Welcome to a new year and even though January is usually a quiet period for releases, here are a few tracks that have caught our bleary-eyed attention. From D’Angelo inspired R&B to frenetic Tanzanian mchiriku, there’s hopefully something fresh here for you. This episode includes Jamaica Mnanda. MISS C-LINE, Alabaster DePlume, El León Pardo and Raúl Monsalve y Los Forajidos.
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DJ Firmeza live in London (photo credit Marta Pina)
Jamaica Mnanda 'Kama Ipo Ipo (What's Yours is Yours)' (DJ Firmeza Remix) - a review
The informal settlements of Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam keeps pouring out some of the most interesting contemporary genres and sounds and Mchiriku is one such genre. Jamaica Mnanda are one of Mchiriku’s finest proponents and on this brand new release they have enlisted the remix skills of Lisbon artist and alumnus of the brilliant Príncipe label. DJ Firmeza, to rework their Casio keyboard fuelled street mayhem into a tough Luso-Afro dancefloor burner. Read / Listen
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