Of course we were really happy with the Play-Button news from Spotify last Wednesday. Especially with our Spotifriday it is really useful. So maybe this week’s Spotifriday looks a bit different from what you are used to, but we in this post you can still find the perfect soundtrack of your weekend. Sleep Party [...]
[Spotifriday] Your weekend soundtrack – Week 16
April 13, 2012
[Win] CD Couper Decaler électronique – New Black
March 22, 2012
Couper Decaler is a music style which is invented by a few guys from Paris with Ivorian blood who are combine African beats with Western hiphop and dance hall. Call it a part of the new Afro-futurist movement. Now these guys released a cd full of this music which is called New Black. Click here for a [...]
Music from Saharan Cellphones
March 10, 2011
Music from Saharan Cellphones vol. 1 and vol. 2 are free compilations of sounds taken from cellphones across Africa. The usage of cellphones in Africa these days is more for music and video playback, recording, and transmission than talking/SMSing. Christopher from the blog Sahel Sounds describes this as follows (read more after the break):
Generation Bass in South Africa
June 9, 2010
Last week Incubates artistic leader Vincent Koreman was in Africa to investigate the South African music scene. He and DJ Umb were invited by the Mundial festival from Tilburg and CDT Johannesburg. This week Vince and Umb are posting their day by day reports daily on their blog Generation Bass. After this week, stay tuned [...]
Punk in Africa
May 11, 2010
National Wake Punk in Africa is a feature length documentary currently in the making by a team of African and Czech documentary makers. The film will focus on the role of punk music, style and subcultures in the political and social upheavals in Africa at the end of the 20th century. Punk in general has [...]
Awesome tapes from Africa
March 15, 2010
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May 25, 2012
Exitmusic – Passage This duo consists of husband and wife Devon Church en Aleska Palladino, from (Shit, again?!) Brooklyn, New York. With EP From Silence, which they released a year ago Exitmusic showed us their first sign of life.. Passage, their debutalbum, is a bit more bombastic, but still got the sultry sound. Next to this sultry [...]