Happy holidays everybody!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCZVL_8D048Master KG ft. Nomcebo • Jerusalem
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 12:21 (four years ago) link
Don’t forget to nominate all your goodies (tracks + albums) for the EOY!
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 24 December 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
Nothing says Christmas like Angolan KudurAfro House. It’s the most wonderful sound in the world!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV2RAmMIfQAPink 2 Toques • Puxa a Calça(check here if you’d like to see them pulling up their pants live)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV9yrBWRURINoite & Dia • Kapotahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18OXY3lBo-YNerú Americano ft. Scró Q Cuia • Tic Taahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMl057tB1IwScró Q Cuia ft. Os Moikanos • Oiii Mana (a/k/a “Ai Meu Deus”)...and this one, have mercy on me:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rraVVk7iDq4Os Pilukas ft. ED-Sangria • Tá Tremer(the last three of these are produced by the magnificent DJ Vado Pôster)
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 26 December 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
...or you could just watch this, which features most of the above:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxhqRR0R2vg
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 26 December 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
(between these and “Jerusalema” I think I’ve got the festive spirit covered)
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 26 December 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
(and it’s “Tá Treme”, apologies)
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 26 December 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
Still loving Rema “Dumebi “ . A track of the year
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 29 December 2019 01:32 (four years ago) link
Otm
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Sunday, 29 December 2019 04:10 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzzNAMU5eWY
recently discovered "this is love" by lady zamar and it's lovely and quickly becoming one of my favourites this year. gorgeous south african house
the album it's from, monarch, is very good too, just way too long at 20 tracks/90 minutes
― ufo, Monday, 30 December 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link
Yeah, it’s definitely overly long, and without enough stand-outs imo. Fwiw, the other tracks I saved to my playlist at the time were “ICU”, “Delirium” and “Sharp Shooter”.
― breastcrawl, Monday, 30 December 2019 08:54 (four years ago) link
https://www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/100-songs-2019
He's got Afropop, caribbean sounds, Latinx reggaeton, US & UK and more
1. Seyi Shay ft. Runtown, “Gimme Love”; 2. Bad Bunny ft. Tainy, “Callaíta”; 3. Titica ft. Laton Cordeiro, “Giro Na Bicicleta”; 4. Lady Zamar, “This Is Love”;5. Tomasa del Real, “Contigo”;
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 December 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
Anybody made Obama's YE list
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 30 December 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
Obama has Burna Boy "Anybody," Rema "Iron Man," and Angelique Kidjo " La Vida es un Carnaval" ( Rollo Tomasi remix)" and Jamaican vocalist Koffee "Toast" on his list
― curmudgeon, Monday, 30 December 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
Go Obama lol! As for Jonathan Bogart’s list, it’s a super interesting one. I don’t know two thirds of the songs, but it looks right up my alley. I recognise quite a lot in the way he describes his musical proclivities in the introduction as well. However, **butthurt corner and full disclosure**, I soured on Bogart big time after the blurb he (of all people, as the only Afropop aficionado there at the time) wrote in the Singles Jukebox for my Reader’s Week entry for Tekno’s “Duro” back in 2015. I found it shockingly bad and pretty much disqualifying for a music critic. This was his blurb: ”Jonathan Bogart: Blame it on me being an old straight white dude who has rarely been in the market for what young loverboy crooners are selling; blame it on my having heard way too much recent West African pop that sounds practically indistinguishable from this; blame it on the YouTube commenters bringing up Chris Brown again and again. [4]”I thought it impolite to directly address it, being a guest on the site (and I was too fucking insecure anyway, I hadn’t even written a blurb for the song myself like I could have), and left it at a general comment.Interestingly, in his introduction here he more or less repeats the same argument and expands on it (which is why I felt the need to write this), but now it’s framed in a positive, dare I say it, half-baked woke kind of way, which I can’t help but find a bit disingenious.He does have a Tekno song in his list this time around though (as well as some other male cis het crooners!), I’ll give him that.**end of butthurt section / axe grinded**Anyway, diving headlong into the list as we speak - it really is a treat.
― breastcrawl, Monday, 30 December 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
Here’s that number one on JB’s list:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ligX9PupISeyi Shay ft. Runtown • Gimme Love(it’s a Sarz production; she currently has a remix out with Teyana Taylor instead of Runtown)
― breastcrawl, Monday, 30 December 2019 22:26 (four years ago) link
yeah bogart's list has been pretty interesting to go through - there's enough overlap with stuff i loved that didn't really get much attention from anywhere but with plenty of great tracks i hadn't heard too ("this is love" among them)
― ufo, Monday, 30 December 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
this mix still goeshttps://soundcloud.com/djabrantee/sets/afrobeats-mix-vol-1
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 16:10 (four years ago) link
Thought the Tekno (Bogart’s #71) had been posted here, but no:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KErqMcZR0KATekno • Skeletun
(lol at the idea of Tekno being some kind of left-field artist tho)
Also loving this Ugandan jam from that list. Let’s rock down to Swangz Avenue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROqYa4F1DvsVinka • Kona (Oluyimba Lwomwaka)
For true heads only: In a bizarre plot twist, it’s none other than Inna doing her bit for Afropop!
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 2 January 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
(I’m hoping to start the 2020 thread this weekend, after the nominations are done and dusted)
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 2 January 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
I made a new thread.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link