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Someone Someone - Serenity
Someone Someone - Serenity
Sounds like: Populous, Christian Kleine, Isan, Nuuro
Tags: Editor's Pick, Electronic, downtempo, beats
By Jason Grishkoff on Jan 2, 2018 | Step 1 to enjoying this track: get some high quality headphones with a bit of a bassy thump. Step 2 to enjoying this track: turn up the volume on those headphones. Vancouver-based due Someone Someone released this beat about two weeks ago, and it c... read more →
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Modibo Diabate & Les Djeliya - Sabu Ye Mogo Yala
Modibo Diabate & Les Djeliya - Sabu Ye Mogo Yala
Sounds like: Ali Farka Toure, Maalem Mahmoud Guinia, Oumou Sangaré, Vukazithathe
Tags: Editor's Pick, world music, african, world
By Dylan Heneck on Aug 1, 2017 | Recorded in the home of Modibo Diabate in Bamako, Mali, this song, to me, is a testament to the beauty of music. It highlights what likely a lot of the musicians featured on Indie Shuffle take for granted, access to recording equipment, maybe if that... read more →
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Vukazithathe - Iyakhalalendoda
Vukazithathe - Iyakhalalendoda
Sounds like: Spoek Mathambo, Bongeziwe Mabandla, Maalem Mahmoud Guinia
Tags: Editor's Pick, world music, afro-beat, guitar
By Dylan Heneck on Jun 16, 2017 | Tracks with African roots have received extra attention from me recently. During a recent trip to Spain there was an instrumentalist from Morocco who genuinely snake charmed me, and now I want to impress you all in the same way. No jokes though abou... read more →
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Bongeziwe Mabandla - Ndokulandela
Bongeziwe Mabandla - Ndokulandela
Sounds like: Antonicious, Thomas Traspedini, Stimela
By Matthew Rightford on Jun 28, 2017 | Just over a month ago I posted about one of Cape Town's most exciting performances of the year - that of Petite Noir and Bongeziwe Mabandla, who had recently just released his second album, Mangaliso (meaning Miracle in his home language of isiXhosa)... read more →
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Mabiisi - King (Riot Stereo & SURAJ Remix)
Mabiisi - King (Riot Stereo & SURAJ Remix)
Sounds like: Black Coffee, Maalem Mahmoud Guinia, Clap! Clap!
Tags: Editor's Pick, house, dance, world music
By Dylan Heneck on Jun 14, 2017 | Oh, how my life changed for the better when I found Akwaaba Music (a Ghanaian label that releases music from all corners of Africa). It's something like the time your mother and father found one another, you wouldn't exist otherwise. This post, in t... read more →
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Oumou Sangaré - Kamelemba
Oumou Sangaré - Kamelemba
Sounds like: Maalem Mahmoud Guinia, Baaba Maal, Batuk, Mikael Seifu, Manthe Ribane
Tags: Editor's Pick, world music, african, tinariwen
By Dylan Heneck on Jun 12, 2017 | Well, well, well, if it isn't East African music again! Recently, we have met all too often. I hear it on the streets, I hear it on the internet, I hear it in my dreams, I hear it on your couch and when I'm not on your couch. Why am I on your couch? ... read more →
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Big Space - Cape Town Sis Khethiwe
Big Space - Cape Town Sis Khethiwe
Sounds like: Jumping Back Slash, Thibo Tazz
Tags: Editor's Pick, house, dance, afro-beat
By Dylan Heneck on Feb 12, 2017 | I want everyone to hear this song, but my brain is struggling to find words to come up with a quirky review right now.  Essentially what you have here is a track from a very underrated DJ/producer here in Cape Town who would also easily out-funny me... read more →
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Jumping Back Slash - The Sirens Call (Ft. Nonku Phiri)
Jumping Back Slash - The Sirens Call (Ft. Nonku Phiri)
Sounds like: Clap! Clap!, Branko, Samthing Soweto
Tags: Editor's Pick, afro-beat, african, south african
By Dylan Heneck on Jan 26, 2017 | Rest my child. Have a stool to sit on and perhaps a glass of water as well. You're being exposed to some seriously large sounds both literally and metaphyiscially.  In fact, just check that your body hasn't begun to evaporate already. You're probabl... read more →
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