Listen in on 2021 with our pan-African selection from Cairo to Pretoria, Lagos to Nairobi, featuring the likes of Ayra Starr, Mdou Moctar, Focalistic, Nahawa Doumbia, and Kasai Allstars.

The young prodigy’s upcoming project, released via Awesome Tapes From Africa, will aim big while staying true to amapiano’s DIY essence.   Teno Afrika’s 2020 debut Amapiano Selections drew an international wave of support sparked by […]

On the road to take on the world, young DJ and producer Teno Afrika adds his name to the PAM Club hall of fame with a refined amapiano set. A must listen.

President Ya Straata Focalistic Focalistic’s mission to export amapiano to the rest of the world is on hold, with the Pitori (Pretoria)-born superstar now unveiling his latest project, entitled President Ya Straata, which means “President […]

Awesome Tapes from Africa’s new signees announce their first project, an electronic “journey through 2020’s bizarre mindscape.”  In South African slang, “ma2000” is a term used to describe young people who were born after the […]

A tenuous tale of her Poté Poté is a British club and electronic artist from Saint Lucia, an island state in the West Indies. Through primarily a producer, Poté fully assumes his vocation as a […]

To celebrate the release of Indaba Is the 1st record of 2021 from Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label – PAM caught up with Gilles and Indaba’s Thandi Ntuli (a few weeks apart, and on different continents) to talk curation, Pan-African sounds, and how a record label can be an ally.

After Teno Afrika, the label Awesome Tapes From Africa continues its interest in amapiano with the announcement of a debut album by the young South African DJ Black Low. From his home studio in Pretoria, […]