tUnE-yArDs - Bizness

Really "sick" in good meaning music video. Song taken from tUnE-yArDs second album, w h o k i l l - released 18th April 2011 through 4AD.



more info: http://www.tune-yards.com/

Clap! Clap! - Kuj Yato

The video features some Mad-Maxian fire dancing, while the music is all criss-crossing chimes and 808s. And sound is sampled from Sidi Mamadi Dioubaté Et Son Orchestre and their Orchestre De Xylophones.



more info: https://soundcloud.com/clakclakboomclak

Francis Bebey - Bissao (Pilooski Edit )

From Born Bad Records comes the maxi 12 inch remix of Bissau by French producer FRANCIS BEBEY; a pioneer of African electronic music in the 70s, this track has been refurbished by the  Pilooski edit & renamed as Bissao.Visuals courtesy of Werner Herzog - Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the sun

Francis Bebey - Bissao (Pilooski Edit ) from djhdd on Vimeo.


More info: bornbadrecords.net

BLNRB - Welcome to the Madhouse

From early 2009 to 2011, three bands from the world-renowned Berlin electronic music scene and some of the best bands and musicians from Nairobi engaged in an intense music project. Album is about digging deep into the local Berlin and Nairobi music scenes, building a new urban sound together with some amazing talents from the next generation of African musicians.

more info: http://blog.goethe.de/BLNRB/

DRC Music: Kinshasa One Two - Trailer

An album of Congolese music entitled Kinshasa One Two by DRC Music, a collective gathered by Damon Albarn, is released by Warp Records. Kinshasa One Two was made during 5 days of sessions in Kinshasa this summer when the DRC Music collective teamed up with the best of contemporary Congolese musicians and performers. The collective comprises the eclectic production talents of: T-E-E-D (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs), Dan The Automator, Jneiro Jarel, Richard Russell, Actress, Marc Antoine, Alwest, Remi Kabaka, Rodaidh McDonald and Kwes, with album artwork by Hardy Blechman and Aitor Throup.

more info: http://drcmusic.org

The Karindula Sessions

In the south-eastern part of the Congo, young local musicians are creating their own tradi-modern style of music, which they call Karindula, a word which also designates the main instrument they use - a giant banjo made out of an oil barrel, a goat skin, four strings, and an empty bag of powdered milk. After introducing the now-famous electrified traditional music of Congolese capital Kinshasa, Congotronics producer Vincent Kenis travelled to the mining city of Lubumbashi to record and film four Karindula bands during a 3-day mini-festival.

Tshetsha Boys and their Shangaan Electro

At 180 bpm, shangaan combines MIDI keyboards with marimba beats, distorted vocal samples and lyrics that Honest Jon's, the record label which is putting out this music, described as "African soap operas, tied up with domestic matters and a yearning for the slower life".

X Plastaz - Nini dhambi kwa mwenye dhiki?

This is East African / Tanzanian Hip Hop. Last video of the late mc Faza Nelly from X Plastaz, Tanzania's most well known hip hop crew who merge Swahili rap and traditional Maasai music. This video to the song 'Nini dhambi kwa mwenye dhiki?' about poverty in Tanzania was partly recorded on top of Ol Doinyo Lengai, a remote, active volcano and the Maasai's 'Mountain of God' which had its 1st major eruption in years the day after Nelly died.



more info: www.xplastaz.com www.myspace.com/xplastaz