With shortly cropped bleached hair, huge gold earrings, and shiny polished nails, 25-year-old Pongo is an impressive young woman. She doesn’t go unnoticed, even in the Intendente square, in the heart of a cosmopolitan Lisbon. […]

Producer and promoter send us his new afrohouse mix – a genre that inspired him over the making of his last EP. One hour of Afrohouse dancefloor-oriented, with tracks from Gardy Girault, Babes Wodumo, Dorivaldo, Patoranking, Emo Kid, […]

Peruvian duo Dengue Dengue Dengue unveils Son de Los Diablos – an EP named after a traditional Peruvian dance. Dengue Dengue Dengue takes its influences of the Afro-Peruvian population with traditional instruments and cultural rituals such as street processions […]

Our favorite basotho rapper Morena Leraba is back with a new collabo with Polish-Angolan duo Lua Preta to kick off a new year. Originally posted by Prospect If you don’t know Lua Preta yet, it consists of Mentalcut and Supa Gia G combining […]

He escaped from Luanda’s ghetto at 17, and recently escaped temporarily from his Porto-based “kudurock” trio Throes + The Shine. Angolan singer and musician Diron Animal plays it solo with his debut album, Alone, proudly released […]

Montreal-based crew Moonshine releases SMS LOCATION vol.1, a mixtape that features ABAKOS, Kae Sun, Fly Guy Dai from Shabazz Palaces… Moonshine is a Montreal-based, Afro-futuristic collective of musicians, DJ’s and visual artists. It began as the team behind a […]

Red Bull Music Academy and Awesome Tapes From Africa unveil short film Ata Kak: Time Bomb. Digged and reissued by Brian Shimkovitz via his own imprint Awesome Tapes From Africa, Ata Kak’s iconic dance music found his […]

Awesome Tapes From Africa reissues Professor Rhythm’s Funky dance music album Bafana Banfana, a masterpiece album of Kwaito. Via The Vinyl Factory Professor Rhythm is an alias of Thami Mduli, a prolific musician and producer […]