artist.....: VA
album......: Ten Cities

year.......: 2014
label......: Soundway Records
             SNDWCD069
source.....: CDDA

moodswing..: Electronic

releasesize: 132.19 MB
tracks.....: 17
length.....: 78:06

encoder....: VBR LAME 3.98.4 -v0
quality....: avg. 233kbps

scenealized: 05.01.2015

BERLIN, BRISTOL, CAIRO, JOHANNESBURG,
KYIV, LAGOS, LISBON, LUANDA, NAIROBI,
NAPLES

Soundway Records, along with the
Goethe-Institute and Adaptr.org,
present TEN CITIES a new compilation
including, amongst many others, the
likes of Bristol dubstep producer
Pinch, Lisbon-based producer Batida and
Kenyan group Just A Band, TEN CITIES is
set for release on 10th November on CD,
3xLP and digital.

Between Autumn 2012 and Spring 2013 the
TEN CITIES project brought electronic
music producers and musicians from five
cities in Europe (Berlin, Bristol,
Kiev, Lisbon and Naples) to five cities
in Africa (Cairo, Johannesburg, Lagos,
Luanda and Nairobi) They were invited
to collaborate and create, spending an
intense time together making music in
sticky studios and blacked-out rooms
across the African continent.

TEN CITIES  put together approximately
50 electronic music producers and
instrumentalists from the ten cities
selected. They were invited to
collaborate in studios over the course
of more than six months. A selection of
the outcome of these cross-continental
experiments can be heard on this
record.

It's no surprise that the results are
far from what many would term 'World
Music' and its often generic mixture of
aural cliches, where all too often
African music (as with that of the rest
of the planet) from Mali to Madagascar,
and from Morocco to Malawi is all filed
under one ridiculous, meaningless
genre.s

TEN CITIES attempts to do something
quite different: whilst searching for
common ground it is also trying to
highlight the differences. As a result
hip-hop from the squats of Naples, bass
music from Bristol, experimental techno
from Berlin or jazz-tinged deep-house
from Kiev are thrust upon the pumping
kuduro of Luanda, the free-thinking
crackled electronica of Cairo, afro-
jazz from Lagos or the Sheng street-
slang of Kenyan rap.

psst, more info at soundwayrecords.com

01     Octa Push - Khuchende Halala                         04:57
02     Pinch - Are You Coming With Us                       05:41
03     Dirty Paraffin - Choborops                           04:27
04     Lunabe & Djeff - Temedo                              05:41
05     Batida - Mama Watoto                                 03:10
06     Just A Band & Octa Push - Boom Boom Boom             03:50
07     Lunabe - Quero Falar                                 03:00
08     Rob Smith - Work                                     04:28
09     Wura Samba And Gebruder Teichmann - Antere           04:44
10     Diamond Version & Bikya & Wetrobots - Dv_Bk_Wr_06    03:30
11     Vakula & Planet Lindela - Ten Cities Masala          04:52
12     Perera Elsewhere - Ebora (Spirits)                   02:30
13     Dubmasta & Hannes Teichmann & Leon Erasmus - 10      05:59
       Henry Nxumalo Street
14     Diamond Version & Bikya & Wetroots - Dv_Bk_Wr_01     06:19
15     Afrologic - Omode Mewa (Ten Little Children)         04:36
16     Vakula & Planet Lindela - Jozi Sunset                07:35
17     Oren Gerlitz - Orange Green                          02:47