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PAM Club: A Pan-Afrobeat mixtape from Mukambo
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PAM Club: A Pan‑Afrobeat mixtape from Mukambo

Between two cutting-edge podcasts, DJ Mukambo takes to the PAM Club decks for a set that shows how the Afrobeat movement remains alive and kicking. It would be surprising if the Belgian capital did not […]

Xhosa Cole takes five
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Xhosa Cole takes five

In conversation with Xhosa Cole on the Pan-African nature of jazz, the importance of looking back to move forward, and the capacity for activism and rejoice through music.

The posthumous return of Tony Allen
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The posthumous return of Tony Allen

With his posthumous album, There Is No End, the legendary Afrobeat drummer continues to inject rhythms into our lives exactly one year after his passing. On April 30, 2020, Tony Allen left us. This former […]

The best Nigerian songs of 2021 so far
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The best Nigerian songs of 2021 so far

After a rocky 2020 that witnessed a pandemic and national protests against police violence, Nigerian artists are hitting 2021 with a newfound force. Here is our selection of the best Nigerian music of 2021 so far.

PAM Rewind: Boddhi Satva’s world in 15 tracks
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PAM Rewind: Boddhi Satva's world in 15 tracks

Every month Cortega picks a DJ or producer who puts Africa and its diaspora in the spotlight. Featuring an exclusive playlist of the 15 sounds that have shaped his musical universe. Today we invite the Central African producer Boddhi Satva.

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6 albums you should listen to this week
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6 albums you should listen to this week

Aspects STR4TA Long time friends and collaborators, Gilles Peterson and Jean-Paul ‘Bluey’ Maunick, join forces to breathe new life into an essential era they both helped build, the British funk scene of the 80s. Peterson […]

Gilles Peterson: DJ on a different frequency
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Gilles Peterson: DJ on a different frequency

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.

Ben Okri & Skepta pay tribute to Tony Allen on “Cosmosis”
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Ben Okri & Skepta pay tribute to Tony Allen on "Cosmosis"

In “Cosmosis,” the Nigerian poet and British grime artist combine for the first track on the new posthumous album by the afrobeat legend. Recorded in London, in March 2020, in the famous Studio 13, “Cosmosis” […]