by Boima Tucker
“African in New York” is going to be available for sale tomorrow. I made a mix to promote in on XLR8R. Check Podcast 234. The EU tour continues this weekend. Here’s a video of the change between Mele and I in Paris. Meles opener kills!
Categories: Gigs, Mixes • Tags: Dutty Artz, hell yeah, mele, mixes, Mixpak, Paris, patamix, podcast, tropical bass, xlr8r
by Boima Tucker
Artwork by Robert Trujillo “Hello everybody, reporting live from somewhere!” I’d like to share the very exciting for me news that my first EP of original material is up and available for purchase at iTunes, Amazon, or Boomkat online retailers. I’d love the support if you feel like purchasing the record. I’ve been working really hard on producing music for the past few months (there’s been a lack of posting both here and at Ghetto Bassquake.) A slew of releases […]
Categories: Mixes, Music, Releases • Tags: download, Dutty Artz, mixes, mp3, techno rumba
by Boima Tucker
I’ve been meaning to post this mix up here from the summer, as well as do a more general round up of thoughts and pics from my visit to Europelandia. I’ll get to that later (hopefully sooner.) One real exciting opportunity was being able to do a two hour show on Diesel U Music Radio. We posted Part 2 for your listening pleasure, originally going up at Ghetto Bassquake. Part 1 was too much jibber jabber. Check the music! Ghetto […]
Categories: Music • Tags: download, ghetto bassquake, london, mixes, radio
by Boima Tucker
The Place to be is Descendants United at Luka’s Taproom 2221 Broadway, in downtown. Click here for information on weekly guests and special downloads related to the night every week. Also, I forgot to mention on this site that I did a mix called Descendants United, featured in The Fader Magazine’s blog, at the Ghetto Palms column by DJ Eddie Stats. I’m still updating my mixes page! Check for my latest mix of Calypso for volume one of the Ghetto […]
Categories: Gigs • Tags: descendants united, mixes, Oakland
by Boima Tucker
This dude is pumping out mixes like every hour, but I had to point to one more. He’s featured a couple more of my tracks, and we’re soon to start doing some stuff together so keep on the look out. But, my favorite part about the post he did at Discobelle about this mix is the very funny, tracklist and song descriptions. He says, “Chief Boima is an odd but grand cat with a rich and well maintained coat… san […]
Categories: Music • Tags: African House, Chief Boima, H.I.V.I.P., mixes, South Africa, spoek mathambo
by Boima Tucker
Check out this mix by my buddy Spoek Mathambo in South Africa that features two tracks I’ve worked on. He has a great blog, Sdotx, here. TRACKLIST for Devil House Mafias 2 SLUSH PUPPY KIDS – WE THE BEST DJ MUJAVA – PHELINDABA BANANA CLIPZ – PUSH AM (LEFT, RIGHT) BAKSTINA – DASHBOARD LOVE EASTWEST – PSCHADELIC DISCO THE EXTRA T’S – FLASH BOOGIE ACSLATER – HELLO (MOLEKE MBEMBE REMIX) DJ SPYRO – SPYRO SPESH DJ MURKZ – WWOW DUTTY […]
Categories: Blog Business, Music • Tags: banana clipz, blogs, mixes, South Africa, spoek mathambo
by Boima Tucker
This Thursday is a new night of The Highlife at Otis Lounge in San Francisco. We will be exploring the world of Afro, Soulful, African House. Maybe call this night Afro House vs. African House. What’s the difference? There is an interesting dichotomy emerging within the surging interest of African Electronic Music. Writers around the Internet are pointing to differences (and similarities) between Afro House styles from Europe and the U.S. and House or Techno from Africa. Does a difference […]
Categories: Gigs, Music, Thought • Tags: Afro House, Angola, Bay Area, France, Global House, House, House Angolana, House Mozambique, Jamaica, Kwaito, mixes, Mozambique, Panama, Republica Dominicana, South Africa, Stereotypes, The Highlife
by Boima Tucker
It’s my pleasure to announce in this post, the official release of Demo Crazy, a mixed collection of tunes in collaboration with the great Khalil Anthony. Demo Crazy is an exploration of African identity. Thoughts echoed on this website, put in music form, transmitted digitally from Oakland, California (The West West Coast of Africa) to the world. In the shadow of the inauguration of the first African descended president in the United States, we recognize that the game of life […]
Categories: Music • Tags: african identity, khalil, mixes
by Boima Tucker
I’m playing with different designs, and redirecting traffic, and losing email addresses, and figuring out how to install WordPress, etc. etc. It’s taking awhile, but my web space(s) are always evolving in my mind. (Not so much in the physical [virtual?] space.) Finally though, I have updated my mixes page to be WordPress compatible, and also fully downloadable (ipod compatible), unlike before where they were all only streaming. So, check out the page. Download your favorite ones, they might be […]
Categories: Music, Technology • Tags: mixes
by Boima Tucker
I done a mix for Akwaaba music’s podcast. It is their first episode, so it’s an honor to have Benjamin reach out to me for that. He asked me to do a mix incorporating songs from his next release, Chaleh Move It!, which is packed with dancefloor sounds from Ghana and Ivory Coast. He told me I could mix in anything else I want, so I did. Lately I’ve been hearing songs of all different genres in all parts of […]
Categories: Music, Tha Homies • Tags: akwaaba, mixes
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