The beat-digging veteran whose crossfader has always oscillated between soul, funk, jazz, reggae and hip-hop offers his best scratch so far with the LP Philanthropiques: 14 homemade productions inspired by 29 years of wild digging, […]
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Passing by Paris for the Gqomunion #5 party, we asked Citizen Boy to open his USB stick and give us the perfect track for every stage of a party. 21 year old Citizen Boy is known for being […]
2019’s first semester is coming to an end. Here is a selection of our favorite releases of the last three months. Graphic Illustration by Julie Jargeais Blick Bassy 1958 Four years after releasing “Akö”, the singer […]
In this week’s selection : afrofuturistic disco band Ibibio Sound Machine releases third album, WurlD’s sentimental “fuji pop”, Cykada’s multi-influence psychedelic jazz and the L.A – Mexico – Bristol dancehall connexion carried by badman Sikka Rymes. […]
A selection of our favorite albums and EPs released this week. With Blick Bassy, KOKOROKO, Duke, Jerico, Fuse ODG and R2Bees. Photo credit: Justice Mukheli Blick Bassy 1958 Four years after releasing “Akö”, the singer and […]
Binda Ngazolo, whose training owes a lot to Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s albums, revisits the meaning and context of some of his most remarkable songs. In Fela’s own words. Today, “Sorrow Tears and Blood”
The video for “Ngwa” is inspired by the tragic end of the Cameroonian rebel fighter Ruben Um Nyobe, here transposed to Southern Africa’s great natural spaces. A tribute to his life, and to the seeds […]