Bouyon party - 2012 is the year of bouyon music, leaving Dominica via Guadeloupe and Martinique. Will post a mix this weekend with new and old Bouyon stuff… siwo!!
“Taxi Taxi! Airport Tegel.. I can’t stay in Berlin City when there is pan and sunshine in my country”. Starting this sunny and freezing winter day with this soca classic by Explainer from Trinidad.
Finally it’s out: TropicalBass.com released the first compilation called “TropicalBass Vol. 1 - Funky Edition”. Featured are many household names of the Tropical scene incl So Shifty (D), Max Le Daron (B), Tipanic (AT), Kush Arora & Bongo Chilli (USA), Ertu & Pushkin Noise (CH), Blnd! (HU), 4x4 (GHA), Danny Scrilla (D), Dreadsquad (PL), DJ Mellow (B), Denham Smith (JA) with SWS (D) and myself, Marflix (D).
Beside my previously released remix of “Like a snake” I’m featured with my abstract tropifunky track “Tak-te-ting (‘ead gone).
December edition of my radioshow Riddims Tropicale, guest DJ Silent Pressure (Berlin).
Over 2 1/2h of mixing back to back, travelling through genres: Semba, Soca, Mambo, Bass, House, African, etc. Available at TropicalBass.com or on iTunes.
Chawayé - Enjoying my evening with that nice compa-ish tune by Gee Mylo from Martinique.
Large Zouk tune in English and Creole from the island Dominica, produced by Dada.
Riddims Tropicale #17 is loaded with some serious soulful Afro-Deep and Afro-House. Info, playlist and download: marflix.me
Salsa in Senegal, Coupe Décale in Guadeloupe, Soca in Sweden, Kuduro in Brasil, and now Funk in Angola - modern times.
Funk in Angola? Yes - this is Besta Fera, an Angolan group making funk carioca, interviewed in Rio de Janeiro.
More Semba: Aleluia - 69 Anos de Idade
Still in the Semba fever. This track is by Aleluia from his debut album “Maca Grande”.
9/11 and the Cuban Hip Hop Revolución
Sujatha Fernandes: 9/11 and the Cuban Hip Hop Revolución.
