this coming weekend the lovely hills of the White Carpathians will get a heavy dose of psychedelic NGOMA rhythm and bass!
CZ and NL
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MUTANT 3 – In the House
MUTANT 3 is about euphoric and summery, purely pleasurable, feel good electronic music from North America and Europe.
JUJUJUKE 2
This how we voodoo, this how we juju:
From Chicago to East London, from Jersey to Berlin, Juju-Juke brings true school rhythm and bass.
Joining us for the first time: Cool Hand Luke straight from Brooklyn will bring true underground club sounds from New Jersey, in addition to the Chicago Tek Life vibes; Congolese/French MC Carmel Zoum will deliver fiery verses on the mic; and Berlin’s own NGHT DRPS wil drp crucial new school bass and footwork.
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NGOMA Sound feat. MC Carmel Zoum
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NGHT DRPS (Through My Speakers – Berlin)
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Cool Hand Luke (Hot Crew 57 – NYC/Chicago)
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Dj Zhao (Ngoma Sound – Beijing/Berlin)
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at the quality Panke club: http://www.pankeculture.com/
JUJULIFE
From Soweto to Chicago, from Jakarta to Paris,
from Lagos to London, from Conakry to Berlin.
SHANGAAN FOOTWORK!!! NOZINJA!!!
This weekend: JUJU-JUKE / SCHIESSBUDE
Out in the streets Out in the streets Out in the streets Out in the streets…
From South Chicago to East London, from Detroit to Berlin, Dj Zhao and friends bring Polyrhythmic Bass Pressure connecting Footwork, Jungle, GhettoTech, and Drum’n’Bass.
Fuck the future, this is NOW.
Cut Hands: Between Silence and Violence
A follow up to Josh Hall’s piece “Fascism and colonialism in the work of Cut Hands and Blackest Ever Black” – published here because i doubt any music publication is willing to address these very serious issues.
Even if William Bennett, a UK citizen, was not aware of this method of punishment for unruly African subjects having been administered by his own government in Kenya, about which more and more is surfacing today, he was surely aware of King Leopold’s standard practice on Congolese rubber plantations when he chose the name Cut Hands. (a wide spread colonial practice also popular in the Americas (for instance in the North American South, Cuba, Brazil, and Haiti), for crimes such as playing drums)
MUTANT 2 – D’n’B Legacy
In the late 1940s and 1950s the first wave of Afro-Caribbean immigrants, many of them ex-servicemen who fought, bled, and watched their friends die during WW2 for the UK, landed with their families in London. During that first winter bricks were thrown into their windows (often in bags containing shit), their homes were attacked, and there were regular assaults on their children. When the situation got really bad, they tore up bed sheets to use as bandages, used kitchen knives and broken furniture as weapons, to defend their homes and loves ones. But when these loyal colonial subjects fought back they became the primary criminals in the eyes of the police: regularly mistreated, unjustly punished, and even framed for crimes they did not commit. This is the kind of injustice and abuse faced by black people in England ever since, all the way to today’s discrimination and structural economic inequality.
Berghain 0-3am: Polymorphism
0-3am on that perfectly situated function 1 system before Untold and 2562.
Tracklist? normally yes but sorry, too much work for this…
On Fire / Polymorphism
ON FIRE
Artistic exchange with South African Artists on gender and tradition
Curated by Constanza Macras and Tamara Saphir.
OPENING 28.02.2014 at 19h30 / Full Program
22h00 – Opening Party with DJ Zhao/ Ngoma Soundsystem and DJ Dorfdisco – FREE
Klosterstrasse 44, 10179 Berlin, Germany
CTM Festival & Berghain präsentieren
POLYMORPHISM #11 / 07.03.2014
Untold w/ CURRENT CURRENT (live)
2562 (live)
BINTUS (live)
DJ ZHAO (dj)
http://berghain.de/event/917
http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?557401
Middle Beast
A journey worthy of Hassan’s assassins: Sufi Bass, Islamic Electro, MidEastern Jazz, North Afrikan Drums, Arabic Acid for dance floor murder.
next Berlin gigs
Feb 27 The Ritual @Panke
Feb 28 South Africa Festival @Studio 44
Mar 07 polymorphism Berghain / Panorama Bar
Mar 15 BlackBox SAVVY Contemporary
and for lovers and loners alike, i hope you enjoy these Ngoma romantic grooves on Valentines day.
MUTANT 1 – Africanized Techno
bigup Afropop Worldwide for commissioning this piece.
Most definitely not for the faint of heart, made with Berlin’s Berghain Club in mind, this one needs the best sound system you have access to (preferably a Function One), as well as very loud volumes.
Middle Beats Saturday
NGOMA 17 – Cumbiatronic
Very excited to bring you this long time coming Neuvo/Electro/Bass Cumbia mix, about time i showed solidarity with all my South American sisters and brothers, Christmas day is as good as any other 🙂
New Years Eve will be HOT HOT HOT
I will be manning the Afro house / Global Bass floor alongside Marflix. Going to get KERRRRR-AZAAAAY!!!!!!
get tickets NOW as they’re going fast!
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and on the 3rd of January NGOMA SOUND SYSTEM will be delivering that sweet boogie live afro-electro sound:
NGOMA 16 – Love and Rebellion
The only reason that I have stayed away from Reggae so far is because it is one of, if not THE most represented of Afro-Diasporic musical traditions from the Southern Hemisphere (as determined by various historical factors). But time has come for NGOMA series to dive right into the beautiful and intense sounds of Jamaica, time tested and honed to perfection.
Bolingo in Cologne
and Saturday after next in Kölln Dj Zhao will be making some chic booties twerk at the fantabulous BolingoClub.
Ngoma over Dresden
NGOMA Classic 2 – AfroBeat
Since Fela’s voice is much cooler than mine, i have switched out my intro with his, and this mix originally made to promote BlackBox number 1 has grown into a proper NGOMA release – with a few changes and much new goodness including 2 wicked special edits – one of the Ethio classic by Mahmoud Ahmed (following a funktastic number by Berlin’s own Woima Collective), and another of a very unique cosmic disco track by the techno head Lego Welt’s Afrocentric alter ego Nacho Patrol. Old version of this mix can still be heard Rebootfm – 11-dj-zhao-blackbox-1-ngoma”>here.
NGOMA SOUND 