Loving this SA rap tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4K0dkDM-Yg
Nasty_C - Hell Naw
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:52 (eight years ago) link
So apparently DJ Maphorisa co-produced One Dance? The world is getting smaller.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 14 April 2016 07:17 (eight years ago) link
Heavy Burna Boy influence on this guy Kamo, lol. Great stuff though - and a natural progression from the J Hus breakthrough last year.
https://soundcloud.com/notchandbones/sets/cartunes
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 15 April 2016 09:10 (eight years ago) link
There's a new Skuki with Lil Kesh & Young John:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRTt-0TCeNs
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 28 April 2016 08:24 (eight years ago) link
Playlist is updated for April.
ILM's Rolling Afrobeat & Afropop Thread 2016 Spotify Playlist
― ulysses, Saturday, 30 April 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
Free show with Davido and Antibalas at Lincoln Center - July 29 at 7:30http://lcoutofdoors.org/events/okayafrica-afrobeat-x-afrobeats
― ulysses, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:47 (eight years ago) link
been really outta touch with afropop this year, but been listening to this song a lot over of the last week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCd-pLW61tU
Vicmass Luodollar -Bank Otuch Remix Ft. OCTOPIZZO
― kruezer2, Thursday, 5 May 2016 04:18 (eight years ago) link
Love that one, kruezer. Moving it over to the Summer Jams thread!
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 5 May 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
Wow, that one is great!
― Frederik B, Thursday, 5 May 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
New Kid X & Kwesta has a nice little bounce to it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pozdgoTcHvM
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 13 May 2016 08:48 (eight years ago) link
A nice little convoluted bounce, even.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 13 May 2016 08:49 (eight years ago) link
kiss daniel's album is officially out! Good Time, Laye & Woju are on all in plus more, have only just started listening but its sounding good so far
― kruezer2, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 01:06 (eight years ago) link
after a couple listens, really love this album, v solid front to back, I think my favourites are Kudi, Nothing Dey & of course Good Time. It even made me reconsider Woju and Laye, sounds much better in context.
this is just a great pop album, in a perfect world it would blow up globally
― kruezer2, Thursday, 19 May 2016 01:18 (eight years ago) link
absolutely love "mama", looking fwd to the album
yemi alade also came through with her album ("marry me"!!!) + the SA house bonus tracks are essential
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 19 May 2016 07:02 (eight years ago) link
kiss daniel album is fire
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 19 May 2016 23:40 (eight years ago) link
apropos of nothing but i still hate the 'rolling spotify playlist' concept
pure culture vulturism imo
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 19 May 2016 23:42 (eight years ago) link
will need to listen to Yemi Alade next, really curious what the house bonus tracks are like.
speaking of SA House, this came up as I was catching up on it, Mr. Style used to work with Bojo Mujo back in the day, I like all of the twists this track takes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWo4EGlCugY
Mr. Style - Makhwapheni
― kruezer2, Friday, 20 May 2016 01:58 (eight years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 20 May 2016 00:42 Bookmark
u keep feeding it content tho
― r|t|c, Friday, 20 May 2016 07:36 (eight years ago) link
I don't understand the concept of hating that concept. Making music easily available to others is... bad?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 20 May 2016 08:12 (eight years ago) link
apropos of nothing but i still hate the 'rolling spotify playlist' conceptpure culture vulturism imo― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 20 May 2016 00:42 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 20 May 2016 00:42 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
on the other hand, i've found it vital and want to thank ulysses for his amazing work.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 20 May 2016 08:37 (eight years ago) link
More Nasty_C:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3t22MDsS_Y
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 20 May 2016 09:17 (eight years ago) link
Where are people hearing the Kiss Daniel? Could be I'm in the wrong region tho. Still making my way through the Yemi Alade.
Really like this piece on "Bank Otuch":http://www.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/showbiz/Bank-Otuch-Remix-by-Vicmass-Luodollar-ft-Octopizzo/-/1950810/3171608/-/15tlp24/-/index.html
― etc, Friday, 20 May 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
It's on Spotify and all the major platforms now.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 20 May 2016 22:47 (eight years ago) link
anyone here got any knowledge of Ugandan pop / beats?
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Saturday, 21 May 2016 13:42 (eight years ago) link
without wanting to appear self-promoting, i put together a nice little afrobeats/afro-pop/soca/dancehall/house based mix the other day available to stream here: https://www.mixcloud.com/doglatin/money-lion - stream http://bit.ly/1sNouPZ - download
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 08:00 (eight years ago) link
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Saturday, May 21, 2016 9:42 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I wouldn't claim to be very knowledgeable, but I follow these three Ugandan artists...
Jose Chameleon - been releasing things since the 90s, kind of an elder statesmen at this point, his two former backup singers, Radio & Weasel (Weasel is Jose Chameleon's brother) co-founded the Goodlyfe crew in '08 or so. I haven't heard a tonne of his stuff from the early 2000s, but I like his 09 song Bayuda, the Shiru remix of it is really nice. His album Valu Valu is pretty great
Cindy Sanyu - started in the girl group Blu*3 back in the mid-2000s, I like her song Still Standing from this year, I like the song Nawewe off her first solo album back in 09.
Eddy Kenzo - I don't know that he is near as famous as the other two, but I like his jam Sitya Loss from a year or two ago now, he has a recent one called Freestyle with Okay Funky from last year that is nice as well.
― kruezer2, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 19:54 (eight years ago) link
thanks. the one I've heard of out of those is eddy kenzo in fact. I'll check the others out
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 May 2016 21:42 (eight years ago) link
also, for all of the Heavy-K fans out there, I very highly recommend the HK adjacent act Sdudla & Ma1000, they have a couple new ones out, their back catalog is awesome as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXz3ffXEXtY
Sdudla Noma1000 Feat. Mono T - Jikelele
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRxmGXAfxgM
Sdudla noMathousand Feat Dj SK - Impumelelo
― kruezer2, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 01:28 (eight years ago) link
of hating that concept. Making music easily available to others is... bad?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 20 May 2016 08:12 (5 days ago) Permalink
Taking it out of context of conversation for ppl who don't contribute makes it a warped representation of the thread and removes what makes Ilx ostensibly unique: discussion of how these songs function. Theres no consideration for whether a songs presence adds to or subtracts from conversation? There's about a million reasons why it's bad but mainly it warps and flattens these threads into shitty recommendation engines
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 12:18 (eight years ago) link
― r|t|c, Friday, May 20, 2016 2:36 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
And this is relevant how
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 12:22 (eight years ago) link
More like keeping track of all the songs we've discussed without having to dig through a long thread, no? Very unsure about how many non-ilxers there are that follows forks' playlists. If there are a couple, good for them, though. I imagine they'll be able to sift through it all just to see what they like.
ANYWAY what I came in here to say is yes, the Kiss Daniel album is amazing. I imagine it's the kind of thing Brymo might have done if he wasn't too busy being the Nigerian Sting and making albums called Klitoris.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 12:50 (eight years ago) link
*follow
I sympathise with Deej's position to an extent but it does rely on the assumption that people are *only* using it as a shitty recommendation engine. And even if they are what's wrong with just wanting to listen and read rather than contributing?
This is one thread - as opposed to the bobbins thread which really IS just a recommendation engine - where context really matters, and I couldn't imagine listening the playlist alone. But I'm never going to want to click on embed after embed and it's helpful to have them in one place for when I'm on the move or not at my computer (ie 99% of the time I'm listening to music).
Anyway we've done this argument to death and it's boring, but it's interesting to see how the people who are most militant about this are often the people for whom listening to music all day is a big part of their actual job. If I could afford to do that I'd be pissy about people not putting in the perceived necessary groundwork as well.
Bumping every thread every month to go 'hey, the playlist is updated!' is lame though.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 12:51 (eight years ago) link
It's just a billion times more convenient for me to be able to listen to the music on this thread via the Spotty playlists than going through each Youtube link one by one. I Don't want to discuss and dissect every track - there isn't always anything to say. I agree that sometimes these rolling threads can come across either as exclusivist or simply as a recommendations thread, but I don't think the Spotify playlists add or subtract to that. No one's forcing anyone to use them, but they are useful,.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 13:13 (eight years ago) link
If more people listened to the music I like, pitching pieces about that music to editors would be so much easier.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 13:16 (eight years ago) link
it warps and flattens these threads into shitty recommendation engines
― ulysses, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 14:27 (eight years ago) link
So how would you guys rank the african albums we've seen so far this year? My favorite is probably the Yemi Alade one, with Kiss Daniel trailing behind but the Tiwa and Kesh are good too.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link
really enjoying the Tiwa Savage album.
― ulysses, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
I'd like to know where the best place to get hold of these in a good quality format might be... Amazon?
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 15:30 (eight years ago) link
itunes or google play, perhaps?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link
I know this isn't 2016 but I just discovered Damily's "Very Aomby" from last year's thread and HOLY CRAP this is one of the most amazing guitar things I've ever heard.
And if this is relevant to the current sniping, I only discovered it because it's on the mega Spotify playlist, I wasn't actually reading this thread.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
I'm listening to the Kiss Daniel album now and Give Into is so great.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 25 May 2016 17:04 (eight years ago) link
the kiss daniel is my favorite of all these for sure
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 26 May 2016 02:17 (eight years ago) link
i didn't realize this but he wrote every song on the album
Fall 2015 but needs to be mentioned: DREAMTEAM - Ingomahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YQdvRbjkU8
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 08:36 (eight years ago) link
"This is a song about... the girl who tried to run away from my love... I call her runaway love... keep running, girl... runaway love..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGD-iA2TKic
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 08:43 (eight years ago) link
Orezi & Olamide - Under the blanket remix... is a jam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXNCPdI8QcU
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 1 June 2016 09:05 (eight years ago) link
http://www.barclayscenter.com/events/detail/one-africa-music-fest
July 22 at BK's Barclay's Center - Wizkid, Davido, Diamond Platnumz, Stonebwoy, Flavour, Tiwa Savage, Iyanya
Not working this one but if any of you are interested in contacting the promoter to inquire about doing press, ilxmail me and i'll connect the dots.
― ulysses, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
Did we post Lucy yet? She's on P-Squares record label and I like her single.
https://soundcloud.com/freemedigital/lucy-special-driver
And this one, from Davido Music Worldwide (lol), is nice too:https://soundcloud.com/avantepr/dmw-featuring-mayorkun-dremo-ichaba-davido-back-2-back
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 2 June 2016 08:39 (eight years ago) link
Okay so this one came on automatically and since a) it's a hit and b) includes the lyrics «Hasta la vista / Can I be friends with your sista» followed by rhymes on «mista» and «barista» it needs to be posted:
https://soundcloud.com/youths-digest/koker-kolewerk
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 2 June 2016 08:50 (eight years ago) link