Tag: african
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Happy Birthday Sesame Street!
50 years ago today a kid’s program debuted in the United States which was to change the lives of millions of children worldwide – Sesame Street. A mix of muppets and modern educational psychology, the idea was to reach urban kids and those who weren’t getting good early schooling with basic lessons to give them…
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African Disco Electro
We’re no stranger to African electronica, Afrobeat highlife, and African funk on this blog – previously mixed, remixed, played or blogged about William Onyeahbor (RIP), Victor Uwaifo, Benis Cletin, Supermax, Fela and Femi Kuti, Lijadu Sisters and many more. So it’s not a surprise that I’ve been listening to a lot of Nigerian and South…
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Gaspar Nali from Malawi
This seems to be doing the rounds even though originally uploaded 5 years ago via a VK Russian re-upload, it’s Gaspar Nali from Nkhata Bay in Malawi playing his ‘babatone’ self-made instrument and singing in a dialect of Chichewa a song apparently called ‘Abale Ndikum Gem’ (thank you Google Translate). If African music has a…
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Year Zero has arrived (Exclusive news, well sorta)
We were trying (and failing) to do a sort of mysterious shadowy presence thing as our remix outfit ‘Year Zero’ but it leaked out anyway…which is fine, I was about to blow the gaff as I was fed up with not being able to do promo shizzle. Anyway hiding in out the sewers with masks…