Very sad news, I only learned about this today:DJ Arafat, a giant of coupé-decalé and one of the biggest stars of francophone Afropop (and beyond: he also worked with Nigerian artists like Davido and Yemi Alade, for instance) died two weeks ago in a motorcycle accident in Abidjan. He was 33. https://www.france24.com/en/20190831-ivorian-music-star-dj-arafat-gets-royal-send-off-with-grand-funeral-concertHis funeral was today. His life was celebrated with a stadium concert featuring performances of many fellow artists. Here’s (all?) seven hours of it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xld7GMoqKycHis most recent hit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuk8PdGKv9cDJ Arafat ft. Naza • Ventripotent
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
This one, from a year ago, is pretty damn awesome:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkpsWXpRmSYDJ Arafat • Pandou Koulé
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
Horrible news.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 1 September 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
Hi all
Here's an thread-relevant mix I made over the weekend featuring a lot of songs ITT and from elsewhere. Tracklisting is partially complete as I need to wait till I get home tonight and check through my Serato history
https://soundcloud.com/charlieframedj/akrakabo-2019-more-afrobeats-pop-and-dance
Enjoy!
FOKN Bois - African HolidayJuls x Mr Eazi - CakeTiwa Savage - OneE.L. - EhuaRema - DumebiZero12Finest - Baby Are You Coming?A-Star - SolegeDJ Tunez x Busiswa - Majesty (Fuck It Up)Sefa - Suga
Mina x Bryte - SentahBryte x Busy Twist - HustlerA-Star x GuiltyBeatz - BogadaEazzy - AwayGoldlink x Maleek Berry x Bibi Bourelly - Zulu ScreamsMaterial Culture - NgenzanMina x Bryte - Make Money (SNØW Remix)Scró Q Cuia x Neru Americano - O PintinTshegue - The WheelPetrah - Tiaso
B-Gway ft Mesen Selekta - NdembeJay Mitta x Dogo Janja - Taitzo PesaNihiloxica - Kadodi
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 2 September 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
I love Rema “Dumebi” . Great song
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 September 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
It’s been out since March, so I am a bit late.
https://www.thefader.com/2019/06/24/rema-dumebi-interview
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 September 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
There’s a Spanish version too
― curmudgeon, Monday, 2 September 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
Didn’t know about that Spanish version, it’s fun!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuQiQFHgzDMJthyago x Oscar el Ruso x Samueliyo Baby x Irrita el Indio • Dumebi (Spanish version)Might as well post the Panamanian version of Skiibi’s “Sensima” too:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNN-TBgAD9AItalian Somali x Dubosky • Loco Fefo
― breastcrawl, Monday, 2 September 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
Dumebi is beautiful. I prefer it to Ma Lo
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 2 September 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
not Ma Lo, I meant Manya which it's loosely based on
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 2 September 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
“Ndembe” is so fucking good!
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 5 September 2019 07:47 (four years ago) link
I had to rip it from YouTube in the end cos the version I bought on Google Play was quite different and nowhere near as good
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 5 September 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
Is that the version I mentioned above with just G Nako that’s on Spotify? It’s not as singeli-larly spectacular, but still very good in its own right imo.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 5 September 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link
In other news:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOoNEi8BlgMTiwa Savage • 49-99 (produced by Pheelz)
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 5 September 2019 18:39 (four years ago) link
re: Ndembe - it's not bad but the video version is jaw dropping in how it ramps up a gear every couple of bars. Goes from this loping reggaeish best to full throttle singeli in the course of 4 mins. The Spotify version is more straightforward rap / bongo flava
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 5 September 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
totally agree, only your “not bad” is my “still very good in its own right”
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 5 September 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
Nigerian music writer Joey Akan profiles five Naija artists (Blaqbonez, Wavy the Creator, Fireboy DML, Odunsi and Teni) for the New York Times Style Magazine:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/t-magazine/nigerian-musicians-fireboy-dml-odunsi-the-engine.html(I note that, just like in his recent Burna Boy review for The Fader, he uses the term “Afrobeats” for his American audience. Guess we’re stuck with that one)
― breastcrawl, Friday, 6 September 2019 05:58 (four years ago) link
Been absent here due to major surgery a few weeks back, but saw this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/world/africa/zimdancehall-the-music-that-moves-zimbabwes-uneasy-streets.html
Probably more appropriate for the dancehall thread, but an interesting read nonetheless...despite the music being a bit meh to my ears, the messages seem urgent, and sometimes that's enough.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Saturday, 7 September 2019 12:30 (four years ago) link
Hope you’re doing better, table!Don’t know much about the Zimbabwean scene, but this was one of my favourite jams of 2017:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFzDqKRb7zcExQ ft. Killer T • NhemaGoogleTranslate told me the lyrics are about haters telling lies. I was going to say it’s hard to read a line like “we are free spirits” as completely nonpolitical, but then I came across this.
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 8 September 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
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TNS has the Midas Touch as far as I’m concerned. “My Dali” and “Joburg” (with Mampinthsa) are two of the best tracks of the year. This is his latest - and there’s an album on the way:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRbI2PjjogTNS ft. Mpumi • Umona
― breastcrawl, Monday, 9 September 2019 07:29 (four years ago) link
Nice low-key EP from Blackmagic:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Busrs7LGwBlackmagic - BM19001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kzum0bAFZ4Blackmagic - BM19007
― vcrash, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
Just heard this on Eazzy's EP:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ8jNU1US2kEazzy - Away ft. Medikal
― vcrash, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link
Away is so great
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
Ghetto love, made in Lagos.
― breastcrawl, Friday, 13 September 2019 07:59 (four years ago) link
So good:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSHff6H5WxcAVala • Mo Fe Be
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 14 September 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
Hugely enjoying the TNS album, Madlokovu: King of African House. All tracks are cut from the same cloth, but it’s such a great sound, so who cares? He’s like Heavy K in that respect, similar penchant for high-drama euphoric rave synths as well. Choice cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlmVt4QZhPgTNS ft. Stunner • My Rules
― breastcrawl, Friday, 20 September 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
Oh, and try bonus track “Ayabonga”for a darker twist, not unlike Mampintsha’s “Joburg”.
― breastcrawl, Friday, 20 September 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
Next new Wizkid.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
The video for A-Star's "Hypeman" came out a few weeks back. It's his weakest track and also his most WTF video— the Chinese stuff and the happy mugging with the cop kind of gave me a super icked out vibe.
will still stan for "Bogada" being my favorite track of the year, tho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp5GVn-W5Uk
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Bogada is so good. Afrobeats EOY poll anyone?
I'm seeing Nihiloxica tonight as an early birthday fun thing. I'm mad excited
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 08:32 (four years ago) link
Happy birthday, dog latin! How was/were Nihiloxica? An Afropop EOY poll would be fun, but I’m not sure we have the numbers for that? How many people would participate, realistically speaking?
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 3 October 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
They were amazing, quite frankly. As good as you'd expect. Started loud, but were clearly hustling for the first 2-3 songs before bringing out the big guns. Total devastation
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 3 October 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
Maybe we could do a mini-poll. Get everyone to nominate 3-5 songs each ITT and then poll em in a separate thread?
― frame casual (dog latin), Thursday, 3 October 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
That could work, I think. “Dumebi” will doubtlessly score big in any poll format, but here’s Another Banger for yall’s consideration:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JrxV6Me604Rema • Lady(from his brand new EP, which sounds very good on first listen)
― breastcrawl, Friday, 4 October 2019 12:28 (four years ago) link
New Reekado is another beauty:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rLSi6m2Ll4Reekado Banks • Rora It’s produced by (Along came...) Tuzi, one of my favourite up and coming Naija producers, simultaneously old-school inspired and a little freaky. He’s got one monster hit under his belt already (Skiibii’s “Sensima”), but I also love this non-hit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vW-y6QYt3wTeeQ Bello • Happy People
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 6 October 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
More beauty:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3etaIUzTe1oBuju ft. Zlatan • Spiritual(This spellbinding song screams for an equally hypnotizing video. Don’t know what’s keeping them)
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 6 October 2019 14:44 (four years ago) link
Loving the new Rema. Lady is the best track but it's all good. He has really found his own style.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 10 October 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
digging this ep by kabza de small & dj maphorisa almost as much as its cover lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_5q-MiHF9I
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 11 October 2019 07:30 (four years ago) link
i could be wrong since i still don't follow this stuff anywhere near as much as i'd like to but it seems like pretty much anything dj maphorisa touches is gold lately
― ufo, Friday, 11 October 2019 08:12 (four years ago) link
Well, make that Kabza. It’s good to see him gettting top billing this time, in a reversal of Scorpion Kings. It’s his sound, not Maphorisa’s. My favourite track on this is “Nana Thula” with Njelic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBh-oPXY03k
― breastcrawl, Friday, 11 October 2019 10:34 (four years ago) link
Also, wow at this: Kabza De Small & DJ Maphorisa ft. Corry Da Groove & Howard • Tears
― breastcrawl, Friday, 11 October 2019 10:36 (four years ago) link
Amapiano and Larry Heard, one step removed.
― breastcrawl, Friday, 11 October 2019 10:38 (four years ago) link
And in another overlap with the Sun-El thread, uptempo Samthing sounds great too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1eIvbA_DvEMuzi ft. Samthing Soweto • Mncane(from Muzi’s new album Zeno)
― breastcrawl, Friday, 11 October 2019 10:39 (four years ago) link
Mo’ amapiano:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpD50mJlS_wSemi Tee ft. Miano & Kammu Dee • Labantwana Ama Uber
― breastcrawl, Friday, 11 October 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
Some gqom:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9bGITkIHmMSho Madjozi • John Cena
― breastcrawl, Friday, 11 October 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
And yes, I will keep stanning for anything TNS:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP8FLR4mnxUTipcee ft. TNS • EmatarvenTipcee doing it live.
― breastcrawl, Friday, 11 October 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
And since it’s South African Friday: Prince Kaybee’s new Crossover Music EP (Kabza’s title is better lol) is damn good. Stellar SA house.“Ndimlo” with Nhlanhla Ncizais the song that’s being pushed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYUGwU888r4“Monasi” with Indlovukazi might be my favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCHjqx_zHcc
― breastcrawl, Friday, 11 October 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Crossover Music is sounding really nice. calling it an EP seems kinda odd though when it's 45 minutes and 8 tracks (counting the Ndimlo edit as a bonus track)
― ufo, Saturday, 12 October 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
Listening to Yemi Alade Woman of Steel album. Sounds good on first listen, not sure if I hear anything great yet. Need to listen some more
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 October 2019 20:16 (four years ago) link