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Indigenous Power - Javier Estrada & ATCR - A Tribe Called Red

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Maga Bo - Nqayi feat. Teba

Maga Bo is a Brazilian producer, DJ, and Musician. He travels the world with laptop and an open mind and collaborates with musicians that he meets on his travels. This man is a true ambassador of music. Here he sets the scene for the track.

After many visits to South Africa, connecting with the African Dope Records crew - Fletcher, Teba, Sibot, and Max Normal in particular, DJing all over SA from Cape Town to Joburg, producing and recording music, here is the third video clip to accompany my record, “Archipelagoes,” released recently on Soot Records. “Nqayi feat. Teba.” was also chosen to represent the sound of Cape Town on the latest African Dope Records compilation, “Cape of Good Dope 2.”

The video was shot over 2 days in Guguletu, probably Cape Town’s most notorious township and Teba’s home turf - with all borrowed equipment - borrowed camera, boom box, the car on loan, people leting us into their houses to film. Back in the day, Teba was a member of the super successful kwaito group Skeem, which put out several albums before he left to do more socially conscious work. He now leads workshops in lyric writing and gumboot dancing (!), is part of the African Dope Sound System, has his own live band and has collaborated with the likes of Stereotyp and SiBot.

A slow hybrid baile funk/macumba/ragga beat sung in Xhosa and English, the lyrics talk about the difficulties faced by youth in townships today and how society tries to force them to drink and take drugs. Nqayi means baldhead and refers to fake rastas posturing themselves, but then bending over to the pressures of society and shaving their locks. An interesting element of the lyrics to this track are in the chorus where he uses the Xhosa ‘q’ sound, a click made with the tongue and the roof of the mouth, as a percussive element. Check the end of the video for a quick lesson…..

Douster

Missy Elliot - The Rain (Douster Trop)

This man can do no wrong. A Frenchman from Lyon who landed in Buenos Aires and hooked up with the ZZK Crew (cream of the Argentinian underground) and absorbed everything around him. This is quite a mellow pace for him, but what a track to remix. Missy Elliot was a huge turning point in Hip Hop. This is when Timbaland and her started to take it to somewhere entirely different……….

More on Douster to come………

Rhythmic juggling by Julio Cesar Hagen Pimentel

Amazing……

“Yeah, I suppose it?s what happened when Acid House in the UK collided with Afro-Carribean music culture in London in particular. So it is Dub, Reggae and Dancehall. And when these collided in the early ?90s you got when Hardcore and then most importantly for me Jungle, ?93, ?94, Drum’n Bass, UK Garage, currently Grime and Dubstep. So the Hardcore Continuum is a way of understanding that evolution of music, because there are all kinds of similar in way. All different speeds, but at the same time coming from a similar place and always using pirate radio as a media platform, because these musics haven?t at least initially a lot of media coverage. So what?s interesting about them in a way is, that they are musical genres, but at the same time they come with their own media. And with Grime just now they come with their own DVD and mixtape culture as well.”

Mati Zundel - Senor Montecostes

These guys in Argentina are onto something….

Future Sound of Buenos Aires

Waxploitation Artists and ZZK Records present the launch of their latest brainchild, Future Sounds of Buenos Aires.

A few years ago you would have thought it impossible to hear a Norwegian say “I love cumbia” or watch a New Yorker dance chacarera. But now thanks to ZZK Records and their global bass counterparts worldwide, South American cumbia beats and Argentine folklore are major players on the urban music map across the globe.

ZZK Records is independent record label based in Buenos Aires that has been expanding the borders of Argentine music for the past 4 years. FSOBA is an album compiling the key players in the Argentine electronic scene that are famous for revolutionizing traditional music from the roots of South America by updating it to the digital world of 2012 in which we live. 

FSOBA is a project that draws on an international and multi-media digital arts platform, including the hottest tracks from the Buenos Aires urban underground to cross-continental collaborations, remixes, videoclips, international concerts in Buenos Aires, and a variety of encounters between artists from all over the world interacting with and getting involved in the electronic scene in Buenos Aires in Argentina and from abroad.

The album contains tracks from all star producers and bands including Chancha via Circuito, Mati Zundel, Frikstailers, Super Guachin, Fauna, La Yegros, Tremor, El Remolón featuring Lido Pimienta, King Coya, The Peronists, El Trip Selector and Daleduro. FSOBA is an official presentation of the Buenos Aires electronic underground to the world through a wild dance party of twelve hard hitting tracks from past, present and future.