Bracket Feat 2Face- Yori Yori Remix (GetMziki Exclusive)
I have been MIA for a while now taking care of some business, but we are back now. Thanks to Leo, Alvin and Louis for taking care of all the updates.
I got this track like 3 weeks ago and although we showcased it on the “Homepage“, many people go directly to the blog and most likely might have missed the song.
I showcased the original Bracket “Yori Yori” way before it became a hit and people everywhere have been going wild when this song comes on. I’m really glad they came out with the remix which features Naija heavyweight 2face who did a couple of tour spots in the US a few months ago, since although the original is a banger, after so many spins and after every other Dj playing this track 2-3 times a night, the song has really been “overplayed”. This remix has been out for like 3 weeks now and its already on the charts in major Naija radio stations.
My sources tell me that Bracket is actually gearing up for the release of thier second album and the ” Yori Yori” remix is the first single off the album. This song was produced and recorded at Giant Beats Studios, Abuja by hit producer Dekumzy. The remix is a different song altogether and features a new beat plus 2Face on the track. I wanna see if djs jump on this track just like they did the other one.
Enjoy!!!!!
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Justina- Radio DJ (GetMziki Exclusive)
We have featured Justina from Naija in the site before with the club banger “Omo Too Sexy“. The song enjoyed massive airplay and rotation both locally and abroad during its drop and remains people’s favourite as a heavy club banger even till this date.
With her astonishingly powerful and variable voice, Justina combines different elements from Jazz, R&B, Soul, Hip Hop and Afrobeat to her very own style. In her songs which she composes largely herself she evokes her relentless love for life but also touches on pressing social issues such as poverty, corruption, struggling kids and the treatment of women in Africa.
On this track she talks about her love for a radio dj. The question is which one ????
I’m really feeling this track and I wanna know what people out there think.
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Maye Hunta – Ekaette (GetMziki Exclusive ***)
This has to be the most evasive track I have ever had to post. Honestly I have had this track for months but I was unimpressed with the quality of the file I have (sadly its the version I have posted today). But we kept asking our Naija connects to hook up a better version all with no success. We even tried hitting up Maye Hunta’s peeps down in SA but still nothing got back to us. At this point we decided this is a big tune to let lose, its been out for a while but we just cant keep holding it hostage anymore.
Olumayowa Adekunle Odejimi aka Mayé Hunta is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. Maye who is currently based in Jo’berg South Africa has been singing for a while but got into the commercial scene around 1998. Part of his acting career can also be seen on M-Net series called “Jacobs Cross.” However we fell in love with this track last year when it dropped because it reminded us of what most guys growing up in Africa experienced.
You see the reality of the storyline on this track is so real that its almost impossible to ignore the entertainment factor. Most of us guys know a guy or a man of a household who was tapping the housegirl. Most guys who grew up in Africa probably lost their virginity to some house girl (lol). And thats just me being real with you guys, so there is the sheer entertainment of the track and awesome high quality video. Then there is the reality on the ground that guys really fyeka their housies… Am just saying! Anyway let me kill this vibe before I get into trouble.
Enjoy the track..
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Bigiano – Shayo [Sax Version] (GetMziki Exclusive ***)
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If Hellon wasnt so busy with his nonsense with Esther I think this is some of the interesting creative work that the genius sax player would put his mouth into. I mean really, how crazy is crazy when crazy goes insane!! I cant believe i used to enjoy the Jazz sessions at Pavement with him and Aaron back in the day. Anyway not to be opinionated – because really I don’t care about that whole situation. I’ve actually sat on the back bench watching the drama unfold and deep down catch myself thinking this is a good thing for Kenya – yet again some random news thats taking Kenyans mind off the state of politics and poor Governance. (Am sorry sometimes i get political when I watch NTV news and half the coverage is about useless ministers talking about nonsensical issues in parliament – honestly its sometimes just saddening – when will Kenya learn, its the same cast different movie.. I mean these guys pass 2 or 3 bills a year if at most during parliament… anyway.. I think in kenya politics is a career move its not something you do because you want to become of service to the people. Its something you do because you want to better your own individual lifestyle.. ) URRRGH….. I digress am sorry. Am sorry. Am sorry sincerely apologize.
Back to Hellon. Actually scratch that no need to waste time talking about Hellon. But lets just say Kenya has Chris Bitok and people like Hellon who can really intertwine and collaborate with the Urban/Pop/Genge/Kapuka folks. I am yet to hear something as interesting as the track I’ve attached. (if there is anything out there please send it through). My man DJ Mighty Mike (Naija) has an entire album called AFROMENTALS which is a rendition of all African Tunes performed by an energetic sax player who just loves making remixes to popular African genre. This is the type of music your mom can listen to and be happy on a Sunday afternoon without the lyrical content.
Ive thrown in some bonus material towards the end of this post also. Enjoy! Arrghh Kenyan politics really makes me angry. But I was once told to be angrier at the people who elect the leaders 
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Get some uncut remixes of shayo:
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SAUTI SOL, GENERAL PYPE & SASHA P – MARA HIO HIO
We’ve slept on this song long enough, I think long enough for Wesh to call me out on this particular post. So now I am feeling bad that i didnt post this track when it was relevant and hot. However this is GetMziki this is not Kenyan/African Media – we have a tendency to do things “kienyeji style” and it works for our audience most of the time. So please be patient with us.
This has to be one of the few most interesting collaborations I have heard in a while. Wawesh produced and inspired so you know the beat is heavy with real instruments and acoustics. I kinda like Wawesh production style lately. I am still trying to bucket his sound but its been hard lately because everything sounds so different. This track has some essence from some old school tracks. I am not crazy about the track but its a feel good joint we felt worth posting. The whole Kenyan Naija collaboration sounds like a winning formula to me.
Give the track a listen
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CREDITS
Artists and authors: Sasha P, General Pype & Sauti Sol
Music composed, recorded, arranged, mixed and mastered by Wawesh for Penya Africa
Musicians: Guitars by Polycarp Otieno
Chorus Vocalists: Muthoni The Drummer Queen, Nayomi Ramos, Celia Muya & Sauti Sol.
Some resources on the Artists. (one of the reasons I love Wawesh, you can be guaranteed his artists are available online one way or the other).
SASHA P music is found at http://storm360degrees.com
GENERAL PYPE music is found at http://storm360degrees.com
SAUTI SOL music is found at http://www.penyafrica.com
download the bonus material here:
sample the instrumental:
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DJ Mighty Mike – Heavy Something Vol 5 (Naija Exclusives ***)
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One of the few interesting things about me probably has to be my listening habits. I have an array of music that i listen to and that I am exposed to, however over time I tend to lean towards certain people that I just generally like or I am fond of. For instance I was an avid DJ Tim Westwood fan for years, until I discovered Clinton Sparks. I kept it true to Clinton Sparks for years until I discovered some other local Internet stars who just blow my out of my mind with their technique skills and music selection.
The thing with these youngn’s (which I wont share because they are my resource for hot new US hiphop). Its that these cats actually write what they think about the songs, they play them, they mix them, they blend them. What they essentially did for me is they killed the whole Celebrity style music presentation and brought to me the DJ in his bedroom style performance coupled with killer turntablism and a massive selection of hot new music. I resepect anyone who can play a Bad song but blend it so well in between good songs to make it stand out as the GREATER song.
Thats kinda where I put DJ Mighty Mike. I am an avid follower of his blog and music updates, I have learned more about Naija music and artists from Mighty Mike than I have from any other Naija DJ or blogger. I mean Mighty informs me by proxy more than our own GetMziki Naija connex thats just how much respect I have for this cat. He has all sorts of mixes in his downloads vault I’d suggest if you have time visit this url: http://djmightymike.net/media/ get a sampler and then download your fist of fury. As a true DJ he is music agnostic (as much as he is renowned for his Naija knowledge). The man just plays anything and makes it sound tight. I don’t think he is the biggest DJ that Nigera has currently has but I’d say he is probably the most entertaining and creative DJ I’ve listened to.
There is a Dancehall or reggae set on his downloads page he did in 2009 if you listen to it all through to the end where he does the US vs Dancehall blends you cant deny his capabilities. Also his Afromentals compilation album is sick – the sax and the Afrobeats… Shit why didn’t I think of that considering I had access to Chris Bitok all this time
listen to Heavy Something Vol 5 here:
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P-Square- Danger (GetMziki Exclusive)
The Naija duo of P-Square just released their new album “Danger” a couple of weeks ago and as everybody knows the whole of Africa was waiting to see what they were going to come up with on the new disc. I got a chance to listen to the whole album a couple of times and on this album it seems the duo really never went out to create music from their hearts but were following a “formula” . It seems the “formula” for the new album was have a couple of club records(“Danger”, “Break It”, “Trowley”) then have a couple of records for the ladies(‘I Love You”, ‘Like Dat”) and a few collabo’s. Don’t get me wrong, the album is “classic brilliant” P-Square material but they really do not push the musical envelope like on their previous albums.
The new album has 10 tracks with 3 instrumentals and the amazing part is that the first song on the album “I love you” is my favourite track . Its one of those tracks that really take you back to P-Square’s musical strengths. The duo also enlists the help of 2face on the track “Possiblities” and the duo of J Martins on the track “N No Easy”.
On their first single”danger”, the duo goes hard on the 120BPM range beat by showcasing their musical growth on the first single. It seems that everybody is now doing tracks in the 120BPM range, right from Blu 3, Mad Traxx, Birdman, Jay Sean, The Dream, Shakira to BEP and the fact that 8 songs out of the top 10 songs on the billboard are on that BPM range gives an insight on the “in thing” in music today. I guess its just a matter of riding with the flow.
This song is definitely going to be driving the clubs crazy in the next couple of months. I’m sure most djs will be adding this in their Serato crates on the first listen, since no party is a party with no new P-Square jam.
Enjoy!!!
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Jimmy Flames feat Dr. Frabz – Jangolover (GetMziki Exclusive **)
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Our Naija connects just blessed us with this song today, but looking at the Blog lines it appears to be a slightly older song. Either way it deserves a spot on GetMziki – I am into local Naija music, I hate the new urban stuff thats coming out of Naija studios both in the US and in Nigeria. There is a very thin line between hiphop and the cross breed that has been thriving in Africa over the last few years. I’ve been introduced to a variety of new Naija artists but I felt they all sound like T-Pain or Kanye and not well suited for the GM market (I could be wrong).
As much as we do African Urban music here – I feel as though there is a fine line… FINE LINE. With no general bias there is a lot of music we dont post that comes from East Africa but if we feel it just sounds too Western like something off Power 106 radio out here we normally ignore /. Sio kwa ubaya its just how we want to build the African Urban Music scene from our perspective. But this discussion is for another day.
Here is a classic example of a track that is crazy borderline – the beats can pass for anything, but the lingo is classic Naija – JANGOLOVER ha ha ha ha. I personally love that, lagos boy, Naija boy – whats a Jangolover – is it a JUNGLE LOVER?? Ama a Jango Lover (Like as in Luo Lover) ama it has nothing to do with Lover.. who knows but me I personally am feeling this track – enjoy!
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D’Banj – Mo Gbono Feli Feli
Kind of late posting this, but here we go: In other news the kokomaster has a reality show at the kokomansion with 12 Kokolettes – something like a flavor of love Nigeria style – http://www.kokomansion.tv/about.php
