African bangers

Mbende dance style from Zimbabwe. Band based mostly in Brighton, where intro / lead was shot, but dancing was done in Zimbabwe.

https://youtu.be/yQpdCMFPMwQ

More advanced Mbende dance for the seriously fit. Mrewa region of Zimbabwe

https://youtu.be/S1X7oVfqKnc

This is now on daily rotation in my house, housemates have picked it up and it's being heard regularly

Great idea for a thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOzwLXoBUWk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsg_5s_QtEU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW-Mht7TuR8

Mebbe obvious, but another I used to play out BITD

https://youtu.be/p7DtaJQ7acA

Chooooooon

Oh yes.

Great thread.

https://youtu.be/jtnCTn6_-d4

Kamal Keila the Sudan bad boy

I need an EP with 5 different remixes of this. One of them instrumental I think... or with the vocals reduced to an occasional burst of echo.

I absolutely adore the Ethiopiques series, such good music for almost any situation

floaty bright loveliness.

Agreed. Nice little tune.

Good thread - I know this is constantly on r6 but it's still a banger

https://youtu.be/xyL4c_LDCl0

Oh that's nice!

Classic Femi Kuti remix (this actually sounds like a rip from the Idjut Boys' Saturday Nite Live mix)

https://youtu.be/YYerDHBqyuY

Ha! Yeah it's a real earworm. I'm enjoying this thread so much I've created a Youtube Music playlist of everything posted so far. As the thread is fairly small at the moment I'll try and keep updated. feel free to pin to the first post if you like :-)

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLig-XHoXTd1bca8SKPMDMePK7cI6HXT0E&feature=share

Think this counts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRvjOaMsgyk

It also feels fairly ridiculous that we've got this far without him. Maybe we all think it's too obvious? It isn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVd6RaJfpkQ

I feel like he is the standard by which 'african banger' is defined so yeah almost too obvious, if you're interested in this thread you likely already fully know about fela

Yeah. Just felt wrong that he wasn't here somehow 😊🤷‍♂️

Francis Bebey - pygmy flute master

https://youtu.be/m56H4E5bZLk

Francis Bebey

Back in the day I managed to impress a Tinder match by sending her a link with this tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxyFWe6g05U

I was avoiding it, and that track in particular, for this very reason. Probably should have got it out of the way early doors.

Nice, breezy feel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckrBqZJbkkQ