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Title: AFRIKAN DANCEQUAKE!
Post by: the panic! on February 21, 2009, 01:31:31 PM
post videos or links of all your favourite head-nodding, neck-breaking, hip-dislocating shit here. they definitely don't have to be rap, but definitely have to haul a** and be able to work a dancefloor into a disgusting sweat!  :)

and they have to be african. or if you really must, from the diaspora.

i'll start with a favourite of mine. Os Lambas from Angola. they're on that grimy kuduro heat. here's a little info on their sound:

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Accra has hiplife. Johannesburg has kwaito. Luanda has kuduro.

Kuduro literally translates as ’stiff bottom’ in Angolan-Portuguese. A percussion-driven hybrid of Zouk, ragga, techno and house, birthed in Luanda and Lisbon in the late 1980s, and with followers and crews all over the Lusophone world (it’s big in Brazil), the genre may still make up for Portuguese-speaking Africa having to stand back to other continental inventions like Afrobeat, mbaqanga, or Rai. And with the viral quality of the internet, a local industry in Luanda that measures pressing 12,000 CDs a success, could go global. Already hipsters in the US mainstream music press are picking up on the genre’s infectious sound.

Os Lambas, featured here doing its single “Comboio II” is one of the upcoming acts of a genre whose pioneers include Buraka Sin Sistema and Helder Rei do Kuduro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0byTIy7KG0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0byTIy7KG0)

this shit knocks!
Title: Re: AFRIKAN DANCEQUAKE!
Post by: RearrangedReality on February 21, 2009, 02:35:20 PM
Cool sound. i'll upload the whole of season 1 and 2 of Jika Majika shortly.

jokes. dope sound for real.
Title: Re: AFRIKAN DANCEQUAKE!
Post by: the panic! on October 15, 2009, 11:34:22 AM
bump!

where my house heads at?

this joint is still heat! worked as the fuel for many a sleepless, drunken weekend last year  ;D:

Blackwhole from South Africa.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9LyhYe4h1g
Title: Re: AFRIKAN DANCEQUAKE!
Post by: the panic! on October 15, 2009, 12:09:27 PM
a little Ivory Coast for you suckers!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJMpeYwifEU
Title: Re: AFRIKAN DANCEQUAKE!
Post by: the panic! on November 13, 2009, 12:43:53 PM
New, Jack where the hell are you, dun!
Title: Re: AFRIKAN DANCEQUAKE!
Post by: Talentless on November 13, 2009, 01:34:56 PM
It's probably difficult to find African vids on the web.
Title: Re: AFRIKAN DANCEQUAKE!
Post by: Dpleezy on November 13, 2009, 01:45:51 PM
Quote from: the panic! on February 21, 2009, 01:31:31 PM
post videos or links of all your favourite head-nodding, neck-breaking, hip-dislocating shit here. they definitely don't have to be rap, but definitely have to haul a** and be able to work a dancefloor into a disgusting sweat!  :)

and they have to be african. or if you really must, from the diaspora.

i'll start with a favourite of mine. Os Lambas from Angola. they're on that grimy kuduro heat. here's a little info on their sound:

Quote

Accra has hiplife. Johannesburg has kwaito. Luanda has kuduro.

Kuduro literally translates as ’stiff bottom’ in Angolan-Portuguese. A percussion-driven hybrid of Zouk, ragga, techno and house, birthed in Luanda and Lisbon in the late 1980s, and with followers and crews all over the Lusophone world (it’s big in Brazil), the genre may still make up for Portuguese-speaking Africa having to stand back to other continental inventions like Afrobeat, mbaqanga, or Rai. And with the viral quality of the internet, a local industry in Luanda that measures pressing 12,000 CDs a success, could go global. Already hipsters in the US mainstream music press are picking up on the genre’s infectious sound.

Os Lambas, featured here doing its single “Comboio II” is one of the upcoming acts of a genre whose pioneers include Buraka Sin Sistema and Helder Rei do Kuduro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0byTIy7KG0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0byTIy7KG0)

this shit knocks!

I love this track. Relentless flows. Bangs hard! :)
Title: Re: AFRIKAN DANCEQUAKE!
Post by: RearrangedReality on November 13, 2009, 02:00:35 PM
Quote from: RearrangedReality on February 21, 2009, 02:35:20 PM
Cool sound. i'll upload the whole of season 1 and 2 of Jika Majika shortly.
jokes. dope sound for real.

hahahahah. this RR nigga kills me.
Title: Re: AFRIKAN DANCEQUAKE!
Post by: the panic! on November 13, 2009, 02:14:52 PM
Quote from: Dpleezy on November 13, 2009, 01:45:51 PM
I love this track. Relentless flows. Bangs hard! :)

i'm saying!
Title: Re: AFRIKAN DANCEQUAKE!
Post by: Last of the old AG Hittaz on November 14, 2009, 05:43:02 AM
I'm a big Afro-Pop head, when I was a kid, I used to listen to Soukous, Makossa, Rai,
and other styles. African videos aren't really hard to find on Youtube. There's loads of
Congolese Soukous videos!

Papy Mbavo (DR Congo)- Kotazo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQzJrpPdVmA

Lapiro Mbanga (Cameroon)-Lef am so (This singer has been jailed for singing about
the corruption in Cameroon, just like in the video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVYEAs-OtXM&feature=related

Papa Wemba (DR Congo)- Analengo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiw-xu8gYbA

Saidou Sow (Guinea) -?  (RIP)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cdh9zsu5eU



I'll be back with more........

Title: Re: AFRIKAN DANCEQUAKE!
Post by: Last of the old AG Hittaz on November 20, 2009, 05:58:43 AM
.....................OK, here's some more:


Omar Pene (Senegal)- Diallo Diery

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjE1tlvwFog



Oumou Sangaré (Mail)- Seya (Radio-TV Mali video)
(North African Griot music does it for me sometimes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qdZWRgvJXw


Angelique Kidjo (Benin)- Agolo (MK's House Remix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCjssydG5W0


Hakim (Egypt)- Salaam Alaikoum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtVvza-ex2s&feature=related


Cheba Zohra (Algeria)-Manebrache

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6O26qDNA9E