alphacat wrote:Papua New Guinea's not in Africa (but still intriguing idea.)
I can't claim to be an expert, but Shangaan Electro's been discussed here before. And it's not quite EDM, but check out Konono Nº1...
Konono Nº1 is a Grammy nominated musical group from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. They combine three electric likembé (a traditional instrument similar to the mbira) with voices, dancers, and percussion instruments that are made out of items salvaged from a junkyard. The group's amplification equipment is equally rudimentary, including a microphone carved out of wood fitted with a magnet from an automobile alternator and a gigantic horn-shaped amplifier. The group achieved international renown beginning in 2005, with its DIY aesthetic appealing to many fans of rock and electronic music. They played this same year at the Eurockéennes festival in France.
The sound they make is RAW AS FUCK.
You can find threads here about Kwaito, which I honestly know next to nothing about (South African house-derived style)
Then on the more melodic tip there's Tinarawen, a Tuareg group that's into traditional north African music and Bob Dylan...
And then going back in time there's SO much - I can't recommend the Ethiopiques series strongly enough, especially the stuff coming out of Addis Ababa in the seventies: really fast full bore orchestral funk with totally foreign musical modalities, like James Brown got together with a bunch of fucking Martians (to western ears.) Volume 8 is my favorite, "Swinging Addis." Instant party music.
King Sunny Adé is interesting too. In fact, a lot of West African Hi-Life music is really good, very danceable with lots of catchy melodies.
Then in traditional music I like the drummers of Burundi (true fact: their sound was ripped off by Malcolm McLaren to create the template for the Adam & the Ant/Bow Wow Wow sound of the eighties). It's kind of hard to go wrong with any archival recordings of traditional percussion material; if you make music, you will come away influenced...
Thanks alot man! Will look into all this, sound very interesting.
I don't make music myself but i'm really interested in the percussion material. Might make music on a later stage though!
"If your chest ain't rattlin it ain't happenin'" - DJ Pinch
"Move pples bodies and stimulate their minds"
we just ride the wave
Life sucks; Get used² it.
Lye Form wrote:Wonder how many 'artist X in __' albums there are going to be after Mala's success.
Not that i am against it - this should be good.
People have been travelling and taking influence from foreign music long before Mala went Cuba. Scuba moved to Berlin. Addison Groove took huge influence from African music as well as juke. It's just a lot of producers in this scene probably don't have the money or time to travel to a foreign country for months making music.
I'm a big fan of African music, they have an insane amount of good music that just doesn't reach the western world properly. This collab would excite me as it is.. both are 2 of my favourite producers, Pinch is one of the best collab artists and put in the influence of Nigerian music. I may be more excited about this than Mala In Cuba
Lye Form wrote:Wonder how many 'artist X in __' albums there are going to be after Mala's success.
Not that i am against it - this should be good.
People have been travelling and taking influence from foreign music long before Mala went Cuba. Scuba moved to Berlin. Addison Groove took huge influence from African music as well as juke. It's just a lot of producers in this scene probably don't have the money or time to travel to a foreign country for months making music.
I'm a big fan of African music, they have an insane amount of good music that just doesn't reach the western world properly. This collab would excite me as it is.. both are 2 of my favourite producers, Pinch is one of the best collab artists and put in the influence of Nigerian music. I may be more excited about this than Mala In Cuba
Just hope an album comes out of it.
Not saying it was a new thing - just because of its success it's bound to cause a bunch of other producers to get encouraged to do something similar.
I'm really curious to hear what this will sound like as well... Love those guys. Leaving a comment here so one day I will read the one that announces when it comes out.
Lol I was just talking to my mate who`s working in Nigeria the other day about whether they`re in to dubstep... he said it`s not gospel enough for them!
test recordings wrote:Lol I was just talking to my mate who`s working in Nigeria the other day about whether they`re in to dubstep... he said it`s not gospel enough for them!
He`s probably glad to be proved wrong
It's true though.
Dubstep is virtually non existent.
Dancehall is huge though.
Channel O always has Nigerian Dancehall on.
rev wrote:
it's the good version
love that compilation, especially the tune "Ohye Atar Gyan" stands out for me. not on the web apparently
I like the version that Homeboy Sandman played on Gilles Peterson's show a while back -- it sounds a lot like this one but I don't think they're the same tune... anyone know if they are? In any case, Ebo Taylor is one of the best musicians to come out of Africa, ever.
The other night there were some bongos at salsa/cumbia music night, so I went up to start playing them and was joined by this huge African gentleman. He was really fuckin good and I asked him, damn man are you in a band or anything, and he said, "Yes I play with Fela Kuti." And I was like oh shit well that explains that. He's in town shooting "The Last Resort", I think he was one of the drug lord assistants or something.
