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Pinch wrote:I plan to finish this project with Adrian and then I’ve an interesting project coming up in January - I’m going out to Nigeria with Rob Smith (RSD) to collaborate with Lagos-based local musicians. I think the idea is we’re going to take back what we record and try and turn that into another collaborative project, hopefully with a slightly shorter timeframe though

http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4145 ... -sqwad-wen

Sounds very exciting.

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.

Parts of Nigeria are scary as fuck from what I've heard. Boko Haram... hell no.

Doesn't help that Pinch is a bit pasty too.

However, there's a lot of amazing new music coming out of Africa too, so hopefully that's allowed to come to full fruition because it's in everybody's best interests to get the music out there.

alphacat wrote:
However, there's a lot of amazing new music coming out of Africa too.

Could you point me in the direction of some African music? Interested to hear.

Sure, such that I'm able!

What are you looking for though? EDM type stuff, more traditional stuff?

alphacat wrote:Sure, such that I'm able!

What are you looking for though? EDM type stuff, more traditional stuff?

Owh wow, didn't even really knew there was EDM coming out of Africa .
I wanna hear both really! The traditional stuff always seems interesting to me. Now that i know there is EDM coming from Africa i want to hear that too!

loefah in ghana

Coki in Congo

pearson sound in papua new guinea

Sonika in Brentford

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...

think this guy's from africa but moved to germany

oh my days this sounds amazing

Been wanting to hear Pinch and RSD combine for a while. I wonder if Giles is behind this project as well.

Loads of amazing possibility here.

Lye Form wrote:Sonika in Brentford

Yes! It´s been announced too on Wikipedia!

sounds amazing

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.

mala wasn't really the first one either
from last year:

= damon albarn, actress, teed in DRC

paul simon was the originator doe.

but yh, very rinsed idea in music.

TopManLurka knows.
He certainly did it best.

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!