Afrofuturist Ugandan griot, Faizal Mostrixx, continues his avant-garde, multi-sensory disciplines on latest EP, Transitions, to be released on Glitterbeat Records. Faizall Mostrixx has been behind some of East Africa’s hottest electronica and counter-cultural rhythms for […]

Passionate ambassador of noisy and experimental sounds, the Kenyan Makossiri offers us a dark and abrasive PAM Club that brilliantly reconciles industrial techno and East African rhythms, just like her productions. At the beginning of […]

From Cairo to Kampala, L’île Maurice to Paris the official lineup for the Parisian edition of the Nyege Nyege Festival is finally here. Dive into the sounds, and get your tickets here!

The community music platform follows up Vol. 1 with another session of independent musicians from the UK, Kenya, Uganda and around the world. In November 2019, eight artists from Kenya, Uganda and the UK spent […]

Tracey accumulated 35,000 recordings from the 1920s to the 1970s which were recorded in 18 different countries and across 250 ethnic groups. Chris Pedley and Oliver Moira helped local contemporary producers tap into this incredible […]

Get together eight artists from a number of different countries and backgrounds for a week in Nairobi to create an album and a documentary – this was the ambitious gamble made and won by the […]

Eight artists, five cities, three countries, one album. Extra Soul Perception is a collaborative project exploring new tangents in soul music with eight innovative artists from the UK, Kenya and Uganda. The creative collaboration between Maxwell Owin, Lynda […]

From gengetone and dancehall to hip-hop and alternative r&b checkout the artists shaking up the East African music scenes and beyond, passing through Kigali, Nairobi, Kampala and more.