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Ennanga Vision can be an intercontinental cooperation incorporating traditional Ugandan equipment and abstract, deconstructed consumer electronics. The task was founded by London-based manufacturer Jesse Hackett (of Owiny Sigoma Music group) and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Albert Ssempeke, with efforts by North Ugandan star Otim Alpha and Acholi wedding ceremony vocalist Geoffrey Opiyo Twongweno. …

Fantasma is a South African collective that manically grafts together hip-hop, Zulu maskandi music, shangaan electro, psych, South African home, and punk. Founded in 2013 by rapper/manufacturer/vocalist Spoek Mathambo, he enlisted DJ Spoko (the godfather of “Bacardi home”), guitarist André Geldenhuys (Machineri), veteran multi-instrumentalist Bekisenzo Joseph Cele (Vukazithathe NeziNgane ZaKhe) …

London-based DJ/live music collective Ibibio Sound Machine combine sounds motivated in similar measure from the fantastic era of Western African funk and disco, post-punk, and contemporary electro. The music group was began by producers Maximum Grunhard, Leon Brichard, and Benji Bouton, who have been all fanatics of African grooves from …

Batida may be the name of the task from Angolan/Portuguese DJ Pedro Coquenão (also called DJ Mpula) where he combines examples from classic Angolan tracks through the 1970s with contemporary electronic dance music, a mix that is referred to as “the wildest Angolan road party.” The Batida task began like …

La Yegros (true name Mariana Yegros) is a Argentine singer, rapper, songwriter, and saving musician, widely regarded with the Latin American and Western european membership press seeing that “The First Female of Electro Cumbia,” located in Buenos Aires and France. That superlative, nevertheless, flattering is relatively restricting: La Yegros’ music …

Sierra Leone’s Ahmed Janka Nabay may be the undisputed ruler from the country’s bubu music. Bubu is definitely a centuries-old folk music with strange origins. It really is typically performed for high ceremonial reasons, like the processions kept during Ramadan, but its root base precede Islam. Nabay started his profession …