Benn loxo du taccu turns 2-years-old today!

There have been 265 posts and over 1200 comments since I started this site in September 30th, 2004. Thanks to everyone for listening, reading and participating. We’ve had some great guest posts this year and plenty of music, photo and idea submissions from people all over the world.

Judging from the feedback I got from that world map of Benn loxo listeners, many of you are interested in who else is visiting this site. As of today, 187 of you are subscribed to the notification e-mails and many more read Benn loxo on the web, via RSS or subscribe to the podcast. If Google Analytics is to be believed, we’re holding steady at about 350-600 unique web visitors per day from over 100 different countries, including:

United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Australia, Spain, Sweden, Senegal, Switzerland, Brazil, Japan, Colombia, South Africa, Finland, Portugal, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Argentina, Norway, Poland, New Zealand, Greece, China, Ireland, Denmark, Israel, Morocco, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Mali, Russia, Egypt, Croatia, India, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Philippines, Cyprus, Singapore, Romania, Cote D’Ivoire, Thailand, Nigeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Iceland, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Kenya, Taiwan, Costa Rica, Peru, Chile, Bulgaria, Guatemala, Saudi Arabia, Ghana, Uganda, Iran, Oman, Rwanda, Tanzania, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, Mauritania, Pakistan, Cameroon, Slovenia, Algeria, Puerto Rico, Jordan, Congo, Sudan, Seychelles, Namibia, Libya, Madagascar, Macedonia, Gabon, Barbados, Syria, Uruguay, Botswana, Paraguay, Gambia, Slovakia, El Salvador, Qatar, Burkina Faso, Angola, Eritrea, Tunisia, Luxembourg, Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Togo.

I’m constantly impressed by the diversity of the visitors and that people are interested in my casual exploration of African music. Sure, most people just swing by and pick-up the music.. but that’s cool, especially if they enjoy it. Many of you stick around and leave comments that enrich the content and keep me on my toes when I make mistakes. I’ve learned a lot over the last two years and maintaining this site has kept me motivated to keep collecting African music since leaving Senegal.

My collection continues to grow but so far we’ve only heard a tiny portion of what the African continent has to offer. With this in mind, I’m heading to Dakar, Senegal, for a week in October where I’ll hopefully dig-up some solid tunes for all to hear. Stay posted.

Cheers,
Matt

ps- the amazing cover below is courtesy of Fabian at Special de Kenya