The biggest South African song on the radio in 2021 finally gets highly cinematographic visuals.  Believe it or not: the most played song on South African radios in 2021 was not an amapiano track, and […]

This year Nigerian music broke records, filled stadiums, and created household names around the world.

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

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.

In addition to her newly released mixtape (via Hakuna Kulala), queer artist with Kenyan and Tanzanian roots DJ Iche joins the PAM Club exercise with a groovy and authentic mix.

In celebration of Salif Keita’s seminal album, Soro, via a conversation with it’s producer François Bréant.

Modern Nigerian music is much more than Afrobeats, and the market’s continued boom has made space for DJs and producers who lean into the foreign influence of EDM and electronic music to create a wholly original Nigerian EDM scene. 

The four track project, to be released via Shika Shika, was created amidst the sun and the waves of the Indian ocean. Labalamer was composed during 2021 after Dilo aka Eat My Butterfly’s return to […]