We talked to one of the Hot Casa Records’s two founder, Julien Lebrun. The label mainly offers 1970s afro funk reissues and also welcomes today’s productions of artists who pick up the funk torch.

French label Hot Casa Records reissues African Woman, the second album from Fela Kuti protégé Kingsley Bucknor Jr. Member of Fela’s Kalakuta Republic, King Bucknor Jr. was recorded in 1979 at the Emi studio in […]

Listen in on 2023 with our pan-African selection from Durban to Tunis, Nairobi to Niamey, featuring the likes of Amaarae, MC Yallah, Omagoqa, and Baaba Maal. 

This new episode in our Off the Map series takes you to Casablanca, behind the scenes of a musical theater company. Directed by Ghassan el Hakim, the film pays tribute to the sheikhats, popular singers of the past who practiced the Aita song.

​​From Mali to Nigeria, passing by Ivory Coast, Tunisia and Senegal, PAM presents a selection of 10 tracks that have lit the African rap planet on fire for the third quarter of 2022.

This week, Pongo delivers an adrenaline shot with her debut album, DJ Travella carries the new wave of singeli to the stars, Acid Arab invite their entourage for a pan-African remix session, Hassan Ideddir gets another shot at the limelight, and Makhadzi provides the bolobedu house.

Du Kenya au Rwanda en passant par le Togo, le Maroc et l’Egypte, PAM vous propose une sélection de dix morceaux qui ont secoué la planète rap africaine au cours du premier trimestre 2022.

The American label will reissue the single “Atfalouna” by singer-songwriter Hassan Ideddir, originally released in 1989, with two bonus tracks.  Born of Berber parents in Morocco, Hassan Ideddir has been passionate about music since his […]