#Afrorack

[icymusicdiary]

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#music #lorn #cloud rat #afrorack #schnittke #ansome #idm #glitch hop #grindcore #modular synth #classical music #choir #techno #industrial techno

[burlveneer-music]

Afrorack - The Afrorack - Brian Bamanya presents “Africa's first DIY modular synthesizer“

"For a human being to be fully functional, it has to have a brain that's working and eyes and ears and arms," says Ugandan synth builder and producer Brian Bamanya, aka Afrorack. "Which is the same with the modular synthesizer: you have an oscillator, a VCA and all these envelopes. For it to create something meaningful, everything has to work together to create harmony." Bamanya is responsible for building Africa's first DIY modular synthesizer, a huge wall of home-made modules and FX units that he dubbed, fittingly, The Afrorack. His reason for embarking on this difficult project was simple: as he began to investigate the world of modular synthesizers, he realized it would be difficult to acquire the technology in Uganda. Not only were there relatively few retailers across the whole of Africa, but the modules were often prohibitively expensive. After quick search online, Bamanya realized he could easily download circuit diagrams and buy the required parts locally, so he taught himself electronics and constructed a CV-controlled system that's been evolving ever since. "The Afrorack" is Bamanya's debut album and displays the producer's untethered creativity and restless energy. He's all too aware that these modules were developed with European and American musical styles in mind, so developed his own musical methodology and language to coax the system into suiting his needs. His starting points are often abstractions of acid and techno, but Bamanya curves East African rhythms and different scales into these familiar structures, splintering them into fractal shards. "I believe Africa is at that point where people are getting new tools which were not available to them, and then experimenting with them in a different context, because Africa has its own traditional music," he told Pan African Music back in 2019. This attitude is most evident on 'African Drum Machine', where Bamanya uses a Euclidean rhythm sequencer to divide his CV signals into complex algorithmic patterns that mimic the polyrhythmic structures that exist in many East African musical forms. If you're not listening closely it might sound like 4/4 techno, but focus your attention and you'll hear different layers of drums and jagged oscillators bouncing between each other creating hypnotic new rhythms. Bamanya takes a similar approach on 'Why Serious', fuzzing dubby basslines and plasticky percussive sounds into a frenetic hybrid of abstract electronics and fwd-thinking East African club sounds. At times, Bamanya's meditative, bass-heavy compositions echo the psychedelic sounds of Shackleton or Adrian Sherwood's African Head Charge, particularly on tracks like 'Inspired' and 'Last Modular'. With lysergic tonal shifts and precision-engineered drums, both tracks sound defiantly metallic, but sculpted by a producer who's always completely in control as he introduces risky eccentricities like feline groans and videogame blips. And on less beat-heavy tracks like 'Osc' and 'Rev', Bamanya makes a conscious nod to the history of modular music, approaching the kosmische universe of Popol Vuh, Klaus Schulze and Emeralds, augmenting it with East Africa's idiosyncratic rhythmic intensity. "The Afrorack" is the beginning of a conversation that's been long overdue. Artwork by Kid Gringo

#Afrorack #brian bamanya #uganda #electronic #modular synth #2022 #hakuna kalala

[zzkt]

The Afrorack (2022)

#afrorack #eurorack #modular #synths #2022 #music #hakuna kulala

[dailyalbumrecs]

The Afrorack - Afrorack

The 2022 self titled album by Afrorack is a fascinating electronic album out of Uganda. Per the description for this album on Bandcamp, the man behind this, Bamanya, built a DIY modular synthesizer setup. My favorite track is African Drum Machine.

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#dailyalbumrecs #music recommendations #music recommendation #music rec #album rec #album recommendation #music #daily album recs #album recommendations #album recs #Bamanya #AFrorack #Bandcamp #Spotify

[nbernardo]

Afrorack @ OUT.FEST, Barreiro - 06.10.2023 © Nuno Bernardo

#Afrorack #OUT.FEST #outfestbarreiro #music

[hand-signed-series]

JESSICA EKOMANE + AFRORACK | LAMIN FOFANA | SADI

21.06 - ore 19:00

c/o Villa Romana Via Senese, 68 - Firenze

On the longest day and shortest night of the year, we are willing to perform an elegy to the Sun, embracing it in its the highest position in the sky. The very cosmological celebrations of this summer solstice will see the participation of VR’s fellow artist Jessica Ekomane, who will perform with Afrorack , special guest Lamin Fofana and sound-artist SADI help us align with the stars:))

The event is curated by @villaromanaflorenz with @ooh_sounds @nubprojectspace and @bhmf_

#laminfofana #afrorack #jessicaekomane #black history month #villaromanaflorenz

[mafmove]

My favorite Albums of 2022… #TheWeeknd #Odesza #TheSmile #GabeGurnsey #Björk #DanielAvery #Crosses(+++) #WorkingMensClub #HudsonMohawke #HotChip #ADULTband #BlackStar #OzzyOsbourne #PVA #RHCP #Wilco #ArcadeFire #SuicideBand #HorseLords #Afrorack https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm4h_CiORQf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#theweeknd #odesza #thesmile #gabegurnsey #björk #danielavery #crosses #workingmensclub #hudsonmohawke #hotchip #adultband #blackstar #ozzyosbourne #pva #rhcp #wilco #arcadefire #suicideband #horselords #afrorack

[laserpinksteam]

Will you listen: Afrorack - The Afrorack (2022)

#willyoulisten #afrorack #the afrorack #bandcamp #Bandcamp

[kamikazepizza]

Ami itt 3:13-tól van basszus

#afrorack #music

[voskhozhdeniye]

#Music #Afrorack #I wish it was longer.

[babilano-celentano]

Photo taken last year when i was having coffee at the Pink Tanker and DJ Tim Pulse rocked up all of a sudden w/ a throng of pretty people on bicycles, all wearing headsets that were tuned in to the music he was streaming from this contraption. 

Tracks by: Allan & Barbara Pease, Elles, Lupay, Professional Amatuer, Dirty Crotches, Opal, Mesaelechtele, 5ifty$ix K, Frequency, Edward Xavier, DJ Paypal, DJ Reebok, Trash Bandicooc, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Angkanang Kunchai & Ubon-Pattana Band, Flex-Sex, Slikback, Ben Bondy, Subjective, Afrorack (2x), Edie Adams, Al Houariyat

https://www.mixcloud.com/babilano/dominus-obsequious-sororium/

#Afrorack #Bill Clinton #Roze Tanker #mobile disco

[still-single]

New Heathen Discos / more reviews to follow

Some radio shows to ease your troubled minds.

Episode #296 (June 12, 2022)

HOUR 1

Flanger Magazine – Sympathies to the River

David Nance – Amethyst

Kikagaku Moyo – Effe

Azita – Bruxism

Tommy James and the Shondells – Crimson and Clover

Cocteau Twins – Lorelei

Weird Nightmare – Sunday Driver

Eggs – This Party Never Ends

Cyrus Pireh – Adomono Tone Control

Magazine – The Light Pours Out of Me

HOUR 2

The Neon Judgement – The Fashion Party

Beau Wanzer – Blood Type Gravey

The Gruesome Twosome – Hallucination Generation (Joker’s Revenge Edit)

Alan Vega – Saturn Drive

Dharma – Dreams of a Final Theory

Chevalier Avant Garde – The Killing Fields

Green-House – Produce Aisle

The Stroppies – Material Condition

Kitchen’s Floor – Haunted Houses

Sorcery – Woman

Rats – Mainhorse Cowboy

Estus – On the Wings

Freda Payne – I Get High

Roller – Homunculus

HOUR 3

The Modern Lovers – Don’t Let Our Youth Go to Waste / Dance with Me

Nite Fields – Take My Side

à;GRUMH… - Another Brick in the Wall Part II

Midas – One O One

Bomb the Bass – Don’t Make Me Wait

L/F/D/M – Midnight Muscle

Penza Penza – Merman

Linton Kwesi Johnson – Reggae fi Dada

Glenn Branca – The Ascension

BABY? – Babbling Brook (Vintage Dust)

Forest Management – Liminal Suite Pt. 2

The Velvet Underground – I Found a Reason

Episode #295 (June 5, 2022)

HOUR 1

The Leather Nun – Slow Death

Afrorack – Last Modular

Astaron – As Time Joins In

TSAP – Vile Corporation

Danse Macabre – The Voice of Bulgaria (instrumental)

Brian Case – Our Ruin

Horsegirl – Homage to Birdnoculars

Long Odds – Not Enough Stars

John & Beverley Martyn – Auntie Aviator

Smoke Bellow – Maybe Something

Rose Mercie – Sweet Place

Daniel Villarreal – 18th and Morgan

Steve Hillage – Musick of the Trees / Palm Trees (Love Guitar)

HOUR 2

Vivienne Styg – Leather Love

Jess Scott – Climbing Numbers

Dick Diver – Private Number

Microdisney – Town to Town

The Party of Helicopters – Neverending Cycle

Tar – Goethe (live)

Rudimentary Peni – Vampire State Building / Blasphemy Squad

New Age Steppers – Fade Away

Forest Management – One After Another

Fievel Is Glauque – Decoy

Cookie Jar – Far Out As Near As Can Be

The Neon Judgement – Hot Sally

Roller – Habit Man Zero

The Arms of Someone New – No City Fun

Kim Phuc – Razorblades

Cyrus Pireh – Message of Universal Solidarity

Goblin – Tenebre

HOUR 3

Mr. Big Mouse – Duck the Mouse (Ascorbic Acid Mix)

Tomaga – Very Never (My Mind Extends)

System 56 – They’re Only Dreaming

Construction Crew – Break That Beat (That Noise Mix)

Heavenly Bodies – Rains on Me (extended mix)

Brandon Coleman – We Change (Part 1)

Chronophage – Spirit Armor

Doramaar – Monestrial

Blue Öyster Cult – Don’t Fear the Reaper (demo)

Episode #294 (May 29, 2022)

HOUR 1

Mess Esque – Sweet Spot

Just Mustard – Seed

Bardo Pond – Don’t Know About You

Mosquitoes – Outlines

Th’ Faith Healers – Love Song

Penza Penza – Merman

Siouxsie & the Banshees – Hybrid

Th Blisks – I Don’t Fade

Anne Clark – Counter Act (instrumental)

Apiento featuring Harriet Brown – Down That Road (Apiento & Tepper Dubbed It)

Depeche Mode – Nothing

Winged Wheel – Central Ceiling

Felt – All the People I Like Are Those That Are Dead

HOUR 2

Zusammen Clark – Rest Position

Comet Gain – Allende

The Go-Betweens – Head Full of Steam

Bailter Space – Robot World

Neu! – Hallogallo

Green-House – Flora Urbana Absumpto

Stephanie Mills – What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin’ (12” version)

Paul Haig – Blue for You

Sleep D – Twin Turbo

Wally Badarou – Hi-Life

Silver Apples – Lovefingers

Tommaso Moretti – ESM

Viva L’American Death Ray Music – Getting Better

HOUR 3

Mura – Younger Brother

Mary Lattimore and Paul Sukeena – Altar of Tammy

Small World Experience – Side Projects

The Garbage and the Flowers – On the Radio

The Breeders – When I Was a Painter

Delivery – Personal Effects

Ebi Soda – Pseudocreme

Vacant Gardens – Field of Vines

Spread Joy – Discomfort Is Palpable

Sparks – At Home At Work At Play

Severed Heads – Halo

Chris & Cosey – Until

James Brown – I Can’t Stand It “76”

Best Bets – The Point

Yo La Tengo – Deeper into Movies

Episode #293 (May 20, 2022)

*insert image of Wednesday Addams here*

HOUR 1

STRING – Plus Operator

Maya Hardinge – Living Behind Smoke

Trisomie 21 – Jakarta

Bauhaus – Stigmata Martyr

Levon Vincent – Tubular Bells

For Against – Loud and Clear

The Cure – Object

The Scissor Girls – D1 Test (Cracked Swanreons)

Crime of Passing – Ways of Hiding

Automelodi – Angoisses D’Orléac

Winged Wheel – Central Ceiling

Austra – Beat and the Pulse (extended mix)

HOUR 2

A Split - Second – Close Combat

Fad Gadget – Lady Shave

ADULT. – I Am Nothing

16-17 – Davul

Cairo Pythian – Puce Cross

The Birthday Party – Junkyard

Kelly Lee Owens – S.O (2)

Modal Melodies – Standing Still

The Terminals – Hide Yourself Away

The Glove – Looking-Glass Girl

Ashrae Fax – Decaax

Xmal Deutschland – Nachtschatten

The Veil – Manikin (extended mix)

Whatever the Weather – 25° C

HOUR 3

The Wedding Present – Never Said

Prefab Sprout – Desire As

Shirley & Dolly Collins – Rambleaway

Roller – Au (Gold)

My Bloody Valentine – Feed Me With Your Kiss

The Litter – Breakfast at Gardenson’s / Future of the Past

Green-House – Mycorrhizare Dreams

Deep Tunnel Project – Elysian Fields

Spiritual Mafia (ft. Alan Partridge) – Bath Boy (30 Mil From My Gland remix)

The Hazmats – Empty Rooms

Drive Like Jehu – Super Unison

Marley Marl feat. Biz Markie and Heavy D – We Write the Songs

2022 Demo

Book me to play records at yours.

[burlveneer-music]

My WVUD playlist and stream, 8/13/2022

Charu Suri - Aaj Rang Hai (Today There is Color) Amancio D'Silva - Raag Kafi ISOR29 - Raga Soledad Pump - Dance Without Music Afrorack - African Drum Machine Circuit Diagram - Music for Shisha Bars He Said - Pump Rich Ruth - Heavy and Earthbound Mary Halvorson - Amaryllis Jim Funnell's Word Out - Bitcorn Soup The Maghreban & Idris Rahman - Black Seed Oil Helado Negro - Aureole IKI - Violence Begets Violence Julia Wolfe - Oxygen Third Coast Percussion - Rubix: I. Go (feat. Flutronix)

(listen on Mixcloud)

#wvud #permutations #playlist #mixcloud

[szif]

omg why does the afrorack record cost 22 euros like i want that shit on my shelf

[ooh-sounds]

JESSICA EKOMANE + AFRORACK | LAMIN FOFANA | SADI 21.06 - ore 19:00 c/o Villa Romana Via Senese, 68 - Firenze On the longest day and shortest night of the year, we are willing to perform an elegy to the Sun, embracing it in its the highest position in the sky. The very cosmological celebrations of this summer solstice will see the participation of VR’s fellow artist Jessica Ekomane, who will perform with Afrorack , special guest Lamin Fofana and sound-artist SADI help us align with the stars:)) The event is curated by @villaromanaflorenz with @ooh_sounds @nubprojectspace and @bhmf_

[weekendance]

THE TUESDAY TAPES MARTEDÌ 6 GIUGNO 2023 1) LOOSE ARTICLES > Sinead Loves Bitcoin 2) TIN MAN > Electric Blue (Monkey Nenufar mix) 3) AFRORACK > Why Serious 4) CV VISION > Shoud I Tame My Endless Mind 5) BRENDA KANE > French Kissing 6) THE DEL-BYZANTEENS > Girl’s Imagination 7) MEMORIALS > Kind of Beyond 8) DARYL HALL > Nycny 9) B.C. CAMPLIGHT > She’s Gone Cold 10) BROWN SPIRITS > Ode to Dorothy 11) SOFT MACHINE > Moon in June Ascolta su MIXCLOUD Ascolta su SPREAKER Guarda su YOUTUBE

#music podcast #indie #alternative music #balearic #cosmic #80s music #new wave #post punk #electro