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Africa in Your Earbuds 76: Teju Cole – One Night in New York City (mixed by Chief Boima)

November 3, 2016 by Boima Tucker

The second collaborative mixtape between myself and acclaimed author Teju Cole is here! I’m quite proud to put out a New York follow up to Teju and my mix collaboration, because the last time I ran into Teju was for the INTL BLK kick off party in July (where the Afro-diapsora vibes were heavy!). I particularly remember he, I, and a few close friends getting down to deep soulful house grooves from Shawn Dub into the early morning! It’s moments like those […]

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Kondi Band Europe Debut!

October 4, 2016 by Boima Tucker

The Kondi Band project has been luck enough to be selected as part of the 2016 WOMEX Festival taking place in Santiago de Compostela, Spain this October. In order to support the trip over we’re making stops all over Europe. If you’re in any of the places below come see us and say hi!

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Kondi Band – Belle Wahalla EP

May 26, 2016 by Boima Tucker

It’s been five years in the making, but the Kondi Band has finally arrived! With a full length album due out on Strut later this year, the Belle Wahalla EP is the first glimpse at the collaboration between Sorie Kondi and myself. The is will also the first major album project out of the INTL BLK studio/production platform. The EP (which will be release on vinyl in the coming weeks) features two original tracks and remixes by Hagan, Boddhi Satva, and Aramac. Cover […]

Categories: Releases • Tags: INTL BLK, Kondi Band

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Liberian Hipco and the Black Atlantic

April 1, 2016 by Boima Tucker

Drum and Bass, Hyphy, Footwork, Hipco, and Gbema are all rolled into one package with the latest from INTL BLK. In case you’re keeping score, that’s touching down in the Black Atlantic metropoles of Oakland, Chicago, London, and Monrovia. On this, the 2nd project from this new platform, UK producer Subculture Sounds and I team up to present our own takes on Shadow’s Hipco and Gbema fusing Liberian dance anthem “Killing Me.” Check it out below and pick it up at any of your […]

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Introducing INTLBLK – A new platform for International Black Music and Culture

November 30, 2015 by Boima Tucker

After searching in vain for platforms that specialized in my particular vision for music and culture out of the contemporary Black Atlantic, I decided I needed to go out an a limb and start my own. I’m not exactly sure what this platform is quite yet (not a label, but starting as a label), I hope you stick with me to find out what it turns into. Meet INTLBLK. The first project we’re presenting sums up the mission for INTLBLK […]

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Hipsters Don’t Dance Carnival Special

September 1, 2015 by Boima Tucker

This past August I was a guest on Hipsters Don’t Dance’s Notting Hill Carnival special broadcast on Radar Radio London. Check out my dedication to the past two years I’ve spent at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival, and the many years previous spent in Toronto, New York, and San Francisco.

Categories: Mixes • Tags: Carnival, Hipsters Don't Dance, london, Mix, Radar Radio, radio

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Africa in Your Earbuds 64: Teju Cole – One Night in Las Gidi (mixed by Chief Boima)

July 31, 2015 by Boima Tucker

I handled mix duties for Teju Cole’s Africa in Your Earbuds mix, so I thought I’d share here! Read his piece, and listen below. It doesn’t really get good until about 1 am, but you do want to be there by then, because you’d like to get in at least two solid hours of dancing by the time the clubs shut down. Afterward you run the gauntlet of cops on Falomo Bridge. “Oga, anything for us?” “Ehn, don’t worry, on […]

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Feel Up Radio

May 23, 2015 by Boima Tucker

I turned in a new mix this week for Feel Up Records Radio… a new label by Jillionaire. Click through to read the description of this hyphy-goes-global mix.

Categories: Mixes • Tags: #tumblr, Bay Area, DJ Mustard, Feel Up Records, Global, Hyphy

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Eat Rio Interview

May 23, 2015 by Boima Tucker

I recently did an interview with the Eat Rio blog on my life in Brazil, and my impressions after living here for a little over a year. We touch on many different subjects from food, to music, to race. Here is a taste: What I see as fundamentally different is the concepts of multiculturalism, and this perhaps colors the race debate in each place. Culturally, Brazilians take all their cultural influences and make everything their own. Food is a great example for […]

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Sucre (Saya Remix) feat. Bocafloja

May 22, 2015 by Boima Tucker

Dutty Artz’ lastest features a remix by myself featuring Afro-Mexican rapper Bocafloja. I took Cocotaxi’s original digital Andean-cumbia influenced track, and injected a little bit of African flavor by tapping into the Afro-Bolivian Saya tradition from the Yungas communities outside of La Paz. Check it out below.

Categories: Releases • Tags: Afro-Bolivian, Afro-Mexican, Cumbia, Rap, Remix, Saya

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Writing

  • Africa is a Country
  • BeeHype
  • Ghetto Bassquake
  • Musical Violence
  • Red Bull Music Academy
  • The Fader

Releases

  • African By The Bay
  • African in New York
  • Banana Clipz
  • Baobab Connection Vol. 2
  • Kondi Band
  • Lone Stars
  • Los Rakas
  • Techno Rumba

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