This year was more electric than ever. From Lagos to Dar el Salaam, London, Durban and Kampala, here’s our selection of electronic albums that shook the dancefloors are broke our speakers in 2022.

Reissues always remind us that the ocean of music is much deeper than the surface of new releases. From Ghana to Colombia, passing by Somalia, Zimbabwe or Mali, PAM has selected 30 reissues from 2022 that bring back from oblivion the great archives of African music.

From Johannesburg to Yaoundé via Accra, Kinshasa or Lagos, this non-exhaustive list is an overview of the sounds that made us vibrate in June, whether it is amapiano, batida, Afro-house, gqom, English bass music, deep-house or other experiments of all kinds.

Inventive labels are revealing to the world forgotten musical gems, full of history and lost to the archives. Here’s a selection of some of the best African reissues of 2022.

Love Supreme Nneka Born in the Delta region of Nigeria, moving to Germany at the age of 19 to study anthropology, Nneka has earned a notable neo-soul singer reminiscent of Erykah Badu. “Love Supreme” is […]

The Lisbon-based producer drops “Madeso” as a single, a new wild track ahead of the real batida storm.  DJ Nigga Fox’s new track is a rush of adrenaline. On the six intense minutes, the insistent […]

Listen to 2021’s best amapiano, batida, baile funk, techno, jungle, gqom, afro-futurist and more, making the clubs bounce all across the continent.

The South African Afro house heavyweight jumps on Seres Produções for a new EP. Discover the track “The Sunshine” exclusively on PAM. Originally from Polokwane, in the Limpopo province of Northern South Africa, Kabelo Koma […]