Dec 16/04

Africa elsewhere

Matt Yanchyshyn @ 11:24

I’m not the the only guy posting African music. Check out my suggestions below then please leave your own in the comments.

A few Benn Loxo readers and contributors with a fabulous record collection have started their own blog, Akwaaba Sound System. Today’s post features some lesser-known music by Francis Bebey that they introduced to me a couple weeks back. Great stuff – go grab it before it’s gone.

The Suburbs Are Killing Us featured some wild Congolese brousse electronic the other day. You’ll see what I mean when you listen.

If you’re still feeling the Congo, check-out Tikun Olam for some rumba by Sam Mangwana. You’ll often find nice African music on this site.

Funk You featured some Manu Dibango the other day. Always fun…

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8 Responses to “Africa elsewhere”

1. tim from riga @ 13:13 on 2004-12-16
   

   I`m a DJ playing warm music in cold Europe, in Riga, Latvia. For a few months I was visiting your webpage and finding interesting music, but now I can not download mp3 from the page. I can not connect with server. Do you have an idea why could it be? Did you change something in the options?

2. tim from riga @ 13:18 on 2004-12-16
   

   oh, sorry! actually i can downlad it it`s just my Wind Media Player for some reason dosn`t play files immediately from webpage. i have to download it first. bit it`s ok anyway. thanks!

3. andy @ 18:21 on 2004-12-16
   

   i´m sure that the new dj/rupture/soot blog will have some NORTH african/middle eastern stuff in the near future.

   http://www.negrophonic.com/words/

   anyone know of anywhere else putting up north african/middle eastern music (preferable, though not exclusively, with words in spanish or english).

   cheers,

   andy

4. andy @ 19:24 on 2004-12-16
   

   ps. great stuff here – thanks.

5. andy @ 14:33 on 2004-12-17
   

   best african song ever??

   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4104523.stm

6. andy @ 14:37 on 2004-12-17
   

   the bbc also have several live sets from this year´s womad festival. lots of african stuff…..

   http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/womad2004/

7. R @ 10:01 on 2005-07-29
   

   http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2004/10/sam_mangwana_ru.html

8. Richard Silverstein @ 10:05 on 2005-07-29
   

   Whoa! Sorry about the duplicate comment. I entered merely the letter “R” in the Name box & accidentally hit the Return key & wham it published the comment. Weird behavior!

   Anyway, I was writing to ask if you might update the link you so graciously added in this post to my own post about Sam Mangwana. I recently moved blogs & my new URL for that post is:

   http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2004/10/sam-mangwanas-r/

   Thanks again, Richard

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