
Welcome to the second installment of the DJ Evil Vince curated Muzzle of Bees mix. If you missed the Latin Compilation , you can grab it here in full. This time through, DJ Evil Vince shares Africa , filled with standards and introductory tunes as well as rarities and gems. Listen/Enjoy: DJ Evil Vince :: Africa 01 Doudou N'Diaye Rose - "Cheikh Anta Diop" 02 Babatunde Olatunji - "Akiwowo" 03 Leon Mobley & [...]

Finally i will see my friend Sean Rogg´s art exhibition. Just a few hours left. I have no idea what´s happening in Romania with Jonny Puma and Arnie Becker. Maybe they have been bitten by female vampires by now... I think we all know by now that we all come originally from Africa, and that includes even the music. Listen to these african uptempo songs and you will understand where the origin of all modern dancemusic comes from. Alemayehu Eshete - Addis Ababa Bete [...]

Yoruba musicians with talking drums I've been waiting a long time for the right theme, so I could share some world music with everyone. Now, the time has come. In western music, notes are layered with other notes to form harmony. Over time, we have developed counter melodies and other levels of complexity in our harmony techniques. In Western Africa, the native music features simple melodies and almost no harmony at all. But the rhythm is quite another matter. Where we layer notes and melodic lines, the musicians of western Africa layer rhythms. Many [...]
As part of our preparations for Love Saves the Day, and also in order to shape a worthy mixtape for the awesome El Guincho gig we were involved with a couple of weeks ago, we did some researches on African music, here you have a couple of gems unearthed in ...