Rolling Afrobeats / Afropop 2016

Free show with Davido and Antibalas at Lincoln Center - July 29 at 7:30
http://lcoutofdoors.org/events/okayafrica-afrobeat-x-afrobeats

been really outta touch with afropop this year, but been listening to this song a lot over of the last week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCd-pLW61tU

Vicmass Luodollar -Bank Otuch Remix Ft. OCTOPIZZO

Love that one, kruezer. Moving it over to the Summer Jams thread!

Wow, that one is great!

New Kid X & Kwesta has a nice little bounce to it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pozdgoTcHvM

A nice little convoluted bounce, even.

kiss daniel's album is officially out! Good Time, Laye & Woju are on all in plus more, have only just started listening but its sounding good so far

after a couple listens, really love this album, v solid front to back, I think my favourites are Kudi, Nothing Dey & of course Good Time. It even made me reconsider Woju and Laye, sounds much better in context.

this is just a great pop album, in a perfect world it would blow up globally

absolutely love "mama", looking fwd to the album

yemi alade also came through with her album ("marry me"!!!) + the SA house bonus tracks are essential

kiss daniel album is fire

apropos of nothing but i still hate the 'rolling spotify playlist' concept

pure culture vulturism imo

will need to listen to Yemi Alade next, really curious what the house bonus tracks are like.

speaking of SA House, this came up as I was catching up on it, Mr. Style used to work with Bojo Mujo back in the day, I like all of the twists this track takes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWo4EGlCugY

Mr. Style - Makhwapheni

apropos of nothing but i still hate the 'rolling spotify playlist' concept

pure culture vulturism imo

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 20 May 2016 00:42 Bookmark

u keep feeding it content tho

I don't understand the concept of hating that concept. Making music easily available to others is... bad?

apropos of nothing but i still hate the 'rolling spotify playlist' concept

pure culture vulturism imo

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 20 May 2016 00:42 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

on the other hand, i've found it vital and want to thank ulysses for his amazing work.

More Nasty_C:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3t22MDsS_Y

Where are people hearing the Kiss Daniel? Could be I'm in the wrong region tho. Still making my way through the Yemi Alade.

Really like this piece on "Bank Otuch":
http://www.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/showbiz/Bank-Otuch-Remix-by-Vicmass-Luodollar-ft-Octopizzo/-/1950810/3171608/-/15tlp24/-/index.html

It's on Spotify and all the major platforms now.

anyone here got any knowledge of Ugandan pop / beats?

without wanting to appear self-promoting, i put together a nice little afrobeats/afro-pop/soca/dancehall/house based mix the other day available to stream here: https://www.mixcloud.com/doglatin/money-lion - stream
http://bit.ly/1sNouPZ - download

anyone here got any knowledge of Ugandan pop / beats?

― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Saturday, May 21, 2016 9:42 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I wouldn't claim to be very knowledgeable, but I follow these three Ugandan artists...

Jose Chameleon - been releasing things since the 90s, kind of an elder statesmen at this point, his two former backup singers, Radio & Weasel (Weasel is Jose Chameleon's brother) co-founded the Goodlyfe crew in '08 or so. I haven't heard a tonne of his stuff from the early 2000s, but I like his 09 song Bayuda, the Shiru remix of it is really nice. His album Valu Valu is pretty great

Cindy Sanyu - started in the girl group Blu*3 back in the mid-2000s, I like her song Still Standing from this year, I like the song Nawewe off her first solo album back in 09.

Eddy Kenzo - I don't know that he is near as famous as the other two, but I like his jam Sitya Loss from a year or two ago now, he has a recent one called Freestyle with Okay Funky from last year that is nice as well.

thanks. the one I've heard of out of those is eddy kenzo in fact. I'll check the others out

also, for all of the Heavy-K fans out there, I very highly recommend the HK adjacent act Sdudla & Ma1000, they have a couple new ones out, their back catalog is awesome as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXz3ffXEXtY

Sdudla Noma1000 Feat. Mono T - Jikelele

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRxmGXAfxgM

Sdudla noMathousand Feat Dj SK - Impumelelo

of hating that concept. Making music easily available to others is... bad?

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 20 May 2016 08:12 (5 days ago) Permalink

Taking it out of context of conversation for ppl who don't contribute makes it a warped representation of the thread and removes what makes Ilx ostensibly unique: discussion of how these songs function. Theres no consideration for whether a songs presence adds to or subtracts from conversation? There's about a million reasons why it's bad but mainly it warps and flattens these threads into shitty recommendation engines

u keep feeding it content tho

― r|t|c, Friday, May 20, 2016 2:36 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And this is relevant how

More like keeping track of all the songs we've discussed without having to dig through a long thread, no? Very unsure about how many non-ilxers there are that follows forks' playlists. If there are a couple, good for them, though. I imagine they'll be able to sift through it all just to see what they like.

ANYWAY what I came in here to say is yes, the Kiss Daniel album is amazing. I imagine it's the kind of thing Brymo might have done if he wasn't too busy being the Nigerian Sting and making albums called Klitoris.

*follow

I sympathise with Deej's position to an extent but it does rely on the assumption that people are *only* using it as a shitty recommendation engine. And even if they are what's wrong with just wanting to listen and read rather than contributing?

This is one thread - as opposed to the bobbins thread which really IS just a recommendation engine - where context really matters, and I couldn't imagine listening the playlist alone. But I'm never going to want to click on embed after embed and it's helpful to have them in one place for when I'm on the move or not at my computer (ie 99% of the time I'm listening to music).

Anyway we've done this argument to death and it's boring, but it's interesting to see how the people who are most militant about this are often the people for whom listening to music all day is a big part of their actual job. If I could afford to do that I'd be pissy about people not putting in the perceived necessary groundwork as well.

Bumping every thread every month to go 'hey, the playlist is updated!' is lame though.

It's just a billion times more convenient for me to be able to listen to the music on this thread via the Spotty playlists than going through each Youtube link one by one. I Don't want to discuss and dissect every track - there isn't always anything to say. I agree that sometimes these rolling threads can come across either as exclusivist or simply as a recommendations thread, but I don't think the Spotify playlists add or subtract to that. No one's forcing anyone to use them, but they are useful,.

If more people listened to the music I like, pitching pieces about that music to editors would be so much easier.

it warps and flattens these threads into shitty recommendation engines

So how would you guys rank the african albums we've seen so far this year? My favorite is probably the Yemi Alade one, with Kiss Daniel trailing behind but the Tiwa and Kesh are good too.

really enjoying the Tiwa Savage album.

I'd like to know where the best place to get hold of these in a good quality format might be... Amazon?

itunes or google play, perhaps?

I know this isn't 2016 but I just discovered Damily's "Very Aomby" from last year's thread and HOLY CRAP this is one of the most amazing guitar things I've ever heard.

And if this is relevant to the current sniping, I only discovered it because it's on the mega Spotify playlist, I wasn't actually reading this thread.

I'm listening to the Kiss Daniel album now and Give Into is so great.

the kiss daniel is my favorite of all these for sure

i didn't realize this but he wrote every song on the album

Fall 2015 but needs to be mentioned: DREAMTEAM - Ingoma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YQdvRbjkU8

"This is a song about... the girl who tried to run away from my love... I call her runaway love... keep running, girl... runaway love..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGD-iA2TKic

Orezi & Olamide - Under the blanket remix... is a jam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXNCPdI8QcU

http://www.barclayscenter.com/events/detail/one-africa-music-fest

July 22 at BK's Barclay's Center - Wizkid, Davido, Diamond Platnumz, Stonebwoy, Flavour, Tiwa Savage, Iyanya

Not working this one but if any of you are interested in contacting the promoter to inquire about doing press, ilxmail me and i'll connect the dots.

Did we post Lucy yet? She's on P-Squares record label and I like her single.

https://soundcloud.com/freemedigital/lucy-special-driver

And this one, from Davido Music Worldwide (lol), is nice too:
https://soundcloud.com/avantepr/dmw-featuring-mayorkun-dremo-ichaba-davido-back-2-back

Okay so this one came on automatically and since a) it's a hit and b) includes the lyrics «Hasta la vista / Can I be friends with your sista» followed by rhymes on «mista» and «barista» it needs to be posted:

https://soundcloud.com/youths-digest/koker-kolewerk

Reunited and it feels so good: Olamide x Young John "Konkobility".
https://soundcloud.com/freemedigital/olamide-konkobility

No attempts at emulating "Bobo", it seems very much informed by Kiss x Coublon's "Good Time".

Yeah it's interesting to me that so many artists seem to be gravitating towards the more specifically "african" sounds of DJ Coublon at the moment when they're finally getting some attention from the west - sounds that are far less suited for western dancefloors than azonto and the whole afrobeats wave of a few years ago when d'banj and don jazzy were on the verge of an international breakthrough.

As in... even Yemi Alade's album seems kind of old fashioned when you put it next to Kiss Daniel or even Kesh and Tiwa Savage, as if the sound has moved on and become less westernized than it used to be. Most of the tracks on the Yemi Alade you could blend into a «western» sets and it would come off as a bit of spice but the coublons and the young johns will often sound unfamiliar in a pop/club context. Something like Good Time would obviously work anyway but mainly because it reaches back to even earlier paradigms.

I'm very open to objections here, btw. So please bring them on.

The Yemi Alade album is interesting in that Ferrari, to me, is one of the least impressive tracks - I like it but I rarely find myself thinking about it. And yet it's the DJ Coublon track and so it's the single. I remember we had this conversation when Woju and Laye first arrived and I didn't "get" it at first. Well now what I didn't get seems to be the standard. And that's not a bad thing - I appreciate this new sound but it seems evident that something has shifted and it's also interesting that THIS sound, which maybe perhaps doesn't have much crossover potential dominates Nigeria at a moment when the potential for crossover is very much a thing.