March 17th in Austin:

March 19th in Austin:

March 20th in San Antonio (basement of the Alamo):

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…at least from what I remember was Recess and Birthdays.  This Wednesday, you can partake in both with me at Somar Bar in Oakland.  I’ll be playing a fun set of party tunes, most likely centered on music I love from the Caribbean axis, alongside DJ Soul Profess from Oakland.

There’s a great vibe going on in Oakland these days.  I personally love being able to literally go down the street after a gig to sleep in my bed.  No tolls, no bridges, no closed train stations!  I had a blast on Saturday at the People party, and I’m excited to keep it all going as they say.  So, come say hi for my (post) birthday celebration (the real date is tomorrow, the 2nd) and if you haven’t been able to yet, check out what is really becoming (perhaps) an Oakland renaissance.

Tomorrow night I’m playing at my favorite East Bay monthly party, The People Party.  It’s put on by my friend’s DJ Cecil and Be Brown and their partners Cali and Heylove.  Also featured will be Santa Cruz’s DJ Eko, who I’ve been meaning to see play for awhile now, but have not been able to catch up with her, as she travels maybe more than I do.

The People Party is known around (the) Town as the best place to hear some great soulful house and experimental Black Music, and is really the heart of the East Bay’s underground party scene (in my opinion.)  Tomorrow’s party will be at The New Parish in Oakland.  I’m going to bring some fire because this is definitely the party to show out for.  Hope to see you there!

I’ve not been posting a lot here lately, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been on the music exploration grind.  I’m still posting at Ghetto Bassquake, but I wanted to let it be known that I’ve been blogging over at the New York/New Jersey radio station, WFMU’s Beware of the Blog.

Check out the tag Chief Boima’s posts over there, where I update every other Monday.

My next post is coming up, so check back every two weeks, and in the meantime explore a great website and radio station!

So I’m late on this one because I’m just coming back from the event, but you can still catch the amazing installation of the Global Lives Project this weekend at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.  I just DJ’d the opening party with Kid Kameleon and Tinker, and it was such an amazing set up to see all the videos hanging from the ceiling that I have to encourage everyone to see it.  It was great watching the videos throughout the night, seeing what each subject is up to on their respective days.

If you’re not in the Bay Area, keep a look out, because the installation will be traveling.

I had a blast on New Years, playing in front of this beautiful Mosque in Abu Dhabi.  Getting to play an international mix of music like UK Funky, Coupe Decale, Bhangra, Crunk, Soca, Cumbia, Baltimore/Philly Club, Rai, and Egyptian Pop, far from my home base, and receive a rowdy dancing response from a diverse international crowd has made me optimistic for 2010 and beyond.  While I had to still fight off demands for 80’s music from a group of drunk Scottish people (some in kilts) as well as their orders to shut off the music at midnight so they could sing loudly a proper Scottish New Year’s tune, I was pleasantly surprised by the diverse crowd that came to party in the New Year.

I’m headed back to the states on Monday, to pop in to Beat Research in Boston.  Come catch me in my jet lag haze, I’ll definitely be sharing some East African treats from my trip to Nairobi.

On return to San Francisco, I’ll be back home at Baobab Village Friday night January 8th to play along side my Dutty Artz brother Taliesen, the Crooked Clef from Seattle, and SF’s very own Slayer’s Club Crew.  Check the flyer:

See you all in 2010!

Cover Artwork by Lupo Avanti (my roomate!)

In collaboration with the HOMIEZ at Dutty Artz, I am releasing my first collection of remixes as African By The Bay.  The crew did such a nice job of putting this page together I’ll let them take over:

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Dutty Artz is proud to present The African By The Bay EP, an exclusive collection of irresistible remixes from San Francisco/Bay Area producer Chief Boima. The EP is available for free download, and features a healthy dose of Afro dance remixes and instrumental reworkings of songs by Birdman (”Money To Blow” feat. Drake and Lil Wayne), Akon (”Right Now”), The Jacka (”Glamorous Lifestyle” feat. Andre Nickatina), Fabo & T-Pain (”Own Step”)

African By The Bay EP is a potent batch of new stateside rap tunes given the remix treatment by Boima, our favorite African-American (in the Obama sense) producer, whose trail-blazing approach weds percussive patterns from sounds like Ivorian Coupe Decale and Senegalese Mbalax. (Not to mention Angolan Kuduro, Nigerian Club, and South African Kwaito, and his Sierra Leonean Highlife and Palm-Wine refix of Cold Flamez “Miss Me, Kiss Me”.)

African By The Bay (62 megabyte ZIP file), feel free to to download and re-post on your site.

01 Chief Boima – Shake Them Dreads
02 The Jacka – Glamorous Lifestyle feat. Andre Nickatina (Chief Boima Remix)
03 Sean Garrett – Smooches feat. Young Joc (Chief Boima Remix)
04 Birdman – Money To Blow feat. Drake and Lil Wayne (Chief Boima Remix)
05 Akon – Right Now (Nananana) (Chief Boima Mbalax Decale Remix)
06 YV – Own Step feat. T-Pain & Fabo (Chief Boima Remix)
07 Cold Flamez – Miss Me, Kiss Me (Chief Boima Remix)

File Under: Afrobeat, Hip-Hop, Dance & Electronic
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Chief Boima is a DJ, Musician, and Beat Composer on a mission to rep Africa like the World Cup in 2010. Boima is resident DJ at the Bay Area’s number one international club Baobab Village, where he regularly takes San Francisco’s residents around the world with global urban club sounds. Of mixed American and Sierra Leonean Heritage, Chief Boima blends the Hip Hop and Electronic Dance styles he absorbed as a youth growing up in the U.S. Midwest with the Afro Pop lineage passed down from his family.

Very very exciting tings a gwan at the Baobab Village!  Soum Bill, the founder of Les Garagistes, is recording his new album in New York and will be making a stop by San Francisco for a one time performance.  We are so lucky to be able to have him perform here in the Bay Area.  I will be djing alongside the great DJ Polo of Reggae Gold SF, and the other Baobab resident DJ’s.   Come get your Zouglou and Coupe Decale first hand in the mission next Friday December 4th!

Speaking of Ivory Coast, I’m already getting World Cup 2010 fever, and apparently Les Elephants and the Black Stars are both in the possible running for a world cup final appearance.  Time to get my Drogba jersey (sorry Chelsea haters!)  Here is one of my favorite songs from the Ivory Coast:

My friends from We Own TV put together a trailer of footage from their summer workshop in Lungi, Sierra Leone.  When Banker first showed me the beginning clip in his studio, the beauty of the shots and their emotional power gave me the shivers.

While infrastructure development is underway, and stories of returnees from Europe and the US start to surface, I think that this kind of initiative to promote public expression from all sectors of society, will be what truly brings Sierra Leone out of a post-war period, and push it into the thriving prosperous country it has the potential to be.

I’ve been invited down tomorrow night (Tuesday) to Los Angeles by my friends Daniel and Asma of Nguzunguzu to play at their weekly Tuesday night party Wildness, which I’m excited for.  The night, started by DJ Total Freedom, seems like it may live up to the name if the reviews have anything to say about it.  Me I’m just down for some good old fashioned American Freedom.  Anticipate an adventurous set.

I’ll be flying back up to Oakland on Wednesday to guest alongside DJ Santero.  Check his dope song and video:

I’m going to play some Bubu, and other magical musics, in honor of the night’s theme.

It’s at Luka’s Taproom, the place I stomped around for a few months on Thursdays, so it’s nice to be back.  Hopefully I’ll see you arrrround!