Labantwana Ama Uber ('kids of the uber') is everywhere in South Africa, such an addictive song. Akulaleki is maybe the biggest hit that cuts across the population. Amapiano gets played at ridiculous volumes in Braam.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
The full-length “Labantwana Ama Uber” is upthread, but here’s a fun live performance on SA TV:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahET6AVE6v8For Samthing & Sha Sha’s “Akulaleki” (and lots more in that vein) check the Sun-El and sundry thread.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
More Mzansi magic:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ripp4yHBdwCuebur ft. DJ Maphorisa & ShaSha • Tamba(the amount of awesome music coming out of South Africa is overwhelming, almost literally)
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
btw, D-40, how do you rate the Lady Donli album?
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, October 30, 2019 6:54 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
definitely into it, want to spend more time though before i weigh in
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 31 October 2019 07:25 (four years ago) link
cool
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 31 October 2019 08:21 (four years ago) link
She just got a big feature in fader btw
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Thursday, 31 October 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.thefader.com/2019/10/31/lady-donli-enjoy-your-life-interviewInteresting, and it’s by Joey Akan.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 31 October 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
Niniola back with Sarz:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCxEvJR5DngNiniola • Omo Rapala
― breastcrawl, Friday, 1 November 2019 06:10 (four years ago) link
Lusophone Afro House - this time from Mozambique, not Angola:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyQp9MXwEFgDJ Cisne ft. Os do Momento • Feiticeiro
― breastcrawl, Friday, 1 November 2019 06:53 (four years ago) link
I've had Omo Rapala on repeat this morning. Niniola is unstoppable. You could argue that someone like Tiwa is the better artist, but Niniola is the one that somehow manages to hit my sweet spot every single time. Boda Sodiq has kept growing on me ever since it first dropped.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 1 November 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
Sha Sha/ShaSha’s Blossom EP is fantastic. I’m plugging it over on the Sun-El thread because it fits better there, but this track is a great companion piece to the Niniola:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPJ_rhv0uuwSha Sha • Water
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 2 November 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
Spent more time finally w the lady donli and I really do love it. She has great musical range. I feel like I need to do my homework on her influences
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Sunday, 3 November 2019 05:31 (four years ago) link
This is lovely:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRZBuz5dAM0Supta ft. Indlovukazi & Prince Kaybee • Tsa Tsa
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 3 November 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
(plus it kicks ass)
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 3 November 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
This year’s Naija pop distilled into one song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9A0fQu28GkMayorkun • Up To Something
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 3 November 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
That’s a good one. Also liking that Lady Donli album
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
Another Guilty Banger:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POQvDT4PjD8Pappy Kojo • Thomasy3yaw
― breastcrawl, Friday, 15 November 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
This is also from Ghana, and pretty awesome:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsL8i6gEX0IFokn Bois ft. Mr Eazi • True FriendsA little bit of background:https://pan-african-music.com/en/fokn-bois-true-friends-2/(nice to have this back to back with the Amaarae video D-40 posted)
― breastcrawl, Friday, 15 November 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
Wonderful highlife pop from Simi:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFK7v_-tkEUSimi • Selense
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 16 November 2019 06:43 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjCVx8i2PCA
For the appetite for French in this thread. Good DRC-stamped lovers song. Sounds so close to Aka Nakamura.
― Nabozo, Sunday, 17 November 2019 11:50 (four years ago) link
I love Simi. So pop, so nice, yet so hypnotic and complex.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 17 November 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
More stuff from the francosphere is definitely welcome!(btw, for searching purposes and suchlike, the track in question is “Katchua” by Ya Levis)
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 17 November 2019 13:26 (four years ago) link
Your daily dose of Nini:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Nmf_ul9FIYcee ft. Niniola • Chocolata
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
I love FOKN BOIS
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
This hardly ever happens: an East African jam blowing up in West Africa, but this track from Uganda is currently top 10 streaming in Naija and Ghana:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMfMuZ9fjjIBigTril • Parte After Parte
― breastcrawl, Friday, 22 November 2019 08:12 (four years ago) link
Love it
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Friday, 22 November 2019 09:33 (four years ago) link
I'm thinking of putting on an afrobeats DJ night, possibly focusing on contemporary pop, dance and more out-there sounds from around Africa, potentially incorporating modern music from other parts of the world too if it feels right. Having difficulty knowing how to label and market the idea though. I know the term 'afrobeats' comes with baggage, or applies specifically to Nigerian and Ghanian music for a lot of people. Plus I'm wary of lumping lots of countries into one genre. There are a lot of 'world dance' music nights in Bristol, but they tend to focus on vintage vinyly stuff (actual afrobeat, cumbia etc) than new electronic and pop vibes. What would be the most succinct and polite way of putting it? A friend told me that he and his mate used to refer to it as 'global wreckage' for whatever reason!
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Friday, 22 November 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
I'm really enjoying the Davido album. Such a nice vibe.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 23 November 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
Global wreckage does sound catchy fwiw.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 25 November 2019 10:34 (four years ago) link
davido album is indeed lovely, glad to see it get some recognition from p4k too
― ufo, Tuesday, 26 November 2019 11:59 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZBsYtLsT_w
anybody heard of this guy sonyjojo? i believe he's nigerian. this song "monicar" is awesome... it sounds like someone took a wizkid song and kinda smeared it with their hand a bit. the production is really cool.
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 30 November 2019 07:22 (four years ago) link
it took me a week of it idly bugging me but i realised davido's "1 milli" rips its synth line from dua lipa's "be the one"
― ufo, Sunday, 1 December 2019 13:16 (four years ago) link
Anyone seeing end of year lists that include Afropop? Was hoping Burna Boy might crossover to some, but haven’t really noticed that. A twitter search of “Burna Boy top 2019” did bring me to a list of top south of the Sahara streamed songs, that included him.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
I'm seeing burna in best of album collections but that's about it.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
Jazz & more critic Ted Gioa has a 100 album list and then a follow -up 100 honorable mention list. Burna Boy is on the honorable mention list!
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
NOT GOOD ENOUGH!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
Yep. Ok, Amanda Petrusich has Burna Boy ( & Mdou Moctar) in her New Yorker top album list
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 December 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
pretty banner year for afrobeats on my best songs list (comin monday)
― sean gramophone, Friday, 6 December 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
Colour me curious. I always enjoy your EOY lists a lot.
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 7 December 2019 13:12 (four years ago) link
New Afro B single (from Afrowave 3). My favorite since Melanin, I think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8K3onYQ44o
― daavid, Monday, 9 December 2019 22:02 (four years ago) link
Here is sean gramophone’s list, if I may be so bold, and below are the songs on it that are relevant to our thread:(3) Sarkodie ft. Akan • All Die Be Die(16) Zlatan • This Year(34) Niniola • Boda Sodiq(42) Blick Bassy • Where We Go(45) A-Star • Solege(49) Afro B ft. Wizkid • Drogba (Joanna) (Remix)(51) Beyoncé • Find Your Way Back(61) Tresor ft. Msaki • Sondela(69) Mahalia ft. Burna Boy • Simmer(77) Fireboy DML • Jealous(80) Santi ft. Shane Eagle, Tomi Agape & Amaarae • Rapid Fire(88) J Balvin & Bad Bunny ft. Mr Eazi • Como Un BebéHuge overlap with These Threads, it has to be said (down to the Niniola recording session video!). Synchronicity?(small point of order: A-Star is Ghanaian (by way of London iirc), it’s “Solege”s beatmaker Kel-P who’s Nigerian - he also produced “Boda Sodiq”!)Looking forward to exploring the rest of your list, Sean!
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
haha, no synchronicity! ilx is one of my primary discovery nexuses (nexi?)
thanks for the A-Star correction - i correctly attributed him in the demographics, i think - but you're right the blurb is confusing
and thanks for all the recommendations this year and every year
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 12 December 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
just had to stop in to say Umona is my jam, TNS is really killing it this year.
Joburg is nice too but fuck Mamphi.
― Will (kruezer2), Saturday, 14 December 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
agreed on all counts
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 14 December 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
Half my favorite tracks are from Burna BoyAnd still Wizkid can claim to have the biggest hit with Brown Skin GirlFollowed by Low btwInama is so funSolegeA few others
And then it just pales comapred to what's on the Mzansi sideAkulalekiThe entire Sha Sha EPThe sound of Kabza de SmallLabantwana Ama Uber SondelaInto IngaweBaby Are You Coming ?John Cena (+ best video)Joburg
― Nabozo, Sunday, 15 December 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
ad “John Cena”: are you referring to the COLORS video?I was aware of some kind of hype around it, but never investigated, mainly because the name ‘John Cena’ meant nothing to me. This is pretty wild though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElRhKFvQWGA
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 15 December 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
Yeah I was, she's hilarious in that clip. Chichichi chi chi chi. Though I heard a few bad things from people who got close to her via videomaking - but hey, celebrity is a burden to carry. I had no more idea about wrestling than you, but yeah her reaction is priceless.
― Nabozo, Monday, 16 December 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
...all of the above tying in nicely with her brand new video for the Shangaan Shake that is “Kona”, celebrating the first anniversary of her debut album (which I will consider a 2019 release for EOY purposes):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jkXL_TMEigSho Madjozi • Kona
― breastcrawl, Monday, 16 December 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
As I mentioned on the “Baby Are You Coming?” thread, DJ Sumbody’s Ashi Nthwela album is awesome. The new single/video is “4 The Kulture” with Busiswa, but right now I find myself drawn much more to the pop sheen of “Mabebeza” (with Mthe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_oDr9vGDuE
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 11:45 (four years ago) link
"john cena" is cool and all but i love "kano", will have to check out the album
― ufo, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 11:56 (four years ago) link