highly recommend the live renditions of the whole album if your mind is a little unsettled lately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-RkT8TjIrc
her singing sounds as exquisite as ever over those spare arrangements
― dyl, Sunday, 13 September 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
nice
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 13 September 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
This rules thanks!
The Afro threads got too intimidating (and tbh too full of stuff I wasn't feeling!) So I missed this. Excellent.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 13 September 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
in what way do/did you find them intimidating, table? care to expand?
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 September 2020 10:45 (three years ago) link
Too much stuff to listen to, and not enough return on time spent listening— I just found a lot of stuff from the beginning of this year's thread really unremarkable, I guess, and the sheer amount of all of it was making my head hurt a bit.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 14 September 2020 15:08 (three years ago) link
fair enough I guess, but on the other hand I always feel we’re not even posting nearly enough tracks, because (as I’m pretty sure I’ve said numerous times before) we’re supposed to be covering the pop music of a large part of a whole actual continent there.
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Monday, 14 September 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
Oh I agree with you in spirit, but at a certain point, I just don't want to hear a third-rate gqom or amapiano track simply because it's briefly popular in its respective country, but I also feel the same way about pop music here.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 14 September 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
And by here, I should say, the US, aka the land of mayonnaise farts and the birthplace of hiphop
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 14 September 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
I do relate to table's feeling overwhelmed but otoh the Afro threads are the only thing on ILM right now where people seem truly excited and discovering new things they think are great on a near daily basis, reminds me of how ILM felt in the early 00's, and I guess struggling-to-keep-up is an integral part of that.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 10:04 (three years ago) link
As people have mentioned on other threads, too, there's just so much music coming out these days that it's impossible to really listen to or absorb it all, even if listening to and writing about music is one's full-time job. I've downloaded or purchased vinyl or tape copies of approximately 60 records this year, about 2/3rds of them being new, and that feels like a good amount to me! Which doesn't mean I'm going to stop, but more that sometimes my ears just aren't there for something, and becoming overwhelmed is inevitable in such cases.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 14:19 (three years ago) link
That said, I purchased the Azana record the other night, and am love love loving it.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
sorry i've said this a few times but if anyone into afrobeats is aware of a way to purchase/download any of this music at all that is lossless / cd quality please please lmk
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
obviously i disagree with you there table/map, but then audio quality isn't that big of an issue to me and i find the listen-to-return ratio remarkably high! but i'm a notorious omnivore anyways. FOMO regarding music is imo to be acknowledged and then ignored in favor of listening to everything and going back to what sticks.
Wrong thread for it but: my this-week-listening project is rummaging through glenn's 100 aqueduct of youth tracks, the billboard hot 100 and all the genre pulls. It's about 300 tracks and THAT'S producing a bad listen-to-return ratio... probably 1 out of 4 keepers? But it's useful to get a vertical slice of the modern pop world in 2020 and that feels worth the larger part of seven days of listening.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
which is to say keep the firehose blasting bc; i promise someone is trying to drink from it!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
obviously i disagree with you there table/map
which person and about what
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
you about the need for cd quality sound to bother engaging with the music, table about ROI to rummaging through the volcanic flow of afropop/beat music in the many threads bc+nabozo+crew are navigating
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
you about the need for cd quality sound to bother engaging with the music
that's not what i said and you can get the fuck out of my mentions
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
lol, you are outrageously angry about the silliest shit/meaninglessly rude for no reason. this is the azana thread ffs, keep the vibes positive
i've said this a few times but if anyone into afrobeats is aware of a way to purchase/download any of this music at all that is lossless / cd quality please please lmk
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
Ulysses, I just don't have the time, because my work often requires me to truly hone in on texts, and sadly, I haven't developed the ability to do so while listening to the latest gqom banger.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
i can dig that; i am deeply privileged in better days to be able to listen to music more or less all day while i work and somewhat less privileged in post-covid days in that i can listen to music more or less all day while i am out of work.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
ulysses, i'm going to say this politely one more time. i have no interest in interacting with you at all on this website and i'd really appreciate it if you would any mention of me out of your posts from here on out. thanks in advance.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:49 (three years ago) link
would leave
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:50 (three years ago) link
oh, now i remember, you're kind of a jerk. i had forgotten. try killfiling me.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
for the record, you're the one calling me names. i'm just requesting that you not include me in your posts as you have misrepresented me more than once.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
http://i.redd.it/jf37w5kdf4f01.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
wow. really mature. i guess one of us hasn't really left his noise board persona behind.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
damn forks, that was really totally uncalled for. I was gonna tell map that I personally don’t know about where to get those kinds of files, but that maybe dog latin or longneck would know since they both dj out (or used to at least, in longneck’s case)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
ftr i've bought the azana album on itunes and love it. i'd just really like lossless versions if i can find them at some point. it makes a difference in dj mixes. i've done a lot of searching around but i don't think they're out there.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 18:26 (three years ago) link
― rob, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
FWIW I would also love to get CDs of Azana, Simmy, et al. I’m less bothered by the naija stuff though glad to have African Giant on physical media
― rob, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
Likewise. Would also welcome a poll or list of the essentials of the year from those who've had the time, but that's asking people to do work for me, which feels unfair.
The Azana is glorious, was on my blastbox while cycling to my uni library today. Made the empty campus feel a little less weird, and a student asked me what it was and I told them!
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
lol table, guess I could ask a mod to re-open voting especially for you:
url=🇳🇬 NAIJA SPECIAL: which of these *seven* current high-profile Nigerian hit songs is the best one? please help me decide]🇳🇬 NAIJA SPECIAL: which of these *seven* current high-profile Nigerian hit songs is the best one? please help me decide[/url]
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
7digital has lossless and the azana album at least is there
― dbs, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 09:57 (three years ago) link
This is that kind of album that as I'm hearing it I can only feel it's the best album ever
― Nourry, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:01 (three years ago) link
7digital has lossless and the azana album at least is there― dbs, Wednesday, September 16, 2020 10:57 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― dbs, Wednesday, September 16, 2020 10:57 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
thank you!!
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
with regards to audio, I tend to find most afrobeats stuff etc is available to buy via Google Play for about a quid a track. I end up spending a lot of money each month thinking 'Well it's only 99p' before realising I've bought 30 songs. it's 320kbps which I find is just fine for my needs
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Saturday, 19 September 2020 13:05 (three years ago) link
c+p'd from the Jessie Ware thread:
hey yall who invoked Azana, thanx so much! Just now listed, then commented & linked to Frank Kogan, who had sent South African picks:Here's a good -sounding playlist, all from her currrent album, Ingoma, I think--might seem a bit ballad-y at first, but mostly of a smooth pulsation, luxury class but never wasteful---or wasted, alas; I wouldn't something a little less reasonable, but she's as good, as that gets. Relatively mainstream "Your Love" is even a fave---first single, and I totally get that, ditto the plainer version of "Goodbye," but most faves make more overt use of "ethnic" elements, like the other version of "Goodbye," feat. Just Bheki and Afriikan Papi, and another fave, "Uthando Lwangemela" (that might be my No.1), also "Sikelela", with 0 guests listed. Ditto the mystique of "Egoli," with clipped accents drawing catchy verses around the sidewalk, then chorus stretching some syllables toward dreamtime--here's the playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgV3lUftsRbYnDhoIIwZoqvIfFN4gOYkFAnd one of several not on the list, v. catchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNCml8NfC8IThere's also a live at the Redbox set, where she performs the whole album, apparently, haven;t listened to that yet (several African artists with vids from the Redbox, I see) (Oh also on the list: "Lovers and Best Friends," feat. Disciples of House.)Somebody in YT comments said, like, "If she were Anita Baker or Sade, people would be raving." Yeah she's in there between them, vibe-wise, also found/from her own nexus.― dow, donderdag 5 november 2020 23:18
Here's a good -sounding playlist, all from her currrent album, Ingoma, I think--might seem a bit ballad-y at first, but mostly of a smooth pulsation, luxury class but never wasteful---or wasted, alas; I wouldn't something a little less reasonable, but she's as good, as that gets. Relatively mainstream "Your Love" is even a fave---first single, and I totally get that, ditto the plainer version of "Goodbye," but most faves make more overt use of "ethnic" elements, like the other version of "Goodbye," feat. Just Bheki and Afriikan Papi, and another fave, "Uthando Lwangemela" (that might be my No.1), also "Sikelela", with 0 guests listed. Ditto the mystique of "Egoli," with clipped accents drawing catchy verses around the sidewalk, then chorus stretching some syllables toward dreamtime--here's the playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgV3lUftsRbYnDhoIIwZoqvIfFN4gOYkFAnd one of several not on the list, v. catchy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNCml8NfC8IThere's also a live at the Redbox set, where she performs the whole album, apparently, haven;t listened to that yet (several African artists with vids from the Redbox, I see) (Oh also on the list: "Lovers and Best Friends," feat. Disciples of House.)
Somebody in YT comments said, like, "If she were Anita Baker or Sade, people would be raving." Yeah she's in there between them, vibe-wise, also found/from her own nexus.
― dow, donderdag 5 november 2020 23:18
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Friday, 6 November 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
i guess i never posted it here but i've been introducing Azama to friends with a "RIYL Anita Baker" note
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 6 November 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
that makes sense to me, listening to this now has got me like "whew, this album is really something else"
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 15 November 2020 22:12 (three years ago) link
it might be my fave album of the year, it's certainly in the mix
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 15 November 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
Totally fucking up my lists! Ballots are coming sooon!
― dow, Monday, 16 November 2020 03:22 (three years ago) link
This year is an overload of goodness and badness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!But you knew that.
― dow, Monday, 16 November 2020 03:25 (three years ago) link
one of my favorite tracks from the album now has a really nice, joyful video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzO_cCrdsOQ
― dyl, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 05:58 (three years ago) link
definitely one of my faves too, I tend to play it together with “Askies (I’m Sorry)”
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
This record continues to be exactly what I need at any conceivable moment. Just brilliant, beautiful work.
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 17:46 (three years ago) link
It's nearly 70 degrees here in Philly today, and I am blasting this record while I work, this one is particularly lovely atm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSP5Tqlssw8
― it's like edging for your mind (the table is the table), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
"Your Love" was my favorite find from the ilx 2020 tracks playlist. Great Sade vibes, I'll check the album soon
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 10 March 2021 01:44 (three years ago) link
First new track from her that i've heard all year and it is lovely if not especially rocking. hidden on an "African Lullabies" compilation album and on streaming services now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYnPY_9otRk
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 October 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
v nice
― nxd, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 13:31 (two years ago) link
New single, "Zalabantu", from a new album IGAGU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDGu_dPXrM
― monotony, Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
thanks for the heads up!
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 November 2022 03:45 (one year ago) link
not blown away by this track, but curious about the new album.I like this recent uptempo track she did with Punk Mbedzi, which also features Vanco: “Sabela”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTcpvzVrU-w
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 November 2022 13:01 (one year ago) link
IGAGU came out last month, which is something I only learned yesterday (I blame the brokenness of algorithms and my own failure to keep up with African pop of late). The first three tracks are a bit of a slog, but it picks up with "Never The Same". A pity there are no Sun-EL contributions.
― monotony, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 01:53 (five months ago) link