"Karaoke" is brilliant!
― Tim F, Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:34 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLJ6M-lmrxohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JK0azayEoAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvT4fIUuGQYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4i_SSx-3tAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H27ANlCrs6E
― r|t|c, Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:41 (eleven years ago) link
Already love "Twaame Lala"... Got some homework from this thread now.
― Tim F, Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:43 (eleven years ago) link
all those are ball j
appietus, gafacci, guiltybeatz, killa beatz, krinkman are other consistently great 233 producers
― r|t|c, Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
wow, Ball J ftw then
― Benny B, Sunday, 29 July 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― r|t|c, Sunday, 29 July 2012 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
Holy shit @ all these Ball J tunes! Each one seems crazier than the last.
― Tim F, Sunday, 29 July 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Sunday, 29 July 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
lapaz toyota is siiiiiiiiiiiiiick
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 July 2012 09:47 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Astrochimp32, Monday, 30 July 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
you are wrong, you knew you would be wrong, you will not receive the remittance of being proven wrong
― r|t|c, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Astrochimp32, Monday, 30 July 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
Nyame-K - Sa Saaaa Saahttps://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 centerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZxHXd_oUVs&feature=plcp
― Benny B, Monday, 30 July 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Monday, 30 July 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
lord a mercy that nyame-k
― r|t|c, Monday, 30 July 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
http://w1.hulkshare.com/0747wkqslci3
this would seem to be the improved version
― r|t|c, Monday, 30 July 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― rusty_allen, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 14:08 (eleven years ago) link
This dewy number has rather grown on me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzW47so01EE
― Tim F, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
Woah, 'To Da Center' is nuts.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
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
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
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 ricehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pybVtWSu8tQ&feature=related
Joe B ft. Guru - Dongorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1KQMCER1F8&feature=relmfu
and some older guru/ball j tunes i like
Guru - Anything goeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruHayKi8u3w
You go fly - Agbeko ft. Guruhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIIPOUtSOlA
― Benny B, Thursday, 2 August 2012 12:00 (eleven years ago) link
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).
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 August 2012 08:29 (eleven years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Friday, 3 August 2012 08:49 (eleven years ago) link
"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
― r|t|c, Friday, 3 August 2012 09:29 (eleven years ago) link
I missed that due to being on holiday but I will react now:
!!!!!!!!!!!
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 August 2012 09:55 (eleven years ago) link
Also Lex I could have sworn I posted my favourite Tiwa Savage here but apparently not:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oSY4CYfXV4
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 August 2012 09:56 (eleven years ago) link
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
― r|t|c, Friday, 3 August 2012 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 August 2012 10:45 (eleven years ago) link
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
― r|t|c, Friday, 3 August 2012 10:52 (eleven years ago) link
Black Kat ft. Zador - To dey be to dey (prod. by Ball J)http://smngh.com/audioplayer.php?id=554
― Benny B, Friday, 3 August 2012 10:55 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 August 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
ok well no i guess it is that as well
i still wouldnt have had album level expectations about it though iykwim
― r|t|c, Friday, 3 August 2012 11:07 (eleven years ago) link
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 toohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbfHgD9yE2A
― Benny B, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
smfh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCN6dyjAvEc&feature=player_embedded
― Benny B, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
This thread is a goldmine. Here's another Ball J beat: Praye - Kwatrikwahttp://youtu.be/kVnHSADPlYA
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link
This Nigerian track (it's on one of the Neptizzle mixes) has had over 3 million YouTube views since February:Bracket ft Wizkid - Girlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J018_g3TGxw
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
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
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
the very exuberant Obianuju by Duncan Mighty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nho-FCsZXE
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
...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
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
KCee's track is called Okpekete, sorry.
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Benny B, Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:41 (eleven years ago) link
Those little extra clips at the end of the NAWTI video: album previews? If so they sound very promising too.
― Benny B, Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
One of the songs of the year for me, without a doubt. Close to perfection indeed. That's why the video was actually a bit of a bummer when I first saw it, like being rudely awoken from a very pleasant dream ( I have recovered since :-))) - But yes, that preview at the end, if that's what it is, does sound good.
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 26 August 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
yansh seems like a good word for pussy. wonder why it means butt?
― how's life, Sunday, 26 August 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
Actually, D'Banj is not the only Naija artist to crack a major European chart this year. P-Square's African smash "E No Easy" has become a top 10 hit in France in a French version by Matt Houston called "Positif", which features the guys.
The original:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFwBf6fvfTc
The French version:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkk7wKHGFRI
Time for an Azonto smash now, I say...
― breastcrawl, Monday, 27 August 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
"crack"!
― how's life, Monday, 27 August 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
"chart lingo"!
― breastcrawl, Monday, 27 August 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
I was thinking of it in the context of "yansh"! It made me laugh.
― how's life, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link