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WTM presents: DJ Okapi and Ruf Dug, Friday 18th November
Tickets for Hifi at: http://www.ticketarena.co.uk/venues/hifi-club-leeds/tickets/index.html Free pre-party at Outlaws Yacht Club, Leeds.
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Honest Jon’s newest talent is Obadikah
Fantastic new release on Honest Jon’s Records – the Obadikah brass band from Lagos, Nigeria. From what I can gather. Obadikah were previously known as Awamaridi Brass Band and the video shows them performing in 2014. Obadikah is a group of old friends who play together in the Baptist churches of the Ikeja and Isale…
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INTERVIEW: DJ Okapi, a world renouned taste-maker and head of the Afrosynth label of Johannesburg
DJ Okapi has been at the fore of rediscovering dance music from South Africa since his Afrosynth blog started seven years ago. He has just compiled Boogie Breakdown: South African Synth-Disco 1980-1984 for Cultures of Soul and is about to commence a DJ tour of Europe. As well as blogging about under-publicised artists from his…
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Bitori’s ‘forbidden music’ – new installment for Analog Africa
Don’t let Bitori’s Legend of Funaná (The Forbidden Music of The Cape Verde Islands) pass you by – following on from the music of Cabo Verde Space Echo compilation: Originally recorded in 1998 in Rotterdam, the album Bitori Nha Bibinha revolutionised the uplifting ‘funana’ genre from the Cabo Verdian island Santiago. The album is named after…
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Mark Ernestus and Ndagga Rhythm Force drop new LP
The LP Yermande is the five year anniversary project of Mark Ernestus and his Dakar-Berlin collaboration Ndagga Rhythm Force. The six tracks move the hypnotic rhythms of Ndagga into more percussive techno territories, bridging the gap between previous Rhythm and Sound material and the endless echoes of Basic Channel and the M Series.Yermande is out…
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Acid Arab to drop Musique de France for Crammed Discs
Here’s a sneak preview of Acid Arab’s new LP released next month. The duo have been wowing festivals all summer with their heady mix of Western electronic music and Eastern sounds and vocals. Formed in 2012 by Parisian DJs Guido Minisky and Hervé Carvalho, Acid Arab have become a fully-fledged musical entity by teaming up…
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Digging Surinam: eight year odyssey of Rush Hour’s Antal
Following 2012’s bounty on Kindred Spirits, Rush Hour boss Antal Heitlager puts together another sublime collection of obscure Surinamese disco and boogie with Thomas Gesthuizen. Surinam Funk Force features Steve Watson’s Born To Boogie, and Surinam scene stalwart Sumy’s eccentric, synth-laden The Funky ‘G’ (Only Comes At Night, with more Surinamese fused killers like Explosion’s Wakka…
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Camberwell Now from the ashes of This Heat
Camberwell Now’s The Ghost Trade and The EP Collection will be reissued next month on Modern Classic Recordings (Light In The Attic). Camberwell Now featured This Heat’s vocalist and drummer Charles Hayward. He assembled a line-up comprising of Stephen Rickard, a former BBC sound engineer, on field recordings and tape manipulation and Trefor Goronwy on…
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Interview: Super Cassettes Indonesia!
WTM spoke to Evan Ziporyn and Ryan Mbira about Super Cassettes Indonesia! Click the location link below for the interview: Super Cassettes Indonesia! is a free site highlighting out-of-print and DIY recordings, but contributions towards their work are vastly appreciated. The website is at supercassettesindonesia.bandcamp.com
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