Ghetto Palms: Afrohall / KuBass / Yaaaz Riddim
- story Eddie "Stats" Houghton
Every week resident FADER selector Eddie STATS runs through dancehall riddims and other artifacts from the ghetto archipelago.
For awhile I have been stockpiling extremophile musics that fall into the general category of African dancehall in anticipation of a day such as this one. Let me just go ahead and apologize in advance for the sound quality on this blend which is a mixture of youtube rips, pirate downloads via Angola, and badly pressed vinyl. Some of it is actually trying to be dancehall, ie the hypermelodic Ugandan reggae singer Ziggy Dee. Some of it is Angolan reggaeton-tempo stuff which is made by the same dudes who make kuduro, like on their day off I guess (or maybe this is what an Angolan “chill room” sounds like). Some of it (well, one of it) is a differently engineered dancehall remix of Beninese diva Angelique Kidjo that got commissioned for an Island 12” circa 1994. And some of it is just Esau Mwamwaya going afropop crazy over an Architecture in Helsinki instrumental.
(Editor’s Bonus: Download Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit’s The Very Best mixtape… read on.)
