{"id":41549,"date":"2019-08-20T15:48:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T13:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/ugandan-mc-swordman-kitala-collaborates-with-tom-blip-on-kitala-beat\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T11:10:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T09:10:23","slug":"ugandan-mc-swordman-kitala-collaborates-with-tom-blip-on-kitala-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/ugandan-mc-swordman-kitala-collaborates-with-tom-blip-on-kitala-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan MC Swordman Kitala collaborates with Tom Blip on &#8220;Kitala Beat&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28045 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Swordman-Kitala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Swordman-Kitala.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Swordman-Kitala-759x506.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Swordman-Kitala-1010x673.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Swordman-Kitala-661x441.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Swordman-Kitala-465x310.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Swordman-Kitala-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Great collaboration between UK and Uganda.<\/h4>\n<p>For Blip Discs\u2019 eighth release, boss label Tom Blip announces a two track single recorded with Swordman Kitala, a young MC affiliated with the ever formidable Nyege Nyege crew from Kampala, Uganda. You might hear him on Cirofox&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1haYthKsXJs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Life Ain&#8217;t Easy<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The A-side &#8220;Kitala Beat&#8221; presents a production built on a skippy 808 drum machine-driven rhythms that sounds like a good Neptunes hit, whilst the B side presents a completely reimagined \u2018Funky Mix\u2019 of the same vocals with a more percussive and harder style.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/667958702%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-HtrBC&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Swordman (pron: swad-man) Kitala\u2019s early experience performing as an MC came around with Boutiq Electroniq, the club night of which he is affiliated with and mentions on the release. It was the \u2018Boutiq\u2019 nights that provided one of the only places you could hear contemporary African electronic music such as kuduro, balani and soukous in the city of Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>These small, intimate yet influential local club nights would eventually play a key role in the upstart of Nyege Nyege, the festival at which Tom Blip would meet Swordman Kitala.<\/p>\n<p>Find\u00a0Swordman Kitala\u00a0at<span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/nyege-nyege-festival-2019\/\">Nyege Nyege Festival<\/a>,\u00a0from 5th to\u00a08th September\u00a0in Jinja, Uganda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Kitala Beat<\/em>\u00a0by Tom Blip &amp; Swordman Kitala,\u00a0release on 12th September 2019. Pre-order\u00a0via<span style=\"color: #333333;\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/blipdiscs.bandcamp.com\/album\/kitala-beat-blip008\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bandcamp<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/nyege-nyege-electro-acholi\/\">Nyege Nyege explores Ugandan electronic acholi history<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28047\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tom-Blip-Swordman-Kitala.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tom-Blip-Swordman-Kitala.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tom-Blip-Swordman-Kitala-759x759.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tom-Blip-Swordman-Kitala-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tom-Blip-Swordman-Kitala-661x661.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tom-Blip-Swordman-Kitala-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tom-Blip-Swordman-Kitala-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tom-Blip-Swordman-Kitala-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tom-Blip-Swordman-Kitala-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Tom-Blip-Swordman-Kitala-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great collaboration between UK and Uganda. 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