Pakisha sounds like a version of Omunye though.Still working on my pronunciation of gqom lol.Another sort of recent one I like is iScathulo.
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link
Hey, it’s Wizkid x Killertunes, installment #4, with DJ Spinall facilitating yet again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES8XuZBafz0
Track is called “Nowo”.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
I'm loving this loose vibe Wizzy is on currently immensely, by the way. Such a contrast with that slight stiltedness - if that's the right word - of those Sounds From The Other Side tracks - even though some of them (but not all!) were very good.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
(lol Nabozo, I'm not quite sure how to pronounce gqom either...)
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Apparently it’s...https://youtu.be/IG-wovGmRqMSounds so much better than I ever imagined!
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
So Mashayabhuqe KaMamba, who is on that DJ Boonu track, also did this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tei1LbSbpLk
“KwaDukuza”
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgvPWiAupQc
love this latest sun-el collab
― ufo, Thursday, 1 March 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link
That whole Busiswa album is pretty special, btw. Someone should alert lex.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 1 March 2018 07:42 (six years ago) link
Heading back to Nigeria,I really like Don Toffy's olamide-ish Anything For The Mulla:
https://soundcloud.com/pluggrecords/don-toffy-anything-for-the-mulla-afrourbanplugg
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 1 March 2018 09:04 (six years ago) link
A couple of tracks from Ghana that haven't been posted yet I think:
DJ Vyrusky feat. Kuami Eugene & Shatta Wale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ltJrEMc1Ko
Kuami Eugene is a young afropop singer who got famous on Ghanaian TV show MTN Hitmaker and had a massive hit "Angela" last year. His latest song apparently borrows from Sidiki Diabate's "Fais moi confiance" and some from Daddy Lumba & Kojo Antwi as well
Kuami Eugene - Confusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2R0V-TgBY4
King Promise - Selfish https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z2XfY9btCw
― ahomka ginger, Thursday, 1 March 2018 11:05 (six years ago) link
Love King Promise and “Selfish”. His previous one, last year’s “Oh Yeah”, is even better:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPxOLjJH0Pc
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
More gorgeous holdovers from last year, both Nigerian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejkNXMiVfPU
(Runtown, “Energy”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmMJLnYp2_o
(Bracket ft. Flavour, “Chop Kiss”)
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:02 (six years ago) link
And a Ghanaian one. Love how propulsive this is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsFEuro2Eqc
Yaa Pono feat. MzVee, “Wu (Die)”
Music videos for two Shaku Shaku songs that have been around for some time:
Mr Real - Legbegbe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5aGdpqNO8w
Oladips feat. Reminisce - Lalakukulalahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GprISw5sBNs
― ahomka ginger, Friday, 2 March 2018 10:54 (six years ago) link
As gqom-y as shaku shaku has gotten so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqozEQzaWDA
Skuki, “Owello”
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 3 March 2018 15:56 (six years ago) link
Haha, that's totally a south african beat.I didn't know this duo, they're cool. I like Forkanizer from last year and they have a lot more with collabs with Lil Kesh, Olamide etc.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwc4fkT74qk)
― Nabozo, Saturday, 3 March 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
Skuki have been around for a long time, but for some reason their older stuff has been wiped off the face of Spotify. Search: “Over The Mountain” feat. Olamide (2015):https://youtu.be/ZUO2fQFU6DY(either the very first Young John copycat production, or this mysterious ‘BimOnTheBeat’ was actually a YJ alias)“Voom Va” feat. Phyno (2013):https://youtu.be/5Pe7whelUMc(stone-cold classic; an absolutely thrilling record)
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 3 March 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
Check these great dance videos on the hard-hitting iWalk yephara song (the dance is something viral from last year's hit "Shut up and groove" by Distruction boyz, and Macassette / DJ Raybel "remade" the song...if I got it right)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IErsqu64T7chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og_kaTxfE3U
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 10:59 (six years ago) link
and for the reference and because the dancing is so amazing, here's this unofficial video from shut up and groovehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr1whZOcLRc
― Nabozo, Wednesday, 7 March 2018 11:22 (six years ago) link
Nabozo, forgive me if I misunderstood your post, but I don’t really hear the connection between “iWalk ye Phara” and “Shut Up And Groove”? However, I came across another track with TDK MaCassette involvement that IS extremely similar to SUAG, “Yeba” by Rude Boyz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_WnzfnPSzk
But yeah, “iWalk ye Phara” is very good and I enjoyed the dancing!
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 8 March 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
(Sorry, that should be "Yebo")
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 8 March 2018 19:51 (six years ago) link
It ain’t no “Hola Hola” (although the bassline tries very, very hard, and admirably so), but Sugarboy just dropped his first good song since… well, “Hola Hola”:
https://soundcloud.com/gworldwideent/sugarboy-chop-feat-ycee
Sugarboy ft. Ycee, “Chop”
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 8 March 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
I think the connection was in the dancing, not the song, but i might be mistaken?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:18 (six years ago) link
The new Lil Kesh, “Apa Mi”, sounds great. Produced by Princeton, who did the Sugarboy as well. One to watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4LILt3Dp5E
― breastcrawl, Friday, 9 March 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link
Minz - Odoyewuhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAaSsLNUFRg
― Nabozo, Saturday, 10 March 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
And more dancing because it's cool and belongs to the genre (on Gwara Gwara)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7AgxSPhx54
― Nabozo, Monday, 12 March 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
No respect...For the second year in a row, the Nabisco (N.A.) edited NY Times Magazine special issue 25 Songs that Tell Us Where Music is Going has no artists based in Africa (mostly all US & UK this year except for 1 K-Pop, a hiphop remix with Puerto Rican rappers, and a Scottish pop group with 2 members of Liberian heritage )
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 02:58 (six years ago) link
You were expecting something from the culture department of Times Magazine ? :) I always found them to be doing blandness-incarnate filler, or maybe their readers are that shallow. But yeah, culture is not global at all, just imperialistic.
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
The issue does have nicely penned pieces on Chicago footwork DJ Taye and one on a remix with Farruko, Nicki Minaj, and Bad Bunny; SZA ,and Bruno Mars's Finesse remix. But I was expecting more from a former ilxor who writes well and is very smart and who got a bunch of talented writers from elsewhere to contribute. An editor doesn't have to like Scandinavian whatever(pop or metal) or Nigerian Afropop to recognize that it should be included in something with the heading "25 Songs that Tell Us Where Music is Going," but he didn't do that this year or last year (the first time he edited this). Instead, as when he was the music critic at New York Magazine he generally followed his interests-US and UK pop, rap, and r'n'b.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 03:13 (six years ago) link
very sad to see that DJ Spoko has died: http://www.factmag.com/2018/03/14/influential-south-african-artist-dj-spoko-has-died-aged-35/
― rob, Thursday, 15 March 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
Could I have your attention please? It’s (not just) another Guilty Banger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRPCBg1N4Yo
GuiltyBeatz feat. Mr Eazi, PappyKoo & Patapaa, “Akwaaba”
― breastcrawl, Friday, 16 March 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
That's "Pappy Kojo", of course.
― breastcrawl, Friday, 16 March 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
(that "audio" video is perfect in all its simplicity too)
― breastcrawl, Friday, 16 March 2018 22:25 (six years ago) link
Tekno seemed to be slowly losing his mojo in the past few months (Nabozo referred to it upthread), but I gotta say, the brand new “Yur Luv” is love at first sight:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNTXmiajBn0
Makossa, baby!
(He shouldn’t be so shy about producing his own tracks, this is only the second. The previous one, “Go”, was the best thing he released last year, along with “Yawa”.)
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 18 March 2018 02:25 (six years ago) link
This one’s from Angola: Preto Show ft. Biura, “Sacanagem Clepatia”. It’s huge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhxBHicfYhY
He’s got one out with Davido as well, produced by KS Drums. Nice to hear Davido on something different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eATONOOqC1U
Preto Show ft. Davido, “Banger (Mamawe)”
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 18 March 2018 04:47 (six years ago) link
Reporting from the Angolan rabbit hole.
Preto Show has been involved involved in all kinds of great stuff. Check out his (mini-)album Panamera, released last year.This one is fire too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xINs0T7B3ME
(The Crew ft. Preto Show & Zoca Zoca, “Esse Moço”)
And how about this guy? He just dropped an album too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MtzV1_HaBo
(Nerú Americano, “Zaranza”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPcKNXZaXGU
(Nerú Americano ft. DJ Vado Poster, “Adoço”)
Going back in time a bit further, to 2015:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIjADsddG8o
(Os’Banah, “Banzelo”)
― breastcrawl, Monday, 19 March 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
A bonus interlude, just for fun, and because it’s all new to me, this kuduro classic from 2009 or 2010:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEU2934eJuE
(Agre G, “Piké Piké”)
― breastcrawl, Monday, 19 March 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
But this is the big one…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z64YURwg50w
(Os Santiegos ft. Nerú Americano, “Sem Maldades”)
The music, the dancing. Holy fuck.
I think DJ Vado Poster is my favourite person in music right now. Of the ones I posted he produced “Adoço”, “Banzelo” and “Sem Maldades”.
(Also, I can’t help thinking Shaku shaku is just kid’s play compared to all of this Angolan mayhem.)
― breastcrawl, Monday, 19 March 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
that's awesome
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 03:04 (six years ago) link
Proper video for “Akwaaba” is out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHjV0kzFKG8
(GuiltyBeatz feat. Mr Eazi, Pappy Kojo & Patapaa, “Akwaaba”)
― breastcrawl, Friday, 23 March 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
(There's dancing)
― breastcrawl, Friday, 23 March 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link
2018's first official Summer Jam, btw
― breastcrawl, Friday, 23 March 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
steady
― ||||||||, Friday, 23 March 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
???
― breastcrawl, Friday, 23 March 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
I produce a bunch of data-generated playlists on Spotify, including a set based on the distinctive listening of countries. There hasn't been much African representation in this list, because Spotify hasn't been directly available in any African countries, but we just launched in South Africa, finally, and with a little tweaking of thresholds this week I was able to get lists for Ghana and Tanzania, as well. So, if you're interested:
Ghana: https://open.spotify.com/user/thesoundsofspotify/playlist/6zvs325lRproQd0Sd83oQg?si=k0tX616kT9mgp9Z0za4ehQSouth Africa: https://open.spotify.com/user/thesoundsofspotify/playlist/6KeYZIeYiElx86iOhDigH3?si=PMOriAFJTEWQ5kv7hsmHPwTanzania: https://open.spotify.com/user/thesoundsofspotify/playlist/56S93wwXTegxAuz9Np96zY?si=q4s8d5E9SgWqoD5v2BBK6g
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 23 March 2018 22:53 (six years ago) link
I think this new Mayorkun (ft. Davido) track is pretty nice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EitxN6DDN4
― ahomka ginger, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
Slimcase seems to be the man of the moment in Naija music. Here's an interview where he talks about Shaku Shaku (3:00), the meaning of "SaintSamiGanga" (4:23) and says he is the most featured Naija artist since December until today and he might be right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5d2JDKgDoo
― ahomka ginger, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
There's this new Ghanaian artist with a song sounding like UK afroswing. The beat might be taken from "Barking" by Ramz, quite similar beat at least. Interesting to see how big impact this UK sound (Not3s, J Hus etc.) will have there.
Kwesi Arthur - The Anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW-i367I1Ro
― ahomka ginger, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
I think soundwise afrobeats is a bit locked-in. You can look towards America, Jamaica, UK, South Africa, retro African (trad, 90s or Antenna-levels party synths), but then you sound derivative and "interesting", and the next song you can come back to the central sound, even if every new idea there is quickly exhausted.I think my favorite song of the year is still Soco (which has a video).I'll be staying in South Africa for a while, so I soon get the opportunity to complain about them and third-rate distruction boyz songs too :)
― Nabozo, Thursday, 29 March 2018 07:36 (six years ago) link
Ha ha! Where in SA are you going to be staying? The whole Afro Bashment/Swing scene is still cool but it seems like all the best songs came at the beginning of it. It has settled in now but it doesn’t seem too exciting anymore.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 29 March 2018 08:57 (six years ago) link