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electric blue witch hop, witch hop, electronic

electronic, hip-hop, house, r&b, soul, trap, afrobeats

Hip-hop, expressive, Buffalo, 716,

United States

HipHop, Rap, Underground Rap, Underground Hip Hop

Massachusetts

Electronic, Hip hop, experimental

Represent black artists including: Fever 333, Nova Twins, Guerilla Warfare, founder and owner is of mixed heritage

http://www.acharlesmusic.com/
https://www.instagram.com/itsacharles/
https://soundcloud.com/acharlesmusic

United Kingdom

hiphop , bailefunk , afrobeat , lofi

electronic, hip-hop, dance, house, future beats

experimental, R&B, dark, Atlanta, darkwave

instagram.com/darkwaveduchess, darkwaveduchess.co (the email above is the submitter's email, idk the artist's email address)

Hip hop, CT hip hop, chill, Hartford hop, Yank it music

Breakcore, trap, idm, experimental, electronic

World, Jazz, Electro, Afropop, Ethiojazz, Synth, Experimental

Sons of Ethiopia is a mostly instrumental album, rich with global influences. It is one of the few recordings by Ethiopian musicians to be produced outside Ethiopia in the early 1980s. It is a key document of the Washington, D.C, exile scene. The core members of Admas – Tewodros ‘Teddy’ Aklilu, Henock Temesgen, and Abegasu Shiota – had previously played in a group called Gasha, one of the first local Ethiopian bands to spring from D.C.. Admas was born from Gasha, as an outlet for their more experimental instincts.

Emerging from the community of Ethiopian exiles who fled the brutality of the Derg – the military dictatorship that had deposed Haile Selassie – Admas was the sound of a new generation. The members of Admas were not musicians from the '60s-'70s ‘golden age’: they were children of the terror of the Derg period. Their musical sensibilities were formed in Ethiopia, during an era of state-sponsored neighbourhood bands and a propaganda-tinged traditional music scene, where the weekends were sound-tracked by the remaining hotel groups of a bygone Imperial world.

Admas took Ethiopian popular music into wholly new territory. Having established a residency at the Red Sea restaurant in Washington, D.C. in the early 1980s. The band was steeped in the polyglot musical culture of the American capital. The diverse sonic influences of the city filtered into the music, making the album a radically modern work of Ethiopian fusion.

Mulatu, Girma Beyene, Hailu Mergia, and their peers in 1960s Addis Ababa had created an Ethiopian pop sound by using rhythms from Latin music, soul, and jazz. Admas threw their net wider still, adding highlife, electro, go-go, samba, and roots reggae to the mix.

Sons of Ethiopia is the fresh sound of youth, freedom and imagination, which the band made for themselves and by themselves, owning every part of the process. But it is also a music of exile. Admas performed week in, week out, for crowds of fellow Ethiopians, many of whom had lost family and friends to the Derg. Sons of Ethiopia channels this loss, longing and hope. It is at once imbued with the melancholy and nostalgia so typical of Ethiopian song. And at the same time, is a joyful work of synthesis and experiment with deep roots.

tom.pryor@gmail.com

Jazz, Psychedelic, Improv, Ambient, Experimental, Live

rock, noise rock, shoegaze, ambient, soft

grunge, electronic, experimental

indie, folk, soul, singer-songwriter

Ambient, Field Recording, Drone

hip hop, alternative, funk, pop, r&b, soul, rap, covers

www..andrecynone.com

Andre Cymone is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. Raised in Minneapolis, Cymone and his schoolmate Prince layed the foundation for the revolutionary “Minneapolis sound”. After Prince signed a record deal he asked Cymone to join him as bass player for his band, pre-Revolution. Cymone toured with Prince in support of his first three albums. In 1981 Cymone left Prince’s band and began his own solo career, releasing 3 new wave/funk fusion albums that spawned several R&B singles, including 1985’s Prince-penned Top 10 hit “The Dance Electric.” Cymone also established himself as an in-demand producer, co-writing and producing songs for a diverse array of acts, including Adam Ant, Tina Turner, Tom Jones and Jody Watley who’s Cymone produced self titled album won her a Grammy Award for “Best New Artist and gave her several top 5 hits including “Looking for a New Love”, “Still A Thrill”, and “Real Love”. In 2014, Cymone ended a self-imposed 27-year recording hiatus with the album The Stone, that saw the artist emerge with some of the most accomplished and personal music he’s ever made. The follow up album titled 1969 was released internationally in September 2017 and has received rave reviews. Andre is back in the Studio working on his sixth full length album, this collection Cymone says “will be a Resurrection Of The Funk and a return to my roots”.

more releases on International Anthem https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/the-oracle

Instrumental, r&b, hip-hop, rock, soul

Washington, DC

Washington, DC

Downtempo, electronic, chill, instrumental hiphop

Hymn, Revolution, Alternative, Soul, Indie

Hip Hop, House, Broken Beat, Drum & Bass, Nu Jazz

alt, indie, hip-hop, neo-soul, rnb

alternative, hip hop, neo-soul, r&b, rnb, alternative, alternative pop, indie, soft rock, soul, London

United States of America

experimental,funk,hip-hop,hip-hop/rap,rap,alternative hip-hop,Oakland

Member of Oddali Park aka Zoombug (https://takecaretapes.bandcamp.com/album/zoombug)

Band site is www.artsorority.com. I also play drums in this band: https://badmoves.bandcamp.com/

electronic, funk, hip hop, minneapolis sound, r&b, rap, soul, Minneapolis

The Netherlands

dancehall trap drill afrobeat alternative

indie-pop, post-funk, post-punk

pop punk, emo, rock, alternative

grime, hyperdub, hip-hop, experimental