his next should be Omah Gerd
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
Omah Layrd?
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link
OmahLaya Rodrigues
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
i’ll stop
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
Omah x Lay
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
O, MahndaLay!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:42 (three years ago) link
Nomah Playse
― rob, Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:44 (three years ago) link
exclusive preview of the artwork for the new album:https://i.imgur.com/nNlOZK1.png
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 28 January 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW6aSuuJBUgNSG - Kate Winslet feat. Unknown T
I can't say I really get the challenge but the song is making waves. It's chill. I could post it under the Afro UK but I find it closer to the Nigerian sound than usual.
― Nabozo, Friday, 29 January 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
ha to be clear, that def wasn't aimed at anyone round here! I still get a ton of enjoyment and value out of the board, just less so the eoy poll than times past― rob, Thursday, January 21, 2021
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 January 2021 05:10 (three years ago) link
Lol are you fact-checking my enjoyment of the poll?
Okay: I'd say yes and no. The poll rollout/experience is definitely enjoyable (I do apologize that that post implied otherwise), and I genuinely appreciate your, Moka, and seandalai's work. But it's less valuable to me these days, because it's now very rare that I hear new tracks that I love via the results. I'm honestly not sure why. I'm open to the possibility that it's my fault! Maybe my tastes have calcified and I'm less open-minded than I think I am; writing this post I remembered I like the Selena Gomez song and should revisit it. But while I'm glad there was no repeat of the purple mountains fiasco, I can't say it's objectively better to have three Jessie Ware songs either just because I like her and not PM.
Anyway, the point of my posts upthread was that I am bored and a more than a little embarrassed by my tendency to (pre-)hand-wring over the results every year, and I wanted to not do that this year. On further reflection, I should absolutely add "ILM was better back then" to the boring + embarrassing post topics list--that's both simplistic and a pointless thing to whine about.
― rob, Saturday, 30 January 2021 14:02 (three years ago) link
lol i was just being bitchy! in any case, the poll encompassed a significant amount of handpicked afropop/beats this year; figured you might be more into it. i'm aware it provides different people with different things; all good regardless!
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
lol sorry, woke up feeling crabby today
I suppose I was also trying to be high-minded and not say the poll is good now because more stuff I like placed :)
But, yes, to be earnest -- and to echo you and breastcrawl -- the growting interest in African music is a very cool turn of events for ILM!
― rob, Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
you say crabby, I say bitchylet’s call the whole thing off
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 30 January 2021 21:43 (three years ago) link
some people on this board professed some interest in Angolan afrohouse of the kuduro kind – it’s a known fact you can’t go wrong with producer DJ Vado Poster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ORsmIGBT48Cleyton M ft. DJ Vado Poster • Já Está
but that one is too new to have a video yet, and of course half the fun are the crazy-ass videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AHNHF__VMYKing Defofera ft. Marcos Robem • Segura a Mandioca
(this one is actually one year old, but the video only six months, and the track only got uploaded to Spotify this year)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 6 February 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
your valentines for the day:Niniola • Promise:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TowFIy1k8c(from her upcoming r&b project)CKay ft. Bianca Costa • Skoin Skoin:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFgHl0waqG0(from his Boyfriend EP, which also features Amaarae)Joeboy • Door:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5thBLIAnw8(produced by Tempoe, of “Godly” fame, from his Somewhere Between Beauty & Magic album)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
the Joeboy album is very good btw, ”Oh”, the *other* Tempoe track, is the bigger banger, but it’s not as valentine-y.
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:14 (three years ago) link
yeah it's a great album
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 14 February 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
the whole ckay ep is great
― ufo, Friday, 19 February 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
still don’t understand that the only place this jam is a hit seems to be my home.luckily I have the excuse that there’s a video out now so I can repost it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqT0q8iPQAAEltee Skhillz ft. Niniola • Lucy (Remix)
(if you don’t like Eltee and Niniola’s vocals (as if), you could just put that isolated beat in the final 35 seconds (from 3:24 in the video) on endless repeat)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
from the same early January batch: that video link broke, but the official video just dropped today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVq3ijdk0E8DJ Kaywise ft. Phyno • High Way
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 20 February 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
nominating Pronto’s “Baga” for best Schweizerdeutsche afropop track ever:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS9ilxcyBFo
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
wow. nomination seconded.
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 25 February 2021 02:58 (three years ago) link
whooooah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMp_-r4zLks
Rema, "Bounce" (prod. by Don Jazzy, who is the star here)
― rob, Friday, 26 February 2021 15:20 (three years ago) link
wow, another banger, no lielove that this is not in any way shape or form an amapiano track but that that **POPPing** bass is totally unthinkable without italso, Rema is horny af again, more news at ten
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 February 2021 15:55 (three years ago) link
Lol at the Swiss-german afrobeats, you can barely make out what he's saying, which is probably for the better. There's potential though, elements are right.Not sure I'm feeling the new Rema. The beat is a bit dark, I like the part when there's a second layer of sound but then it becomes too experimental.
― Nabozo, Friday, 26 February 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
'Foreign' upthread is such a jam
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Friday, 26 February 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link
still don’t understand that the only place this jam is a hit seems to be my home.luckily I have the excuse that there’s a video out now so I can repost it:Eltee Skhillz ft. Niniola • Lucy (Remix)(if you don’t like Eltee and Niniola’s vocals (as if), you could just put that isolated beat in the final 35 seconds (from 3:24 in the video) on endless repeat)― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, February 20, 2021 7:06 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Eltee Skhillz ft. Niniola • Lucy (Remix)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, February 20, 2021 7:06 PM (six days ago) bookmarkflaglink
It's definitely a hit in my home too!
― daavid, Friday, 26 February 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
happy to hear it!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 26 February 2021 19:35 (three years ago) link
I love how sparingly they added that bass. It just pops up in unexpected places.
― daavid, Saturday, 27 February 2021 03:51 (three years ago) link
it’s that man Worlasi again!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NmQU6sLtzoWorlasi • Fkn Guy
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 27 February 2021 12:18 (three years ago) link
I do love that Bounce!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 27 February 2021 17:05 (three years ago) link
the new Kizz Daniel (with DJ Coublon producing) is fun (and, dare I say it, quite light):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7akR7AEAxgKizz Daniel • Flex
also really like his Masterkraft-produced naijapiano effort with unexpected doses of vocal harmony:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8CTebOm7QEKizz Daniel • Currently
hoping for a more... ambitious? album from him this time around
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 27 February 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
I know nothing about this but I like it a lot.
Blinky Bill & Ossie - Simmer Downhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWbZuT8JUt8
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 28 February 2021 09:55 (three years ago) link
Blinky Bill is from Kenya, I posted about him two years ago when he had his last album out. oh, and I posted his first new single back (“Bado Mapema (Simmer)”) in November as well. he’s good!
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 28 February 2021 10:41 (three years ago) link
lol we’re both messing up the titles here:the current one is “Jam Now, Simmer Down”the previous one was “Bado Mapema (Simama)”
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 28 February 2021 10:43 (three years ago) link
hell, I'll repost it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFPu9zNU5yABlinky Bill • Bado Mapema (Simama)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 28 February 2021 10:54 (three years ago) link
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/24/970579500/davido-tiny-desk-home-concert
Davido mini-concert from home
― curmudgeon, Monday, 1 March 2021 13:50 (three years ago) link
Blinky Bill + Blick Bassy are one for the "always mixed up" thread for me
― rob, Monday, 1 March 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
did I mention that I prefer my naijapiano to be as non-SAmapiano as possible?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDVO-DBSfckBils • E Choke
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 1 March 2021 21:21 (three years ago) link
(apols for adding to your Blicky Bilsy confusion, rob)
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 1 March 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
lol!
― rob, Monday, 1 March 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
and that song is cool. I like how naijapiano mostly sticks to naija norms for length -- 2:36 is just the shakers on an SAmapiano song ;)
― rob, Monday, 1 March 2021 21:36 (three years ago) link
tru dat - should I adapt my display name, I wonder?
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 1 March 2021 22:13 (three years ago) link
oya back to the matter:
three current catchy upbeat Ghanaian hits with sparkling production:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSbi2Jvls7AOkyeame Kwame ft. Kuami Eugene • Yeeko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22rCt078QDwKiDi ft. Kuami Eugene & Patoranking • Spiritual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMOZaEP4Fl4Kwesi Arthur ft. Joeboy • Baajo
(some overlap, some Nigerian input, it's all good)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 1 March 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
Also, this is turning into a pan-African hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6unnNvyuposGyakie • Forever
(she’s from Ghana, but I think this hit big in Nigeria first, which is quite unusual)(but not unusually for a Ghanaian artist, a lot of her stuff is dancehall-adjacent)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 1 March 2021 22:33 (three years ago) link
(also, yet again, TikTok is involved in "Forever" blowing up, and her fans are called Gyakie Chans)
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Monday, 1 March 2021 22:38 (three years ago) link
With the recent Spotify launches in several more African countries, I've been generating playlists to show what the new listeners in each country were disproportionately playing in their first few days. If you're interested:
Nigeria: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4RVekSXvQYyHrF6XyxEdwH?si=bPCTg3hlR5iERR1Z-j5z3gGhana: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0i3gO0KVgrTahrMziABjzi?si=qo64HhfaRgCDQqQO7k2J-gKenya: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4qTwmED83dqkVGNY9W76Jx?si=wePsV8afS0-Mw_0rL_B7pwTanzania: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Z0dnLnskhYb1aCHmreyP7?si=azB7nRvISeKQ0NY6ElLgzwUganda: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1JY0Esk4iU4vvCvxM6WOH9?si=H7hM1lCUR1O-awDgdO-_IABotswana: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1vAV9s9KXwLCD7knb4TrDX?si=SJKH7Xb6TqeUJBBumbTrCASenegal: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uV3spPPFM8rbTjQm5R0U8?si=ijx0CwytSEaKU51c8M3x3QZimbabwe: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jz4ew4EjyoQEc93QXItMa?si=_nbg2izzScGPqgF8pdpWgQRwanda: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6vqW1BNtJLAtrDNv5l0abc?si=oY1K1PFnRh2tTsziEpa2WQBurundi: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mRpE6qCP9aKMqrkzoUTto?si=YnoYpakIRVy6OJKNXYBj0wMalawi: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/44WtZOWm90wMMiaeFQauGw?si=VK8hLFhvQiKSXBAX12iyJA
(cross-posted from Rolling Global Outernational Non-West Non-English (Some Exceptions) 2021 Thread (Often African bands))
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
much appreciated, glenn!
― Blick, Bils & Blinky • Let's Skip The Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
Wow cool, thanks so much Glenn. Will be so interesting to compare.
Out of those recent hits, I quite like Rushhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pyGsLat0jIBella Shmurda & Dangbana Republik - Rush
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 20:03 (three years ago) link