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PAM Club : Hamza, Cairo’s messenger
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PAM Club : Hamza, Cairo's messenger

DJ and producer Hamza takes us to Cairo, his native city, and initiates PAM Club to Egyptian Mahraganat. A mutating genre, in between mainstream rise and underground fame. We met with Hamza at the turntables […]

PAM Club: Zazu, waking rave
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PAM Club: Zazu, waking rave

This weekend, the unifying energy of Zazu will take over the DJ booth of the PAM Club, with a set that alternates between dancehall, baile funk and afro-club gems tinged with r&b. No room for […]

Silent Noise and the sensual intimacy of maryyx2’s Lagos
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Silent Noise and the sensual intimacy of maryyx2’s Lagos

maryyx2 provides an alternative perspective of Lagos in Silent Noise, a digital and provocative window in which the intimate and chaotic clash with worlds often unseen. 

Mogadishu’s Finest: nostalgia from the Iftin Band’s Somalia
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Mogadishu’s Finest: nostalgia from the Iftin Band’s Somalia

Out November 18th, Mogadishu’s Finest : The Al-Uruba Sessions is a curation of the some of the best work from Somali 1980’s group Iftin Band. In the 80’s, in the heart of Somalia’s capital, there’s […]

Lady Lykez teases new project with hilarious “KillaBee” video
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Lady Lykez teases new project with hilarious “KillaBee” video

Lady Lykez is a queen bee in the video for her buzzing new track “Killa Bee”, the first single from her upcoming EP Woza. Three years after the Muhammad Ali EP, North London rapper Lady […]

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Vigro Deep and amapiano’s bigger picture
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Vigro Deep and amapiano’s bigger picture

Infusing his sound with techno, house or rave, the 21 year-old producer wants to see the South African genre sit side by side with any dance music. In the middle of his European tour, PAM interviewed Vigro Deep.

Ernesto Djédjé : king of ziglibithy, father of the ziglibithiens
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Ernesto Djédjé : king of ziglibithy, father of the ziglibithiens

Analog Africa reissues a selection of tracks by Ernesto Djédjé, hero of the Ivorian musical epic whose modern rise caused a sensation well beyond his country. Passed on far too early, Ernesto embodied the fusion of soul, funk, and the traditions of his beloved region.

Hagan, fishing for Textures in Ghana
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Hagan, fishing for Textures in Ghana

PAM meets Hagan, a producer casting a net wide into the pan-African soundspace for a cinematic and club-ready album, Textures, created between trips to Ghana.