afrobeats

[Benny B]

Loved that 1st wave of afrobeats from 10 years ago, Ghana especially, had high hopes for the UK scene but when it finally did arrive I just wasn't interested. Jamaica's still where it's at, where it's always been at really

 

[luka]

that comment was partly motivated by the group of young africans thats been shouting hollering laughing blasting out their trite bibblegum music and generally being happy and having a great time non fucking stop for the last two days somewhere near my flat

 

[Benny B]

I just got back from back from a family beach hotel holiday on the costa de la luz where I've been subjected to nonstop high volume latin pop and reggaeton for a week, so count your blessings.

Not one page of the book I took with me read. Not even one.

 

[luka]

i used to have south american neighbours that blasted that out at insane volumes for years dont worry i know how it is.
all sounds like rape

 

[Corpsey]

Just stumbled across this tune, pretty banging

 

[linebaugh]

is the general african music thread?

 

[trilliam]

 

[WebEschatology]

listening to these snippits i'm liking what i'm hearing

i can also see you doing that washed African dad at the christening party dance to these tunes like nobodies watching you

a sight to behold

 

[trilliam]

when it comes to skanking, washed african dads >> the gays >> everyone else >> white ppl at FOLD

my girl wants to move ghana so shes been shoving this music down my throat for a year. was heckling all through out winter but surprise surprise the suns out and and its starting to fucking slap.

 

[trilliam]

 

[blissblogger]

not afrobeats but African and involving beats - what's are the feelings about ampiano?

 

[trilliam]

There's amapiano thoughts in the afrohouse thread but ye every time I think proper amas (not pitched up) boring I hear a thudding, bone shaking bassline that tells me otherwise. It's influence on afrobeats is inarguable at this point as well. Actual South Africans are fucking annoying though.

 

[vvvwwwv]

There's amapiano thoughts in the afrohouse thread but ye every time I think proper amas (not pitched up) boring I hear a thudding, bone shaking bassline that tells me otherwise. It's influence on afrobeats is inarguable at this point as well. Actual South Africans are fucking annoying though.

shouldve come major league djz at brixton saturday, those log drums were a different beast there



that dbn gogo bass that swipes and bludgeons

and some afrobeats so i havent completely hijacked the thread

 

[trilliam]

Bring me in cuz

 

[shakahislop]

my feelings about amapiano are that i) i played it in a car full of girls once and they asked if i could turn it off within 5 minutes and ii) that its the perfect music to play cycling around nyc. with regards to the latter, i think its the constant tension of it, those kind of weird brittle beats that don't relent and which don't really go anywhere but which still have some forward momentum. you have to find the stuff that doesn't have a cheesy vocal though, there seems to be a lot of that about.