[youtube id=”9yULNWlaj7g”] Waajeed pays tribute to African orisha “Shango” with an Afrofuturist video. A  dancer is filmed around Detroit’s brittle landscape making ritual moves and Waajeed is seen working in his studio with Shango’s red and white candles by his side. It ends with both men dancing around the studio inContinue Reading
Ikutaro Kakehashi, who founded the Roland Corporation and invented the TR-808 drum machine died April 1st in Japan at the age of 87. Mr. Kakehashi’s work is behind the sound of some of the most influential music of the past four decades. Hip-hop, house, pop and R&B have all beenContinue Reading
South African producer, songwriter and filmmaker Spoek Mathambo has released the house single “Black Rose” today. Fellow South African artists Damao, Suga Flow and Tamar are featured on the song from Mathambo’s upcoming Mzansi Beat Code. It is his third album and the mix of hip-hop, house and electronic music isContinue Reading
Biorhythm is the debut album from Eleonora Cutaia’s Inner City Sound Clash alter ego. Cutaia is a London-based producer, songwriter and A&R who has spent the last decade working as a DJ and was responsible for curating the Eleonora Presents Underground Soul Volume 1 compilation. The London-based artist recorded herContinue Reading