…and then it’s back to Naija. This might be my favourite shaku shaku track so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8So5MpSNI94
Jaywon ft. Mr Real, Ido West, Ichaba, Gabzy Gambo & Toyin of Life, “Ma Sun (Stay Woke)” (It also has the biggest line-up.)
Hope I get to hear this on a massive soundsystem sometime, because whatever is happening 45-55 seconds in, I want to feel it in my body.
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 15 April 2018 01:05 (five years ago) link
On second thought, let’s finish in Cameroon. Jovi, “Pimentcam”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZKjAKlcv9I
Amazing track. We need more music from l’Afrique francophone in this thread. In fact, we need more of everything. We’re covering a whole continent’s pop music here!
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 15 April 2018 01:06 (five years ago) link
Gaah, I fucked that up. Final destination is Ghana after all. This is that Gasmilla track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ieGtNtM1AM
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 15 April 2018 01:12 (five years ago) link
Pimentcam reminds me of "Coller la Petite" or "La sauce" (also Cameroonian and about chili...).I don't have anything to contribute right now, except that I realized I really like "FIA" by Davido. I was still stuck on If.Ok, I'll post Sisi Mariahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6P258KGqjM
― Nabozo, Monday, 16 April 2018 10:49 (five years ago) link
Jovi (a/k/a Le Monstre) is also the producer of « La sauce » (and all of Reniss’s stuff), so that makes sense. My favourite recent track of hers is « Eya Eya », such a sweet song: https://youtu.be/AQ77YDwxjxcAs for Franko, his latest « On s’assoit pas » is same-old same-old, but I like it: https://youtu.be/sO5i-rvyyDYWould love to hear of others’ Cameroonian, Ivorian, Senegalese, Congolese etc. favourites!
― breastcrawl, Monday, 16 April 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
Gqom time: The new Mampintsha with Babes Wodumo, “Amaketanga”. Those final 30 seconds though - wish there was more of that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VOxf6Fu0To
Sho Madjozi, “Huku”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBnKYuv8O3A(A dance routine to the track on SA daytime TV, because why not?)
Coupla months old: DJ Sandiso ft. Okmalumkoolkat & Amadando - Isam-Qeh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwZmoz8ptm8
Also, DJ Sumbody’s “Ayepyep”, posted back in January, does not get old!
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
Bisa Kdei’s new album Highlife Konnect is out. It features two Guilty Beatz, including current hit “Hammer”, which is gorgeous, and two Juls-produced tracks, “Domi Bi” and “Door Mat”. But the highlight for me is the beautifully understated (even by Bisa’s standards) “Bie Wueni”, which I’m guessing is an update of some specific old-school highlife style. Anybody who can enlighten me on this?https://youtu.be/lEn3LHgrCtY(Bisa Kdei, “Hammer”)
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
I'm really loving the new wizkids. Lagos Vibes is exquisite.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
Fingers crossed for his rescheduled Coachella show on Saturday. Hopefully the visa issues will be resolved.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 22:52 (five years ago) link
There’s more: https://youtu.be/QfB0UI28pfoKiddominant ft. Wizkid, “Alright”(and several “official” singles to be released soon)
― breastcrawl, Friday, 20 April 2018 00:29 (five years ago) link
That Bisa Kdei album really is wonderful.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 20 April 2018 08:36 (five years ago) link
The fantastic new Sun-El Musician album Africa to the World has its own thread.
― breastcrawl, Friday, 20 April 2018 12:15 (five years ago) link
Just started listening to Bisa Kdei's new album, sounds awesome so far!
Loving this new DJ Coublon produced track:
Seyi Shay ft. Flavour & Dj Consequence - Alelehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBGZWI6cnHM
And my current favorite in Ghanaian pop music:
Kidi - Adiepena https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH8DAiSjmfA
― ahomka ginger, Saturday, 21 April 2018 21:24 (five years ago) link
Davido, Olamide, and Burna Boy all coming to 3 different clubs in DC for shows in May. These will be late-night gigs that likely won't get any crossover attention, but Washington's dedicated afropop/afrobeats community (largely immigrants) will turn out.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 23 April 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
It's been 10 days so it's appropriate to update the threadPatoranking has one that sounds quite positive to me, if not quite "suh different". Eugy has one too with that signature prod (Tick Tock). Iyanya has a light retro one called Biko. And finally a Marley-Olamide-Kesh collab called Issa Goal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WOHZ9QhI9Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTGgkWRynOAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMsmUESwpHshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-zdHo4LJJII don't know if it's because I haven't listened to afrobeats in a short while, but that is a good string of songs.
In other news, Davido has money (and a song of his own). Tiwa Savage had the good taste to make a remix and a new video for Get it now. Has anyone posted Legbegbe ? There's something about songs about phones. Those two songs have 2M plays each.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUBVYkCz8Lwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyoGXhIj1UA
Peace out
― Nabozo, Thursday, 3 May 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
Was Was really enjoying Ebony's 'Sponsor' so I searched the thread and Oh no, RIP :-( :-(
― brand new universal harvester (dog latin), Thursday, 3 May 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
Yes, it’s really sad, so much promise. She was extensively mourned on a Ghanaian award show I caught on livestream recently. I play her album quite a lot. She has a beautiful voice. “Date Ur Fada” is quite the anthem too, thanks in no small part to its wtf chorus. https://youtu.be/qG8LGFSypeM
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 3 May 2018 20:51 (five years ago) link
About that new Davido, “Assurance” - a change of producer, but he just won’t let go of that formula... Sounds a bit uninspired to my ears. This is the video: https://youtu.be/ucVJrja8r6Q
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 3 May 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
This is the shit though: DJ Spinall ft. Kiss Daniel, “Baba”. Killertunes knows no bounds!https://youtu.be/_kHtgJGV_PAGood to see Kiss starting to do some mingling now that he’s ran out of his contract with the G-Worldwide label, that had a no-outside-collabs/features rule. The legal battle is still ongoing though, afaik.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 3 May 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
Another artist with label “issues” isRuntown. This article is probably the most detailed report I’ve seen of some of the incredible shadiness that goes on in the Naija music scene:https://www.pulse.ng/entertainment/music/full-story-of-runtown-drama-with-record-label-id8176024.html
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 3 May 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
Agree that Assurance sounds slightly uninspired.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 3 May 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
Looking for delicious chilled out afro-inflected house music for sunny days. Essentially, what else sounds like Akanamali? I know a bit of Auntie Flo and Sdunkero etc but what else can I check out?
― brand new universal harvester (dog latin), Friday, 4 May 2018 11:21 (five years ago) link
Professor, Kaybee, Lady Zamar, Heavy K, Maphorisa, Black Motion, Ganyani... to be honest, a lot of South African house has this sound, so you can dig.
― Nabozo, Friday, 4 May 2018 12:31 (five years ago) link
Sort of expanding on my last two posts here: Try to imagine what a Killertunes-produced Runtown record would sound like. Now imagine Wizkid and Duncan Mighty singing it…
Starboy feat. Duncan Mighty & Wizkid, “Fake Love” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSSgzdIiItM
Nothing better than this.
― breastcrawl, Friday, 4 May 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
So good.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 4 May 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
Oh, and Wizkid dropped a track with Olamide today as well, also very good (duh), but I can have only one song on endless repeat: https://youtu.be/nxyay4m584YOlamide x Wizkid, “Kana” (produced by Legendury Beatz)(Actually it’s interesting how O and W both sing in a different voice/key here than they’re used to)
― breastcrawl, Friday, 4 May 2018 20:39 (five years ago) link
xps to dog latin:Of the ones Nabozo mentioned Prince Kaybee seems like a particularly good reference/starting point. His older stuff, things like “Don’t Give Up”, might be in the vein you’re looking for. https://youtu.be/sz8Q8rFSejg(the vocal version, with Lady Zamar)https://youtu.be/sz8Q8rFSejg(instrumental version as featured on the Better Days album). You can contrast it with his current smash “Club Controller”, which is in the much harder, stuttering (can’t come up with a better descriptor rn, sorry) gqom style that’s current now. Gqom (search: Distruction Boyz, Babes Wodumo) is all kinds of wonderful, but “delicious chilled out afro-inflected house music” it most definitely ain’t. The same contrast exists between older and current Maphorisa (/Uhuru). Ganyani and Black Motion (and Black Coffee too) are reliably afro-house though. Professor and Heavy K are both fantastic, but maybe not quite chilled out enough? If you’re not that familiar with SA house in its many incarnations, I’d say try all of these and see where it leads you.
― breastcrawl, Friday, 4 May 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
meant to post this link for the instrumental “Don’t Give Up”: https://open.spotify.com/track/0VKWlsoZr8waMPthuwHk90?si=vlxDLyWKQTWIV-psk9zPfA
― breastcrawl, Friday, 4 May 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
If the category was “mind-blowingly gorgeous music from South Africa”, this might possibly fit:
Zinaro ft. JB (of Thee Legacy) & Dust, “Dali Wami (Reloaded)” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1ednPRrNH0
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 6 May 2018 11:56 (five years ago) link
fake love is unseemly
― ||||||||, Sunday, 6 May 2018 11:59 (five years ago) link
There you go again, ||||||||, confusing me, as a non-native English speaker, with your one-word reviews. I’m assuming “unseemly” is high praise, just like I’d hazard “steady” was for “Akwaaba”, but please correct me if I’ve misunderstood.
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 6 May 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
yeah sorry, it's really good
― ||||||||, Sunday, 6 May 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
Haha, it’s all good. I’m glad we agree. (Actually, I now retroactively feel “unseemly” does it much more justice than just “very good”)
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 6 May 2018 12:55 (five years ago) link
or “really good” even
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 6 May 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link
New Wande Coal, “So Mi So”, produced by Juls: https://youtu.be/A6mRKZsAxMs
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 17:37 (five years ago) link
Tiwa Savage with a Wizzy vibe on the Spellz-produced “Tiwa’s Vibe”: https://youtu.be/JVr4C8MRti4
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 8 May 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
Video for “Fake Love” is out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCnvggIdBMU
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 20:19 (five years ago) link
Good profile on Davido:http://thenativemag.com/featured/davido-vs-world/
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 19 May 2018 09:15 (five years ago) link
The girl from Dumi hi phone has a new song, quite a lot better, sounds a lot like Busiswa but I like those gqom songs more on the fun side, it's something to explore. Sho Madjozi - Huku.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_EeqZcZ6dI
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
Yeah, that’s a good track. I posted it a month ago!
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
I’ve been maintaining a Spotify playlist for this thread. Here it is, for fun and reference: ILM rolling Afropop / Afrobeats 2018. (I included some of the older tracks mentioned by people as well.)
Most everything is in fact on Spotify. Of the current stuff, most notably absent are the Nyege Nyege Tapes releases, the Os Santiego track, Efya & Mr Eazi’s “Mame (Give Me)”, and Maphorisa x Raybel’s “iWalk ye Phara” - and then there’s the non-authorized Wizkid stuff, which (I suspect) is subject to an ongoing tug-of-war with RCA. “Lagos Vibes” is there now, posing as a Starboy track, but no such luck for the Ty Dollar $ign collab.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
Nice! Thanks!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
I'm not super-familiar with Afrobeat, but I found this by accident on Spotify and can't seem to stop playing it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey4UGQOSfjs
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 24 May 2018 10:38 (five years ago) link
afropop, i mean
What do you all think of this? Some hard n heavy beats from West Country boys Boa Kusasa with Nigerian artist Magugu. I got to catch them the other day and they ripped it up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dmFQCpW1TM
― Hire Planes (dog latin), Thursday, 24 May 2018 11:25 (five years ago) link
for fun and beause it's trendinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW_xEqCWrm0
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 29 May 2018 09:43 (five years ago) link
Saw Burna Boy at the Howard Theatre in DC. He had a band with a good backing woman singer plus a dj adding programmed and backing tracks as well. He was energetic but soundperson didn't have his voice high enough in the mix. The show lost some of the occasional subtlety and tunefulness his studio versions offer.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 June 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
so what if it's penalty ISSA GOALhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-zdHo4LJJI
― ||||||||, Saturday, 16 June 2018 08:40 (five years ago) link
Keep it going!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OYdOjLIhvM
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 16 June 2018 10:49 (five years ago) link
Two from South Africa:
This is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mwVXfkW0Qs
Mobi Dixon ft. Nichume, DJ Tira & Kwesta, “Visa”
Every good party has an afterparty: “Club Controller”, the remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlr5CMazWJE
(It adds Mpumi, Nokwazi, Bucie and Busiswa to the mix, for starters. The version on Spotify is almost 9 minutes!)
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 26 June 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link