{"id":41607,"date":"2019-07-04T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T09:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/taxi-sampler-01-is-a-wild-ride-through-new-african-urban-music-scenes\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:34:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:34:57","slug":"taxi-sampler-01-is-a-wild-ride-through-new-african-urban-music-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/taxi-sampler-01-is-a-wild-ride-through-new-african-urban-music-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi Sampler 01 is a wild ride through new African urban music scenes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Python Syndicate\u2019s first compilation is like a musical follow-up to Crudo Volta\u2019s Woza Taxi <\/em>documentary.\u00a0<\/em><\/h4>\n

Italian collective Crudo Volta has been releasing dynamic and very relevant documentaries about new African music scenes for a few years.<\/p>\n

Woza Taxi<\/em>, for instance, was a dive into the Durban gqom<\/a><\/span> scene, highlighting the role taxis played in spreading the genre. Yenkyi Taxi<\/em>\u00a0followed the journey of London-based producer Brendan \u201cHagan\u201d Opoku-Ware in Accra, Ghana, showing the influence of Ghanaian traditional music in the new local electronic music scene.<\/p>\n

As a logical follow-up to their backgrounds, italian-beninese graphic designer Mike Calandra Achode, one of the founding members of Crudo Volta, as well as gqom Dj\u00a0Nan Kol\u00e8<\/a><\/span>\u00a0inaugurate brand new\u00a0record label Python Syndicate.<\/p>\n