Kampala-based label, founder of eponym festival, keeps on exploring, producing and releasing innovative music from around East Africa. Cover: Nihiloxica © Grace Holyoake Ward Nyege Nyege Tapes announces two releases coming soon: Nihiloxicas’s EP Biiri out on February 14th and Duke’s Uingizaji Hewa to be […]
The rising singeli producer works with 14 year old MC Dogo Mjanja. Tanzanian producer Jay Mitta will put out his debut album, Tatizo Pesa, via Nyege Nyege Tapes on January 11th. The singeli producer hailing from […]
On the cosmogonic track “Lithium Blast,” the group announces the release of its first eponymous album, resolutely futuristic and rooted in ideas of territory. With an explosive debut album centered around dangerously contagious substances, HHY […]
The most avant-garde collective and label on the African continent of electronic music returns with an album steeped in an immense tradition, the South African toyi-toyi: a powerful dance of protest and fight. Forget clubs […]
The visuals embody the energy of Kadilida, aka. MC Card Reader’s flow, one of the only underground female singeli MCs. Kampala, Uganda-based music label keeps on furthering their highlighting of the Tanzanian singeli scene with […]
The French producer to release Crocodiles Homieees on October 26th, an EP that finds its strenght in Hip-hop, Moldavian 8bit and pygmy field recording. Following from his production on Mc Yallah’s Ndi Mukazi, Debmaster presents his first […]
This is a story of explosive creativity, diehard cultural exchange, and avant-garde community from Kampala to Hamburg, with Nyege Nyege and Afropollination.
No-limit fashion designer, embodied performer and hybrid visual artist, Exocé feeds on the luminaries of Africa, like Fela or Sun Ra. Artist and messenger on a mission, he unfurls his Afro-cosmic universe at the Nyege Nyege Festival – Paris edition – this July 14.