From South Africa’s Limpopo region, Shangaan electro, known locally as Tsonga electro, exploded on the scene in the late 00s for a worldwide takeover of breakneck beats, choppy melodies and chipmunk vocals, before fading back into relative obscurity.

An introduction into Spector Books’ recently published Ten Cities, exploring the clubs and party goers of Africa’s most prominent dancefloors, including a few words from the journalist and contributors.

Our forty favorites albums published in 2018 This was almost Mission Impossible: we chose about forty of the many records that have surprised us, cheered us up, conquered us this year. Finding a guiding principle […]

Date: June 28th, 2018 Director: Chris Saunders Performer: Manthe Ribane Writer: Okzharp Choreography, Styling: Manthe Ribane The film ‘Closer/Apart’ is a collaboration between photographer and film-maker Chris Saunders, producer and writer Okzharp and performer and […]

Director: Chris Saunders & Cool Your Jets Date: 1st June, 2018 Album: Closer Apart Label: Hyperdub Okzharp and Manthe Ribane is producer Gervase Gordon a.k.a. Okzharp, vocalist, artist and dancer Manthe Ribane. Photographer and film maker Chris Saunders […]

Fantastic choreography for the new Malian diva’s music video. Read our Oumou Sangaré’s interview After her first single “Yere Faga” from the Mogoya album released via french record label No Format, Oumou Sangaré shares a beautiful music video directed […]

Oumou Sangaré has shared the video for her new single ‘Yere Faga’ in collaboration with Tony Allen, extract from her forthcoming album ‘Mogoya’ (meaning “people today”), via Nø Førmat.

Today PAM meets Mo Laudi : Artist / Producer / Party planner and boss of Globalisto records. The South-African based in Paris, is everywhere and has just released a new EP with Gazelle and DJ Invizable. He talks about this collab, his […]