FUSION 5 – الانتفاضة

Posted on November 21, 2012 by ngomasound

01 Amina Alaoui & Jon Balke – Itimad X L-Wiz – Smogged 02 Ora Sittner & Youval Micenmacher – Dror Iqra X Scuba – Sleepa 03 23 Skidoo – G-2 Contemplation X Marc Ashken – Roots Dyed Dark (Skream Remix) 04 Kambarkan Folk Ensemble – Jygach Ooz Komuz X Dj Distance – Nomad 05 Sarah Webster – A Lesson Twice Learned / Drum Talk X Pinch & Loefah – Broken 06 JilJilala – Unknown X JuJu – Iroko 07 Fawzy Al-Aiedy – Milad X Toasty – Like Sun 08 Hossam Ramzy & Phil Thornton – Immortal Egypt X dj quest & eskimo – Speakers Corner (Instrumental Death Edit) 09 Unknown – Arab Flute X Zen Militia – Pull of Guilt (Scuba Remix) 10 Unknown – Morocco Belly Dance X Substep Infrabass Monotonium 11 Guem – Royal Dance X Shed – Panamax Remix 12 Unknown – African Tribal Drums X Unkown – UK Grime 13 Reda Darwish – Raqset El Banat X Headhunter – Drop The Waste 14 Remko Scha – Machine Guitars Slam X Skream – Backwards 15 Andy Moor – Uganda Fly X Loefah – Fire Elements 16 Sir Richard Bishop – Blood Stained Sands X Tunnidge – Face Melt 17 Sijano Vodjani – Dedication X King Midas Sound – Earth a kill ya

NGOMA MIX 13 – Juju-Juke

Posted on July 4, 2012 by ngomasound

Ever since drums were banned on most slave plantations in N. America during the 1600s, after the masters discovering that the slaves organized revolts with their talking drums, the expression of poly-rhythms in N. American popular music has primarily been through use of the voice. This is the reason music in the US is typified by the simple 1-2 “dupple” rhythm, in contrast to more complex beat patterns in South-America or the Caribbean (which kept their drums). Thus the evolution of all subsequent Afro-North-American music was profoundly shaped, from Blues to Funk to Disco: kick on the 1, and snare on the 2; all the way down to the late 20th Century – complex poly-rhythms in hiphop is produced with rap, and the drums remain a skeletal, minimalistic boom-bap, as if just to mark time.

Now in the 21st Century a renewed sense of rhythmic complexity returns to Afro-North-American dance music in the form of Juke/Footwork in Chicago: interlocking 2s and 3s form intricate beat structures, unmistakeably related to many forms of percussion styles in the motherland (but still often keeping that N. American hard snare on the 2).

OR: STREAM: MIXCLOUD //// DOWNLOAD: SEPARATE TRACKS OR SINGLE TRACK

This NGOMA volume demonstrates this reconnection, after centuries of separation, between African tradition and Afro-Diaspora: between Nigerian Juju/Fuji music and Chicago Juke/Footwork, between Ethiopian dance styles and Detroit Ghetto-Tech, between Iberian trad-modern street sounds and American R’n’B/Pop, between Afro-Punk and Club Music, between Congolese Mbira workouts and Hiphop, between Ghanaian and Senegalese drumming and Urban Bass Pressure. Let us pump up the volume and remember the power and spirit of rhythm which survives every hardship, cruelty, and oppression, and rejoice in the timeless Music Of the Drums.

big thanks to Keith Jones for knowledge passing, Itzi Nallah, Sonic Diaspora and states side massive for making the Juju-Juke tour possible, my B-girls Jessi and Maya for support.Juju-Juke Tour kick off in Belgrade

I have played this set a few times now during the Serbia, Germany, and US East Coast tour a few weeks ago, and crowds have gone completely BONKERS as the energy went straight through the roof: 500 screaming people and massive MOSH PIT at 3AM during Mikser Festival Belgrade; club crowd which refused to leave, clapping and hollering for 20 minutes after lights went up and sound was turned off at The Shrine Chicago. I guess the world is more than ready for 160 BPM Afro-Footwork pressure!!!

and here is that adrenaline fueled misanthropic juke edit of South African punk rockers Koos by itself (download and drop into your set if you are wo/man enough :D):

Feiruz-Grime Mash-Up project by Wadada

Posted on September 27, 2011 by ngomasound

Earlier this year, in the true spirit of Ngoma FUSION series, Wadada from Jahtari made this short mix.

We have all (i know i have) wished for the impossible: that some of the golden music from the past can be re-recorded in a contemporary studio, and perhaps with some of today’s bass music sickness. Mixes like this are surely the next best thing.

Feiruz – Fayek wala nasy / Kromestar – Renegade 2
Feiruz – Ya garatal wadi
Feiruz – Intahena / Rustie – Tempered
Feiruz – Q’atab Tu Ilayki / 16 Bar Rally Instrumental – Bless Beats
Feiruz – Shalhat Al Harir / DOK – KO
Feiruz – Sakana Al Leyl / Joker – Output 1-2
Feiruz – Lubnan El Akhdar / Geeneus – Dark Boy
Feiruz – Alou El Ida / Wiley – 4 shots
Feiruz – Ana Endi Hanin / Rustie – Response
Feiruz – Lachou El Haki / Wiley – Eskimo
Feiruz – Bhebbak Ma Baaref / Two Fingers – What you know
Feiruz – Yammi Ma Ba’arif / Quarta 330 – Sunset Dub

Amsterdam: Solar Weekend and SWAGGA

Posted on August 4, 2011 by ngomasound

Saturday 6th of August from 9-12pm I will be rocking this fine dance music festival close to Amsterdam with the This Is Africa crew. if you are there find us on the program guide and come say hello!

and on Sunday 7th of August i will be doing a 2 hour set at this long running Dubstep night in the center of Amsterdam – at Club Winston, Warmoesstraat 129.

FUSION 1

Posted on August 4, 2011 by ngomasound

the FUSION series are mash-up and re-edit albums fusing global traditional music and modern bass/beats. if you’ve ever wondered what Digital Gamelan is like, or what Capetown gospel singers sound like in London Ghettos, or how Robots would play Ethiopian Jazz…

erasing lines, fusing edges, reconnecting all mutations, permutations, lost strains, divided strands, and myriad variations of the deeper-than-we-remember roots from which we all come. limits are arbitrary, borders are lies, separation is illusion.

OR: STREAM: MIXCLOUD // 1 TRACK DL: MEDIAFIRE // SEPARATE TRACKS DL: MEDIAFIRE

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01 Intro
02 Indonesia traditional – Spring Water X Deadbeat – Lost Luggage
03 Indonesia traditional – Morning Sun X itoa – Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart’s Dub Band
04 Balwinder Safri – Karve Da Din X 2562 – Basin Dub
05 Iran Traditional – Zeybek X Dj Hatcha – Chillz
06 The Mahotella Queens – Muntu Wesilisa X Wiley – Bang Bang Instrumental
07 Turkia Traditional – Kervan X L-Wiz – Fruit Shop
08 Indonesia Traditional – Sanda Kandung X Grime instrumental
09 Benga – Half Ounce X Burundi Traditional bernadette ii
10 Indonesia Traditional – Ngantosan X Mark One – Slang
11 Huseyin Ali Riza Albayrak – Ey Zahid X Danny Weed – Dirty Den
12 African Headcharge – Belinda X Blir – 19_4_04
13 Akhenation – 361 Degrees X Kode 9 – Magnetic City
14 Toshinori Kondo – Fukotsu X Pinch – Qawwali
15 Indonesia Traditional X L-Wiz – Fruit Shop
16 The Mahotella Queens – Ndodana Yolahleko X Skream – Skunkstep
17 Circle – Memo X Even Order ???
18 Hiripsime – ces femmes qui me ressemblent X Cyrus – Random Trio – Bounty
19 Hijak – Nightmares X ø – Toisaalia
20 Ana Whabibi – Mahmoud Fadi (interlude)
21 The Mahotella Queens – Amezemula X Iron Soul – Slo Moshun
22 African Headcharge – Run Come Saw X DQ1 – Wear The Crown
23 Indonesia Traditional – Padang Magek X Omen – Rebellion
24 Mulatu Astatge – Kulunmanqueleshi X Dj Hatcha – Just a Rift
25 Loka – Fire Shepherds X L-Wiz – Fruit Shop
26 Loka – Fire Shepherds X Kion Zindagi
27 La Chat Playa – Gangsta Forever X DJ Wonder – What
28 Rove X Vex’d – Destruction
29 Armenia Traditional – Boulbouli Hid (Le Chant du Rossignol) X L-Wiz – Sub
30 Turkia Traditional – Cagirayim Seni X Shackleton – Blood On My Hands

RADIO NGOMA 1-8

Posted on August 4, 2011 by ngomasound

the first 8 volumes in this Reboot.fm radio series. for tracklisting please go to the soundcloud pages for each show. to download of course simply click the downward aarow on the right side of the player for each show.

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RADIO NGOMA 1 – Live from Krakow