La Basse et les Shakers
Grant Kirkhope - Mumbo's Raindance
Francis Bebey - Bissao (Pilooski edit)
Albinos - Rain
Lucky Dragons - To Lily Age Fifteen Twenty Twentyfive
Lucky Dragons - Power Melody
Mbongwana Star - Shégué
Mamukueno - Idimakaji


Ocean of Africa

Daniel Lucas AKA Pigmalião

Pigmalião is the result of experiments on merging Latin American regional and roots references with specific sounds from other parts of the world. Pigmalião is the materialization of the reference acquis from the label Frente Bolivarista and remains in constant transformation alongside the label release narrative.

Frente Bolivarista has made a stellar rise over the past year to be one of the labels to watch for the future of Latin America music. The label has dug deep with many compilations, releasing names such as Captain Planet (USA), Thomash (DE), Montoya (CO), El Búho (NL), Akimbo (GB), Carrot Green (BR), Quixosis (EC) and others.
Brazilian musical legacy has always seemed somewhat set apart from the rest of the continent but the label, alongside the growing links between booming São Paulo and Buenos Aires, Quito or Lima shows that the tide is changing. It is indeed the becoming, and going even further than, the musical version of Bolivar’s dream: a global collaboration of new, inter infected, border hopping sounds shaping the future of Latin American music.

Thanks to Matanza, Kurup, UMOJA JAJA and M.Rux, Pananueva, Aline Baiana Cavalcanti, Viveylate for the inspiration.

Artwork: Laura Lago

@piglion
@daniellucas
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TRACKLIST

Voodoocast 003 - Pigmalião (live-set)

live recording at Lentefeest Blijburg, Amsterdam, 9-4-2016
Image by Paul Gauguin

UMOJA - 4H DJ SET @ LENTEFEEST

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http://smarturl.it/NC-Remixed-IT

Nicola Cruz is releasing the remixed version of his critically acclaimed 2015 album, Prender el Alma.  It will be released on June 10th on ZZK Records, and features remixes by 12 artists including label-mates History of Colour (El Buho & Barrio Lindo), Chancha Via Circuito, and sister label-mate EVHA.  

Inspired by electronic music techniques and local Andean music and culture, Cruz created the original sounds in Prender el Alma layer by layer, instrument by instrument, drum by drum.  A cast of eclectic Latin American artists seamlessly pick up where Nicola left off, adding their unique flavor to each individual track.

La Mirada (Umoja Remix)

UMOJA DJ SET @ AFRI/K

Australian-Canadian cult label release their third and final instalment of SUN GAZE, featuring solar worship from Holland’s UMOJA, Irish Voodoohop import PETER POWER, French newcomers A1ST and Aussie outback legend CCOLO.

Umoja’s Umboweti is a cheerful jungle jaunt, sounding like Francis Bebey stripped and mixed for the club. Guaranteed smiles and vibe elevation. Percussion by Macaxeira Acioli
Full compilation can be purchased here: http://multiculti.bandcamp.com/album/moon-faze-sun-gaze

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SUN GAZE

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PRÉMIÈRE: Umoja - Umboweti [Multi Culti]

A collaberation between On The Corner Records, Santuri and Soundthread, recording and re-arranging the work of Uganda's Mugwisa International Xylophone Group. 

Read more & buy: http://www.stampthewax.com/2016/06/03/premiere-santuri-jinja-pearls-sam-jones-construct/
Listen on Youtube: http://bit.ly/santuri-SJ

Listen on Youtube

Santuri - Jinja Pearls (Sam Jones Construct) (STW Premiere)

Achille Paris was born in Haiti back in 1933! He became a musician, poet, composer and troubadour playing the guitar in Haiti and other Caribbean islands. His only two recordings can be found under the names TI PARIS....he died back in 1979.
KELLIE SAKKAKU, the new Senegalese Afro-Tech project signed to SHANGO RECORDS deliver a fresh, mysterious, uplifting and deep Afro-Tech remix to one of Paris most influential track! Listen, comment, enjoy and download free!

SHNGEDITS 02 TI PARIS - Voyages (Kellie Sakkaku De De Remix)FREE DL

18/11 • La Ganzou #3 W/ Umoja, Batida & Mawimbi : https://www.facebook.com/events/1788882118061057/

Bi-monthly radio show hosted by the Mawimbi Crew: Pouvoir Magique, ALT, SSCK and L'Enfant-Loup. Every other monday on Rinse France, we welcome guest DJs and friends to play a selection of afro-related tunes.

Radio Mawimbi is a Rinse France radio show dedicated to all shades of so-called "afro" music and most notably its most recent developments in the field of electronic dance music. Mawimbi means "vibes" or "waves" in swahili, an East-African language.

Rinse France Podcast

Radio Mawimbi #28 w/ Umoja & Mawimbi 14/11/16

recorded  27-11-2016 at Le Mellotron Radio Paris
Umoja est un duo originaire d'Amsterdam, passionné par la musique tropicale. Leur concept, digger, remixer, editer et surtout se faire plaisir avec un son chaud comme on les aime. Lors de leur passage à Paris, nous les avons invité à venir faire un mix.

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Umoja • DJ set • Le Mellotron #4

This is what happened. On the night that the worst heat wave in Polynesia history finally broke-that night of July 19-entire Bora-Bora was lashed with the most vicious thunderstorm I have ever seen. We lived on Pound Low, and we saw the first of the storms beating its way across the water toward us just before dark. For an hour before, the air had been utterly still. The heat was like a solid thing, and it seemed as deep as a sullen quarry-water. That afternoon we had gone swimming, but the water was no relief unless you went out deep. We came back to the house and we sat without talking much, smoking and looking across the sullen flat mirror of the sea, a few powerboats droned back and forth. The thunderheads were getting closer, pushing away the blue. There was no doubt now that a storm was coming. The clouds twisted and rolled, now black, now purple, now veined, now black again. And the storm came over……..That was when it started getting dark….but no, that’s not exactly right. My thought at the time was not that it was getting dark but that the lights in the market has gone out. I looked up at the fluorescents in a quick reflex action, and I wasn’t alone. And at first, until I remembered the power failure, it seemed that was it, that was what had changed the quality of the light, then I remembered they had been out all the time we had been in the market and things hadn’t seemed dark before. Then I knew, even before the people at the window started to yell and point.
The mist was coming. It came with lazy speed. It was white and bright but non-reflecting. It was coming fast, and it had blotted out most of the sun.

BORA BORA'S MIST

Bandcamp

SHNGCD02 // VA - BORA BORAS MIST (SNIPPET)

Various Artist - Bora Bora's Mist
Cover Design: 246 Design

Juno: 
http://www.junodownload.com/search/?q%5Ball%5D%5B0%5D=larry%20skg%20yonder%20skank&list_view=tracks
Beatport :
https://www.beatport.com/track/yonder-skank-original-mix/8824304

U.M.O.J.A

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