"See I like Beyoncé, but she dey with Jigga / I like Nicki, her yansh is bigger..." // D'BANJ - OLIVER TWIST // afrobeats in the charts

LOL what a thing to say.

The new Roska album is good actually! Poor dude, he finally does something that might please the audience who initially threatened to embrace him, but they've stopped listening.

Re azonto etc. I'm not really in a position to think in terms of "fave producer" yet anyway.

new neptizzle mixtape!
http://mixtapemadness.co.uk/DJneptizzle/UltimateAfrobeats2012/552

and just realised that his weekly shows are archived here
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/24197216

My favourite producer is whoever made that Amanda riddim. Zigi himself? Or maybe Richie? Haven't been able to find out.

Here's the new remix of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lBPusVgJnU

according to google it is richie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richie_Mensah

well it doesn't mention that song on that page, but yeah i suppose it must be him.

Talking producers, I really rate Ball J who produced Lapaz Toyota for Guru.

This is like Lapaz Toyota part two
Guru - Karaoke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDJvbe_RpDQ

Obour ft. Mugeez - One people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lBPusVgJnU

Nhyiraba Kojo (ft.Skrew Faze & Ball J)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7R5jMLPk1A

more goodness from him here (Today be Today by Black Cat is cool)
didhttp://www.bigxgh.com/artist/ball-j/

soz, fucked some links up

Obour ft. Mugeez - One people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfZz5o0dBrc

Ball J produckies
http://www.bigxgh.com/artist/ball-j/

richie does all the production for lynx ents, it was on another page sorry

ball j is by far my favourite, i said already 'lapaz toyota' was my song of the year and 'karaoke' is just as good; him and his nu afrika posse seem particularly comparable to early-to-mid ward 21, the heavy rap influence and slight mad scientist auteur remove from the rest of the azonto mainstream whilst still being popular. guru is great too, love that low slung flow

rate you for putting the work in benny, good stuff

ah yes I thought ward 21 when i heard lapaz toyota too, if only because of the guy with the deep voice!

here's another great Ball J production

Aaah - Anomaba
http://archive.org/details/AnomaBa_AaahDaMusician

would have posted the youtube but the homemade video was just too hideous

"Karaoke" is brilliant!

I find it funny that there's a producer called De-Genius Selections too (dude did Raquel's "Sweetio" and Edem's "Over Again", two of my favourites from the first Neptizzle mix), they're making the dancehall comparisons way too easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLJ6M-lmrxo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JK0azayEoA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvT4fIUuGQY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4i_SSx-3tA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27ANlCrs6E

Already love "Twaame Lala"... Got some homework from this thread now.

all those are ball j

appietus, gafacci, guiltybeatz, killa beatz, krinkman are other consistently great 233 producers

wow, Ball J ftw then

i know it's been out for months and is top of the charts and is ubiquitous yadda yadda but can i just underline the fact that lapaz toyota is the craziest shit ever?? my god did it blow my head clean off.

Holy shit @ all these Ball J tunes! Each one seems crazier than the last.

Between "Lapaz Toyota", "Karaoke", "One People", "Gbaa Alert", "Wa Sei Bebia" and "Twaame Lala" I could totally crowd out my year end top ten with these.

lapaz toyota is siiiiiiiiiiiiiick

I love how both of those Neptizzle mixes end with these beautiful, super saccharine-sweet love songs "Sweetio" and "Am in Love With You Now". I'm glad to be proven wrong, but you wouldn't really get anything that girly/vulnerable in Jamaican Dancehall, would you? Lot's of amazing songs on this thread, btw.

you are wrong, you knew you would be wrong, you will not receive the remittance of being proven wrong

Dammit, I guess an apology wouldn't suffice now, would it? I'll go off now and search for some Ragga Dancehall as sweet and girly as 'Sweetio' or "Am Love with You". Everyone carry on posting links to crazy, mind-bending Azonto.

Nyame-K - Sa Saaaa Saa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4zi_cOcKJM&feature=related

^ that one's Ball J. Dunno who made this next one but its nuts

Fada Gran Pa - To da center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZxHXd_oUVs&feature=plcp

One of my favourite things about "Lapaz Toyota" on the Neptizzle mix is that it's one of the few tunes that gets a proper mix lead-in; every time I hear those stabs start to emerge I get really excited.

lord a mercy that nyame-k

http://w1.hulkshare.com/0747wkqslci3

this would seem to be the improved version

kinda late on this thread afaik

you can listen to EL's double album here: http://elrepgh.bandcamp.com/.

^^ that link leads to a dead end, i think? what's the name of the album?

so far, i've been listening to the first neptizzle mix posted here and it's great. considering the amount of links, i guess i have a lot of stuff to entertain me for quite some time. lovely homework.

i also love that 'tokota' tune that rob posted upthread. those menacing keyboards are sort of what i hoped from a kuduro intersection with stuff like 'onorthodox daughter' or 'ready fi de war' - which is subtly - if somewhat unknowingly - happening atm with some recent tunes from some of lisbon's upcoming kuduro producers.

This dewy number has rather grown on me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzW47so01EE

Woah, 'To Da Center' is nuts.

The disgustingly titled 'Vomit Me*' by Egudie Kwabena isn't on Youtube but is terrific.

*I am choosing to believe this doesn't mean what I think it means.

Also Naeto C is a long, long way from being the world's greatest MC but there's something quite sweet about this and the main hook has been in my head for weeks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFQ1fl8IGGM

Yaw Siki - One more flow
(not quite as good as 'Wup3 Dodo' as the chorus is a bit of a mess, but I like the beat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJbYlEEnXUs&feature=player_embedded

Flexy da don - Wo de taataa me(Tsofi Sausage)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar-YGPnNIQI

Guru - Akonta Fried rice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pybVtWSu8tQ&feature=related

Joe B ft. Guru - Dongor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1KQMCER1F8&feature=relmfu

and some older guru/ball j tunes i like

Guru - Anything goes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruHayKi8u3w

You go fly - Agbeko ft. Guru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIIPOUtSOlA

I haven't got round to the last crop yet, but these Ball J tunes are all amazing. Like they pop off in all directions without ever coming unstuck. He's got a really good line in taking vocal effects (chipmunk vocals, cut-ups) and working them as percussive or textural tools that makes these tunes feel ravey in a way that a lot of this stuff, while fantastic, isn't*. Like the way he takes that frog noise on Wasei Babeiaa and works it like an acid line.

*Nor is a lot of ostensibly ravey US pop for that matter.

(I'm perfectly willing to accept that I'm doing a disservice to other producers here but that's because I'm actually now paying attention to Ball J in a way I'm not with any other afrobeats producers except Don Jazzy).

i resent the fact that there are only 24 hours in a day and between listening to stuff for work and the olympics that has left me with zero hours to catch up on this thread recently

"The Championship is not an option" - I Love Football off-season and transfer speculation thread 2012

mdc i cannot believe you gave this no love

I missed that due to being on holiday but I will react now:

!!!!!!!!!!!

Also Lex I could have sworn I posted my favourite Tiwa Savage here but apparently not:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oSY4CYfXV4

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

the best tiwa savage is this stellar, sinuous dawn richardesque number off don jazzy's label compilation which i have posted a fair few cuts off already

i part with it reluctantly

Is that the Mavin Allstars Solar Plexus one? That's pretty good, although I almost didn't listen to it out of the assumption it would be lesser than the sum of its parts.

eh how can a compilation be lttsoip

i think it's pretty great - 'take banana' and 'forever'! like ball j though to an extent you are always aware he is probably at the pointiest bit of afro westernization

Black Kat ft. Zador - To dey be to dey (prod. by Ball J)
http://smngh.com/audioplayer.php?id=554

eh how can a compilation be lttsoip

I'd initially thought it was one of those everyone-collaborates-together producer vanity projects. I have already bitchslapped myself for being wrong on this.

ok well no i guess it is that as well

i still wouldnt have had album level expectations about it though iykwim

that oma ga tune is fantastic, gorgeous intro on it.

You heard this one? Sounds like some sort of demented african hillbilly hoedown or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE-TrIwxybc

Feeling this uk-produced uptempo number from Victoria Kimani too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbfHgD9yE2A

smfh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCN6dyjAvEc&feature=player_embedded

This thread is a goldmine.
Here's another Ball J beat:
Praye - Kwatrikwa
http://youtu.be/kVnHSADPlYA

This Nigerian track (it's on one of the Neptizzle mixes) has had over 3 million YouTube views since February:
Bracket ft Wizkid - Girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J018_g3TGxw

a couple more Naija songs, all from last year apparently, but they helped to make this summer for me...

KCee -Okpeketete

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

the very exuberant Obianuju by Duncan Mighty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nho-FCsZXE

...and Nawti by Olu Maintain, which has been posted before (thanks Benny B!) , but deserves another shout out for being so gloriously and shimmery modern and timelessly classic at the same time - it reminds me a bit of Maxi Priest's Close To You in that regard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oa5KVZtAnU

KCee's track is called Okpekete, sorry.

NAWTI might just be the best song (and video) in this thread, its just perfect. I've been obsessed with it this year, and I haven't managed to find anything else quite like it.