They said that cumbia is a woman who has rhythmic hips… for sure cumbia fulfil itself in the sinuous moves...
Boogaloo (or, more aptly bugalú) is the sound of Puerto Rican and Cuban migration in the U.S. It characterised and...
To compile a playlist about calypso music is also to delve into Trinidad and Tobago’s history. When the first kaisonians...
The Balkans has always been the most unstable European region. Its boundaries are still today volatile and migrations, wars and...
“Patchanka is the wild sound, for proud souls and lonely hounds”, this was the refrain of the patchanka’s style manifesto...
This ticket is for a trip back in time, to the roots of one of the most popular upbeat music...
Deriving from the French term, ‘secousse’ literally meaning ‘to shake’, Soukous music has a simple aim, to make the people...
Originating in Ghana but with roots also placed firmly in Nigeria, Highlife music has had a major impact on modern...
In 1970s New York salsa emerged, conquering the world in just a few decades. Caribbean migrants (mainly Puerto Rican, Dominican...
Derived from the Afrikaans word ‘kwai’ literally translating to angry, kwaito is the heavy, house music pumping out of modern...
Apologies to anyone thinking this might be the case, but no, the original Ethio-jazz architect is not Mulatu Astatke. The...
Soukous (a term derived from the French secousse or ‘to shake’) came to life in those years, blending together the...