{"id":41252,"date":"2019-11-07T16:13:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/dj-katapila-retraces-his-journey-in-eponymous-short-documentary\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T12:41:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T10:41:05","slug":"dj-katapila-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/dj-katapila-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Katapila retraces his journey in eponymous short documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-32227 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/0c12c02e-dj-katapila.jpg\" alt=\"DJ Katapila\" width=\"679\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/0c12c02e-dj-katapila.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/0c12c02e-dj-katapila-759x546.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/0c12c02e-dj-katapila-1010x727.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/0c12c02e-dj-katapila-661x476.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/0c12c02e-dj-katapila-465x335.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/0c12c02e-dj-katapila-375x270.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>The unmistakably original artist is the subject of a documentary on his musical journey.<\/h4>\n<p>From a young age, Ishmael Abbey was a beloved local DJ in Accra, Ghana\u2019s competitive and rapidly-evolving music galaxy.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/dj-katapila\/\">Katapila<\/a> <\/span>brought Ghana\u2019s street party culture to audiences overseas; making a wave of happy dancers. All of this is reflected in the production of DAT Films and his l<span style=\"color: #333333;\">abel, <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/awesome-tapes-from-africa\/\">Awesome Tapes From Africa<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The release of this short documentary proves the growing interest for Ghana&#8217;s most unpredictable producer and DJ.<\/p>\n<p>Watch <em>DJ Katapila<\/em> just below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"vimeo-player\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/316740442\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unmistakably original artist is the subject of a documentary on his musical journey. From a young age, Ishmael Abbey was a beloved local DJ in Accra, Ghana\u2019s competitive and rapidly-evolving music galaxy.\u00a0Katapila brought Ghana\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":32227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944,9408],"tags":[41276,4096],"location":[7994],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41252"}],"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=41252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41252"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=41252"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}