This is an edit I started playing in live sets this year with just an incredible percussive drive. I just outfitted it for the dancefloor ;)

I included this in my Seasides Collection - 28 free-to-download edits and remixes from the past ten years.

https://www.sonidoelbuho.com/seasides

Original: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6zJrCKNKhst1NgMWvKboK2?autoplay=true

Sea Sides (El Búho Remixes)

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Guem & Zaka Percussion - Le Serpent (EL Búho Dancefloor Edit)

The second single from "A Guide to the Birdsong of Western Africa" comes from Senegalese super-group Wau Wau Collectif and features Kora maestro Lamine Cissokho. They made a beautiful track inspired by the Yellow-casqued hornbill, a species that faces a high risk of extinction in the wild, mainly due to habitat loss and hunting. The lyrics call on citizens of the world to mobilise, come together and protect our ecosystems.

Support the project & pre-order the album here: https://shikashika.bandcamp.com/album/a-guide-to-the-birdsong-of-western-africa

A Guide to the Birdsong of Western Africa

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Wau Wau Collectif Feat. Lamine Cissokho - Yellow-casqued hornbill

Wonderwheel mainstay Chancha Via Circuito (aka Pedro Canale) introduces his fifth full-length with its first single, “El pavo real,” featuring the Meridian Brothers (aka Eblis Álvarez). Cutting his teeth early at Buenos Aires’s legendary ZZK digital cumbia parties, Chancha became known worldwide as the originator of the cumbia-inspired electronic music that takes cues from environmental sounds and South American folkloric traditions. Pedro’s musical progeny include names such as Nicola Cruz, El Búho, Dengue Dengue Dengue, King Coya and more.

“El pavo real” (or “the peacock” in English) is rooted in the now-familiar chug-chug of a dembow beat, made increasingly complex with the addition of further polyrhythmic percussion; the main melodic motif is initially played on a buzzy synth - a sonic prelude to the accompanying strings that join later in the song - adding yet another layer. It’s in this layering that Pedro’s true mastery shines: If one tries to isolate the individual sounds and rhythms, the incredible complexity is apparent, and yet, taken as a whole, everything melts together in a seamless sway of movement and melody. 

Providing vocals is Eblis Álvarez, the academy-trained Colombian singer-songwriter & multi-instrumentalist of the acclaimed Meridian Brothers (really more of a solo project than a band, as the moniker might suggest). Alvarez, recently hailed in a longform article by the New York Times, sings about the titular peacock in lilting Spanish, at times stretching out the vowels in question. It’s the perfect addition to an already great song, and the collaboration of two of Latin America’s foremost innovative artists places “El pavo real” in rarified air.

“El pavo real” is out on Brooklyn’s Wonderwheel Recordings September 30th, 2022, with an album to follow later in the Fall.

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Chancha Via Circuito - El pavo real (feat. Meridian Brothers)

“Los Danzantes” is the second Wonderwheel released single from singer/producer Huaira and musician Captures. The track was written in Berlin, and inspired by the sounds of the city’s underground dance music scene with a glitchy 4-on-the-floor drumbeat accompanied by deep, electronic sounds and hypnotic, tribal percussion and vocals. Sung in Spanish, the song is lyrically inspired by the ceremony of the Sun Dance, with an urgent message of our existence and the importance of connecting with the body, earth, and the cycle of life.

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Huaira & Captures - Los Danzantes

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Terrakoba (BéTé Re-Edit)

Vocal samples: Musicians-composers from Southern Malawi recorded by Gerhard Kubik. Ethnic group: Yao. Language: Chiyao and Chichewa. Recorded at Chiluwe Village. Feb.2, 1984. Museum für völkerkunde Berlin.
Trippy strings samples from John Zorn.
"Nanjiwa" (Name of a bird)
Kru-ku-ku-ku the bird sing
Seeds on the neck
African vibes
Dance

Nanjiwa (Name of a bird)

Madosini

Edit made out of Sven Kacirek original tune, 'Lamu Sunsail' from the Album 'The Kenya Sessions'. It have been on my lately live sets and finally wanted to put it out. 

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»The Kenya Sessions« is available on Vinyl, licensed from the german label Pingipung. For »The Kenya Sessions«, Sven Kacirek traveled through Kenya, equipped with loads of microphones. A pretty solid idea. On »The Kenya Sessions« we find recordings of kenyan singers and musicians carefully composed to a flow of 15 pieces mixed with Percussion-, Marimba- and Piano-elements. What strikes most while listening is the outstanding quality of the recordings and the accuracy of Sven’s work. (...)

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Sven Kacirek - Lamu Sunsail (Kurup Reseasoning)

From https://soundcloud.com/chanchaviacircuito new EP "Bienaventuranza Remixes EP" out on https://soundcloud.com/wonderwheel-recordings 

Limited White Vinyl Edition + Digital

Features remixes from Nicola Cruz, El Buho & Baiuca

Bienaventuranza Remixes EP

Chancha Via Circuito - Los Pastores (Rafael Aragon RMX) [Wonderwheel Rec, 2019]

Anka Foh is made up of Malian singer Dasmy Jo and French producer Ditti. The duo met at a series of culture mashing, genre defying jam sessions between musicians from all over the world in Paris’ underground bars. The two artists clicked and came together to work on some of Dasmy’s original compositions - within a few months decided to form Anka Foh.

Shika Shika is excited to share their first EP, Kounady, four tracks of much needed upbeat, joyful, soul music that finds a magical sweet spot between Dasmy’s original compositions, inspired by Mandingue traditional music, and Ditti’s jubilant electronica.

Though the fours compositions are rooted in the West African mandingue tradition, they are taken into a whole new context. Dasmy’s vocals and instrumental lines sit alongside swirling, airy melodies, swaggering beats and Ditti’s trademark bleeps and psychedelic, dreamy synths - the recipe for an explosion of delicious flavours and colours. 

This is summed up on opener Bara or the driving electro-blues track Tâtâ, a song about giving thanks to those that helped and supported us in our lives. The EP ends with the fittingly beautiful lullaby Kounady (a mandingue word that roughly translates as luck) about how we have to look after ourselves and avoid negativity.

Kounady

Anka Foh - Tâtâ

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Stream here : https://spoti.fi/38jNuEE

Continuing to push his sound into new realms through experimentation with different influences, Joaquin Cornejo returns to Earthly Measures with his first vinyl release. The ‘Las Frutas’ EP contains 6 genre-bending, tempo-shifting tracks that form to create a mesmerising blend of footwork, dub, Latin & African percussion.
 
‘Las Frutas’ explores a collaboration with both the Spanish singer Alex Serra and British DJ and trumpet player DJ Swordfish. It’s constructed by a warped and pitched down drum break that has been slowly surrounded by subby kicks, toms and dub chords that echo through tape delays, giving it a wonderfully spaced out atmosphere that provides the perfect backdrop for the soothing vocals and brass instruments.

PREMIER: Joaquín Cornejo - Las Frutas Feat. Alex Serra

This is our little label out of Brooklyn NYC. Homegrown music with lots of diversity for speakers EVERYWHERE! www.wonderwheelrecordings.com Alsarah and the Nubatones, Chancha Via Circuito, Nickodemus, El Búho, Thornato, Novalima, The Spy from Cairo, Gitkin, Populous & more...

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