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Takes by the Ocean: Zambian Nightlife and Spongian Jawbox

Takes by the Ocean: Zambian Nightlife and Spongian Jawbox

Comfort-alt and, uh, discomfort-rap while the proprietors of OFWGKTA and PC Music grow up

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Uganda’s finest: Kampire

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Kampire, Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor in Ndola

I’m neither Jamaican nor studied enough to have heard any albums that maybe exist segueing dancehall and old rocksteady styles on the same playlist and it’s hard to imagine them cohering anyway. So I’m impressed not only that Ugandan DJ Kampire felt it pertinent to fuse guitar-grounded soukous and synth-driven Afrobeats on this incredible package simulating 72 minutes of Zambian nightlife but to firmly emphasize that it’s a lineage rather than a clean break. Mostly women singing, too. It should be so simple to compile a mix like this if the data didn’t show how rare it is instead (a brainworm like Dalom Kids’ “P-Coq” could turn anyone into RFK and those don’t come along every year), but that’s how all DJ classics go. Flood her with requests: gqom, amapiano, obscure cases for Burna Boy. We can credit her lived-in teenage history for how deeply this album succeeds but it’s her ears I want protected at all costs.

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