{"id":120285,"date":"2023-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=120285"},"modified":"2023-03-16T17:16:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T15:16:38","slug":"digital-indigenous-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/digital-indigenous-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Indigenous 04, joyful electro sounds from Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The fourth volume of the <em>Digital Indigenous<\/em> series highlights the work of Malawi talent DJ Kapwanthi, gathering his beat-style, high-energy sound in a 7-track opus, available April 4th.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Honoring African trailblazers in the eastern countries of Malawi and Tanzania, the diggers at <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/1000hz\/\">100Hz<\/a> have once again shed light on an outstanding talent in the latest installment of their <em>Digital Indigenous <\/em>series. In 2020, the Polish label debuted its exploration with <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/andy-one-imba-africa\/\">Andy One<\/a> and his 7-track <a href=\"https:\/\/digitialindigenous1000hz.bandcamp.com\/album\/digital-indigenous-01-imba-africa\"><em>Imba Africa<\/em><\/a>. Releasing a profound, multifaceted project tackling religion, loneliness, and unity, this producer and songwriter did so on a soundtrack of traditional Ngoni and Tumbuka rhythms, reggae, hip-hop, and afropop. <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/dj-kainga-digital-indigenous\/\">For the second volume<\/a> &#8211; and its euphoric <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/pam-club-dj-kainga\/\">PAM Club<\/a> -, Lomwe native <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/dj-kainga-digital-indigenous\/\">DJ Kainga<\/a> blended local sounds with electro and dancehall influences. Coming next, multi-talented creative Happy Mphanda gave an emotional performance. His family-made (Happy\u2019s band is composed of his brothers and cousins) traditional and electronic hymns paid homage to his late younger brother <a href=\"https:\/\/digitialindigenous1000hz.bandcamp.com\/album\/digital-indigenous-03-relke-meto\">Relke<\/a> and celebrated his Ngoni community. Coming April 4th, the fourth volume now highlights fellow Lowme talent DJ Kapwanthi.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4227389451\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=1742022562\/transparent=true\/\" seamless loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digitialindigenous1000hz.bandcamp.com\/album\/digital-indigenous-04-mp4mp3\">Digital Indigenous 04: MP4MP3 by DJ Kapwanthi<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sourcing, editing, and reimagining fragments of Malawian and African movies and videos, &#8211; in the way <a href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/nigeria-cruise-beats\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/nigeria-cruise-beats\/\">Nigerian cruise beat producers use memes<\/a> &#8211; Kapwanthi uses other mediums to create upbeat, radio-ready, Whatsapp viral tunes like \u2018MP4MP3\u2019, \u2018AVIMP3\u2019 and \u2018MOVMP3\u2019. Pouring his creative flow onto FruityLoops, the DJ blends modernity with tradition and mixes Lowme rhythms and regional instruments, like the finger-plucking sansi. Beautiful tracks like \u2018Wachitaya Chikond Changa\u2019 (He Has Lost My Love) or \u2018Kdikakwatile Kubala\u2019 (I Will Get Married and Give Birth) use the local sounds to send deep poetic messages, for instance on gender roles in the Lowme community. Like its predecessor,this fourth opus encapsulates the essence of its producer\u2019s community. <em>Digital Indigenous 04: MP4MP3<\/em> recounts the vibrant rhythms and resilient joyfulness of the Lowme people, on their way to emancipation and better days ahead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1010\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DJ-Kapwanthi-1010x1010.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DJ-Kapwanthi-1010x1010.jpeg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DJ-Kapwanthi-759x759.jpeg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DJ-Kapwanthi-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DJ-Kapwanthi-661x661.jpeg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DJ-Kapwanthi-465x465.jpeg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DJ-Kapwanthi-375x375.jpeg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DJ-Kapwanthi-200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DJ-Kapwanthi-85x85.jpeg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DJ-Kapwanthi-73x73.jpeg 73w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/DJ-Kapwanthi.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth volume of the Digital Indigenous series highlights the work of Malawi talent DJ Kapwanthi, gathering his beat-style, high-energy sound in a 7-track opus, available April 4th.&nbsp; Honoring African trailblazers in the eastern countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":120288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[25878,4096],"location":[8128],"yst_prominent_words":[21258,8447,8402,29435,8435],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120285"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=120285"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=120285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}