Teintée Africaine L/O/O/O-TA-21-A-1S
Hewa Yasin
The best songs from Africa and the diaspora. Best served in the late afternoon. Guaranteed to season in a cheerful mood.
2021
It’s 2021 and There’s No More Room for the House Negro
Hopiho
This happened in the early 2000s. I was chopping it up with friends, and lamenting (as usual) the sorry state of Africa – – francophone Africa in particular. I recall…
B L A C K
So there’s an idea we had a few years ago. We thought about pooling songs about the black experience and sequence them into a story. As with most audacious ideas…
Still Loving Amapiano, Part I (LYS 00 – MPN)
It’s no secret that I’ve been enamored about amapiano: I’ve been raving about it for almost two years now! The sub-genre grew out of Pretoria to progressively take over South…
Le magasin des envies, Vol. 13
Wraith Yoshi
This one right here is in the spirit of this glorious series that has had you dim the lights and get your freak on… After a little love story, we…
Chill Fi Life, Vol. 2
I have had a few more flights since I got the idea to make a playlist inspired by lo-fi music — and Chillhop releases. In the previous volume of this…
Here’s a Mix to Mark My Birthday
DJ Tripple A
A rough year has come and finally gone. We’re still in the middle of the pandemic, but we’re more hopeful than ever that things will get better. If I’ve learned…