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Ibibio Sound Machine’s debut is the beginning of a journey that fuses the sounds of afrobeat and highlife with electronics.
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A brand new single from the Scottish experimental hip hop outfit Young Fathers. The group is getting set to drop a new full-length via Anticon on February 3rd. The title of this thing: DEAD. “WAR” isn’t one of Young Fathers’ most hard-hitting tracks, but it is one of their
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Scottish alt-hip hop trio Young Fathers have left me pretty impressed with their creative lo-fi fusions of rap, African music, reggae, and more on the two “tapes” they’ve dropped thus far, but I’ve always thought there was more potential in what the group was offering–especially if the
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RocketNumberNine is pulling together an interesting blend of drone noise music with a bit of dance instrumental. It’s really all about the build and the collapse and repeating it in unexpected ways on “Rotunda”. It’s completely circular and often repeats itself just a rotunda should. What is special
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H-SIK proves himself to be a producer worth watching with his interesting blend of footwork, juke, and African music on this new EP. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Cocody by H-SIK The Cocody EP we premiered a track from a few weeks ago is now available for streaming via Error Broadcast’s website. This guy is a must-listen if you’re looking for something strange and adventurous in the world of footwork or juke music. Between some bold
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Young Fathers drops a video for the track “Sister,” which comes off the UK Trio’s new mixtape, TAPE ONE. I gave the tape a glowing review here, and download a copy of the tape here. Enjoy the visuals!
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TAPE ONE by Young Fathers For a group that states “nothing is original” in its first music video, Young Fathers certainly is, well, original. Of course I know the point the UK trio–uh, I think it’s a trio–is trying to make. Still, the blend of hip hop,
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It took a while for Africa Hitech’s debut LP to grow on me. When the album originally came out in May, I took some favorites from it, but dismissed the rest as being too hectic to be really enjoyable. However, I found myself just itching to listen to this
