We already told you: Man Recordings is turning 5 this year and we are proud to be one of the presenters of it’s big birthday bash in Berlin next weekend, Friday September 3rd.
We are not only more than happy to congratulate one of the first labels to push local Dance/Bass Music in a global context for the first 5 years in the business, we are also looking forward to a huge party with guests like Schlachthofbronx, Zombie Disco Squad, Marina Vello and label-owner Daniel Haaksman himself.
And as we know for sure that you want to join us in the celebration, we have 2×2 spots on the guest list just for you, my shiny happy people. Just tell us in the comments why you do love Man Recordings (and don’t forget to leave your email)!! Deadline is Wednesday evening, 11 PM.
So don’t be shy, we are waiting for you!
As a little appetiser check this new tune from the upcoming anniversary compilation and stay tuned for a huge interview with Daniel Haaksman! Purr Na Na by Daniel Haaksman / Man Rec
Like reported we had the Ayobaness tour in Berlin last week at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.Three guys from TropicalBass.com where there and representing – now we want to share a few impressions of the day show and club gig feat. Pastor Mbhobho and MGO with his Pantsula dancers.
Ayobaness on tour! The latest of the South African house craze is touring Germany, making sure that the songs that are rocking crowds in the minibus-taxis from Durban to Pretoria, Jo’Burg to Capetown also move hips and feets in Munich, Berlin and at the festival TFF in Rudolstadt!
Tonight hardhitting basslines from the townships will shake the walls of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. For all who don’t know: the buzzword “Ayoba” means: excitement!
And yes, we are excited indeed and totally looking forward to the threefold party tonight:
The evening starts early at 6.30pm with the first part of the record release party of the compilation “Ayobaness” presented by the Ayobaness Soundsystem live with DJ, comedian and singer Pastor Mbhobho with his huge Afro and lots of bling bling Kwaito Star “MGO“, with his Pantsula dancers from Johannesburg.
Then the worldcup game Ghana – Uruguay will be shown at 8.30pm. Afterwards the party goes on: no matter which soccer team gets kicked in the ass, Ayobaness will definitely move the audience’s asses!
You can already get into the right mood while listening to the fantastic Riddim Tropical Kwaito special or this cool mix of DJ Zhao and of course by watching this video on heavy rotation:
01.07.2010 München, Crux
02.07.2010 Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
03.07.2010 TTF Rudolstadt
04.07.2010 TTF Rudolstadt
Organized by the Goethe-Institute Nairobi and Berlin DJ duo Gebrüder Teichmann, BLNRB – NRBLN is a project of young bands and musicians from Nairobi and Berlin who together try to fathom the borders between electronic music, hip-hop and African musical traditions.
Goal of the project is „to replace the stereotype of a war-torn, hungry and poverty stricken Africa with a realistic picture: that of dynamic and highly creative urban cultures which in their own way adapt to international developments and propagate themselves – and give back to the international scene“. They make it explicit that this is not just about giving African musicians the chance to be released on famous Berlin labels, but also to make Berlin’s electronic music scene better known in East Africa, maybe as a future point of reverence for the local music scene.
Participants alongside the Teichmanns are Modeselektor, Jahcoozi with Sasha Pereira, and Robot Koch from Berlin, Kenyan hip-hop/ dancehall collective Ukoo Flani, the MCs Abbas, Kimya and Lon’Jon, the electro house trio Just a Band and traditional Kenyan instrumentalists like the singer and percussionist Lydia Mwango.
Since February 2009 the musicians are working on collaborations and some participants already appeared within the context of the “German cultural weeks” in Nairobi in November 2009. The movie ‘Soul Boy’ from Hawa Essuman and Tom Twyker, shown last months in Berlinale’s Generations section (children and youth cinema), already featured the tune ‘Dirty Laundry’, a collaboration between the Teichmann brothers and the MCs Mr. Abbas, Kimya and Lon’Jon. Btw the movie sounds interesting too – I wanted to see it but tickets were sold out 4 days in advance – boo. Filmed in Kibera, Nairobi’s biggest slum, it tells the tale of little boy Abi, who has to conquer various challenges to rescue his father’s soul.
‘Msoto Millions’ from Ukoo Flani and Jahcoozi will will be released as part of the upcoming Jahcoozi album ‘Barefoot Wanderer’ on Bpitch Control in April.
Right now German and Kenyan musicians are in Nairobi together working on new productions and joint concerts. This journey will be recorded on camera and documented by Arte/Tracks and the foreign editorial office of ZDF, and you can follow their journey blog on posterous. If you are in Nairobi right now, check their Facebook regularly for upcoming events.
At the end of this year, the Kenyan musicians will be invited to concerts in Berlin in the framework of the Worldtronics festivals in the House of World Cultures.
As none of the mentioned tunes was available online, here you go with the trailer for Soul Boy
First video by Berlinbased producer Good Looking Boy – featuring all those damn snow, garbage and shit that was our constant companion during the last months.
Really well done and the hookline will stuck in my head for the rest of the day for sure.
Check out more Good Looking Boy on Soundcloud and watch out for March 19th when the single will drop, including Remixes by Tim Turbo (Seen/Man Recordings), ST (Paris) and Tipanic (Highhat productions).
As so often in history it needs a natural catastrophe to draw public attention to a human catastrophe already going on for many years. Was it really necessary that a ravaging earthquake for the first editorial articles on Haiti in the “Western” press in years and for bringing the first movie from Haiti to the Berlinale Filmfestival in more than a decade? (Well, there was one Italian movie about Haiti in the “culinary cinema” section (Eat, Drink, See Movies) last year – pretty sarcastic when it comes to a country where mud cakes became a staple diet for many already before the earthquake hit…)
Whatever, at least under the prevailing circumstances the organizers of the Berlinale had the great idea to add the movie Moloch Tropical to the program of this year’s festival and to support the UNICEF mission for Haiti. The movie is directed by Haitian-born Raoul Peck who grew up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, studied in the US, France and German and became well known for his enthralling political films situated in Africa such as Lumumba and Sometimes in April.
With Moloch Tropical he returns to Haiti and shows a president in his fortress up on the hills who finds his country in turmoil, with riots spreading and his power and control vanishing. Peck who served as Minister of Culture in the Haitian government himself in 1996/97 said about the movie: “I wanted to re-examine, from a Shakespearian perspective, the tragic and foolish nonsense of the past sixty years of upheaval. Nowhere else but in Haiti has reality generated so much confusion and so many contradictions.”
