![]() ![]() Soon enough, Awesome Tapes was also the name of his reissue label and his moniker as a DJ-naturally, his sets are played entirely from cassettes. (They’re against it.) Yet its adoption also demonstrated just how much more visible African dance music-old and new, electronic or not-has become in global DJ culture.īrian Shimkovitz started Awesome Tapes From Africa in 2006 as a blog from his home in Brooklyn-uploading cassettes he’d picked up while studying musicology in Ghana, West Africa. Hopefully, OkayAfrica’s editorial on the matter from February 2019 is the last word. One of the stickiest, and most unfortunate, genre tags of the 2010s was the catchall “Afrobeats.” It was misleading two ways-by not being Afrobeat, the militant funk groove that Fela Kuti invented and perfected, and by presuming to speak for an entire continent. ![]()
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