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Winter 2009 Africa Dance Party!
This week we debut the 2009 Winter Dance Party produced by Wills Glasspiegel with tracks from across the world and the world wide web.
Expect a carnival: rara from Haiti, Kwaito house from South Africa, bubu from Sierra Leone, soca from Trinidad and the hardest hitting African rap straight from New York.
The party highlights exclusive mixtapes from the Africa blogosphere: new mashups from Chief Boima’s Ghettobassquake, DJ Zhao’s NGOMA, DJ Geko + Uproot Andy at Dutty Artz, and a song from the venerable Africa selector, DJ Beto.
A Digital Africa Mix
Dutty Artz (New-York)
Visit Dutty Artz’s official website!
Visit Dutty Artz’s myspace!
Watch Dutty Artz’s TV
Ghettobassquake
Visit Ghettobassquake’s blog
The Fader Magazine
Read the Fader Magazine's feature
DJ Zhao (Berlin) and his NGOMA series
Visit Dj Zhao’s myspace!
Free download of NOGOMA VOL.3
Artists
Dj Lakay (Haïti)
An introduction to Rara
Images, Audio and Video of the Music and Dance Of Rara
El-A-Kru (Antigua & Barbuda)
Kick It Off (from the CD Soca Gold 2008)
Visit El-A-Kru’s official website!
Visit El-A-Kru’s myspace!
Watch the video “Off Limits”
Purchase El-A-Kru’s Soca Gold album
La Sonora Dinamita (Colombia)
De Aquello Na
Visit La Sonora Dinamita’s official website! Watch the video “Que nadie sepa mi sufrir”
Purchase music by La Sonora Dinamita
Grupo Mania (Porto Rico)
Grupo Mania Es
Visit Grupo Mania’s myspace!
Watch the video “Ojitos Bellos”
Purchase music by Grupo Mania
Blitz the Ambassador (Brooklyn)
Breathe
Visit Blitz the Ambassador’s official website!
Visit Blitz the Ambassador’s myspace!
Get Free Music
Watch the video “Black Market”
Cheikh Lo (Senegal), Les Nubians (USA), Manu Dibango (France)
Shakara/Lady (pt. 2)
Visit Cheik Lo’s myspace!
Visit Les Nubians’s myspace!
Visit Les Nubians’s official website
Watch the video “Makeda” by Les Nubians
Visit Manu Dibango’s myspace
Visit Manu Dibango’s official website
Watch the video “Africa” by Manu Dibango
Purchase the album “Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti”
Listen to Shakara by Fela Kuti
Listen to Lady by Fela Kuti
Manou Gallo (Belgium)
Dida
Visit Manou Gallo’s official website
Visit Manou Gallo’s myspace
Watch a video of Manou Gallo in Couleur Café
Purchase Manou Gallo’s music
Chief Boima (USA)
Visit Chief Boima’s blog!
Visit Chief Boima’s myspace!
El Guincho (Spain)
Alegranza Antillas
Visit El Guincho’s myspace
Watch the video “Palitos Park”
Purchase the album Alegranza
Endom Kro (Ghana)
Yema Wo Damiri
Learn more about Akan Music from Ghana
Purchase album “Rhythms of Life, Songs of Wisdom: Akan Music From Ghana, West Africa”
Eedris Abdulkareem (Nigeria)
Segarin Kano
Visit Eedris Abdulkareem’s myspace!
Watch the video “Jagga Jagga” of Eedris Abdulkareem
Purchase the album “Jaga Jaga”
Dollar DJ (Côte d’Ivoire)
Wolosso
Watch the video “Wolosso”
Learn more about Coupé Décalé
From NGOMA VOL. 3
Zulu House, Afro Electro, UK Funky
compiled by DJ Zhao
DJ CNDO (South Africa)
Terminator
Visit Dj CNDO’s myspace!
Watch Youtube Video « The Seducer »
DJ Tremendous (UK)
Log 19
Visit Dj Tremendous myspace page!
Watch a mix of Dj Tremendous
DJ Bigga
Boeke Anthem [VS] Menor do Chapa - Familia Vida Loka
Awa-KlaSH (Nigeria/UK)
Akoba
Learn more about Awa Klash
Buy the album “Sound Affects: Africa” on Bottletop’s website
Purchase the vinyl
J. Martins & Timaya (Nigeria)
Good or Bad (Oway)
Visit Timaya’s myspace!
Watch a video of J. Martins & Timaya!
Uproot Andy (Brooklyn)
El Botellon (originally released as Grupo Naidy on Folkways)
Visit Uproot Andy’s myspace!
Watch a video of DJ Uproot Andy
Visit the Smithonian Folkways’s official website
Purchase Grupo Naidy album on Amazon
First published: www.afropop.org
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