just seen this thread, glad you guys liked the piece. i haven't written much about afrobeats in general bc i think i'm so far from an authority but i had to really cram artists and tracks into that, and excise a lot of others, so i'm going to try to change this in 2017.
any reason tekno hasn't produced his own stuff?
― lex pretend, Friday, 6 January 2017 11:33 (seven years ago) link
Not sure why Tekno doesn't produce any of his own stuff. Not confident enough? Label policy (DJ Coublon and Selebobo are his labelmates)? Or is he just being smart by keeping things separate? It's rare enough for Nigerian singers to be producers as well to begin with, but Tekno's position seems pretty much unique. Now that he's made it into the big league and an album is in the works it will be interesting to see if there are any self-produced tracks on it.
Our favourite boy's most recent production job:
Stonebwoy ft. Tekno, "Last Station"https://soundcloud.com/afro-songz/stonebwoy-last-station-ft-tekno
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 7 January 2017 20:52 (seven years ago) link
There's a new thread for 2017: rolling afropop / afrobeats 2017
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 7 January 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
Late but hopefully welcome: playlist for the thread for the year is finalized and closed.
ILM's Rolling Afrobeat & Afropop Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Monday, 13 February 2017 19:52 (seven years ago) link
It's always welcome, forks. Thanks for the good work!
― breastcrawl, Monday, 13 February 2017 22:21 (seven years ago) link
http://media.giphy.com/media/gFwZfXIqD0eNW/giphy.gif
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Monday, 13 February 2017 22:42 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5rMfLJKwIE
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 14 February 2017 18:40 (seven years ago) link
Although many locals refer to all the new pop in Nigeria as “hip-hop”—even though much of it is not really hip-hop as we know it—the term the local industry folks prefer is “Naija pop.” “Afrobeats” is also used by some, but Ade judges it a term imposed from the outside—a kind of appropriation—and also far too general to have much meaning. Seun Kuti sees a different appropriation here, the adding of an “s” to his father’s genre coinage of the 1970s, and in that, Seun senses a certain “insecurity” among those producing and marketing the new music; he predicts the term Afrobeats will not last long.
http://www.afropop.org/34229/dispatch-from-nigeria-3/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 17 February 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link
With your permission, let me re-post this on the 2017 thread:rolling afropop / afrobeats 2017
― breastcrawl, Friday, 17 February 2017 20:42 (seven years ago) link