[ Soundway / 3 LP ]
Release Date: Friday 14 November 2014
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Soundway Records, along with the Goethe-Institute and Adaptr.org, present TEN CITIES a new compilation including, amongst many others, the likes of Bristol dubstep producer Pinch, Lisbon-based producer Batida and Kenyan group Just A Band.
Between Autumn 2012 and Spring 2013 the TEN CITIES project brought electronic music producers and musicians from five cities in Europe (Berlin, Bristol, Kiev, Lisbon and Naples) to five cities in Africa (Cairo, Johannesburg, Lagos, Luanda and Nairobi) They were invited to collaborate and create, spending an intense time together making music in sticky studios and blacked-out rooms across the African continent.
TEN CITIES put together approximately 50 electronic music producers and instrumentalists from the ten cities selected. They were invited to collaborate in studios over the course of more than six months. A selection of the outcome of these cross-continental experiments can be heard on this record.
It's no surprise that the results are far from what many would term 'World Music' and its often generic mixture of aural clichés, where all too often African music (as with that of the rest of the planet) from Mali to Madagascar, and from Morocco to Malawi is all filed under one ridiculous, meaningless genre.
TEN CITIES attempts to do something quite different: whilst searching for common ground it is also trying to highlight the differences. As a result hip-hop from the squats of Naples, bass music from Bristol, experimental techno from Berlin or jazz-tinged deep-house from Kiev are thrust upon the pumping kuduro of Luanda, the free-thinking crackled electronica of Cairo, afro-jazz from Lagos or the Sheng street-slang of Kenyan rap.
Octa Push - Khuchende Halala ft Isaac
Pinch - Are You Coming With Us? ft Temi Oyedele
Dirty Paraffin - Choborops ft Hannes Teichmann
Lunabe & Djeff - Temedo ft MC Sacerdote & MC Yolanda NoivadaBatida - Mama Wototo ft Cannibal
Just A Band & Octapush - Boom Boom Boom
Lunabe - Quero Falar ft MC Sacerdote
Rob Smith - Work! ft Jah Device & Sasha Perera
Wura Samba & Gebruder Teichmann - Antere
Diamond Version, Bikya & Wetrobots - DV_BK_WR_O6
Perera Elsewhere - Ebora (Spirits) ft Aremu
Dubmasta, Hannes Teichmann & Leon Ersamus - 10 Henry Nxumalo Street ft Afurakan
Diamond Version, Bikya & Wetrobots
Hannes Teichmann & Vakula - Last Chance For Momo ft Planet Lindela Hannes Teichmann & Vakula - Last Chance For Momo ft Planet Lindela Afrologic - Omode Mewa (Ten Little Children) ft Aremu, Temi Oyedele & Wuru Samba
Vakula & Planet Lindela - Jozi Sunset
Vakula & Planet Lindela - Ten Cities Masala ft Okmalumkoolkat, Thuli Mdlalose, Tshepang Ramoba & Moonchild
Oren Gerlitz - Orange Green ft Karun