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Moroccan Sounds

August 31, 2017Afrobot Leave a Comment
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Last weekend of August I was invited to play at Atlas Electronic, a small scale electronic music festival that was happening in Villa Janna in Marrakesh for the second time. The location (approx. 10 km north from the city center)… Continue Reading →

Afro, Gnawa, LoFi, mix, percussion, psychedelic, Sounds

Records from Mexico

June 29, 2017Afrobot Leave a Comment
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Already back for more than a month from an amazing 3 week trip to Mexico, an intensive tour with Dany-E and De Dupe playing 8 gigs in 5 cities. Of course I needed to go record hunting, although I wasn’t… Continue Reading →

Ambient, cumbia, disco, latin, mix, percussion, psychedelic, rumba, tropical

Digging (in) Istanbul – days before the referendum

April 19, 2017Afrobot Leave a Comment
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Just a day back from a 5 day trip to Istanbul, got a gig in Minimüzikhol was meeting friends and digging for that Turkish black gold. Booked a Airbnb in Taksim, just a bit outside the area the promoter of… Continue Reading →

disco, mix, psychedelic, Turkish

EurAfrican Synth Sounds

January 19, 2017Afrobot Leave a Comment
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“In music people have always liked to travel.” That’s the last sentence of my bio and I try to grasp two meanings: literally, musicians tend to travel and go on tour and abroad they get inspired. What they hear will… Continue Reading →

Afro, disco, mix, Sounds

Record Fair Mix

November 15, 2016Afrobot Leave a Comment
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For this article on Thump (in Dutch) I was digging on the famous Record Fair in Utrecht last Sunday with 70 euros in my pocket and I thought it would be fun to record a mini mix with the fresh… Continue Reading →

Afro, Kwaito, mix, percussion, Sounds, tropical, zouk

Sound of Somalia

June 3, 2016Afrobot Leave a Comment
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O Yes, I’m quite excited to present this mix, all credits for this one go to my good friend Nikolai van Zeeland for digging up these tracks online – from Youtube – he is the guy who also came back… Continue Reading →

Afro, disco, LoFi, mix, reggae mix, Somalia

Keep the Noise Down (My Baby is Sleeping)

January 18, 2016Afrobot Leave a Comment
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First post of the year. Just before NYE was going through my new wave section picking records to mix with house and techno for my graveyard shift at BAR between 8 and 10AM the next morning (which was wild )…and… Continue Reading →

Ambient, LoFi, mix, new / minimal wave, Sounds Keep the Noise Down

What is Rumba

October 27, 2015Afrobot Leave a Comment
Fania All-Stars in Venezuela, 1980. Fania All-Stars were responsible for the popularization of salsa, especially salsa dura, a style which relied on the descarga format with long jams and extended soloing.

In order to create some insight in what Rumba is, as one of the oldest and main ingredients of Latin music, I decided to handle the text like I handle the records in this mix: I put 35 vinyls in… Continue Reading →

Afro, disco, mix, rumba, soukous, tropical Latin

Congolese sound from Japan

September 21, 2015Afrobot Leave a Comment
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Last summer Nikolai, a good friend of mine – we’re regularly dj-ing and partying together in Amsterdam – went on holiday to Japan, and of course he was going for some digging over there, so I asked him to bring… Continue Reading →

Afro, mix, soukous, tropical afro

Diggin’ in India

August 31, 2015Afrobot 1 Comment
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Finally I recorded a Bollywood mix of the most interesting finds from India. It took me a year to sort out more than a hundred records, because that Bollywood sound can get so annoying with the screaming vocals on top.… Continue Reading →

Bollywood, disco, mix, reggae, tropical

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