{"id":93592,"date":"2021-12-04T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=93592"},"modified":"2021-12-04T14:17:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T13:17:34","slug":"pam-club-mafou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/pam-club-mafou\/","title":{"rendered":"PAM Club : the rhythmic elevator of Mafou"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><strong>Senegalese artist based in Basel, Switzerland, Mafou is shaking up his adopted city by bringing his rhythmic background to European clubs. He gives us a glimpse of that promise in a beat-centric PAM Club.<\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Resident of the club Elysia and co-founder of the crew and events Somatic Rituals, Mafou intends to spread his knowledge of the beat to the four corners of the city of Basel. Born from a Senegalese father and djembe teacher, Mafou was naturally imbibed with the science of rhythm, transmitted by his father before landing on the European continent. Far from his country, the DJ and producer promised not to break his intrinsic link with West African music, educated in contact with popular mbalax songs. He proves today with &#8220;Warda&#8221;, a track released on the recent Rhythm Section compilation, that he does not intend to bury his roots. In this track born from the need to reconnect with dance floor bangers after the Covidian period, Mafou combines traditional percussive patterns with club sounds, with a penchant for trends from across the Channel. Drawing his influences as much from Led Zeppelin as from West Indian urban music or African reggae Mafou delivers a hypnotic and tense mix in which the beat is definitely king. A good detour before the release of his EP Khezu which plans to translate his Senegalese rhythmic heritage through the language of machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cDuring Covid I unfortunately didn\u2019t have access to gear to record my mixes and Podcasts. So this one is one of the first ones where I really could do some mixing again. I did less preparation for the mix and freestyle\u2019d more, witch I prefer to do, with new tunes I recently got.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1170523099%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-p34cBOgf9TB&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/panafricanmusic\" title=\"Pan African Music\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Pan African Music<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/panafricanmusic\/pam-club-mafou\/s-p34cBOgf9TB\" title=\"PAM Club : Mafou\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">PAM Club : Mafou<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tracklist:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. OnominO &#8211; Prell<br>2. Simo Cell &#8211; Not All It\u2019s Cracked Up to Be<br>3. PPC &#8211; Raw Riddim<br>4. Kaval &#8211; Sunken Riddim&nbsp;<br>5. Mr. Mitch &#8211; Stinky Leg<br>6. Swordman Kitala &#8211; Kimbalagala (Kouslin remix)<br>7. Glimmerman &#8211; Step Mode<br>8. Andria &#8211; Bedroom<br>9. Skillibeng &#8211; Coke<br>10. E-Unity &#8211; Not for me<br>11. Kindohm &#8211; deck<br>12. JV &amp; Palf &#8211; JBNT<br>13. Hagan &#8211; Ashanti War Dub<br>14. Mafou&nbsp;&#8211; Evom<br>15. Tano &#8211; Granita&nbsp;<br>16. T5UMUT5UMU &#8211; They Call it Gqomish Techno<br>17. Big Ever &#8211; Apti<br>18. Paracusia &#8211; Am i real enough for you<br>19. Less-O &#8211; Bumblebee<br>20. Jennifer Walton &#8211; Flash (w\/BFTT) <br><br>The Rhythm Section compilation is still available <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/rhythmsection.lnk.to\/Shouts2021\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"1049\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/210403_0983_Tijo_024_HR_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-93539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/210403_0983_Tijo_024_HR_final.jpg 700w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/210403_0983_Tijo_024_HR_final-661x991.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/210403_0983_Tijo_024_HR_final-465x697.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/210403_0983_Tijo_024_HR_final-375x562.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegalese artist based in Basel, Switzerland, Mafou is shaking up his adopted city by bringing his rhythmic background to European clubs. 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