DJ Chief Boima: Sherbro Son

I’m starting a new party in Manhattan.  The first one is this Thursday.

Lamin Fofana and I have teamed up with friends from Gabon, Ivory Coast, and Madagascar to bring the world a new place to congregate and enjoy the sounds of the club from an African perspective.

We’re calling our new night “Made in Africa” and we’ll be bringing it to the heart of the 2nd biggest city in North America, New York.

In the many cities I’ve traveled to in recent years I’ve noticed that the deluge of GagaBieberPeas carbon copies continues unabated in the club, and from my experience in the recent months the once legendary lower Manhattan club scene has not been spared (with a few exceptions, and you know who you are!). New York has some of the best DJ’s and most creatively productive collection of ethnic enclaves in the world, but they’re being pushed out of the center to make way for what one person recently described to me as “the biggest college campus in the world”. Whether or not this is true and we can truly lament the demise of great club nights in one of club music’s spiritual centers, as a wise Dirty Harry once said, perhaps all we need is a little change of mood:

Our first guest will be someone who’s no stranger to Ghetto Bassquake readers, Benjamin Lebrave of Akwaaba Music. I used to play with Benjamin back in San Francisco when his label was just starting out, so it’ll be great to link up with him after he’s come so far with so many great releases. This is the two year anniversary for him and the birth of a new chapter for me.

We hope to make this the new home for African artists to visit when they come through the Big Apple, and do for the African community what some of our family members have done for Latinos in New York. Our goal is simply to bring a little diversity into the mix. Be sure to come out for a rare opportunity to check out both us and Que Bajo in one (supposedly warmer!) night. Don’t feel bad shuffling back and forth, we like to share.

Facebook event page here, and if you like us you can let Facebook and all the people they sell your information to know as well www.madeinafricanyc.com. As soon as we generate some funds we’ll migrate away from the monster.